{"id":20064,"date":"2015-06-17T08:05:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T12:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/lily-tomlin-on-why-grace-and-frankie-isnt-a-comedy-how-its-like-abfab-and-the-new-generation-of-female-comics\/"},"modified":"2015-06-17T08:05:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T12:05:13","slug":"lily-tomlin-on-why-grace-and-frankie-isnt-a-comedy-how-its-like-abfab-and-the-new-generation-of-female-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/lily-tomlin-on-why-grace-and-frankie-isnt-a-comedy-how-its-like-abfab-and-the-new-generation-of-female-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"Lily Tomlin On Why Grace and Frankie Isn\u2019t A Comedy, How It\u2019s Like AbFab And The New Generation Of Female Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Lily Tomlin On Why Grace and Frankie Isn\u2019t A Comedy, How It\u2019s Like AbFab And The New Generation Of Female Comics<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/06\/lily-tomlin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/06\/lily-tomlin.jpg\" alt=\"lily-tomlin\" width=\"305\" height=\"457\"><\/a>2015 is turning out to be&nbsp;The Year of Lily Tomlin. She is earning Oscar buzz for her starring role <em><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2015\/film\/news\/lily-tomlin-grandma-los-angeles-film-festival-1201467644\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grandma<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>(in theaters August 21), an indie film about an acerbic, post-hippie <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">lesbian<\/a> who embarks on a journey of life&rsquo;s discoveries while driving around looking for money to fund her granddaughter&rsquo;s abortion&nbsp;(the film also features <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/tag\/Laverne-Cox\">Laverne Cox<\/a> in a supporting role). Tomlin will also return for a second season of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.com\/WiMovie\/80017537\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Grace and Frankie<\/em><\/a>, the Netflix series costarring her old pal Jane Fonda and which follows two <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> who cling to each other for support after their husbands announce they are <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> and are in love with each other. <em>Grace and Frankie<\/em>&nbsp;found a devoted following thanks to its mix of the friendship dynamics of <em>The Odd Couple<\/em> with the filthy <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a> talk of <em>The Golden Girls, <\/em>and it showcases Tomlin in understated, dramatic moments that&nbsp;give new life to the veteran actor&rsquo;s image.<\/p>\n<p>Queerty caught up with Tomlin during her current U.S. tour of her solo stage show, in which she performs a mix of stand-up comedy and a retrospective of some of her sketch characters, to talk about her current projects&nbsp;and&nbsp;her iconic history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Queerty:&nbsp;The story to <em>Grandma<\/em> seems pretty serious, but is the movie actually a comedy?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Lily Tomlin<\/em>: It has been reviewed as being funny, but I think that&rsquo;s just because people expect that of me. A&nbsp;lot of little tags hang on from one project to another. Jane and I haven&rsquo;t done a project together for years, and the last one we did, other than one of my TV specials, was <em>Nine&nbsp;to Five<\/em>, and it was terribly funny to most audiences. So people expect that now.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/06\/o-GRACE-AND-FRANKIE-facebook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/06\/o-GRACE-AND-FRANKIE-facebook-360x180.jpg\" alt=\"o-GRACE-AND-FRANKIE-facebook\" width=\"360\" height=\"180\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jane Fonda, Tomlin<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>I don&rsquo;t view <em>Grace and Frankie<\/em> as a comedy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t either. But I&rsquo;ve never been bound to that expectation. I&rsquo;ve always just played the material, whatever&rsquo;s on the page. Some projects allow you to be very big and comedic, with some projects you walk a line. It&rsquo;s like when I did <em>Damages&nbsp;<\/em>with Martin Short, and people would ask &ldquo;What&rsquo;s it like to play something dramatic?&rdquo; and Martin would say &ldquo;It&rsquo;s just another point on the continuum.&rdquo; He doesn&rsquo;t think anything about it. Nor do I.&nbsp;[<em>Pause.<\/em>]&nbsp;But the comedic part of me is very important, too. I invented stuff to do, characters to do. But I never thought the audience thought that was all I can do or who I was, any more than they would think I was one of the characters, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U0Gw9IUmjwM\" target=\"_blank\">Ernestine<\/a>&nbsp;[the telephone operator she frequently portrayed on&nbsp;<em>Laugh-In]<\/em>. Although in the beginning, 45 years ago, they did think I was Ernestine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who do you find funny now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s so many people. There&rsquo;s a lot of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> who are quite funny now. Amy Schumer, Sarah Silverman&hellip;Tina Fey, Amy Poehler&hellip;the current crop of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> are quite funny. I don&rsquo;t even know who to name.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/06\/lilymain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/06\/lilymain-360x213.jpg\" alt=\"lilymain\" width=\"360\" height=\"213\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tomlin, Jane Wagner<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>But when you&rsquo;re sitting home with your spouse (writer Jane Wagner) and you&rsquo;re watching TV, what do you turn on?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We usually turn on <em>So You Think You Can Dance<\/em> and <em>Dancing With The Stars<\/em>. Or <em>America&rsquo;s Got Talent<\/em>. That can be a real tear-jerker.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How long have you and Jane&nbsp;been married?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;ve been married since New Year&rsquo;s Eve, 2013.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Has being married changed your relationship<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Well, we&rsquo;ve been together for 44 years. We railed against marriage for years, even when it wasn&rsquo;t an option, and said we were going to wait until the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> community can come up with something better than marriage. It would be like imitating heterosexuals, in a way. But we caved to convention.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What would be better than marriage?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t know. I&rsquo;m waiting for the new generation to figure something out.