The uber-uber-UBER-fucking-nosy present-day so-called "customer service representatives" at AT&T and T-Mobile wireless sound JUST LIKE Earnestine and are even NOSIER,I swear!
This clip first aired on "The Cher Show," on March 16, 1975. That explains the references to Henry Kissinger (who at the time was shuttling back and forth between Washington and Cairo, Damascus, Amman, and Jerusalem to advance the peace process) and phone tapping (which was practiced widely by the Nixon Administration in the early 70s before the Watergate scandal resulted in new curbs on the practice.
Spokanegirl2011: True. But I have to give them credit for admitting they were wrong without being nasty. I bet you do, too! Such nonsensical random meanness on these boards sometimes that I am always grateful for nice people.
AntaresinScorpius: If you're being snarky, then my reply would be "I live in the reality-based universe". If you actually think they are dead, try Wikipedia or IMDb for their dates. Either way, I live in the reality-based universe, thanks for asking.
@KittyinVA: If AntaresinScorpius just looked up on Wikipedia (like you said) then this person wouldn't be making such ridiculous comments to think that Cher and Lily Tomlin are dead when clearly both of them are still living and doing really well with their lives.
@AntaresInScorpius you're an idiot if you think they are both dead. Cher is still alive and well and still touring. As for Lily Tomlin , she's still in the acting business. They're both still alive.
@knorthup4 I actually think this clip is from Cher's short-lived solo variety show. I think with the mention of Cher going with rock band members in the skit this was during the time when she and Greg Allman were going with each other after the initial break-up she had with Sonny.
C THIS IS THE CHER IM USE TO SHE LOOKS SUPER SEXY ON HERE I MEAN SHE LOOKED GOOD BACK THEN TOO BUT THIS IS THE FACE IM USE TO I LUV CHER TO DEATH I LUV HER SO MUCH I KEEP SINGING WALKIN IN MEMPHIS AND IM ONLY 13
For this baby boomer, Tomlin always resided in the highest echelon of comic gods, an exclusive club with only two other members. With George Carlin and Richard Pryor now gone, Lily is its last living deity.
Dear Albuquerque 2010... plug it in amped one woman, pampllet, thank you for your ePwittinous> bib newhard malicious wisconsin, ha. happy tappy 2010 pick up the oil? Is theis BP OIL?
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why not do clean comedy all the time, sometimes the jokes were clean. Other times nasty.
It would have been really good if all that wonderful talent had brought Glory to God in his Son Jesus. What a wonderful Family Friendly show that would have been!!
Galatians 5:1 "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage."
Ah the good old days when we only had to deal with one company's telephone terrorists. Can you imagine Ernestine being a sex-phone operator now? It would only be appropriate. After all, Ernestine was the first to screw everybody on the phone. SNORT!
I know.... I don't think she even needed the nosejob that she ended up getting later on in the late 70s. She was still beautiful back then without it.
@OnlytrueDiva This is sonny's fake attornet on the onternet. Nver take advice from us in 2010, for the time machine can't be stopped now. Thanks for your losing views. Take care when the world ends. See you in 2013
Exactly how many impersonation did Lily Tomlin do? Tommy Voleur, Ernestine, etc. I always lost count. And I am now looking at her Tommy impersonation serenading to Liz Taylor and Michael Jackson. When I was that performance made....it could have been mid-90s. Not talking about the Cher one...just type Michael Jackson and Lily Tomlin....you'll see what I mean.
Since there's a reference to Watergate, this clip appears to be 1973 or soon afterwards. After her TV show ended with Sonny in '74, Cher had a short lived program in '75...but I don't think this clip would be that late since the wire tapping bit was old news by then.
this was the joke in my dads class in the 70s some girl was acting like th lady cause they where working the switch bords ha ha they had it as a joke for a while ha ha
I finally got to see Lily...For President? at the Television and Radio Museum on W. 52nd St. It is really good and should be on the must have Lily Tomlin specials. Lily Tomlin is a genius. How does she do it? I remembered when it was first aired on CBS. This woman's humor is so subtle and yet so unique. Lily Tomlin is just one great comedian. You don't those types anymore.
