Comedian Phyllis Diller dies at 95

[rostasi]

Diller

[JSngry]

I am sorry to hear this. She was a real trailblazer, imo.

[Michael Weiss]

Used to see her hanging out in Bradley's. Apparently she was an accomplished pianist early on.

[rostasi]

Part of her last stand-up performance...

[sonnymax]

A smiles is a curve that sets everything straight - Phyllis Diller

Rest in peace, and thanks for setting us straight.

[paul secor]

I remember seeing her on television in the 60's near the beginning of her comedic career. We always have need of funny people and she was indeed a funny person.

Thanks, Ms. Diller.

[GA Russell]

RIP. She was one of my favorites.

And as far as I know, all of her jokes were clean.

[Chuck Nessa]

Seeing the headline "Comedian Phyllis Diller dies at 95" I thought she died on her Harley!!

[Jim R]

Being that I was young and impressionable when she was first becoming popular, I remember being impressed by the fact that she was so comfortable making fun of her own appearance (and allowing others to do so). At any rate, she was one of a kind. I can still hear "the laugh". RIP.

[JSngry]

Gutsy, no room for error timing, masterful reading of the audience, not going let them not laugh, or to even have a chance not to.

[patricia]

When she first took the stage and told her mostly self-deprecating jokes, women didn't do that. Now, there are lots of funny people who are women and that's great. I'm sure that they are grateful to Phyllis, as well as Lucy, Gracey and a handful of other funny women who paved the way.

When Phillis did her thing, I always laughed.

Wherever she is now, I guarantee that people are laughing.

RIP Ms. Diller.

[PHILLYQ]

RIP and thanks for many laughs over many years.

[rostasi]

• Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

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

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

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

• My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

• My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me.

• 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.

• The reason women don't play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

• My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and

at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.

• Health - what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down.

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

• There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms.

They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?

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

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

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

[Neal Pomea]

Master of the one-liner. Good writer! Unique delivery.