Comedian/actress Lily Tomlin joined the cast of the TV show “Laugh-In” in late 1969 and was a hit with sketches featuring her characters Ernestine and precocious youngster Edith Ann. In the ’70s she ...

Lily Tomlin loves her characters! She's so enthusiastic about them that it's hard to keep up with her when she talks about creating them. Ernestine the Phone Lady, Sister Boogie Woman, Mrs. (Judith) ...

Lily Tomlin is probably best known for her sketch comedy characters Ernestine, the chronically unhelpful phone operator; Edith Ann, the smugly precocious 6-year-old; the nut-job philosopher that is ...

Generation Y may only know her as the voice of Ms. Frizzle on âÄúThe Magic School Bus,âÄù but virtuoso comedienne, actress and performer Lily Tomlin had long before made a lasting mark on the world of ...

It is sometimes difficult to imagine what entertainment legends were like before they became famous. Comedian Lily Tomlin has lived in America’s collective memory since the 1960s, and yet she doesn’t ...

In The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, the 1985 play performed by Lily Tomlin and written by her longtime partner, Jane Wagner, Tomlin inhabits a host of female (and a few male) ...

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 Search for Signs of ...

Lily Tomlin says fans will see glimpses of the characters they know and love when she brings her stand-up act to River City Casino next week. “My version of stand-up has always been character-driven — ...

YPSILANTI – Award-winning comedian and actress Lily Tomlin will grace the stage at Pease Auditorium at Eastern Michigan University for a performance of "classic" Tomlin on Saturday, Oct. 1. For a ...