History
Radner based Litella on her childhood nanny, Elizabeth Clementine Gillies, known as "Dibby", who was allegedly hard of hearing. The line "Never mind" became a lighthearted catchphrase of the era.
Outside of Saturday Night Live, Radner played the character briefly in The Muppet Show.
The character also appeared in Radner's 1979 one-woman off-Broadway show, Gilda Live, in which Litella took a job as a substitute teacher in Bedford-Stuyvesant, replacing a teacher who had been stabbed by one of his students, or "stubbed", as Litella put it.
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