Film: Newswire: R.I.P. Phyllis Diller
TMZ is reporting the death of Phyllis Diller, the brassy comedian who paved the way for generations of female comics to come. Diller had suffered from numerous health problems in recent years, and was most recently recovering from a bad fall while living in hospice care. She was 95.
Beginning with her first stand-up appearances in 1955, the housewife-turned-advertising copywriter-turned radio personality Diller developed an exaggerated, eccentric persona that was steeped in self-deprecating wisecracks. Diller—often dressed in gaudy feather boas that matched her fright-wig hair, and twiddling a long cigarette holder—specialized in one-liner gags aimed squarely at her own appearance, her inability (and apathy about trying to) to satisfy her fictional husband "Fang" in the kitchen and the bedroom, and the ravages of age. (A typical Phyllis Diller joke: "I love to shop for shoes. It's the only place where a man tells me that I'm ...
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