Writer and performer Lily Tomlin made her name in the NBC comedy show Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In as Ernestine, the telephone operator with an answer for everything. Jack Robinson photographed Tomlin on March 29, 1971 during her Laugh-In period. In a Vogue feature, Tomlin is described as a “slender, scrappy young woman with innocence-blue eyes and a smoke screen of brown hair” as well as the way she uses her characters to hit “corporate hypocrisy, government incredibility, pomposity, cant, untruth telling of any kind.”