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    Phyllis Diller

    American stand-up comedian, actress, author, musician, and visual artist

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  1. Phyllis Diller. Actress: A Bug's Life. Diller put out an autobiography in 2005 in her late 80s, and entitled it "Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse", which pretty much says it all when recalling the misfit life and career of the fabulous, one-of-a-kind Phyllis Diller.

  2. May 3, 2024 · Phyllis Diller was an American comedienne and actress who was one of the first female stand-up comics, noted for her zany and raucous personality and self-deprecating humour. Her routine often included barbs about her ineptitude as a mother, her fictitious husband “Fang,” and her looks—she sported.

  3. Aug 21, 2012 · Phyllis Diller, whose sassy, screeching, rapid-fire stand-up comedy helped open the door for two generations of funny women, died on Monday at her home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los...

  4. Aug 20, 2012 · A queen of comedy has died. Phyllis Diller had audiences in stitches for more than five decades with her outlandish get-ups and rapid-fire one-liners. She died at her home, where she had been...

  5. Phyllis Diller: Life and Laughs. Phyllis Diller (July 17, 1917–August 20, 2012) is widely considered to be the first woman stand-up comic to perform as a solo act. To celebrate her 100th birthday in 2017, the Smithsonian worked with hundreds of volunteers to digitize and transcribe Diller's gag file, a large cabinet where she kept her jokes ...

  6. Aug 21, 2012 · Phyllis Diller, one of the first and one of the few female comic headliners of her generation, died yesterday at the age of 95. We're going to listen back to an interview I recorded with her in...

  7. Aug 20, 2012 · Phyllis Diller, zany humorist and comedy trailblazer, dies aged 95. Diller, who built her stand-up career on persona of a corner-cutting housewife, was an influential figure for women in...

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