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  WIC Biography - Phyllis Diller
Phyllis recently celebrated 35 years in show business, though she was 37 when she began her career.
Phyllis Diller has appeared as a piano soloist with 100 symphony orchestras across the country, including performances in Dallas, Denver, Annapolis, Houston, Baltimore, Rochester, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Cincinnati.
Phyllis continues to give and grow and Women's International Center is delighted to have the opportunity to acknowledge her with a 1990 Living Legacy Award.
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 Phyllis Diller Biography - Biography.com
Diller’s memorable performance on the show sparked the advent of her national exposure.
Diller’s delivery was accentuated by her animated facial expressions, eccentric costumes, and overdone make-up.
In addition to her comedic talents, Diller could boast that she was both an accomplished concert pianist and author.
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  Phyllis Diller Summary
Phyllis Diller (born Phyllis Ada Driver on July 17, 1917) is an American comedian who is considered one of the pioneers of female stand-up comedy.
Diller is generally thought to have opened the stand-up field to women such as Totie Fields, Joan Rivers, Lily Tomlin, Sandra Bernhard, and Roseanne Barr.
Diller has bluntly discussed her plastic surgery, which changed her persona from being deliberately ugly to somewhat chic for her age.
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  Science Fair Projects - Phyllis Diller
In her heyday, Diller achieved a record that still stands today in the Guinness Book of World Records for delivering 12 punchlines per minute, which is typical of her often outrageous, staccato style of comedy.
Diller, a longtime resident of Brentwood, credits much of her success to the late Bob Hope, in large part because of him including her in the pictures and Vietnam USO shows as previously mentioned.
Diller has publicly and bluntly discussed her plastic surgery, which changed her persona from being deliberately ugly to being somewhat chic and attractive for her age.
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It was also on this date, July 17, 1917, that the comedienne and actress with the distinctive laugh, Phyllis Diller, was born Phyllis Ada Driver in Lima, Ohio.
Phyllis Diller (born Phyllis Driver in Ohio in 1917) was a well - known face to TV audiences on both sides of the Atlantic.
Born Phyllis Driver in Lima, Ohio, on July 17, 1917, Ms Diller was an only child of older parents.
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 Phyllis Diller loving life at age 89 - Boston.com
Diller, the subject of a new DVD that celebrates her life and documents her final standup performance in 2002, says she simply got too old to keep traveling from city to city.
Funny thing is, Diller never seemed to accept any limitations when, against the odds, she became one of the most famous comedians of her time.
The youngest of her children, Perry Diller, is 55 now, and he appears briefly in the documentary with her.
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 PhyllisDiller - Booking Entertainment, Corporate, Event, Meeting - Contact PhyllisDiller
Phyllis Diller: Comedienne, film, television and stage actress, author, recording artist, spokesperson, gourmet cook, entrepreneur, concert pianist, philanthropist, humanitarian and unquestionably, one of the most beloved people in show business, Phyllis Diller is a woman loved and admired by millions.
Phyllis recently celebrated 35 years in show business, though she was 37 when she began her career.
Phyllis Diller has appeared as a piano soloist with 100 symphony orchestras across the country, including performances in Dallas, Denver, Annapolis, Houston, Baltimore, Rochester, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Cincinnati.
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 Fame & Fortune: Phyllis Diller (page 1 of 4)
When you think of Phyllis Diller so many signature traits come to mind -- the self-deprecation, the wild wigs, her husband "Fang," her cackling laugh and the rapid-fire joke delivery that put her in the "Guinness Book of World Records" for delivering laughs at the astounding rate of 12 per minute.
A mother of five who entered comedy at the age of 37 to help feed her family, Diller is also an accomplished classical pianist and painter, a woman who deepens with further examination.
Phyllis Diller: I had been doing exactly what I did as a comedian from birth without realizing it because it was so natural.
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 Phyllis Diller | Biography | MTV Movies   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Diller developed an outrageous comedy persona, complete with grotesque wigs, garish costumes and her trademarked cackling laugh.
In the last two decades, Phyllis Diller has periodically altered her public personality, "improving" her plain but distinctive facial features with plastic surgery, concentrating more time on piano concerts and less on stand-up comedy and confining her TV appearances to Home Shopping programs and "psychic hotline" infotainment half-hours.
