Phyllis Diller

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Phyllis Ada Diller (née Driver) - best known for her eccentric stage appearance, her self-deprecating humor, her wild hair and clothing, and her empathetic, crowsing laugh. Diller was one of the first female comics to gain a following in the United States, and Joan Rivers, Roseanne Barr, and Ellen DeGeneres, among others, credited as an influence.

She had a large gay fanbase and was regarded as a gay icon.

She was also one of the first female celebrities to openly promote plastic surgery, for which she was praised by the industry.Diller began to direct more than 40 films, beginning with Splendor in the Grass in 1961.

She appeared in numerous television series, as well as her own short-lived sitcom and variety program.

Night Gallery, The Muppet Show, The Love Boat, Cybill, and Boston Legal, among other items, have appeared in plus 11 seasons of The Bold and the Beautiful.

The monster's wife in Mad Monster Party, the Queen in A Bug's Life, Granny Neutron in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, and Family Guy's Thelma Griffin were among her voice-acting roles.

Early life

Diller was born Phyllis Ada Driver in Lima, Ohio, the only child of Perry Marcus Driver, an insurance agent, and Frances Ada (née Romshe). She had German and Irish roots (the surname "Driver" had been changed from "Torch" many decades ago). She was born a Methodist but later became an atheist. When she was born, her father and mother were older than most (55 and 36, respectively), and Diller attended several funerals as a child. The early exposure to death at a young age led to an early appreciation for life, and she later discovered that her comedy was a form of therapy.

She attended Central High School in Lima and discovered she had the gift of humor early on. Even though she wasn't a class clown and described herself as a "quiet and faithful" student, she enjoyed making people laugh when school was out. Diller studied piano at the Sherwood Music Conservatory in Chicago for three years, but she decided against a music career and moved to Bluffton College, where she researched literature, history, psychology, and philosophy. Sherwood Diller married in 1939 at Bluffton, and she and Sherwood Diller married. Diller did not finish school and became mainly a housewife, care for their five children (a sixth child died in infancy).

Personal life

Diller attributed a large amount of her success to Claude M. Bristol's book The Magic of Believing (1948), which gave her a boost in her early career. She was married and divorced twice and had been divorced twice. Sherwood Anderson Diller, her first husband, had six children from her marriage, and she outlived two of her adult children.

Warde Donovan, Diller's second husband, was born on October 7, 1965. She filed for divorce three months later, finding him bisexual and alcoholic, but the couple reconciled on the day before the divorce was declared final. In 1975, she divorced him. Robert P. Hastings was her partner from 1985 to his death on May 23, 1996. She referred to him as the love of her life in a 2000 interview, saying that he adored her for being a leader.

The character of "Fang," the husband, who she often mentioned in her act, derives from an appropriation of portions of the comic strip The Lockhorns. In her stand-up routines, Diller portrayed herself as a lousy cook, but she was also known for her exceptional cooks. "Phyllis Diller Chili" was her trademarked for chili and sold it nationally. Diller opened up about her plastic surgery, a string of procedures that first occurred when she was 55, and she claimed she had undergone 15 procedures. On February 12, 1993, her numerous surgical procedures were the subject of a 20/20 show.

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Career

Diller began broadcasting at KROW radio in Oakland, California, after moving to Alameda, California. In November of this year, she filmed several 15-minute segments for the Bay Area television show "Phyllis Dillis, the Homemaker," dressed in a coat to give homemakers bizarre "advice." Diller appeared on KSFO radio in San Francisco as a copywriter and a vocalist on a music-review TV show called Pop Club, hosted by Don Sherwood.

Diller made her debut as a stand-up comedian at age 37 in the basement of San Francisco's The Purple Onion club, on March 7, 1955, with the support of her husband. She had only attempted to make jokes for her fellow PTA members at Edison Elementary School up until then. Maya Angelou, a student at the club, told Diller, "would not change her name because if she became popular, she wanted everyone to know it was, indeed, herself." Her first professional performance was a success, and the two-week bookings spanned 89 weeks in a row. Even though her husband's industry career suffered, Diller had discovered her calling and eventual financial success. "I became a comedienne because I had a sit-down husband," she explained.

