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Hillside, III., Melody Top: The permanently demented Phyllis Diller in Wonderful Town...
...eyes, works her mouth into exotic shapes from figure eights to dodecahedrons, now and then poking forth a grooved tongue until she seems to be a rain-spouting functional gargoyle held up by a wildly flying buttress. All of this, including her guffaws between jokes, is merely punctuation. Phyllis Diller is not just a buffooning grotesque. Her form of comedy is even older than she is. and it runs counter to the trend of modern, storyline comedians, but her hard, calculatedly frenzied style goes over brilliantly in a nightclub atmosphere...
...cattier than a back fence. Not even exotic maharanis are safe from Killer Diller, who tells people not to be fooled by the big single jewel on thai lovely Punjabi forehead. "I mean, it's got to be covering something," says Phyllis "Like, a tunnel." Much of her self-written act centers in the everyday household which she usually populates with schizos now and then tossing in a normal person like the mother who said, "Eat, Chester Have you any idea how many poor people in China would want that oatmeal?" Say Chester: "Name...
Compulsive Talker. Comedienne Diller nearly always mentions her own brood of children: "They're for sale, and those who aren't working are marked down." The oldest is a 20-year-old college stu dent, and all five live with an aunt and a grandmother. Their father, Sherwood Diller, travels the circuit with Phyllis as husband-manager (by train, since she is fond of dresses, uses 22 suitcases...
...Sherwood who suggested in 1955 that his compulsively talking, ever-quipping wife try for an audition as a comedienne at San Francisco's Purple On ion. She ran 89 weeks. Warm, friendly and modest about everything but her jokes, Mrs. Diller is one successful per former who finds it easy to believe what is happening to her. "The older I get, the funnier I get," she says. "Think what I'll save in not having my face lifted...