Carol Burnett. Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images.

Legendary comedienne Carol Burnett will be awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the Kennedy Center announced today.

The 80-year-old actress will be saluted at the Kennedy Center on October 20 in a ceremony that will be broadcast on PBS later that month. Burnett is the fifth woman to win the prize since its creation in 1998. (Yes, Ellen DeGeneres got the honor before Burnett. It’s a crazy world we live in.)

“I can’t believe I’m getting a humor prize from the Kennedy Center,” Burnett said in a press release. “It’s almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.”

The Emmy Award-winning actress is best known for her variety show The Carol Burnett Show, in which she famously imitated Scarlett O’Hara by donning curtains with the rod still attached. That costume can be seen in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Musical fans will also know her from her turns in Once Upon a Mattress and Annie.

As the Post noted, her comedy career began in Washington, D.C.:

In the 1950s, she wrote and sang a love song to then-Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, known as the most boring man in America. Titled “I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles,” the song parodied the Elvis craze of the era and gained Burnett spots on Jack Paar’s “The Tonight Show” and Ed Sullivan’s “Toast of the Town.”

Kennedy Center Chairman David M. Rubenstein called Burnett a “unique and beloved entertainer” in a press release.