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.
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I regret to say I did too. I remember watching her as a kid back in the 1970's and early 1980's, she seemed to always be on all the Bob Hope Specials and other comedy shows of that day. But she was old even then (to a kid at least). I figured she had been dead for years.
My respects to Fang.
Too bad you didn’t take time to become acquainted with her humor. She was a real hoot. We could really use more like her today instead of those who try to pass for comedians.
RIP.. Loved her when she was a character on Scooby Doo
LOL.
TYVM.
RIP, Phyliss Diller!
Requiescat in pace....
Thanks for all the laughs.
R.I.P.
She was a funny funny lady. More often than not, her jokes criticized her self rather than others. She was brilliant on the Dean Martin Roasts. Someone else posted “they don’t make comedians like her anymore”. They are right. Most comedians have to become vulgar to get a laugh. Not those old timers. They had talent.
Isn’t it ironic that the passing of someone who brought so much laughter to so many now brings tears to so many eyes...
RIP.
BTW ladies, Fang is now back in the dating pool.
Thanks for the laughs.
R.I.P.
Talented and colorful lady. RIP.
I had lunch with her one time. A real down to earth lady. It was the first ever Bakersfield Business Conference. Was held outside at Stockdale Country Club where I was a bartender. She was part of the line up of entertainment that day. There was only about 150 people in attendance and Phyllis had just finished her bit when lunch was served. The waitresses all finished serving and while the guests were eating we all got our lunch and sat down inside in the formal dining room to eat. Phyllis got her lunch and came and sat down with us....the help. I laughed so hard I cried all through lunch.
Quite a memory.
Phyllis Diller was the Queen of the paraprosdokian.
A paraprosdokian (from Greek "παρα-", meaning "beyond" and "προσδοκία", meaning "expectation") is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect, sometimes producing an anticlimax. For this reason, it is extremely popular among comedians and satirists. Some paraprosdokians not only change the meaning of an early phrase, but also play on the double meaning of a particular word, creating a syllepsis.
Rest in Peace funny lady.
Up in heaven, with her friends Bob Hope and Jonathan Winters, sitting on a front porch, swapping jokes.
RIP, Phyllis...we'll miss you down here.
“I wore a peek-a-boo dress, he peeked and booed.”
“I wore a peek-a-boo dress and nobody looked.”
“Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.”
“Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?”
“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.”
“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
“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.”
“You know you’re old if they have discontinued your blood type.”
Could be oesteosporosis. I’m still young, but it tends to throw my balance off. Or at least that’s what the doc has said.
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