Operators and switchboards have largely been consigned to history. But Ernestine the Telephone Operator as played by Lily Tomlin endures. The character originated on the TV comedy series “Laugh-In” in ...

Operators and switchboards have largely been consigned to history. But Ernestine the Telephone Operator as played by Lily Tomlin endures. The character originated on the TV comedy series “Laugh ...

Here's Lily Tomlin as Ernestine the telephone operator from "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk covers arts and entertainment for MLive/Grand Rapids Press.

Some of the show’s characters, like Arte’s German soldier who found everything “very interesting” or Lily’s brazen telephone operator, Ernestine, took on lives of their own. “The first ...

Lily Tomlin. It's so tempting. You want to ask: "Is this the party to whom I am speaking?" So indelible is the character of Ernestine, the snort-snort, "one ringy-dingy" telephone operator, given ...