In the 1950s, when Diller started being funny for a living, there were no female standup comedians making it big. Some critics have said she... Comedy's Self-Deprecating Pioneer Phyllis Diller Dies A ...

LOS ANGELES -- Phyllis Diller is hanging up her wigs and ending her road career as a purveyor of raucous one-liners that skewered fads, fancies, imaginary husband Fang and her own cosmetic surgery.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedienne Phyllis Diller, the former housewife whose raucous cackle and jokes about her own looks made her one of America's first female stand-up comedy stars, died in her ...

Phyllis Diller (July 17, 1917–August 20, 2012) is widely considered to be the first woman stand-up comic to perform as a solo act. To celebrate her 100th birthday in 2017, the Smithsonian worked with ...

FILE-- In this in this March 18, 1966 file photo, comedian Phyllis Diller models one of her 300 hats in Hollywood, Calif. Diller, the housewife turned humorist who aimed some of her sharpest barbs at ...

"You talk about making waves—did you ever get hiccups in a waterbed?" Phyllis Diller kept Americans in stitches throughout her five-decade-long career in comedy, lampooning famous people, fads, family ...

Some of the most promising talent in show business was on the bill one day and night in 1955 at San Francisco's Purple Onion: Eartha Kitt and Alice Ghostley; Paul Lynde and Robert Clary; a singer and ...

Nearly 13 years after the comedy legend’s death, Sharon Stone hopes to make a biopic about her late friend Phyllis Diller. The Oscar nominee recently admitted she’s “desperate to play” Diller, who ...