Perhaps Phyllis Diller's "funny hausfrau" throne has been usurped by younger talents, but one must not forget that Diller was the one who stuck her neck out first, blazing the trail for the many Roseannes and Brett Butlers who followed.
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Phyllis went to Chicago’s Music Conservatory and Bluffton College, where she studied to be a concert pianist.
Phyllis was famous for the wild wigs and crazy make-up that she wore.
Phyllis Diller retired from the stage at the age of 84, in May 2002.
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 DVD Talk Review: Phyllis Diller: Not Just Another Pretty Face
Diller, a scourge to emerging feminists who saw her act as the epitome of the self-hatred that society supposedly imposes on women, was in actuality a feminist pioneer, inventing the genre of the female stand-up comedian.
Diller gave voice to those women who may, at times, have felt their husbands were zeros, and whose kids got on their nerves one too many times, and who faced the prospect of a day locked up at home, scrubbing floors, only to watch those brats track in dirt on them yet again.
Diller's material comes from a time when there were no such restrictions on what certain comedians could say, depending on their gender, skin color, or sexual orientation.
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 Phyllis Diller St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
Comedienne Phyllis Diller occupies a unique position in the annals of American stand-up comedy as the first woman to make her name in that previously all-male preserve.
In four decades, Diller progressed from being the only touring female comedienne within the United States to one of the world's most successful and best-loved comics, and the acknowledged forerunner to the many female comics who have followed her.
Diller was born Phyllis Ada Driver in Lima,; Ohio.
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 Phyllis Diller - ExampleProblems.com
Phyllis Diller (born Phyllis Ada Driver on July 17, 1917, in Lima, Ohio) is an American comedian who is generally considered one of the pioneers of female stand-up comedy.
Diller, a longtime resident of Brentwood, credits much of her success to the late Bob Hope, in large part because he included her in the pictures and Vietnam USO shows mentioned above.
Diller has publicly and bluntly discussed her plastic surgery, which changed her persona from being deliberately ugly to being somewhat chic and attractive for her age.
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 PHYLLIS DILLER - Comedians - Corporate Entertainment Booking
Phyllis Diller has appeared in 16 movies, scores of television specials and shows, recorded 5 major comedy albums, written four best-selling books and found time to help thousands throughout the world.
Phyllis Diller accompanied Bob Hope to Vietnam for one of his annual Christmas trips, and made many appearances on his TV specials.
She was honored by the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery for having the courage to publicly bring plastic surgery "out of the closet." Phyllis continues to give and grow and Women's International Center is delighted to have the opportunity to acknowledge her with a 1990 Living Legacy Award.
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 Phyllis Diller - Reviews on RateItAll   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the world of comedy being hard on the eyes can often be an asset, and this is evidenced by Phyllis Diller as Exhibit A. Unlike a "facially challenged" actress who must read for the role of Ugly Barmaid #2, an ugly comedienne can play off her appearance for an advantage.
This was clearly Diller's edge, and she laughed all the way to the bank with angular features that would scare children and small animals.
Phyllis Ada Driver was born on July 17, 1917 in Lima, Ohio.
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Phyllis Diller has been entertaining people for over 40 years with her night club acts, movies, television, Broadway and theater roles, commercials, tours and books.
Phyllis Diller learned to be concise and sharp in her writing, which became very valuable to her as a comedy writer.
During this time, Diller was creating one-liners which she used at parties, coffee clutches and on the grocery line.
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 Phyllis Diller
Phyllis Diller, an irrepressible lady with an outrageous laugh, is recognized as the leading female standup comic in the world today.
Phyllis describes her comedy as "tragedy revisited." She "rolls em in the aisles" with jokes about her figure (or lack hereof); the attempts of medical science to make her more attractive; her sex life with her mythical husband, Fang; her face-lifts; her mother-in-law, and her next door neighbor.
The real Phyllis Diller is quite different from her stage persona, though both share a rare good humor, warmth, and a love of people.
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 Phyllis Diller : Comedian Profile
In her heyday, Diller achieved a record that still stands today in the Guinness Book of World Records for delivering 12 punchlines per minute, which is typical of her often outrageous, staccato style of comedy.
Diller, a longtime resident of Brentwood, credits much of her success to the late Bob Hope, in large part because of him including her in the pictures and Vietnam USO shows as previously mentioned.
