Ian Bernard also wrote all the cute musical " play-ons " that introduced comedy sketches like Lilly Tomlin's little girl character who sat in a giant rocking chair, and Arte Johnson's old man who always got hit with a purse.

Later that year, Lorne Michaels, who produced Tomlin's TV special, asked Groundling Laraine Newman to be a cast member for his new late night comedy series Saturday Night Live.

Tomlin's second album, 1972's And That's The Truth, a collection of monologues as Edith Ann, was nearly as successful, peaking at # 41 on the chart and earning another Grammy nomination.

She also recorded a cover of Chris Tomlin's song " Forever " for the album WOW Worship: Aqua.

The movie was originally written for Barbra Streisand ( Midler's role ) and Goldie Hawn ( Tomlin's role ).

Edith Ann sits in an over-sized rocking chair ( to make Tomlin seem child-sized ) with her rag doll, Doris, and often talks of life at home with her battling parents and bullying older sister, Mary Jean ( Lily Tomlin's actual first name ).

Lily Tomlin plays four characters in this film: lead character Pat Kramer ; her neighbor Judith Beasley ( a character derived from Tomlin's live shows ); Tomlin's Laugh-In characters " Ernestine " ( a telephone operator ); and " Edith Ann ," a little girl who wanders in the lab ( seen only in the TV version ).

Ernestine, who became one of Tomlin's trademark characters, was perhaps most famous for the following line: " We don't care ; we don't have to.

The Consumer Advocate Lady is something of a variation of Mrs. Beasley, much like Tomlin's " male vocalist " characters Tommy Velour and Pervis Hawkins.

Ernestine and Edith Ann were by far Tomlin's most popular characters, and she occasionally performed as them in various television programs over the years.

" Regarding Jane Wagner's screenplay, he wrote: " Miss Wagner has a great talent for the kind of monologues, sketches and oddball characters that made Miss Tomlin's Appearing Nitely so memorable on Broadway, but not for creating a sustained comic narrative.

He scored Lily Tomlin's The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe and is the featured violinist on numerous film soundtracks, including Billy Crystal's Mr. Saturday Night and Steve Martin's Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

* Kornfield Kounty Operator Service: Irlene Mandrell as Kornfield Kounty's telephone operator ( similar to Lily Tomlin's more famous character, Ernestine Tomlin ) would answer phone calls from various Kornfield Kounty residents, who would eventually hang up in various degrees of frustration, causing the Operator to often say, innocently, " And they wonder why we telephone operators turn gray!

* The first Valley Girl in popular culture is attributed to Lily Tomlin's character Susie Sorority on The Lily Tomlin Special in 1975.

Tomlin's humor is often sharp and insightful in the traditions of standup comedians, but also frequently endearing, slightly wacky, and generally quite " family friendly " in the tradition of television comediennes such as Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, and Eve Arden.

Tomlin's parents were Southern Baptists who moved to Detroit from Paducah, Kentucky, during the Great Depression.

One of the few widely panned projects of Tomlin's career, however, was 1978's Moment by Moment, directed and written by Wagner, which teamed Tomlin in a cross-generational older woman / younger man romance with John Travolta.

In the 2008-2009 fifth season of Desperate Housewives she has a recurring role as Roberta, the sister of Mrs. McCluskey ( played by Kathryn Joosten, who coincidentally had played Tomlin's secretarial predecessor on The West Wing ).

In that prison cell lies Dr. Charles Santos, who claims to be on Tomlin's science team.

Tomlin's dream finally became a reality when Pop Warner Little Scholars was officially incorporated as a national non-profit organization in 1959.

The film's writer, Jane Wagner, was Tomlin's longtime life partner and frequent collaborator.

Douglas Adams's 1982 science fiction comedy novel Life, the Universe and Everything – the third part of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series – features the urn containing the Ashes, as a significant element of its plot.

Déjà Vu was the third episode of the second season of Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British comedy program.

In 2007, Alexander was a guest star in the third episode of the improv comedy series Thank God You're Here.

A 2011 poll by Time Out magazine ranked it as the third greatest comedy film ever made, behind Airplane!