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/06\/graceandfrankie-nowwhat.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/06\/graceandfrankie-nowwhat-360x197.png\" alt=\"graceandfrankie-nowwhat\" width=\"360\" height=\"197\"><\/a>As a big fan of <em>Grace and Frankie<\/em>, I can&rsquo;t help but notice how the characters are indicative of Patsy and Edina from <em>Absolutely Fabulous<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh, are they?<\/p>\n<p><strong>The story lines aren&rsquo;t similar, but the characters themselves, with Patsy being this vodka-drinking blonde who wears buttoned-up suits, and Edina would drape herself in long flowy clothes and&nbsp;head scarves, and had the long hair, and she was a Buddhist&hellip;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I hadn&rsquo;t even thought of that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>They are&nbsp;just like Grace and Frankie. And Edina did have a husband who left her because he came out as <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>. There&rsquo;s even the scene when Edina&nbsp;gets upset and shovels ice cream into her mouth. Frankie&nbsp;does the same thing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s funny you caught that reference. One day Jane and I were doing press, and Jane said &ldquo;We want to do two <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> of a certain age, when a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">woman<\/a> passes 50,&nbsp;and she doesn&rsquo;t give a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">fuck<\/a> anymore. She&rsquo;s just going to do what she wants to do.&rdquo; And I said, &ldquo;Didn&rsquo;t <em>AbFab<\/em> do that already?&rdquo; Maybe the writers saw it and were inspired, I don&rsquo;t know.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I have a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">couple<\/a> of questions that people want me to ask you. My mother is dying to know: Where does Frankie get her clothes?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh my gosh, how fabulous! Most of my clothes are from a store here in L.A., called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.layeredstyle.com\/\">Layered<\/a>. They also produce a lot of that big chunky jewelry. I am glad to know your mom&nbsp;likes all that stuff. It&rsquo;s so cool. Maybe I should put out my own line of jewelry.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/06\/91956_full.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/06\/91956_full-360x265.jpg\" alt=\"THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING WOMAN, Lily Tomlin, 1981, &copy; Universal\" width=\"360\" height=\"265\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Incredible Shrinking Woman<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>I have several friends who want to know, do you still know the words to the Galaxy Glue song from <em>The Incredible Shrinking Woman<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[<em>Sings<\/em>] &lsquo;Galaxy Glue, Galaxy Glue&hellip;&rsquo; [<em>Pauses<\/em>] I forget the tune.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<em>Sings<\/em>] &ldquo;Galaxy Glue, Galaxy Glue, what would we do without Galaxy Glue&hellip;&rdquo;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s funny. Everybody in the damn world who is of that age picks up on that song. They sing it to me in airports. I like having&nbsp;my life played back at me, and just thrown right in my face.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Well, I am of that age, and I hope you appreciate how much courage it took for me to talk to you today, because I was a kid when <em>The Incredible Shrinking Woman<\/em>&nbsp;came out, and when <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wwM_0ulqduw?t=1m18s\" target=\"_blank\">you fell into the garbage disposal<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>it scared the hell out of me. Pardon my language.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[<em>Laughs<\/em>]&nbsp;I&rsquo;m so sorry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I grew up thinking my mother was going to shrink and turn into a little dot.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My skin got damaged from all that garbage &mdash; the left side of my face &mdash; so I paid for it.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/06\/IMG_1228.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/06\/IMG_1228-360x220.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1228\" width=\"360\" height=\"220\"><\/a>How did it get damaged?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&lsquo;Cause there were chemicals in that goop, whatever it was made out of. My skin got thinned out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Permanently?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah. We did the garbage disposal scene for three days. It&rsquo;s not like I&rsquo;m disfigured. You wouldn&rsquo;t overly notice it. But skin people know it. And the left side of my face is a little more dropped than the right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That&rsquo;s terrible!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was one of the producers, so I have only myself to blame.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Well I&rsquo;m glad that by talking to you, I&rsquo;ve had the chance to work out my <em>The Incredible Shrinking Woman<\/em> demons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m glad. And also, you said &ldquo;pardon my language&rdquo; when you said &ldquo;hell,&rdquo; but&nbsp;I used the F-word.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You did? When?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just a little while ago. Although I didn&rsquo;t use it gratuitously. It was appropriate. I&rsquo;m not a cusser. Unless I get really mad, and then I cuss up a storm, which you&rsquo;ve probably seen on YouTube. So let that go. Don&rsquo;t bring that into your life. It&rsquo;s too much for you to bear.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch a clip from <em>Grandma<\/em> below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=PFrFpwSIUGE:4A0BjyTAOXc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=PFrFpwSIUGE:4A0BjyTAOXc:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dan Renzi<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/PFrFpwSIUGE\/lily-tomlin-on-why-grace-and-frankie-isnt-a-comedy-how-its-like-abfab-and-the-new-generation-of-female-comics-20150617\" class=\"autohyperlink\">feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/PFrFpwSIUGE\/lily-tomlin-on-why-grace-and-frankie-isnt-a-comedy-how-its-like-abfab-and-the-new-generation-of-female-comics-20150617<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lily Tomlin On Why Grace and Frankie Isn\u2019t A Comedy, How It\u2019s Like AbFab And The New Generation Of Female Comics 2015 is turning out to be&nbsp;The Year of Lily Tomlin. 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