Diller has publicly and bluntly discussed her plastic surgery, which changed her persona from being deliberately ugly to being somewhat chic and attractive for her age.
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 Phyllis Diller Photos - Phyllis Diller News - Phyllis Diller Information
Phyllis often used cigarette holders in her stand-up routines, but she has been a lifelong non-smoker.
Phyllis holds the world record in the Guinness Book Of World Records for most punchlines delivered in a minute, averaging 12.
Phyllis: We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
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 Phyllis Diller St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
Comedienne Phyllis Diller occupies a unique position in the annals of American stand-up comedy as the first woman to make her name in that previously all-male preserve.
In four decades, Diller progressed from being the only touring female comedienne within the United States to one of the world's most successful and best-loved comics, and the acknowledged forerunner to the many female comics who have followed her.
Diller was born Phyllis Ada Driver in Lima, Ohio.
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 Phyllis Diller
Phyllis Diller wanted to be a concert pianist, and studied at Chicago's Sherwood Music Conservatory.
But fate intervened: she fell in love, got married, raised a family, and in 1955 she was a frumpy 37-year-old housewife who wanted to do stand-up comedy.
Diller cut her first comedy album in 1959, then made her motion picture debut in a small role as a nightclub star in the Warren Beatty-Natalie Wood romantic melodrama Splendor in the Grass.
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Diller across the country at such clubs as: Caesar's Palace in Atlantic City, The Claridge Atlantic City, The Vapors in Hot Springs Arkansas, The Papermill Playhouse in Milford New Jersey, Club Ibis in New York City, Fiesta Dinner Playhouse in San Antonio Texas, and the McComb Center in Mt. Clemens Michigan.
Diller has always referred to Mark as "her protégé" and the two stay in contact on a regular basis.
Diller for his comedic timing, as he learned how to edit from watching her work.
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 Phyllis Diller Biography from Basic Famous People - Biographies of Celebrities and other Famous People
Phyllis Diller is an American comedian who is considered one of the pioneers of female stand-up comedy.
Diller, who avoids working blue, did a version of the joke in which she describes herself passing out when she first heard the joke, forgetting the actual content of the joke.
Diller, a longtime resident of Brentwood, credits much of her success to the late Bob Hope, in large part because he included her in the pictures and Vietnam USO shows mentioned above.
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Although Phyllis Diller was what she calls a "late bloomer," (she began her career at age 37) she's excelled in every area she's undertaken.
Diller has won many awards in recognition of her talent and her patriotic and philanthropic activities.
She is a former honorary mayor of Brentwood, California, and received Ph.D. ("Is that an abbreviation of Phyllis Diller?") degrees in Humane Letters from National Chrisitan University in Dallas and from her Alma Mater, Bluffton College in Ohio as well as a Doctorate from Kent State.
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Diller has publicly discussed her plastic surgery, which changed her persona from being deliberately ugly to being chic and attractive for her age.
Diller, a longtime resident of Brentwood, credits much of her success to the late Bob Hope, and keeps a framed portrait of Hope above her grand piano in the living room of her home.
In her heydey, Diller achieved a record that still stands today in the Guinness Book of World Records for delivering 12 punchlines per minute, which is typical of her often outrageous, stacatto style of comedy.
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 Eons: Phyllis Diller loving life at age 89
Phyllis Diller poses with her photos at her home in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles, in this Friday, March 11, 2005 file photo.
Diller, the subject of a new DVD that celebrates her life and documents her final standup performance in 2002, says she simply got too old to keep traveling from city to city.
Funny thing is, Diller never seemed to accept any limitations when, against the odds, she became one of the most famous comedians of her time.
www.eons.com /fun/feature/tv/phyllis-diller-loving-life-at-age-89/10446   (683 words)

  
 Comedy College: Lessons in Laughter - Phyllis Diller
Phyllis Diller, recently retired from performing stand-up comedy, took to the stage at the age of 37 as "the world's worst housewife." She laughed at her own jokes in her trademark cackle, and decked herself out in fright wigs and bizarre costumes.
She was a "chic chanteuse exuding bad taste," but she became the first truly successful female stand-up star, making records, headlining top clubs, and ultimately making movies and having her own sitcom.
Her successful comedic style, inspired by people like Bob Hope, was an interesting combination of character comedy and solid one-liners delievered with a deadpan glare.
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