I think there are more with subtle and solid senses of humor. Hollywuss preferring the most base and crude "material" because audiences more readily flock to it.
I recently found this film in our "free movie archives" that are included in our digital cable package. I was so surprised since I had looked for it on vhs/dvd and had had no luck finding it.
I recall a clip from Lily's early 70s show where she's promoting a car wash or detergent in a car wash or something - bloody hilarious; I wish it'd all get released on DVD proper...
tbarkeratl - so what is funny? Kenny getting killed every weel, Peter Griffin shoving his whatsit in things like pencil sharpeners, ceiling fans, etc... fart jokes (some people, conditioned for modern day garbage, re-watch old movies and EXPECT fart jokes and are DISAPPOINTED when nobody makes the noise... sad)
As a dilettante social historian, there's a LOT I've observed. And then get ragged when I point things out... and the same people still whine over the breakdown of society.
I remember Lily Tomlin going undercover as some kind of German chick, trying to find out whether a butcher shop was bleaching its chicken. She asks the butcher, "Tell me, now, you weren't thinking of giving that chicken a little bleach jacuzzi, were you?" She's hilarious.
Lilly Tomlin was briliant then and brilliant now. This is one of the greatest characters that she created. Cher, in this skit, is hot beyond stunning. Thanks for the posting.
Man, if anybody did this today as a comedy skit - e.g. Ernestine talkin' to Britney Spears on the phone... It's too ghastly to contemplate. Cher ROCKS. (Lily's the Goddess of Comedy, but Cher's just as great in my book!! )
01:07 5 RINGY DINGY, A RECORD!
missuniworld 1 month ago
Took Chastity and they saw one of the seven dwarfs. That explains s lot.
binaway 1 month ago
The uber-uber-UBER-fucking-nosy present-day so-called "customer service representatives" at AT&T and T-Mobile wireless sound JUST LIKE Earnestine and are even NOSIER,I swear!
Zombie00Goddess 1 month ago
This clip first aired on "The Cher Show," on March 16, 1975. That explains the references to Henry Kissinger (who at the time was shuttling back and forth between Washington and Cairo, Damascus, Amman, and Jerusalem to advance the peace process) and phone tapping (which was practiced widely by the Nixon Administration in the early 70s before the Watergate scandal resulted in new curbs on the practice.
glenn1tasky 2 months ago
Spokanegirl2011: True. But I have to give them credit for admitting they were wrong without being nasty. I bet you do, too! Such nonsensical random meanness on these boards sometimes that I am always grateful for nice people.
KittyinVA 2 months ago
AntaresinScorpius: If you're being snarky, then my reply would be "I live in the reality-based universe". If you actually think they are dead, try Wikipedia or IMDb for their dates. Either way, I live in the reality-based universe, thanks for asking.
KittyinVA 2 months ago
@KittyinVA: If AntaresinScorpius just looked up on Wikipedia (like you said) then this person wouldn't be making such ridiculous comments to think that Cher and Lily Tomlin are dead when clearly both of them are still living and doing really well with their lives.
spokanegirl2011 2 months ago
This was from Cher's 1976 or so variety show...before botox and a rubber face ruined her beauty!
DA90027 3 months ago
Great classic tv
rla4lily 4 months ago
AntaresinScorpius - They are both alive. What the hell is your post about?!!! Lily and Cher are both active actresses. Weird post.
KittyinVA 4 months ago
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AntaresInScorpius 2 months ago
@KittyinVA hmm ok i stand corrected i withdraw the comments.
AntaresInScorpius 2 months ago
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AntaresInScorpius 4 months ago
@AntaresInScorpius They're not dead! They are still both alive!
spokanegirl2011 2 months ago
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AntaresInScorpius 2 months ago
@AntaresInScorpius you're an idiot if you think they are both dead. Cher is still alive and well and still touring. As for Lily Tomlin , she's still in the acting business. They're both still alive.
spokanegirl2011 2 months ago
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AntaresInScorpius 2 months ago
How ironic and hysterical she's talking about her *daughter" lol
ojmccaf63 5 months ago
if i egt 20 thumbs up me nd my friend claire will do this skit for the skool talent show she will be the ringie dingie girl and ill be cher
tabithaa8 6 months ago
wow girls, high from me
watch?v=nV02P9ayewY
CHAz makes henry kissinger look like a What dahlink?
sorry, you dial Zsa Zsa's last leg
SuperMegaUberGenius 8 months ago
So funny! Love this, shows were so much better back then!
