Phyllis Ada Diller, 1917 - 2012
At Brentwood, California home on 25 February 2007. Photo by Brian Hamilton
Born: 17 July 1917, Lima, Ohio
Died: 20 August 2012, Brentwood, California
Born Phyllis Ada Driver, she studied music at Chicago's Sherwood Music Conservatory and married Sherwood Diller in 1939. During the war she was a homemaker, mother, and advertising copy writer while her husband worked at the Willow Run Bomber Plant. She started doing comedy on radio in San Francisco, she was booked for two weeks at The Purple Onion and stayed for 87 weeks. She hit it off with Bob Hope, appearing in 22 of his TV specials, three of his movies, and his 1966 Christmas tour of Vietnam. Her schtick was a ditzy, incompetent housewife with an incredibly lazy husband named Fang. She retired from stand-up comedy in 2002 at age 84, most recently appeared on television in 2007, and had voice parts as recently as 2009.
Biography from Wikipedia and The New York Times obituary
Phyllis Diller quotes:
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- A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once. permalink
Phyllis Diller - A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. permalink
Phyllis Diller - Actually, I comb my hair quite often. Of course, I use an electric toothbrush. permalink
Phyllis Diller - Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out. permalink
Phyllis Diller - Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room. permalink
Phyllis Diller - Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. permalink
Phyllis Diller - Fang and I are always fighting. When we get up in the morning, we don't kiss; we touch gloves. permalink
Phyllis Diller - Fang can't stand to see trash and garbage lying around the house. He can't stand the competition. permalink
Phyllis Diller - Fang drops so much food on his ties we keep them in the refrigerator. permalink
Phyllis Diller - Fang says he eats a lot to settle his nerves. I said, "Have you seen where they're settling?" permalink
Phyllis Diller - Fang took the entire family out for coffee and donuts the other night. The kids enjoyed it. It was the first time they'd ever given blood. permalink
Phyllis Diller - Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance? permalink
Phyllis Diller - I asked my hairdresser what would look good on me. She says a Los Angeles Rams football helmet. permalink
Phyllis Diller - I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard. permalink
Phyllis Diller - I don't know how you feel about old age, but in my case I didn't see it coming. It hit me in the rear. permalink
Phyllis Diller
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