By Montykins
Kathy is excited to see Lily's show live, which she's never done. Darn right she's excited! She even has a special box to watch from. It turns out that Lily's still doing that Ernestine routine ("One ringy-dingy... Two ringy-dingies..." look it up!). As Howard joins Tom and Kathy in the special box, Lily mentions on stage that Kathy's in the audience. Kathy promptly stands up and shouts, "I have a question, Miss Tomlin! Will you please be a guest on Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List!" This is just as staged as the "spontaneous" inclusion on Kathy in Bette Midler's show, but I enjoy it more this time. This just feels more like something Kathy would actually do. Lily razzes Kathy a bit from the stage ("I refuse to get on that sinking ship!") but it's all in good fun.
Howard leads Kathy through hallways (hallways again!) to Lily's dressing room. Kathy apologizes for heckling her, but Lily thinks it went well. Lily tells Kathy she's "not doing it because I want to. I'm doing it because I need to." Kathy thinks that line should go in the commercials. It should have! Lily tells Kathy she was hoping Maggie would be here, and Kathy interviews about how Lily turns out to be a big fan ... of her mother's. Shrug.
So Lily is doing a meet-and-greet with about twenty fans, and Kathy will be watching and learning how to interact with fans. I guess. Even though she's been doing this for years and years herself. Lily tells Kathy that she actually corresponds with her fans. Really? Huh. Anyway, the meet-and-greet mostly involves a handshake and a quick picture. I guess I've had a "meet-and-greet" with Mickey Mouse, then. After some fun, Lily and Kathy go off to dinner so Kathy can pick Lily's brain./p>
So in the forums for last week's episode, Milburn Stone had this to say: It did occur to me as I watched all the one-on-one time with Kathy and Bette that what we were really watching was a talk show surrounded by the trappings of a "reality show." Nicely observed! Because we're now doing the same thing with Kathy and Lily Tomlin. I hope this continues, because if we're really doing a weird talk show now, I'm into it.
Kathy is excited because Lily has won lots of awards and is one of only two women to win a Grammy for Best Comedy Album. The other, incidentally, was Whoopi Goldberg. If you were wondering. Lily tells Kathy that the year she got nominated for a Daytime Emmy, she went dressed as Ernestine in an attempt to get people to notice her. This, Kathy points out, is exactly like what she did with her "Suck it, Jesus!" speech. Well, not exactly. Lily tells a story about Ingrid Bergman, who returned to the Oscars from exile and got a standing ovation. Lily thinks it would have been cool if, instead of standing there all stoic, Ingrid had flipped everyone the bird. Kathy remembers the time she flipped off the Planet Earth people.
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