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Phyllis Diller
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The Last Guy on Earth (2006)
[ Elizabeth Hurley ][ Joan Cusack ][ Brooke Shields ][ Whoopie Goldberg ][ Talia Shire ]
Forget About It (2006)
[ Raquel Welch ][ Joanna Pacula ]
Unbeatable Harold (2005)
[ Taryn Manning ][ Lin Shaye ][ Amy Weber ][ Michelle Phillips ]
Episode #1.4433 (2004)
West from North Goes South (2004)
[ Tina Louise ][ Julie McCullough ]
Motocross Kids (2004)
[ Alexa Nikolas ]
Episode #1.4088 (2003)
Granny Baby/Time Is Money (2002)
Gabrielle Come Blow Your Horn (2002)
Hip! Edgy! Quirky! (2002)
[ Joan Rivers ]
The Last Place on Earth (2002)
[ Tisha Campbell ][ Alison Arngrim ]
Episode #1.3360 (2000)
Everything's Jake (2000)
[ Robin Givens ]
Nuttiest Nutcracker (1999)
[ Tress MacNeille ][ Debi Derryberry ]
The Debtors (1999)
[ Allison Janney ][ Catherine McCormack ][ Nikki Schieler ]
Episode #1.3111 (1999)
Nobody Knows... (1999)
The Ghost of Whyther Range (1998)
A Bug's Life (1998)
[ Julia Louise Dreyfus ][ Bonnie Hunt ][ Christina Milian ][ Madeline Kahn ][ Edie McClurg ]
Silenzio dei prosciutti, Il (1994)
[ Shelley Winters ][ Charlene Tilton ][ Joanna Pacula ][ Heather Elizabeth Parkhurst ]
Happily Ever After (1993)
[ Zsa Zsa Gabor ][ Tracey Ullman ][ Sally Kellerman ][ Irene Cara ][ Carol Channing ]
The Perfect Man (1993)
The Boneyard (1991)
The Nutcracker Prince (1990)
[ Megan Follows ]
Pucker Up and Bark Like a Dog (1990)
[ Lisa Zane ][ Isabel Sanford ]
Doctor Hackenstein (1988)
Alice Through the Looking Glass (1987)
Jonathan Winters: On the Ledge (1987)
[ Lee Meriwether ]
Pink Motel (1982)
Audit Couple, The/Scoop, The/My Boyfriend's Back (1979)
A Pleasure Doing Business (1979)
[ Misty Rowe ]
Love and the Married Bachelor/Love and the Sweet Sixteen/Love and the Vacation/Love and the Well-Groomed Bride (1971)
Love and the Heist/Love and the Love Potion/Love and the Teddy Bear (1971)
The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians (1970)
Love and the Modern Wife/Love and the Phonies/Love and the Single Couple (1969)
The Adding Machine (1969)
Mad Monster Party? (1969)
[ Gale Garnett ]
Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady? (1968)
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell (1968)
[ Leslie Hope ][ Gina Lollobrigada ][ Wendy Wilcoxon ][ Mylene Demongeot ]
Silent Treatment (1968)
[ Sherry Jackson ]
Eight on the Lam (1967)
[ Leslie Hope ][ Jill St. John ][ Shirley Eaton ]
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966)
[ Leslie Hope ][ Elke Sommer ]
The Fat Spy (1966)
[ Jayne Mansfield ][ Linda Harrison ]
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
[ Natalie Wood ]


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Long before Roseanne Barr's "domestic goddess," Phyllis Diller parlayed her life as a housewife into a profitable stand-up comedy career. The daughter of an insurance man, Phyllis Driver had hopes of becoming a concert pianist, and to that end attended Chicago's Sherwood Music Conservatory. Her zany behavior while attending Northwestern University and her 1939 elopement with her first husband Sherwood Diller put a temporary end to her musical career. Several years and many children later, a bored Diller went to work for the advertising department of a California department store, then got a writing job at an Oakland radio station. A knack for making people laugh at church and club functions prompted Diller (with her husband's encouragement) to set her sights on a comedy career. She studied acting and scrutinized the techniques of her favorite male comedians, finally making her nightclub debut in 1955 at San Francisco's Purple Onion, a progressive nightclub which presaged the "comedy workshops" of today. Eighty-nine additional weeks at the Purple Onion enabled Diller to hone her skills to perfection; her first comedy record album appeared in 1959, with numerous TV and stage appearances quickly following suit. Diller developed an outrageous comedy persona, complete with grotesque wigs, garish costumes and her trademarked cackling laugh. Though always a favorite with live audiences, Diller was never quite able to sustain her appeal on film: her 1966 TV series The Pruitts of Southhampton was unsuccessful, as was her only starring feature film, Did You Hear the One About the Travelling Saleslady? (1968). She fared somewhat better as a supporting actress in several Bob Hope comedy films of the late 1960s (Hope was a longtime Diller fan). 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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