The female answer to Don Rickles...
Phyllis was funny, original and always had a good one liner ready. Like Johnny Carson, she could pull off a witty comeback without a second thought. She and Carson at the same time was almost too much to bear...
And never saw it necessary to be vulgar like most of today’s not funny comics...she did let out a few choice words now and then, but not as a constant part of her dialogue.
I remember her on the Dean Martin roast of Lucille Ball...
“She wants to change her hair back to its original color, but she can’t remember.”