Lydia Cornell has been Invited to
contribute her writings to The International Museum of Peace, which houses letters from Nobel Peace
Prize Laureate Mother Teresa, Maya Angelou & Sir Edmund Hillary.
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About Lydia Cornell
Turning
tragedy into comedy: known for her knife-sharp humor on HBO, in social media,
comedy concerts, public speaking and on morning-drive radio, Cornell has been
called: “A fresh voice; one of the
most original voices in America today. Deeply funny and transformative, she has
been called the “female George Carlin” – only younger. And prettier.” ~ C.
Pearlman, Chicago Sun Times syndicate
With 34 million viewers Tuesday
nights on ABC primetime, and millions of fans in worldwide syndication, AFI Best Actress nominee and People's Choice Award winner Lydia Cornell grew up in America’s living rooms as one of of TV’s most popular sex symbols. Best known
for her starring role as the daughter of TV legend Ted Knight (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Caddyshack) on the hit ABC series Too Close for Comfort, she is an
international celebrity with a fiercely
loyal fan following whom she interacts with daily on social media. Starring
in over 250 TV shows & films in 27 countries, she was recently on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm; is costarring with Robert Downey,
Jr., Steven Tyler, Jon Bon Jovi and Gary Oldman in indie films at Sundance; Variety’s Power of Comedy with
Rebel Wilson and Russell Brand and The Kelsey Grammer Comedy Hour. Her fan base exploded last fall when she shot onto Google’s
Top Trends[1]
and Yahoo! Finance News’ Most Viewed News
Stories[2]
right behind William Buffet. Yahoo! Finance News: Lydia Cornell
interviews World Leaders, Pulitzer Prize Winners, White House and Presidential
Candidates for new morning drive AM radio show
Cornell is now a talk-show host; comedienne; teen mentor on
suicide prevention; women and children’s advocate, mother, writer, recovery
expert and inspirational public speaker. As co-owner of a radio network with Hell’s Kitchen chefs, MTV stars and
Sports Radio personalities, she hosts an award-winning radio podcast on Beats
and Eats — which was nominated for a Stitcher award. She is currently working on a series of
humor and spiritual recovery books, which will be out in 2014. She is
producing several shows for Discovery and History Channels as well as her own
comedy TV series. She wrote and
directed the indie short Venus Conspiracy, which will soon be a feature
film. Her articles have appeared in Huffington Post; Herald de Paris;
A&E Biography, Editor & Publisher, Macon Daily, People, Us, Yahoo, New
York Post, Script Frenzy and Lone Star Icon. Too Close for Comfort airs daily on Tribune Broadcasting’s new comedy channel Antenna TV. Cornell disappeared
from Hollywood to get sober, raise children, write books, and find her soul in
a pornographic world.
Triumph over
Tragedy
A children’s
advocate, Cornell raised a child with brittle bone disease is an inspirational
speaker on domestic violence, and teen suicide prevention — as well as on
drug, alcohol and Adderall[1] abuse.
She endured a shattering personal tragedy when she found her younger brother’s
body after a drug overdose. Sober now for 19 years, she speaks to recovery
groups of 200 or more. She spoke at Texas A&M for Domestic Violence
Prevention’s 30th anniversary luncheon. Her talks are laced
with poignant stories of transformation with an innate sense of humor and comic
timing. Cornell speaks at charity fundraisers, hospitals, high schools,
colleges and women’s centers on overcoming loss, grief, unemployment, sexism,
ageism, depression, self-sabotage, suicide, raising aliens (teenagers) and
every imaginable hardship. Her triumph over addiction was the result of a
‘catastrophic spiritual awakening.’ “There is a reason so many celebrities are
in rehab these days,” she says. Her experiences in overcoming a string of
failures and humiliations inspired her to assist others with their own demons. “My
ego was so big, it had an apartment of its own with a walk-in closet.
Lydia has been invited to
speak in Florida on Osteogenesis Imperfecta or brittle bone disease. A
mother of boys, she raised a stepson whose bones broke every time he stumbled.
“Raising a child with britlle bone disease has been one of the most precious
gifts of my life.” she says of her stepson.