In a 1986 NPR interview, Diller said she had no idea what she was doing when she first started playing sports and that she had never seen another woman on the comedy circuit. She first started with props and drew from her academic and work experience as a basis for satire, spoofing classical music concerts, and advice columns, as there are no female role models in a male-dominated market. She penned her own stories and stored a file cabinet full of her gags, ridiculing her nightclub appearance. Sid Caesar, Milton Berle, and Jonathan Winters were among the early influences, but Diller created a singular comedic persona, a strange interpretation of femininity. While brandishing a cigarette holder (because she didn't smoke), this ridiculous caricature with garish baggy dresses and massive, clownish hair mocked her lack of sex appeal while brandishing a cigarette holder (with a wooden cigarette because she didn't smoke), punctuating the irony with a playful cackle to show she was on the joke. "They had no idea what I was looking for," Diller said at the time. It was like, 'Get a stick and kill it before it multiplies!'

In 1958, she appeared on Groucho Marx's quiz show You Bet Your Life for the First Time. Multiple bookings on the Jack Paar Tonight Show culminated in her appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, which brought her national recognition as she continued to perform stand-up throughout the United States.

Starting in 1959 and 1960s, she released many comedy albums, including the ones "Wet Toe in a Hot Socket!", Are You Prepared for Phyllis Diller? and The Beautiful Phyllis Diller.

Diller appeared at the Bon Soir in Greenwich Village, where an up-and-coming Barbra Streisand was her opening act in the 1960s. After co-starring her mentor Bob Hope and calling her "a Warhol mobile of spare parts picked up along a freeway," she was offered film work and became well-known. They appeared in films like Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!, Eight on the Lam, and Sgt. The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell, the whole family was panned, but Boy... did well at the box office, as well as O'Farrell. Diller accompanied Hope to Vietnam in 1966 with his USO troops during the Vietnam War.

What's My Line? She appeared on many television shows, including The Andy Williams Show. Guests of Mysterious. Sammy Davis, Jr., was among the blindfolded panel on that evening's show, and they were able to determine Diller's identity in three guesses. Diller made her regular cameo appearances, including a wry comment on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. A self-deprecating compulsion. A typical Diller parody had her running after a garbage truck pulled away from her curb.

"Am I too late for the trash?"

She'd yell.

The driver's reply: "No, jump right in!"

She began appearing on The Hollywood Squares in 1967 and 1980, becoming a semi-regular.

Diller continued to film, making his debut as Texas Guinan, the savvy nightclub hostess in Splendor in the Grass. She appeared in more than a dozen, most likely low-budget films, in the 1960s. She began a career in voice work, as well as serving as the voice of the Monster's Mate in Mad Monster Party (1967).

Diller appeared in the short-lived TV series The Pruitts of Southampton (1966-1967), later titled The Phyllis Diller Show, a half-hour sitcom on ABC. In 1967, she was nominated for her work in Pruitts. In 1968, Diller presented The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Exhibition, which was on display at Diller's house.

Hello, Dolly, began in December 26, 1969, and she had a three-month run. (opposite Richard Deacon) is the second to last in a series of replacements for Carol Channing in the title role, which also included Ginger Rogers, Martha Raye, Betty Grable, and Pearl Bailey. Ethel Merman took over the role after Diller's time as the show's director until December 1970's end.

Diller continued working in television throughout the 1970s and 1980s, including as a judge on premiere and subsequent episodes of The Gong Show and as a panelist on Match Game PM. She has appeared in The Mouse Factory, Night Gallery, Love American Style, The Muppet Exhibition, CHiPs, and The Love Boat. She appeared in 7th Heaven and The Drew Carey Exhibition between 1999 and 2003.

In "A Good Medium Is Rare," a 1972 episode of The New Scooby-Doo Movies, her long career as a voice actor continued. In A Bug's Life, Diller provided the voice of the queen in 1998. The Nutcracker Prince (1990, as Mousequeen), Happily Ever After (1990, as Mother Nature), and Casper's Scare School (2006, as Aunt Spitzy) are among her animated films.

