I love her , she’s made me smile for years 😂

Phonecia was actually an unseen character in the Ernestine skits and she always pissed Ernestine off, that's why I'm surprised she chose her as a love interest!

@brianhenson8083

6 жыл бұрын

Yes she was. At our kids talent shows 4-6 th grade my bff , Romney grice, & I did ernestine...I would quit if I wasn't Ernie so he was Phonicia,we fought over the maintenance man, Vito ! We did Edith Ann, Ed sullivan, and Paul Lynde. It was great fun & we won every time! I love you Lily,you're my heroine...thanks for the timing and the laughs! Snort snort !!!What's that? You want to say good bye ,Phonecia? You've said good bye to talent years ago..and good bye to your looks way before that ! " Alexander's wife dies... That's you Phones is ! Snort !

@joshuasmith6439

2 жыл бұрын

Actually Phonecia is seen once during a laugh in skit that's posted on youtube.

@daddydragon5608

Жыл бұрын

Poor Vinny. 😂

She is a HOOT! Gotta love Ernestine. :) God love ya, Lily Tomlin!

To think that a character from either before I was born or shortly after, poodle skirt and 50's / 60's hairdo, all that, has, like the real access comedian, gone through so much change in technology and social life -- enough to dare to take a stand with her character now -- wow. She could not have done that in the late 60's and early 70's, or even the 80's and 90's, without severe backlash. now, well, some will still be upset, but Lily and Earestine (and Phoenicia) can take a stand. I/m impressed. We/re seeing a return to how phobic it was when I was growing up, from some people, while others are more tolerant. (But acceptance, rather than tolerance, would be better.0 There is still such a long way to go.

Just watched this and proceeded to text mum the following message along with the video link... "Just... Yes! Grinning from ear to ear!"

Phonecia was actually played by Barbara Feldon (Get Smart), in a skit with Ernestine on Laugh In. However, Phonecia is attracted to the Dick Martin, character and they leave together. It's on youtube.

Lily Tomlin, i salute you, thank you very much :'(

love you ernestine!

What an absolute treasure!

fabulous!!

As usual Lily is a laugh riot!!

I'll bet if one had the opportunity to do so, watching tapes of Don Knotts performing as "Barney Fife" in his 70s wouldn't have been the same as when Knotts was in his 30s.

💖

i love her and i was born 1989 :P

Poor Vito!

Why does this not surprise me?

My love... In our talent show , My bff Ronnie Grove and I a we both fought to be Ernie, not Fenicia, yet I won. That means Fenicia did too ! Snort ! One ringy, dingey...or two?

she does stick her tongue out all the time

I'm glad (not "GLAAD") you are more concerned with the performance than the politics. I am too. But aging is a factor in performance. Sometimes it is not possible to maintain the same level of excellence in interpretive performance as when younger. For example, Aretha Franklin may no longer hit those higher notes (even after quitting smoking) that she could at the peak of her singing ability. Or, as Cher put it, "Getting old sucks."

@MauriceRivers415

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Ernestine is not what she once was, but I salute the mature version nonetheless.

And we already know Lucille Ball couldn't maintain that higher-pitched vocal inflection of "Lucy Ricardo" by the time of Ball's last long-running series, "Here's Lucy." As "Lucy Carter," Ball's speaking vocal range was closer to Bea Arthur's "Maude Findlay" than to "Lucy Ricardo," even though Ball was still essentially performing the same "Lucy" character over four TV series' (five, if you count "The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show" a/k/a "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour"as a separate series).

@WytZox1

7 жыл бұрын

YEARS of smoking indeed took a toll on her vocal ability. ♣

@brianhenson8083

6 жыл бұрын

Or added to it Dear..

@zippitydodaday6037

5 жыл бұрын

@@WytZox1 Yeah it was the cigarettes. It happened to me and many rock stars etc giving us a deeper voice and not the same. Another point to make... When you haven't sung high tone songs for awhile.. Your voice looses it to. Surely same with speaking.

@ericjones4548

5 жыл бұрын

Arguments between Desi and Lucy probably didn't help her voice either.

I remember when Ernestine used to be funny

:yawn:

Way to go Earnestine.

I hope Lily Tomlin açcepts Jesus one day.

I think I just threw up

Way to Ernestine

Pray for lily that Jesus find her.