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Phyllis Ada Diller (née Driver; July 17, 1917 – August 20, 2012) was an American stand-up comedian, actress, author, musician, and visual artist, best known for her eccentric stage persona, self-deprecating humor, wild hair and clothes, and exaggerated, cackling laugh.
Karloff and Diller's characters are both designed to look like the actors portraying them, while Baron Frankenstein's lackey, Yetch, is a physical and vocal caricature of Peter Lorre. Swift also performs impersonations when voicing his characters, such as James Stewart when voicing Felix, Sydney Greenstreet as the Invisible Man and Charles ...
"The Aristocrats" is a longstanding transgressive joke amongst comedians, in which the setup and punchline are almost always the same (or similar). It is the joke's midsection – which may be as long as the one telling it prefers and is often completely improvised – that makes or breaks a particular rendition.
— Phyllis Diller “I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, 'Toys not included.'” — Bernard Manning “The worst gift is fruitcake. There is only ...
Don Rickles (guest host), Tony Curtis, Phyllis Diller, Tommy Lasorda: Skiles and Henderson, Scatman Crothers: ... Jokes" 3931: May 5, 1978 () Gabriel Kaplan ...
On May 11, 1967, NBC broadcast a special Colgate Comedy Hour revival (pre-empting The Dean Martin Show, which Colgate sponsored at the time), with guests Nanette Fabray, Kaye Ballard, Edie Adams, Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks (performing one of their "2000 Year Old Man" routines), Phyllis Diller, Bob Newhart, Nipsey Russell, and Dan Rowan and Dick ...
Phyllis Diller, Jean Carroll and Joan Rivers were often dishing out zingers on club stages while wearing elbow gloves and pearls. (Rivers was even the inspiration behind the expertly dressed comic ...
Phyllis McGuire: Desk- "Famous First Facts"; Stump the Band ... Don jokes with the band and insults the audience. ... Robert Goulet (guest host), Phyllis Diller: N/A ...