Hey Arnold, she appeared in many television series, including Robot Chicken, Family Guy, Wait till Your Father Gets Home, Captain Planet, Cow and Chicken. Mitzi, Arnold's grandpa, Animaniacs, Jimmy Neutron, Jimmy Neutron, as Jimmy's grandmother, The Wild Thornberrys, and King of the Hill. In 2006, she appeared alongside Peter Griffin's mother, Thelma, on Family Guy.

"Derrier retired from stand-up in 2002, citing advanced age and a lack of "lasting energy." She appeared on the Suncoast of Las Vegas, Nevada, last year. "If you can't dance to comedy, forget it." she said at the time. It's music." On the night of her last appearance, Goodnight, We Love You: The Life and Legend of Phyllis Diller, directed by Gregg Barson, was shot on. It follows Diller from a press conference backstage and upstairs to tell the story of her life. Rip Taylor, Don Rickles, Roseanne Barr, Red Buttons, Jo Anne Worley, and Lily Tomlin are among those featured in an article on Diller's comedy history.

Although Diller was resigned from the stand-up circuit, he never fully left the entertainment business. In 2005, she was one of many contemporary comics in The Aristocrats. Diller, who stayed out of blue comedy, produced a spin on an old, risqué vaindeville routine in which she admits to passing out when she first heard the ruse, while disregarding the entire meaning of the satire.

Diller appeared on The Tonight Show and performed stand-up before chatting with Jay Leno on January 24, 2007. During his time as the host of The Tonight Show, Leno has said that Diller would infrequently summon him to address parlor jokes. In the same year she appeared in a Boston Legal episode portraying herself. She appeared on an episode of her friend Roseanne Barr's reality show Roseanne's Nuts in 2011.

On January 2012, she recorded a version of Charlie Chaplin's "Smile" with Pink Martini's Thomas Lauderdale, on the album Get Happy.

Diller's books on domestic life featured her self-deprecating humor, which she first published in 1966 and later in the decade. The books include Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, Phyllis Diller's Marriage Guide, and The Complete Mother. The Joys of Aging & How to Avoid Themism appeared in 1981.

My Life in Comedy, Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse, was co-written with Richard Buskin in 2006. Diller's book describes an unhappy childhood with persistent, emotionally intact parents, as well as a painful first marriage. From these humble beginnings, her performing style—telling quick-fire jokes—emerged, which she likened to music: "One joke followed the other with a flow and a rhythm." Everything had a natural feel to it."

Diller's early 1990s had several short, amusing articles in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.

Diller had studied piano for many years and was a superb performer, but after seeing her teachers and mentors play with much more skill than she expected, she decided against pursuing a career in music. She continued to participate in her personal life, however, and she owned a custom-made harpsichord.

Diller appeared on stage as a piano soloist with symphony orchestras around the country from 1971 to 1981. Dame Illya Dillya. Her appearances were infused with humour, but she took the music seriously. "A fine concert pianist with a firm touch" is a description of one of her performances in The San Francisco Examiner.

In 1963, Diller, a self-taught artist, began painting. She worked in acrylics, watercolors, and oils from the 1970s to her, and her Brentwood, California home was brimming with her portraits and still lives. She held the first of many "art parties" in 2003, selling her artwork as well as her stage clothes and costume jewelry.

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Awards and honors

• Golden Apple Award for Most Cooperative Actress – 1966.
• Laurel Award for Female New Face 11th place – 1967.
• Golden Globe nomination for Actress in a Television Series – The Pruitts of Southampton – 1967.
• Awarded Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Television – January 15, 1975.
• Women's International Center Living Legacy Award – 1990.
• American Comedy Award for Lifetime Achievement – 1992.
• Diller lived in St. Louis with her family from 1961 to 1965 and was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame in 1993.
• Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Service Show Host – A Tribute to Bob Hope – 1998.
• Women in Film Lucy Award, recognizing her achievements in enhancing the perception of women through the medium of television – 2000.
• San Diego Film Festival Governor's Award – 2004.
• Lifetime Achievement Award from hometown Lima, Ohio – 2012.
• Diller's July 17 birthday is officially "Phyllis Diller Day" in Alameda, California, where she got her start in radio and television.