Vicki Lawrence

Singer, Comedienne, Star of Mama's Family and The Carol Burnett Show

  • Vicki Lawrence Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

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  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    California, USA

  • Vicki Lawrence Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

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  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    California, USA

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Vicki Lawrence and Mama: A Two Woman Show

Life is Much Too Serious to be Taken Seriously!

Usually I speak about my life and all the fun,comical things that have happened to me. It has been my experience that when I am speaking, people expect and want to laugh. So I share the anecdotes of my life. How I met Carol, how I became a natural ...

Usually I speak about my life and all the fun,comical things that have happened to me. It has been my experience that when I am speaking, people expect and want to laugh. So I share the anecdotes of my life. How I met Carol, how I became a natural redhead, how I met my husband, how Mama came to be… I talk about being a working mom and other humorous things that women can relate to. When everyone has laughed for a bit I segue way into a more difficult time in my life…the cancellation of my talkshow and the subsequent battle I had with depression. I discuss how I got thru it and the remedies that worked for me. I wrap it up by reminding everyone that my motto, ” life is much too serious to be taken seriously”, is a mantra to live by and that laughter truly is the best medicine. I of course, end with some humor. Sometimes people like to do a few minutes of questions and answers, sometimes not. I am agreeable to whatever works for your specific occasion.

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About Keynote Speaker Vicki Lawrence

Vicki Lawrence’s Key Accomplishments Include . . .
The multi-talented Vicki Lawrence was born in Inglewood, California where she excelled in dancing and singing, was a cheerleader and was voted “Most Likely to Succeed” by her graduating class.

From 1965 to 1967 Vicki Lawrence sang with the Young Americans musical group and also appeared in the feature film “The Young Americans” which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary.

During her senior year of high school, Vicki sent Carol Burnett a letter which included a local newspaper article mentioning their resemblance. Vicki invited Ms. Burnett to the local fire department’s “Miss Fireball Contest” in which she was performing. Ms. Burnett, looking for an actress to play her kid sister on her new variety series, contacted Vicki and made arrangements to come to the event. The rest is television history. The Carol Burnett Show premiered in the fall of 1967; the same year Ms. Lawrence entered UCLA to study Theater Arts. She spent eleven years with Carol, earning one Emmy Award and five Emmy nominations. In 1995 Simon and Schuster published her autobiography entitled, Vicki! The True Life Adventures of Miss Fireball.

In 1968, Vicki went to Viet Nam to visit the U.S. troops with Johnny Grant. Several years later, in 1973, Vicki Lawrence received a gold record as a recording artist for her international hit single, The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia.

After the Burnett show ended, Ms. Lawrence went on to star in her own TV series, Mama’s Family. The last original episode was made in January of 1990, completing five years of first-run syndication. The show still can be seen daily throughout most of the country.

More About Vicki Lawrence. . .
Vicki Lawrence was the honorary head of the D.A.R.E. program in Long Beach, California for two years while her kids were in school. Around that time she and her husband also became members of the Long Beach Police Officer’s Association, raising money to protect the widows and families of slain police officers. Shortly thereafter, Vicki became one of the few successful, female game show hosts when she took on the daytime network version of Win, Lose or Draw.

Ms. Lawrence further perfected her hosting skills on her own daytime talk show, appropriately called Vicki! from 1992 to 1994. She received critical acclaim when she was the only talk show host since Oprah to be nominated for a Daytime Emmy in her freshman year. In the fall of 1997, she briefly returned to daytime talk as the host of Fox After Breakfast from New York City.

On stage, Vicki Lawrence has appeared in numerous productions, including: Carousel, Send Me No Flowers, No No Nanette, My Fat Friend, Chapter Two, Twigs, Hello Dolly, Special Occasions, I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking It On The Road, Annie Get Your Gun and Live from the Grand Ole Opry, which aired on TNN. Most recently she appeared in The Vagina Monologues.

Vicki also travels the country speaking to women’s organizations about her life and career, women’s health, and being a woman in a man’s world. All the while she approaches everything with her characteristic sense of humor, reminding us all that “Life is much too serious to be taken seriously!” She also can be seen across the country in her stage production, Vicki Lawrence and Mama: A Two Woman Show.

Recently, Ms. Lawrence was invited to join The Board of Trustees for Miller Children’s Hospital at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. One of only eight children’s hospitals in the state, Miller Children’s Hospital was dedicated in 1970 as a community, non-profit hospital and now services patients within a 100-mile radius in LA and Orange counties. Vicki also hosts the annual WALK FOR THE CURE in her hometown where all the proceeds go to breast and ovarian cancer research at Long Beach Memorial Center.

Testimonials

“Vicki Lawrence turned out to be an excellent choice for us.  Her sense of humor was enjoyed by all and anything we asked her to do, she did it with a smile.  I would recommend her highly to anyone that is thinking of booking her for an event.  They won’t be disappointed.”

Tom Kane

District Conference Chairman of The Rotary International

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