phone company sketch - we dont care - Tomlin

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DonHopkins · 2022-07 · Joke / meme

[VIDEO] "So the next time you complain about your phone service, why don't you try using two Dixie Cups with a string? We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company." -Lilly Tomlin as Ernestine

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DonHopkins · 2020-02 · Joke / meme

You could define a class called RingyDingyEnumerator! [LINK] Speaking of "old school", I love watching Joan Rivers shamelessly plug MCI, after which she audaciously asks Ernestine how old she is and grills her about her sexuality: [LINK] [LINK] > In 1970, AT&T offered Tomlin $500,000 to play her character Ernestine in a commercial, but she declined, saying it would compromise her artistic integrity. In 1976, she appeared on Saturday Night Live as Ernestine in a Ma Bell advertisement parody in which she proclaimed, "We don't care, we don't have to...we're the phone company." The character later made a guest appearance at The Superhighway Summit at UCLA on January 11, 1994, interrupting a speech being given on the information superhighway by then-Vice President Al Gore. She appeared as three of her minor characters in a 1998 ad campaign for Fidelity Investments that did not include Ernestine or Edith Ann. In 2003, she made two commercials as an "updated" Ernestine for WebEx. phone company sketch - we dont care - Tomlin [VIDEO] Ernestine's House Call - Saturday Night Live [LINK] Ernestine the telephone operator calls General Motors [LINK] Lily Tomlin as Ernestine the Telephone Operator [LINK]

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nikanj · 2017-07 · Joke / meme

Somehow it's starting to feel like Google is the Bell of the 21st century, and this sketch has stood the test of time surprisingly well [VIDEO]

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