Carol Burnett Says Julie Andrews Used to Send Her 'Dirty Limericks' While Filming “The Sound of Music”

The comedian said she met Andrews when the two were both appearing on Broadway

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• Carol Burnett is recounting how she and Julie Andrews came to be friends — and the funny poems the actress would send her while filming The Sound of Music
• In a new interview, Burnett said she and Andrews are “sisters”
• The comedian said she met Andrews when the two were both appearing on Broadway — she in the musical Once Upon a Mattress, and Andrews in Camelot

Carol Burnett is sharing a fun anecdote from her longtime friendship with Julie Andrews.

On the Tuesday, Feb. 3 episode of Amy Poehler's Good Hang With Amy Poehler podcast, 92-year-old Burnett called Andrews "my chum," adding, "we love each other, we are like — we're sisters."

Burnett added that Andrews, 90, appeared at the comedian's 90th birthday special in 2023, the pre-taped, two-hour Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love which aired on NBC.

The comedian said she met Andrews when the two were both appearing on Broadway — Burnett as Princess Winnifred in the musical Once Upon a Mattress, and Andrews as Queen Guenevere in Camelot.

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"She was a queen and I was a princess," Burnett said. "Some friends, some mutual friends said, 'You two oughta meet, because there's a similarity there.'"

Joking that the two then had a "bind date," Burnett said Andrews came to watch Once Upon a Mattress with some friends before the group went out to a Chinese restaurant after.

"And we never stopped talking to each other. The poor guys who are with us just sat there and listened. It was as if we were joined at the hip from the beginning," Burnett said.

She added: "And as always, she taught me some dirty words."

While Burnett's star would continue to rise with appearances on variety shows and eventually her own eponymous show, Andrews shot to stardom with the 1965 film The Sound of Music.

While Burnett said she didn't attend the premiere of The Sound of Music, she said Andrews "used to send me dirty limericks when she was filming."

"I wish I could remember it or even tell it," she said. "She did a whole parody on 'These are a few of my favorite things.' I mean, brilliant."

Burnett and Andrews were collaborators, too. In 1962, they paired up for their first special together, the Emmy-winning standalone Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall, followed by Lincoln Center (1971), and Together Again (1989).

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Speaking to PEOPLE in 2023, Andrews said of her friendship with Burnett: "From day one, we both seem to know and understand where each one of us is coming from."

"She's wonderful to work with, and she's loyal and kind, and it's never changed. It isn't that we speak every day to be truthful. But it's the kind of friendship that the minute you meet up again, it's exactly as it was," said the Mary Poppins star, who named Burnett godmother to her daughter Emma.

Her respect for her dear friend runs deep. "She transcended a very tough childhood by finding the gift of laughter and she used that phenomenal gift of comedy to save herself and to make all of us much happier," Andrews said, adding: "Sometimes, the characters she plays are not that loving, but she makes them so real. The humor is what is so brave, I think. Hugely brave."

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