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  2. This Is a Recording (Lily Tomlin album) - Wikipedia

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    The album consists of comic sketches of Tomlin in her most famous character, Ernestine, the nosy, aggressive, and sharp-tongued telephone operator. The album's tracks include monologues in which Ernestine tangles over the phone with Joan Crawford, Gore Vidal ("Mr. Veedle"), Martha Mitchell, and J. Edgar Hoover.

  3. Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In - Wikipedia

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    The Tasteful Lady (Lily Tomlin) entertains Rita Hayworth, 1971. Lily Tomlin: Ernestine/Miss Tomlin – An obnoxious telephone operator, she has no concern at all for her customers and constantly mispronounced their names. Her close friend is fellow telephone operator, Phenicia; and her boyfriend, Vito. She would boast of being a high school ...

  4. Lily Tomlin - Wikipedia

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    Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) [1] is an American actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer. Tomlin started her career in stand-up comedy and sketch comedy before transitioning her career to acting across stage and screen .

  5. ‘Grace and Frankie’ Star Lily Tomlin on Her ... - AOL

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    In real life, Tomlin will receive the honor on April 22, as part of the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) Film Festival, taking place this year April 21-24. As for that TV special, spoiler alert: Tom

  6. Hee Haw - Wikipedia

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    Kornfield Kounty Operator Assistance – Irlene Mandrell, as Kornfield Kounty's telephone operator (similar to Lily Tomlin's more famous character, Ernestine Tomlin), answered phone calls from various Kornfield Kounty residents, who would eventually hang up in various degrees of frustration, causing operator Mandrell to often say, innocently ...

  7. All but Impossible to Find for Years, Lily Tomlin’s ‘The ...

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    For nearly a decade — since comedy legend Lily Tomlin played a salty septuagenarian in Paul Weitz’s “Grandma” — I’ve been trying to track down a copy of her one-woman show, “The ...

  8. Telecommunications company - Wikipedia

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    Comedian Lily Tomlin frequently satirized the telephone industry (and the country's then-dominant Bell System in particular) with a skit playing the telephone operator Ernestine. Ernestine, who became one of Tomlin's trademark characters, was perhaps most famous for the following line: "We don't care; we don't have to. We're the phone company."

  9. THR Icon: Lily Tomlin on Insult Comedy, the Oscars and Her ...

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    Lily Tomlin, 82, has been charming and disarming audiences for more than five decades with a parade of sketch comedy characters, TV appearances, a groundbreaking one-woman Broadway show, movies ...