1americanidol11 8 months ago
I think this clip is actually from the Sonny and Cher show. I love Lily Tomlin's skits and Cher plays a great 'straight-man'.
knorthup4 9 months ago 2
@knorthup4 I actually think this clip is from Cher's short-lived solo variety show. I think with the mention of Cher going with rock band members in the skit this was during the time when she and Greg Allman were going with each other after the initial break-up she had with Sonny.
sneezyize 6 months ago
Being born in the 90s I missed out on so much but the ringy dingy is just weird...
Cher rocks though
ShatteredRoses11 9 months ago
"Swinging and drinking in the afternoon"
monte68x 10 months ago
"Did Mr. Green Jeans "come" between you?" Is that a loaded question or what?
BaronVonSchtupp88 10 months ago
LOL
jantheempress 1 year ago
"Judging by the media, you're the operator sweetie" haha xDDD
RainbowKatt 1 year ago
Amazing how that normal life worked out for Cher and "Chaz."
userunavailable3095 1 year ago
Cher makes a mistake and speaks to Lily as "Ms. Tomlin". Unless the character's last name is the same as the actual actor. After 2:48
amaraca 1 year ago
@amaraca The characters last name is the same as Lily's.
witchwatcher333 1 year ago
@amaraca - at 1:23 'Ernestine' says 'This is Ernestine Tomlin'....
ericmaine 1 year ago 2
C THIS IS THE CHER IM USE TO SHE LOOKS SUPER SEXY ON HERE I MEAN SHE LOOKED GOOD BACK THEN TOO BUT THIS IS THE FACE IM USE TO I LUV CHER TO DEATH I LUV HER SO MUCH I KEEP SINGING WALKIN IN MEMPHIS AND IM ONLY 13
TheKARMACREW 1 year ago
The tabliods were rife with Cher back then.
56BUICKRiviera 1 year ago
Well, Know-It-All, Dilettante - Why do you not learn to spell properly, if you are such an 'expert'!!!!
raaxx1968 1 year ago
For this baby boomer, Tomlin always resided in the highest echelon of comic gods, an exclusive club with only two other members. With George Carlin and Richard Pryor now gone, Lily is its last living deity.
dvlaries 1 year ago 13
what the hell is up with that retarded tweety bird shit?
Christinacolasanto 1 year ago
5 RINGY DINGY PICK UP!! hahaha
princesssassy19 1 year ago 5
HIGH LADIES HAPPY 2010
ePhilosopher9 1 year ago
Dear Albuquerque 2010... plug it in amped one woman, pampllet, thank you for your ePwittinous> bib newhard malicious wisconsin, ha. happy tappy 2010 pick up the oil? Is theis BP OIL?
ePhilosopher9 1 year ago
yeah, cher really is pretty in this!
jerallovesyou 1 year ago
Is this the party to who i am speaking?
Jackmiles2006 1 year ago 3
Lilly Thomlin, on the great comediannes of the 20th century!
BigRedMcCool 1 year ago 4
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why not do clean comedy all the time, sometimes the jokes were clean. Other times nasty.
It would have been really good if all that wonderful talent had brought Glory to God in his Son Jesus. What a wonderful Family Friendly show that would have been!!
Galatians 5:1 "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage."
Jesus is Lord of all. Amen.
ighforever 1 year ago
Ah the good old days when we only had to deal with one company's telephone terrorists. Can you imagine Ernestine being a sex-phone operator now? It would only be appropriate. After all, Ernestine was the first to screw everybody on the phone. SNORT!
TheRichcraft 2 years ago 2
five ringydingy! pick up the phone already!!!!! hahahahahhahahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!! hilarious!
bagpipersmom 2 years ago 4
Oh my god, Cher is unbelievable beautiful!!!
