Cover image from Diller's new memoir. "Whatever you wanna do to get a laugh," Phyllis Diller tells Scott Simon, "if it works, do it. Well, short of taking your clothes off." Diller, known for her ...

For many years, Perry Diller had a standing Monday lunch date at the home of his mother, Phyllis Diller. She was an excellent cook — despite her many jokes to the contrary — but she liked to test the ...

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.

Phyllis Diller, born Phyllis Ada Driver in 1917, began her life and lived a good part of it thinking she was ugly. Her family was not a hugging one and at times she was the brunt of cruel jokes from ...

But Diller was among the first who didn’t need a man around. The only guy in her act was a husband named “Fang,” who was never seen and didn’t exist. “We lost a comedy legend today,” Ellen DeGeneres ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Phyllis Diller, the housewife turned humorist who aimed some of her sharpest barbs at herself, punctuating her jokes with her trademark cackle, died Monday morning in her Los ...

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 ...

Elgin Community College will welcome more than 145 colleges and universities to its annual college night from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15, in the Building J Events Center on the Spartan Drive ...

But Diller was among the first who didn’t need a man around. The only guy in her act was a husband named "Fang," who was never seen and didn’t exist. "We lost a comedy legend today," Ellen DeGeneres ...

FILE-In this May 17, 1999 file photo, Phyllis Diller laughs in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Diller, the housewife turned humorist who aimed some of her sharpest barbs at herself, died Monday, ...