LOS ANGELES — Allow Lily Tomlin to digress ... In drag or not, it's likely that Ernestine — the supercilious phone operator Tomlin created in the 1960s — and Edith Ann, the 5-year-old ...

Comedian and actress Lily Tomlin is doing a live ... the Universe,” which won a Tony in 1986. Tomlin’s thing is characters: Ernestine the phone operator, the five-year-old Edith Ann, Tasteful ...

Lily Tomlin doesn’t perform her Ernestine the Operator sketch too often any more ... into the 717 area code or purchased additional phone lines for their cells or computers that this region ...