One ringy-dingy: Lily Tomlin

Sometimes prophecies come true.

In her Detroit high school, Lily Tomlin was voted "most popular," "most school spirit" and "most likely to succeed." She wasn't interested in the latter. She just wanted to be most popular. She's both -- and the former cheerleader still speaks fondly of her alma mater, so she's really all three.

Forty-four years after heading to Hollywood, the woman who launched her cast of characters on "Laugh-In" is still laughing through life. She's bringing that laughter to a Hancher show Saturday night (11/16) in the Riverside Casino Event Center. Her last Hancher appearance was in 2005. Don't worry. She's changed with the times, and so have her characters, including the iconic "one ringy-dingy" Ernestine.

"Since 2005, I've been using video a little bit -- partly to make fun of myself and partly to do a little spin on a character and interact with the screen. I think the video adds a lot to the show, because it's surprising and it's good -- it's good video," Tomlin, 74, says by phone from her home in Los Angeles. She shares her life there with playwright Jane Wagner, her partner of 42 years, and her cat, Murphy.

Tomlin says everything about her standup show is "just as updated as it can be."

"Ernestine's changed jobs many times since the divestiture," she says. "Most recently, she works for a healthcare insurance corp, denying healthcare to everyone.

"I don't know if there are any new characters since 2005," she says, but she will delve into various topics as Lily. "I'll try to talk about Riverside and I'll talk about the planet, and I'll talk about being a human being, and what that sort of entails -- or what we imagine that entails."

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