Public Service and Ongoing Charity Work
In April 2014, Lydia is going to Lincoln, Nebraska to support the
troops for the Big Red Challenge. She will be in Santa Barbara for a celebrity
golf tournament on April 9 & 10 to benefit “Santa Ynez Valley People
Helping People.” She has worked with the Red
Cross, Firefighters, Autism Awareness, and High Hopes Ryan’s
Reach — Pat Boone’s charity for traumatic spinal cord injury. She hosted
a documentary for Safe Passage Home, an organization that gives
extreme life makeovers to victims of domestic violence, for Oxygen
network. She housed domestic abuse victims and cared for their children
throughout the school year. With the help of the police, Cornell helped rescue
a battered woman from a predator.
As a teen mentor, Lydia works with L.A. Team Mentoring (after school
programs for underprivileged kids) and is developing a site for troubled teens
called “The Answer Room.”
Lydia raised boys — and their girlfriends, who still confide in her
about the most horrifying things. “I had three boys and two dogs, including my
husband, and they were all going through puberty at the same time. Then my
husband left me for Gene Simmons (he went on the road with the rock band KISS!)
But only the good remains in a broken
marriage.”
Buzz
- Currently
in talks with Dancing with the
Stars,
- Recently
on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm; costarring with Robert Downey, Jr.,
Steven Tyler, Jon Bon Jovi and Gary Oldman in indies at Sundance; Kelsey
Grammer Comedy Hour; Host of Variety’s Power of Comedy with Rebel Wilson, Russell Brand,
Helen Mirren, Melissa Etheridge, Aziz Ansari, Lake Bell, Dylan McDermott, Patton
Oswalt and Sarah Silverman; co-stars in director Jordan Alan’s Cats
Dancing on Jupiter with star of The Mentalist.
- With 34 million viewers Tuesday nights on ABC
primetime, and millions of fans in worldwide and first-run syndication,
her fan base exploded last fall when she shot onto Google’s Top Trends[3]
and Yahoo! Finance News’ Most Viewed
News Stories[4] right behind William Buffet. Yahoo! Finance News: Lydia Cornell interviews World
Leaders, Pulitzer Prize Winners, White House and Presidential Candidates
for new morning drive AM radio show
- Too
Close for Comfort is back daily on Tribune
Broadcasting’s comedy channel Antenna TV, on WGN and in top
markets nationwide. The show has been in worldwide syndication for over 25
years.
- She has her own hit radio
show and is co-owner of a network Beats
and Eats on itunes with Hell’s Kitchen chefs, Sports Radio and MTV
stars, and was nominated for a Stitcher Award.
- A transformational
comedienne, Cornell has been called the “female George Carlin” — but
prettier and younger J
- She is currently
working on a series of humor and spiritual recovery books, which will be
out in 2014. Cornell is now a mother,
teen mentor, comedy writer, author, women and children’s advocate, talk
show host, award-winning blogger, Cornell is in development on a new TV
series and feature film.
- Despite rumors on TMZ and
in the tabloids, Cornell did not sue Kelsey Grammer. Cornell
is currently helping the FBI alongside Kelsey Grammer in a major criminal
investigation. This will be revealed in an upcoming expose.
- Lydia Cornell's blog is a triple
Koufax nominee for best writing, recipient of the Thinking Blogger Award and winner of the Freedom Award and three World
Report Awards, is “a
consistently thought-provoking firecracker of pointed socio-political
commentary and observant, caustic wit.” (Yahoo News; Shotgun Reviews.)
- Has
been invited to contribute her writings to The International Museum of
Peace, which houses
letters from Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mother Teresa, Maya Angelou &
Sir Edmund Hillary.
- Received the USO Distinguished Service Award for Middle East and
Beirut war zone trip to visit the troops.
- Venus
Conspiracy – written and directed by
Lydia Cornell, costarring Deborah Van Valkenburgh, who played her sister
on Too Close for Comfort
- Pain is Inevitable, Sex Optional – on stage in her original three-woman show
- Political
Voices of Women Best Writing Awards ~ World Report Award, Thinking Blogger
Award; Weblog Award and Double Koufax Nominee.
- Standup: Improv, Laugh Factory, Las
Vegas at the Riviera, Sahara; opening for Paul Rodriguez at Pechanga 1500
seat theater
- Cornell
has written over 350 articles on politics, women’s issues, pop culture,
spirituality, religion, sex, divorce. Has written an international thriller on the
Trotsky assassination
- Known
for her knife-sharp humor on HBO, in standup comedy concerts, and on
morning-drive radio, Cornell has been called: “A fresh voice; one of the most original voices in America today.
