RIP: Phyllis Diller

[cartman]

The comedienne passed away today at the age of 95.

Phyllis Diller dies at 95 - The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/phyllis-diller-dies-at-95/2012/08/20/d3a1e8de-e573-11e0-8faa-2f358d204d6f_gallery.html)

[JonInMiddleGA]

A true legend.

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That clip probably isn't going to seem very groundbreaking for some of the younger members of the board. But check the date, 1977. There was her, there was a young(ish) Joan Rivers, and for this sort of schtick on a national scale that was about it for female comics.

Her gag file -- a steel cabinet with 48 file-drawers containing more than 50,000 jokes and gags typewritten on index cards during her career -- is in the National Museum of American History.

[BYU 14]

Agreed Jon, definitely a legend and a groundbreaking comedienne...RIP

[Sweed]

I remember her on Johnny Carson one night when I was 18 or 19. Don't remember what her routine was but she had a roomful of us laughing our asses off without anything crude (I mean it was ~1979-80 not much you could do on tv). Just funny stuff.

[JediKooter]

Didn't realize she was still alive. Wow, she lived a long life. I hope I'm that funny at that age.