LORELAI: Hey Shari Lewis, how’s the show going?
Shari Lewis, born Phyllis Hurwitz (1933-1998), award-winning ventriloquist, puppeteer, children’s entertainer, television show host, dancer, singer, actress, author, and symphonic conductor. She was best known as the puppeteer of the sock puppet Lamb Chop. Although she had been on TV since 1956, Rory might remember her from Lamb Chop’s Play-Along, which was broadcast on PBS from 1992 to 1998 (when Rory was aged 7 to 13).
The Annotated Gilmore Girls 