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Carol Burnett has won a lot of awards.

She even received the Presidential Medal of Freedom thanks to President George W. Bush.

Despite all those many accolades, her recent Emmy nomination did something entirely newit made history.

Carol Burnett

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That makes her the oldest female comedy acting Emmy nomineeever.

The history-making nomination was well deserved.

While Burnetts nomination is one for the books, shes not the oldest person to ever be nominated.

The nomination is just the latest feather in the cap of the Hollywood legend.