If you want to know the feeling, just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.

Carol Burnett’s line is a piece of broad, physical comedy used to convey an emotion—usually embarrassment, dread, or the wish to disappear—without naming it directly. By proposing an impossible, slapstick gesture (pulling one’s bottom lip over one’s head), the quote turns an inward feeling into a vivid visual gag. The humor depends on exaggeration: the emotion is so overwhelming that only a cartoonish act of self-erasure could match it. It also reflects Burnett’s performance style, which often translates psychological states into accessible, bodily comedy that audiences can instantly picture and share.