OnlytrueDiva 2 years ago 53
I know.... I don't think she even needed the nosejob that she ended up getting later on in the late 70s. She was still beautiful back then without it.
cjs33139 1 year ago
@OnlytrueDiva This is sonny's fake attornet on the onternet. Nver take advice from us in 2010, for the time machine can't be stopped now. Thanks for your losing views. Take care when the world ends. See you in 2013
ePhilosopher9 1 year ago
@ePhilosopher9 I will, but the world's end is in 2012 ;-)
OnlytrueDiva 1 year ago
@OnlytrueDiva alot better than nowdays
behrjet 1 year ago
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AntaresInScorpius 2 months ago
@AntaresInScorpius OMG no they are not dead! You're an idiot to think that they are dead cause they are not!
spokanegirl2011 2 months ago
One Ringydingy
two ringydingy
Snickers1204 2 years ago
Wow, telephones have come SO FAR haven't they??
TheWeddingProducer 2 years ago 3
Hathaway!
DullMirror 2 years ago
That lil tomlin woman sounds exactly like sylvia fine, the mother of The Nanny xD Is this the same actress when she was young? =P
MrxCasz 2 years ago
No -- Renee Taylor played Sylvia. I'm sure Lily and Renee have met, however.
fossefan 2 years ago
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julialuvsjesus 2 years ago
Exactly how many impersonation did Lily Tomlin do? Tommy Voleur, Ernestine, etc. I always lost count. And I am now looking at her Tommy impersonation serenading to Liz Taylor and Michael Jackson. When I was that performance made....it could have been mid-90s. Not talking about the Cher one...just type Michael Jackson and Lily Tomlin....you'll see what I mean.
83survivor 2 years ago
Since there's a reference to Watergate, this clip appears to be 1973 or soon afterwards. After her TV show ended with Sonny in '74, Cher had a short lived program in '75...but I don't think this clip would be that late since the wire tapping bit was old news by then.
hepcat2009 2 years ago
This is from 1975 on the Cher show. Not from 1973.
luchalloyd 2 years ago 3
L-O-L
one ringy dingy...
LiiTTleMiiszFamousz 2 years ago 4
Cher was BE-AU-TI-FUL!
joonxXxbug 2 years ago 2
IS beautiful!
kflint4751 2 years ago 2
In a plastic sort of way, yes. I mean back then before she had any work done, she was naturally beautiful. No one can say that about her now lol.
joonxXxbug 2 years ago
hahaha that was so funny! i love both of them :)
sugarhoneyicedtea123 2 years ago 2
I want to watch this movie! where online can I watch it.? (Tell me URL) Can someone post it on youtube please the full movie??!!
nooby21328 2 years ago
This is from laugh-in.
InquisitiveRaven 2 years ago
No, it's from Cher's variety show. Sonny and Cher broke up after Laugh-In ended.
joolee75 2 years ago
1 ringy dingy lol *snort*
Cher is a true diva...man look at that babe
tigerkidtre 2 years ago 3
this was the joke in my dads class in the 70s some girl was acting like th lady cause they where working the switch bords ha ha they had it as a joke for a while ha ha
carlenecarter52 2 years ago
Isn't this from Cher's variety show, not Laugh-In?
SOLE2SOUL 2 years ago
Yup. It it Cher's show.
joolee75 2 years ago
Lilly and Cher, two of the greatest women around!!!!!
54spiritedwill54 2 years ago 2
se ve divertido, pero no sé mucho inglés u.u
así que no sé muy bien qué decían xD
Ceeeeeesar6 2 years ago
hahahaha :D
DarkGai 2 years ago
ROFL!!!!
qualqui 3 years ago
Kim Kardashian wishes that she were Cher Sarkisyan. Except Kim is probably making more money from her callipygousness.
1011010 3 years ago
I enjoy the humor more now than I did in the '60s. I guess I was to young to appreciate it back then.
burton8062 3 years ago
Oh good grief
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123obbz 3 years ago
Too bad Cher doesn't look like this anymore..she now has a rubber face.
