Lily Tomlin's Edith Ann

Upopular opinion (?), but I like Judith Beasley the best of Lily's characters.

I laughed a lot when she said she gave her dog Buster a bubble bath and all his hair fell out. She said, he likes it and now we can write on him with a magic marker.

I saw her live in '72 and she asked everyone who was gay or lesbian to come up and stand in front of the stage. "Don't be shy" she said. It was a small theater but she got a satisfactory number of people to appear.

^ It's a pity that's the only thing I remember about her show except the friend I was with went up. The hallicinogenics I had consumed didn't permit me to move.

Yeah-Edith Ann was funny at the time but not so much now. Only recently did I discover similar character from old movies-Fanny Brice as “Baby Snooks”. Wonder if she was the inspiration?

Edith Ann ALWAYS creeped me the fuck out. Was it meant to make people extremely uncomfortable and squeamish? Even that big ass rocking chair makes me shudder. And I really like Lily Tomlin.

Even though the character is an occupation that doesn't exist and the names might be unfamiliar, Ernestine is still brilliantly funny. I still remember hearing this track on This is a Recording and laughing my ass off. And it's still funny because it doesn't have to be Mr. "Veedle".

I remember seeing Edith Ann as a little kid and being really creeped out by her. I couldn’t explain it, just freaked me out.

As a little kid, I wanted a really big chair like that.

I've been looking on line for a clip where she plays a grocery store checker.

To a patron she thinks has tampered with his package of bacon: "Go on 'n' take it, but next time I'm gonna have to smell your fingers!"

I love Judith Beasley! When they used the Edith Ann character in a PSA to address child sexual abuse is where she lost me. Lily’s appearance on “.Carol Burnett.” is a favorite, especially as the sadistic prison guard in ‘Caged Dames’.

[quote]his hair fell out

I think she used the term "furs". I also remember something about the kitty eating finger sandwiches while up on the table, her baby brother walking when no one is watching, and "teeny, tiny bug wearing teeny tiny tap shoes."

Not as good as Lud and Marie meet Dracula's Daughter or Miss Sweeny.

I remember a line from her act that still makes me laugh out loud.

"I was planning to be a ballerina, but my career was cut short at breakfast one morning when my mother dropped a six-pack on my instep."

R10 I think the character's name was Dot and she was created towards the end of Lily's run on Laugh In. She was suing to get out of her contract because of the writing damaging her characters but the show was cancelled before anything happened.

I’m with R1. Completely.

Her greatest moment:

This entire album is fantastic. Well, well worth your time.

Judith Beasley shows up at 3:57. It’s delightful.

Madame Chairperson! Madame Chairperson!

When “The Incredible Shrinking Woman” aired on ABC Friday Night Movie of the Week, there was a scene with Edith Ann. Edith Ann didn’t appear in the theatrical release — so I imagine it was added to make the film longer.

It was even Pat Kramer was in the hamster cage. She got the cage closer to the switches and ends up talking to Edith Ann (who is seemingly in a room where she’s taste testing food aimed at kids). Pat tells her to tell her mother that she’s trapped. Edith Ann says “i have waited my entire life to meet a lady six inches tall!”

It was a funny bit that I knew by heart at one point because I audio taped the thing from my TV.

I can’t find the clip, but it absolutely was there. “Little girl! Little girl! Little girl!,” Pat says.

Phew! I knew I didn’t make it up! The Edith Ann scene in “Incredible Shrinking Woman” appears as a bonus feature on the DVD release!

I remember watching The Incredible Shrinking Woman on HBO in the 80's. I loved it and was disappointed to (much) later learn that it was not critically acclaimed.

Erenestine was so great because she was power-mad but good-natured simultaneously.

"Galaxy Glue, Galaxy Glue..."

If there's one hit show that's almost impossible to explain to younger generations who didn't see it originally, it's "Laugh-In."

What made it so weird was that it was aimed at explaining the counterculture to Silent Generation types who didn't get it but were curious about it. DSo they had some of the actresses like Goldie Hawn in bikinis go-go dancing during "The Party" sequence, and two nobody middle-aged genial comedians (Dan Rowan and Dick Martin) hosting the show and doing a kind of dated vaudeville comic duo routine so the older generations felt more comfortable. And then there were the weird made-up catch phrases ("Look that up in your Funk & Wagnalls!", "Sock it to me, baby!," "Here come de judge," etc.) that actually [italic]did[/italic] become national catch phrases for a brief time.

I liked Johnny Velour, the lounge singer

I thought the ending of Shrinking was to suggest a sequel which would have been a remake of Attack of the 50 foot woman.

WILL YOU PLEASE STOP TALKING ABOUT THAT CAKE!

Judith Beasley-consumer advocate ahead of her time and not afraid to speak out.

Much of Lily Tomlin's material and characters especially those written with Jane Wagner are incredibly dated and sort of cringey. Lily is so likable and talented it's tough to admit how stuck in the 70s her material is.

I recall seeing "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe" on Broadway and I was stunned how it seemed like a bunch of sketches written in 1973. Everyone said it was brilliant, but I thought it was a case of the emperor's new clothes.

I'll say that Glenna, a Child of the '60s from Appearing Nitely (the On Stage album) is more out of place/halfhearted than Lyn, Edie & Marge from The Search for Signs.

R18, when that movie came out I was in my early 20s and was a "Christian." There was an elder in my church who told me he stormed out of a showing of it dragging his two small children with him because of the scene where the kids sang the "I wish I were a little bar of soap" song. He was OUTRAGED that they uttered the word hiney.

I still remember the righteous indignation on his face when he told me that story.

R24 it was Tommy Velour.