The “female George Carlin” – only prettier, and sexier. And younger.”
- Credits:
Guest starred in Quantum Leap, Full House A-Team, Knight Rider, Dukes of Hazzard, Full House, Quantum Leap;
Hunter; Simon & Simon; Love Boat (5) Fantasy Island; Hotel (2);
Hardball; The Red Tide with
Oscar winners James Earl Jones and Jose Ferrer and Lila Kedrova.
- Teen
Mentor - Mentors teens; Hosts “The
Answer Room” for troubled youth. Volunteers with sons for Red Cross,
Imagine L.A., homeless children, and houses a domestic abuse survivor.
- Raised
sons, including a special-needs child with Osteogenesis Imperfecta
(brittle bone disease)
- Public
speaker on Domestic Violence; hosting Oxygen Network Safe Passage documentary on battered women.
- TMZ: Lydia Cornell was profiled in
several new and recent articles.
- Too Close for Comfort has been in
worldwide syndication for over 25 years and recently began airing again on
WGN and in top markets nationwide.
- Celebrity profile on TMZ. “In the '80s, Lydia Cornell became famous
as Ted Knight's blonde daughter on the TV series Too Close for Comfort.
Guess what she looks like now? “Fergie from Black Eyed Peas!”
- Had a feud with Ann Coulter;
Interviewed Elizabeth and John Edwards.
- Lydia
interviewed Pulitzer Prize Winners, White House advisers,
presidential candidates, Senators, Congressmen and women,
and bestselling authors for her award-winning radio show
- Founder of
Comedy Dance Film Festival
co-sponsored by Saturday Night Live
alum Jon Lovitz, in conjunction with CityWalk Universal in 2011 (*TBA)
- Her
classic TV credits include: Full
House, Knight Rider, A-Team,
Dukes of Hazzard, Hunter, Quantum Leap, Love Boat (5) Hotel (2);
T.J.Hooker, Simon & Simon, Charlie’s Angels; Hardball; The Red Tide with Oscar winners
James Earl Jones and Jose Ferrer and Lila Kedrova.
"Lydia Cornell is an award-winning actress, writer, comedienne,
and talk-radio host best known for her role as "Sara Rush” - Ted Knight's
dazzlingly beautiful yet stereotypically dumb blonde daughter on ABC's 'hit
sitcom, “Too Close for Comfort.” Lydia starred in over 250 TV shows & films
including Curb Your Enthusiasm, Full
House, Dukes of Hazzard, Knight Rider, A-Team, Hunter, Hardball, Hotel
(2), Love Boat (6), Fantasy Island, T.J. Hooker and the pilot of the cult
series Quantum Leap with Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. She signed hundreds
of autographs at their convention earlier this year in Los Angeles. She
co-starred with three Oscar winners James Earl Jones, Jose Ferrer and Lila
Kedrova in The Red Tide, shot in the Greek Isles.
Miscellaneous:
John Conley, a disabled Marine combat
vet, sent her his Purple Heart for her courage in standing up to Ann Coulter's
'extermination speak' in her article “Death
is Sexier than Sex.”
Cornell is a Synesthete and has
Synesthesia, artists, musicians and writers (including V. Nabokov, John Mayer
and David Hockney) who see colors when hearing sounds, and see numbers and
letters in color. The World Symposium on Synesthesia convened in Belgium last
year.
She started experiencing 11:11 in
1994, when she got sober, and had a “catastrophic spiritual awakening and
transformation.
[1] Google Hot Trends: Google Hot Trends: What is popular/what is hot Lydia
Cornell in Google’s top 100 trends when a cover story on
Cornell coincided with the news that her show was coming back on the air. Cornell
wrote over 175 spiritual-political articles on government, politics, Obama, the
election, sex and religion.
[2] Breaking
Yahoo! News: Too Close for Comfort actress Lydia Cornell interviews
world leaders, presidential candidates and Pulitzer Prizewinners for new radio
show.
[3] Google Hot Trends: Google Hot Trends: What is popular/what is hot Lydia
Cornell in Google’s top 100 trends when a cover story on
Cornell coincided with the news that her show was coming back on the air. Cornell
wrote over 175 spiritual-political articles on government, politics, Obama, the
election, sex and religion.
[4] Breaking
Yahoo! News: Too Close for Comfort actress Lydia Cornell interviews
world leaders, presidential candidates and Pulitzer Prizewinners for new radio
show.
