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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Rest in peace
I met Red Skelton in an elevator in 1988 or 89. He was still doing standup comedy then and had sold out a theater.
Great comic. Saw her on my TV a hundred times back in the ‘60s and ‘70s.
RIP
Am I too late saying I thought she was dead?
Excellent, thanks for posting.
Good on Robot Chicken for having her do a few voices.
Oops! I guess Bob and Phyllis will just have to wait.
Making it all the more amazing that 83% of America thought he was dead. Jonathan Winters is probably still doing a gig someplace too.
Mondays are tough, most deaths occur on Mondays. My beloved dog died this morning, too.
I remember as a kid watching her comedy TV series, “The Pruitts of Southampton,” later re-named “The Phyllis Diller Show.”
The premise.....a wealthy socialite living in Southampton on Long Island goes broke. The IRS doesn’t want to cause a financial panic, so they allow Phyllis and her adult children to continue to live in the mansion. Their financial situation is kept from the public. The tax man comes and takes all the expensive artwork out of the house, with Phyllis telling the help it’s being donated to museums or some such thing. Then she has to tell the staff they’re letting them go.
Each episode dealt with Phyllis and her family going through “I Love Lucy” type situations as they struggle to get by. They still have a chaffeur or, as Phyllis called him, the “only one in the family who still has any money.”
Of course, I also remember her from an uncountable number of Bob Hope TV specials. A funny lady. RIP
I’m not convinced.
How lucky you were to have been able to have met her, let alone have her join you for lunch. What a treasure trove of one liners she would have nowadays, just using politicians as her source.
I agree that our musicians, comedians and actors are largely totally krap. I know my mom hated it when I listened to or wanted to watch Elvis. But by comparison with what’s out there today, his music was almost saintly! I still listen to the oldies, classical or religious music and TV program choice is indeed sparse.
This also extends to the choice we have in clothing, movies and news articles. Not much good out there any more. But as long as people continue to consume, those with no or limited talent will continue to produce.
Oops! I guess Bob and Phyllis will have to wait.
OK, so Jack (Benny) and George (Burns), can join them.
Get her on resveratrol ASAP. You can buy it at Costco.
Of course, everyone should be taking it -- it looks like a good aging preventative.
Hospice? Then she died of morphine poisoning.
That's what hospice DOES - they show up, and under the guise of everything else, start pumping the morphine until their target is dead.
We should use them for death row criminals - they're that deadly.
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