Tommy Velour

From Lily Tomlin's TV special Lily for President? (05/20/1982).

Comedian Lily Tomlin created this character, an oily Vegas lounge lizard singer with the salon stylings of a young Wayne Newton and plenty of testosterone.

At one point s/he sang for Elizabeth Taylor.

See also Holly Oneness, Purvis Hawkins.

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