Vicki Lawrence is an Emmy Award-winning actress, frequent game show panelist of the 1970s and 1980s, and also an American comedienne and singer. She's best known for her co-starring role on The Carol Burnett Show , alongside Carol Burnett, from 1967 to 1978, and as sharp-tongued matriarch Thelma Harper (the main character on Mama's Family , beginning from 1983 to 1990, which had spun-off from The Carol Burnett Show's The Family sketches).
Monty Aidem is a TV comedy writer and entertainer who first wrote on a revival of the series Laugh-In which featured a young comedian named Robin Williams. He went on to become a writer on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and has written for many other stars like Bob Hope, Dean Martin, and Frank Sinatra. He is currently Vicki Lawrence's writer for her popular live show, and entertains audiences of his own, performing a tribute to Frank Sinatra seen across America.