Anderson has commented that Plautus “ is using and abusing Greek comedy to imply the superiority of Rome, in all its crude vitality, over the Greek world, which was now the political dependent of Rome, whose effete comic plots helped explain why the Greeks proved inadequate in the real world of the third and second centuries, in which the Romans exercised mastery ".

This episode was originally written with the intention of being an episode of the live-action original series during the third season, but this was vetoed by Fred Freiberger who wanted serious sci-fi episodes instead, stressing that Star Trek is not a comedy.

Her last film of the 1980s was opposite partner Kurt Russell for the third time in the comedy Overboard ( 1987 ).

Caroline is mentioned in the third series of the BBC comedy Blackadder, in which Mr. E. Blackadder dismisses Caroline as a potential wife for George because she " has the worst personality in Germany " ( allegedly " up against some pretty stiff competition ").

For 22 years, he was a panellist in the long-running BBC Radio 4 panel comedy game show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue which he joined as a regular team member from the third series in 1974, and continued until death in 1996.

In 1971 Howerd recorded, with June Whitfield, a comedy version of the song " Je t ' aime ", made famous by Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, in which she featured as " Mavis " alongside Howerd's " Frank ", and a third unexplained sleeping partner named " Arthur ".

Barker was the third comedy professional to be given a memorial at Westminster Abbey, after Joyce Grenfell and Les Dawson.

He appeared in " The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary " ( 2009 ), the fifth episode of the third season of the situation comedy The Big Bang Theory, playing a fictionalized version of himself, as the focus of Sheldon Cooper's ire for not having attended a Star Trek convention at which his appearance was scheduled.

In September 2010, Witherspoon began principal photography in Vancouver for the third film, This Means War, a 20th Century Fox spy comedy directed by McG.

* The larch figures significantly in the third episode of the British comedy TV series Monty Python's Flying Circus, " How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away ".

In a period where ideas for cartoons had run dry ( comedy was heavily scrutinized for violence, and everything else seemed to copy the popular Scooby-Doo format ), Filmation's strong point was its adaptations of popular TV shows, movies and other works, although at least one show, " M * U * S * H " ( the third animated segment on Uncle Croc's Block ), while not a direct adaptation was inspired by the film ( and later TV series ) M * A * S * H.

The first series accented variety, with international guests ; the second and third series had greater emphasis on stand-up comedy ; the fourth featured domestic routines ( with Diane Hart as Ted Ray's wife and Kenneth Connor as " that interfering brother-in-law "); the fifth and six — with new writers — concentrated on sketch comedy and were branded ' New Edition ' and ' 1959 Edition ' to underline the difference.

Following this, he would write his third album Teddy Boys Don't Knit, contribute a lyric to Steve Winwood's Arc of a Diver and write some of the songs he later used for Stinkfoot, a Comic Opera ( the musical comedy he wrote with his second wife Ki Longfellow ).

The third and final series focused on a different character each week but with the overlaps creating a more complex layering of the plot, more akin to a one-off episode of a situation comedy ( albeit with intertwined plots ) than a traditional sketch show.

Bana also co-starred with Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen in Judd Apatow's third directorial feature, about stand-up comics, titled Funny People, marking Bana's first appearance in an American mainstream comedy.

A script for a potential third film was under development by Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg, the writing team that worked with Harold Ramis on the 2009 comedy Year One ; according to Ramis, the four main cast members from the original film may have minor on-screen roles: " The concept is that the old Ghostbusters would appear in the film in some mentor capacity ".

An adaptation of Joyce Maynard's novel, the black comedy starred Nicole Kidman as a murderously ambitious weather girl ; it also featured Van Sant favorite Matt Dillon as her hapless husband and, the third Phoenix sibling in as many projects, Joaquin Phoenix, as her equally hapless lover ( River had died from a drug overdose a year and half earlier ).

The sketch comedy show helped launch the careers of male comedians / actors Jim Carrey ( then credited as " James Carrey "), one of only two Caucasian members of the original cast, Jamie Foxx, who joined the cast in the third season and David Alan Grier ( an established theatre actor, who had worked in Keenen Ivory Wayans ' 1988 motion picture I'm Gonna Git You Sucka ).

After the end of Wynn's third television series, The Ed Wynn Show ( a short-lived situation comedy on NBC's 1948-49 schedule ), his son, actor Keenan Wynn, encouraged him to make the career change rather than retire.