Carol Burnett was thrilled to welcome Sarah Jessica Parker to the club.
The “Sex and the City” alum, 60, was awarded the Carol Burnett Award during the Golden Globes’ inaugural “Golden Eve” primetime special on Thursday night, making her the sixth recipient of the honor since it was first introduced in 2019.
“It went very smoothly and beautifully, and Sarah was adorable, of course,” Burnett, 92, exclusively told The Post. “That’s to be expected. It was just a lovely evening.”
“Of course, Sarah can do no wrong fashion-wise,” the “Palm Royale” star added. “She just looked beautiful.”
This year’s first-ever “Golden Eve” special, like the Golden Globes, was held at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Although the event took place on Tuesday, Jan. 6, it didn’t air on CBS and Paramount+ until Thursday, Jan. 8.
While Parker was honored with the Carol Burnett Award, Helen Mirren was awarded the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
“It’s certainly easier than a big Golden Globes evening, because it was just the two, and it was very intimate honoring Sarah and Helen Mirren,” Burnett continued. “It was just a great evening, and everybody had a good time.”
Last year’s recipient of the Carol Burnett Award, Ted Danson, opened the show on Tuesday night before welcoming the award’s namesake to the stage.
After Burnett congratulated Parker and “welcomed her to the club,” the “And Just Like That” alum was officially presented with the honorary Golden Globe by her husband of nearly 30 years, Matthew Broderick.
“I was so thrilled to see Matthew there, because he’s in an Off-Broadway show, and they gave him the night off so he could be with Sarah,” Burnett shared.
Broderick, who is currently starring in “Tartuffe” at New York Theatre Workshop, flew in for the special ceremony before hopping on a plane and returning to the Big Apple early Wednesday morning.
“He was so sweet, and he gave the loveliest speech about Sarah and their life together and their kids,” she continued. “It was a very intimate evening, which you don’t get with a lot of big award shows.”
Burnett went on to reveal how Dick Clark Productions, which organized both the “Golden Eve” special and Sunday night’s Golden Globes, managed to include a sweet reference to Parker’s beloved character Carrie Bradshaw during the night’s festivities.
“In honor of Sarah, because in ‘Sex and the City’ her favorite drink was a Cosmopolitan, they served Cosmos,” the comedy icon laughed. “That was very funny. They just started serving them to everybody towards the end of the meal.”
The Carol Burnett Award was first created and given to its namesake in 2019. It recognizes someone who “has made outstanding contributions to television on or off screen.”
After Burnett in 2019, the top TV honor was presented to Ellen DeGeneres in 2020, Norman Lear in 2021, Ryan Murphy in 2023 and Danson in 2025.
Golden Globes President Helen Hoehne then announced in November that Parker would be this year’s recipient.
“Sarah Jessica Parker’s career embodies the very spirit of the Carol Burnett Award,” Hoehne said of the “Family Stone” star. “Her trailblazing impact on television and her dedication to storytelling across stage and screen have left an indelible mark on popular culture.”
“We are honored to celebrate her extraordinary contributions to entertainment,” she added.
Although the award is named after Burnett, the acting legend revealed that she had no idea Parker would be this year’s recipient. She was delighted nonetheless.
“I was very thrilled,” the “Carol Burnett Show” alum told The Post. “And the thing is, not everybody knows this, but I have no say in who’s going to get it – and I didn’t want to! So it’s always a pleasant surprise for me when I hear who [the Golden Globe Foundation] is going to give it to.”
“When they said Sarah this year, I said, ‘Oh, that’s fabulous,’” she added. “So I got her email, and emailed her right away. And she answered me back.”
The pair then shared a “lovely visit” while celebrating together at the Beverly Hilton Tuesday night.
“She couldn’t have been sweeter,” Burnett gushed. “She looked beautiful, and it was just so sweet that Matthew could be there with her.”
Parker, meanwhile, praised the “Annie” star shortly before receiving the Carol Burnett Award this week.
The “Hocus Pocus” actress called Burnett a “huge part of my childhood” and “one of the great comedic persons.”
“I would call my friend and ask if I could come over to watch Carol Burnett,” Parker told The Los Angeles Times. “She was kind of the gateway to exceptional comedy.”
“She’s been in my life in a lot of ways,” the “Square Pegs” alum added. “She’s been an enormously influential person [to me] on and off-screen for countless decades.”
As for Burnett, she acknowledged the similarities and differences between her and Parker’s careers – and how they both succeeded in making names for themselves despite starting out with very little.
“It’s interesting. I don’t have the same kind of career, because I had a variety show,” the “Mama’s Family” star told The Post. “Whereas ‘Sex and the City,’ it was a story about these women and what they’re going through.”
“But we both came from poor backgrounds. I came from a poor family, and so did Sarah,” Burnett concluded. “So we have a lot in common there.”
