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Phyllis Diller - Dead at 95
TMZ ^ | August. 20, 2012 | TMZ Staff

Posted on 08/20/2012 12:09:06 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

Comedian Phyllis Diller -- who paved the way for today's female comics -- has died, TMZ has learned.

Sources close to Diller tell us the comedian died at her L.A. home, surrounded by family. She was 95.

We're told Diller had recently fallen, hurting her wrist and hip, and her health had been on the decline ever since. She had been living in hospice care at her home.

Diller suffered a heart attack in 1999 and was later fitted with a pacemaker.

(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: comedy; diller; driller; obit; obituary; phyllisdiller; rip
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1 posted on 08/20/2012 12:09:09 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

RIP...I honestly thought she died about 20 years ago.


2 posted on 08/20/2012 12:10:34 PM PDT by pgkdan (A vote for anyone but Romney is a vote for obama...got that?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
She was at a Costco with a bullhorn protesting that they weren't carrying her new book...

This was last week.

3 posted on 08/20/2012 12:12:20 PM PDT by Positive (Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
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To: Positive

That was Joan Rivers who was protesting last week at the Costco in Burbank


4 posted on 08/20/2012 12:14:03 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Free ThinkerNY

RIP...


5 posted on 08/20/2012 12:14:19 PM PDT by ScottinVA (If Obama is reelected, America will deserve every mockery that follows.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I wasn’t a fan, but she was a trailblazer and she sure as heck hung in there quite a while.

Rest In Peace.

I wonder when she gave up smoking?


6 posted on 08/20/2012 12:14:32 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (I am NOT from Vermont. I am from MA. And I don't support Romney. Please read before "assuming.")
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To: pgkdan

she was a funny lady, about 20 years ago..


7 posted on 08/20/2012 12:14:48 PM PDT by brivette
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I didn’t know she was... Well, anyways, RIP.


8 posted on 08/20/2012 12:15:54 PM PDT by dragonblustar (Allah Ain't So Akbar!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“I was born at home on newspapers ... I still have a story on my butt, although now the print is much larger.” -PHYLLIS DILLER, Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse


9 posted on 08/20/2012 12:15:54 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I remember seeing Phyllis Diller guest on an old replay of Groucho Marx’ “You Get Your Life” from the early 1950s. She was a quiet, demure starlet at the time.


10 posted on 08/20/2012 12:16:07 PM PDT by ScottinVA (If Obama is reelected, America will deserve every mockery that follows.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

She took pride in being named to Mr. Blackwell’s worst dressed list. One year she did not make the list. She called up Mr. Blackwell and said “Blackwell, where did I go right?”


11 posted on 08/20/2012 12:17:13 PM PDT by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Thanks for that correction. Although I’ve had a hard time telling them apart for the last 50 or so years.


12 posted on 08/20/2012 12:17:22 PM PDT by Positive (Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

God speed fair lady!


13 posted on 08/20/2012 12:17:34 PM PDT by swamprebel (a Constitution once changed from Freedom, can never be restored.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

(selected one liners)

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

Aim high, and you won’t shoot your foot off.

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.

Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?

I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away.

I asked the waiter, ‘Is this milk fresh?’ He said, ‘Lady, three hours ago it was grass.’

I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.

I’ve been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

If it weren’t for baseball, many kids wouldn’t know what a millionaire looked like.

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

You know you’re old if they have discontinued your blood type.


14 posted on 08/20/2012 12:18:25 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Uh oh... now the FLOTUS will have to copy fashion ideas from someone else now!!
15 posted on 08/20/2012 12:18:34 PM PDT by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
R.I.P....a really funny 1st-rate comedian
so unlike many are not.

16 posted on 08/20/2012 12:19:26 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (WA DC E$tabli$hment; DNC/RNC/Unionists...Brazilian saying: "$@me Old $hit; w/ different flie$" :^)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

obama campaign officials today linked Governor Romney to Ms. Diller’s passing..developing..


17 posted on 08/20/2012 12:20:15 PM PDT by BerniesFriend (Sarah Palin-"Lord knows she's attractive" says bitter Andrea Mitchell and the rest of the MSM)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

My mom is 84 and has been falling recently. It has me worried. I don’t know what the heck it is.


18 posted on 08/20/2012 12:20:47 PM PDT by TheRhinelander
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To: Vermont Lt
I wonder when she gave up smoking?

Yesterday. A life cut tragically short.

19 posted on 08/20/2012 12:23:02 PM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: Free ThinkerNY
File:Phyllis Diller Allan Warren.jpg
20 posted on 08/20/2012 12:23:09 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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