I’m excited about New Year’s Eve! Tonight we’ll be discussing one of America’s most influential entertainers (and businesswoman!) Lucille Ball. And after that, I’m heading out for an early New Year’s Eve dinner with friends at my fave local restaurant where my buddy will be cooking (and his wife is one of the guests at our table!)

Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett — Chutzpah! from Carol + 2, originally broadcast on CBS on March 22, 1966.

Lucille Ball and Frank J. Scannell — Slowly I Turned, from The Ballet episode of I Love Lucy. This episode originally aired on February 18, 1952.