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The Best of Lily Tomlin: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection

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Lily Tomlin recorded three classic comedy albums for Polydor in the early 1970's winning a Grammy award for THIS IS A RECORDING and earning nominations for both AND THAT'S THE TRUTH and MODERN SCREAM. Since that time Lily has concentrated on films and acting and regrettably has made no further albums other than a late 70's release based on her Broadway show. Lily's humor is wacky and clean and yet hip and surprisingly quite often insightful. The tracks from RECORDING feature Lily's greatest character, the snorting, sarcastic telephone operator from hell Ernestine. The TRUTH tracks are of precocious little five-and-half year old Edith Ann and the new neighbor (also played by Lily) whom she hounds. I actually feel AND THAT'S THE TRUTH is Lily's most hilarious album - I've owned a copy for 30 years and I still laugh my head off just thinking about some of little Edith's wisecracks and comments. These are wonderful albums and it's a shame neither has been released on CD in America. I've never owned a copy of MODERN SCREAM, which features a whole slew of Lily's famous TV characters, the original album did not attract the attention or sales of her first two releases but judging by these samples included on this CD, it's a classic. For sheer laughter and good humor, Lily is right up there with Lucille Ball as a hilarious intrepreter of the foibles of life. And that's the truth!

I've always loved Lily Tomlin and her special characters. Until now, I had only seen them on video (as I would love to see this one) but I put that CD in my car today and she made my drive so much more pleasurable. All of her characters are good but Ernestine and Edith Anne can come to my house anytime. They are hilarious. I can't wait to play it for my husband the next time we're stuck in the car together. If this ever comes out on DVD, I will definitely buy it.

I love this cd. Lily is one of my all-time favorite comedians. I have imitated her characters for years, on and off stage. She is so funny. This is a great cd.

I have been a fan for many years and recently a friend went to see Lily on stage and he told me how much he liked her so I bought the CD for him, and he really enjoys it.

Lily Tomlin is a great talent. This collection has horrible sound quality and editing. I would locate the original sets while still available. Due to the lack of demand for CDs generally and comedy specifically, I would buy as a collector any CDs or DVDs that you can locate. I doubt there will be a future profit in reissuing comedy on hard media.

My CD arrived within a few days, around 3. It was in great condition. The CD covers all the best of Lily Tomlin and kept us laughing all the way through it.

Ya just can't go wrong with Ms Lily! Good laughs from a classic! Laugh In still lives! :-)

Then this is exactly the type of humor you'll enjoy. Lily is a modern marvel and you'll be stunned by the quality of this recording. I can't really put my finger in it, but she's got this kind of understated quality that's refreshing and unusual because successful comedians couldn't pull it off. Lily's humor doesn't hit you over the head, in fact it's so subtle that you'll frequently ask yourself, "what was funny about that?" I had completely forgotten about Lily until I saw her on this year's Oscars award show with Meryl Streep. Now that was a funny bit! Though I did have to ask my mum what was actually supposed to be funny about it. Lily brought me full circle!