Lily Tomlin, a gifted comedienne, writer, and actress, emerged on American television in the early 1970s as a featured performer on the highly innovative and successful comedy variety series Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. She became noted for...

Lily Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress, comedian, writer and producer. Tomlin's body of work, which has spanned over 40 years, has garnered her several Tony Awards and Emmy Awards, as well as a Grammy Award....

Thankfully, some people never grow up. Lily Tomlin has been clowning for audiences since she was a precocious 5-year-old tomboy singing "Shoofly Pie" for her father's bar buddies in Detroit. The venues are classier now, of course; her last one-woman play, "The Search for...

To attract more ticket buyers to "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe," which has been extended at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater to July 10, Lily Tomlin came up with a novel way to reach crowds of potential theater patrons....

Billy Crystal will be awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.He's the 10th recipient of the award, given annually by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It'll be presented Oct. 11 at a tribute performance that will be televised by PBS."The...

Director David O. Russell has become known for arousing actors’ ire—George Clooney’s alleged fisticuffs on the Three Kings set; Lily Tomlin’s widely circulated outbursts during the filming of I ❤ Huckabees—but at the Ghetto Film School’s annual spring benefit dinner at Bottino in Chelsea on...

[Lily Tomlin's] cult says she identifies so deeply with her characters she becomes them, but I feel she identifies so deeply with her characters she ignores us. She appears to adopt a persona not so much to bring herself closer as to distance herself from her audience. I've never seen a stage persona so armored, so well defended…. Again and again, Tomlin has been characterized as a chameleon, but if a chameleon were surrounded by mirrors, what color would it take to blend in with its su...

Lily Tomlin's humor is a victory of the comic spirit in a world closer to [Jonathan] Swift's than to [George] Meredith's, as her … one-woman show, "Appearing Nitely,"… makes clear. Before Tomlin appears onstage, a small female voice, tremulous but clear, seeps out through the house. "I am not afraid of anything," it sings in a nursery-rhyme sing-song, the suggestion being that it has considered the alternative. The world Tomlin sees has much in ...

Lily Tomlin's career, thus far, straddles a decade. It is not a specific, chronological decade like the fifties or sixties, but rather an amorphous period of cultural shifts that began with Laugh-In taking pot shots at the Establishment; paused with Saturday Night inviting Ron Nessen to guest-host a show; and segued into Barry Manilow, who, on his recent TV special (backed up by three black females with upraised fists), performed a medley of his commercial jingles while the prepubescents in the audie...