DA90027 3 years ago
You don't have those types, I mean.
83survivor 3 years ago
I finally got to see Lily...For President? at the Television and Radio Museum on W. 52nd St. It is really good and should be on the must have Lily Tomlin specials. Lily Tomlin is a genius. How does she do it? I remembered when it was first aired on CBS. This woman's humor is so subtle and yet so unique. Lily Tomlin is just one great comedian. You don't those types anymore.
83survivor 3 years ago 3
I think there are more with subtle and solid senses of humor. Hollywuss preferring the most base and crude "material" because audiences more readily flock to it.
HypnoToad72 3 years ago
I love Lily tomlin's characters and used 2 be an operator 4 bell this is hilarious stuff. but not typical
30sumthn 3 years ago 2
"DON'T YOU CALL ME HONEY!!!!" Hilarious!
TRAVISJAMES03 3 years ago
ahahah cher stuffs up and says "Miss Tomlin"
LOL
funny though :P
LJThrilla 4 years ago
Lily introduces herself as Ernestine Tomlin in the beginning of the call.
whoopdewootlc 4 years ago
Does anybody have Lily's 1982 special(Lily For President?), which had guest stars like Scott Baio, Sally Field, etc...? If so, please post it.
83survivor 4 years ago
Can anybody upload any scenes from The Incredible Shrinking Woman, a great comedy from the 80's with L. Tomlin?
xocolatl3409 4 years ago 2
I recently found this film in our "free movie archives" that are included in our digital cable package. I was so surprised since I had looked for it on vhs/dvd and had had no luck finding it.
frogsfearme 3 years ago
I recall a clip from Lily's early 70s show where she's promoting a car wash or detergent in a car wash or something - bloody hilarious; I wish it'd all get released on DVD proper...
HypnoToad72 4 years ago 2
Lily's great. Do you have the 1982 special she did called "Lily For President?"...just wondering.
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resulayekin 4 years ago
XD Mister Green Jeans!!! LOL!
Nidonemo 4 years ago
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People used to think this was funny?
tbarkeratl 4 years ago
tbarkeratl - so what is funny? Kenny getting killed every weel, Peter Griffin shoving his whatsit in things like pencil sharpeners, ceiling fans, etc... fart jokes (some people, conditioned for modern day garbage, re-watch old movies and EXPECT fart jokes and are DISAPPOINTED when nobody makes the noise... sad)
As a dilettante social historian, there's a LOT I've observed. And then get ragged when I point things out... and the same people still whine over the breakdown of society.
HypnoToad72 4 years ago 29
People still think it's funny. I laughed.
TheBlueFlamingo 3 years ago 3
I remember Lily Tomlin going undercover as some kind of German chick, trying to find out whether a butcher shop was bleaching its chicken. She asks the butcher, "Tell me, now, you weren't thinking of giving that chicken a little bleach jacuzzi, were you?" She's hilarious.
uziyahuidf 4 years ago 4
Cher and Lily where / are great!!
ResilientYou 4 years ago
Great upload...thanks! Post more please!
wjv4me 4 years ago
Agreed Arkady63, she's still brilliant today. Check her out live if you ever get the chance. BTW, this skit is actually from the Cher Show, 1975.
sjayyyy 4 years ago
Yes! Lilly and Cher, two of the greatest women around!!!!!
DennyAlbert 4 years ago
So cool! Ernestime was always the funniest!
CraigSD 4 years ago
Lilly Tomlin was briliant then and brilliant now. This is one of the greatest characters that she created. Cher, in this skit, is hot beyond stunning. Thanks for the posting.
Arkady63 4 years ago 2
wow, great skit
recordcrazy23 4 years ago
Man, if anybody did this today as a comedy skit - e.g. Ernestine talkin' to Britney Spears on the phone... It's too ghastly to contemplate. Cher ROCKS. (Lily's the Goddess of Comedy, but Cher's just as great in my book!! )
HypnoToad72 4 years ago 2
Britney would probably look at the phone and go "wuts dis?i dun evn lol"
shandamoon 2 years ago