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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. The stage character she

created was a wild-haired, oddly-dressed housewife

who was ugly but didn't realize it, and made jokes

about a husband named "Fang" while smoking from a

long cigarette holder. She is also well known for

her distinctive, cackling laugh, one of the best

recognized in comedy.

A housewife, mother and advertising copywriter,

Diller appeared on The Jack Paar Show and as a

contestant on Groucho Marx's quiz show You Bet

Your Life in the mid-1950s. Later in the decade,

her career took off after selling out 87 straight

weeks at San Francisco's legendary nightclub The

Purple Onion. It is here that Diller honed her

act.  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.

Bob Hope costarred with Diller in 23 TV specials

and in three films in the late 1960s, Eight on the

Lam, The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell, and Boy,

Did I Get a Wrong Number!. All of these films were

failures at the box office, but Hope invited

Diller to perform with him over in Vietnam in 1966

with his USO troupe during the height of the

conflict in that country.

Though her main claim to fame is her stand-up

comedy act, Diller also has appeared in other

films besides the three mentioned above, including

a scene-stealing cameo appearance as a

wisecracking lounge act emcee in the 1961

Hollywood production of Splendor in the Grass,

starring Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty. She

appeared in more than a dozen, generally

low-budget movies, including as The Monster's Mate

in the Arthur Rankin/Bass animated cult classic

Mad Monster Party (1967), co-starring Boris

Karloff. She also starred in two short-lived

television series: The Pruitts of Southampton on

American Broadcasting Company|ABC in 1966 and the

variety show The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show on

NBC in 1968. In 1998, Diller parlayed her unique

cackle into the vocals for "The Queen" in Walt

Disney Pictures|Disney/Pixar's animated movie A

Bug's Life.

More recent television appearances for Diller have

included a guest spot on the long-running family

drama, 7th Heaven, where she hilariously boozed it

up while cooking dinner for the household.

In 2005, Diller was featured as one of many

contemporary comics in a documentary film, The

Aristocrats.

Diller, a longtime resident of Brentwood, Los

Angeles, California|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. She

keeps a framed portrait of Hope above her grand

piano in the living room of her home, and in her

private life she is an accomplished pianist as

well as a painter.

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. Diller's efforts have

drawn numerous awards and acknowledgments from

plastic surgeons and medical organizations.

Diller has been married three times. She was

divorced twice and widowed once. She has five

children from her marriage to her first husband,

Sherwood Diller, on whom "Fang" was based.

Diller's daughter Sally has suffered from

schizophrenia for most of her life. Diller's

second husband was Warde Donovan. Diller is a

grandmother several times over.

Most recently, Diller has suffered serious medical

problems which culminated in her being pronounced

clinically dead for three minutes. She has since

retired from standup performance. 

In the Spring of 2005, Diller fell out of bed at

her Brentwood mansion and had to have pins

surgically inserted into her neck in order to heal

properly.  Her prognosis for recovery was deemed

very good.

She wrote an autobiography titled Like a Lampshade

in a Whorehouse. A screenplay about Diller's early

years in showbiz is in preproduction with actress

Patricia Clarkson is slated to play Diller, for a

film due in 2006.

There have been widespread Internet rumors that

Diller is the mother of All My Children star Susan

Lucci but this is untrue and the two are not

related.

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