Some comedians have so mastered their craft that they could remain legends even if they never took the stage again. Lily Tomlin is one such comedian, but she isn't letting her iconic status keep her out of the spotlight. Instead, Tomlin is stretching herself in whole new ways, much to the delight of fans. Tomlin is still acting on television, hosting events and even taking the stage to perform standup. Not bad for a 70-year-old veteran. Seeing her live is always a treat for her numerous fans, and Lily Tomlin comedy tickets can be found at StubHub.com.

Tomlin is no stranger to television, but she is taking on a whole new kind of role in the television legal drama Damages. In the show, she plays Marilyn Tobin, the wife of a high-level scammer who ran a Ponzi scheme (a la Bernie Madoff). In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Tomlin revealed her take on Tobin. She said, "The lioness comes out. When that real fierceness comes up to protect her family and her children and her grandchildren, I think she — I think she could start to think very strategically in terms of that. That's paramount to her. I think there's a lot to Marilyn that may not meet the eye."

She flexes another kind of entertainment muscle in another project, the Leslie Jordan Off-Broadway show My Trip down the Pink Carpet. Tomlin and her longtime partner Jane Wagner will be part of the production team for the stage show. Jordan wrote a memoir with the same name, and the show is based on that book. It is his second such show, and it is set to open on April 19 at the Midtown Theater after preview shows begin on April 14. Tomlin knows what it takes to make a one-man show work, as she had a successful one-woman show in the 1980s called The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, which was created by Wagner.

She will take the stage in a different capacity on April 19, when she is set to host the National Corporate Theatre Fund's Chairman's Awards. Honored at the awards show will be actor Nathan Lane and set designer Eugene Lee, both of whom are Tony Award winners. The cast of the play Johnny Baseball will be on hand for entertainment. According to their website, the NCTF is made up of 10 not-for-profit theaters who are "dedicated to increasing the participation of corporations and their employees in support of theatre across the country and in New York."

Tomlin herself is no stranger to awards. She has won multiple prestigious awards including Tony, Grammy, Emmy and other awards. The Detroit native first rose to public consciousness during the late 1960s and early 1970s on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Since then, she has made multiple television appearances on shows like Murphy Brown, The West Wing and Desperate Housewives. She has also appeared in films like Orange County, Tea with Mussolini and The Beverly Hillbillies. Her standup career is still going full-swing, and she has dates booked from east to west in the coming months.

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