In December 1969, Tomlin joined the cast of the top-rated Laugh-In and immediately rose to national prominence with her characterizations of Ernestine, the irascible telephone operator, and Edith ...

Lily Tomlin will perform this Saturday, April 29, at 8 p.m., at Strathmore’s annual gala. Tickets range from $100 to $300 and include a post-concert dessert party.

For 45 years, since she first showed up on “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In,” Lily Tomlin had made us laugh. Whether as the snooty telephone operator Ernestine or the precocious little girl ...

Pretending to be an insurance operator, Tomlin evolved her character Ernestine from The Phone Company by not giving health care instead. “It’s an elected procedure, as in we elect not to pay for it,” ...

Comedian Lily Tomlin, star of "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," who co-starred with Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton in "9 to 5," will be a headliner at Gilda's LaughFest 2014. GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Comedian ...

Tomlin began her career performing off-Broadway in the 1960s. Her breakout role was as a cast member on the variety show "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" from 1969-73, where she introduced her classic ...

Lily Tomlin’s comedic genius lies in the characters she creates. Prickly telephone operator Ernestine, precocious 6-year-old Edith Ann and suburban homemaker Mrs. Judith Beasley were all ...

Lily Tomlin is in a curious chapter of her career. The veteran comic master has won six Emmys, two Tonys and a Grammy. Her crowded resume spans nearly half a century, from “Laugh-In” in… ...

Lily Tomlin will bring Ernestine the telephone operator, Edith Ann the precocious 6-year-old and her other characters to Springfield for a performance set for 7 p.m. June 13 at Sangamon Auditorium.

Lily Tomlin performs her “Ernestine” character while chatting with Vice President Al Gore via satellite hook-up Wednesday, June 26, 1996, at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.