Can anyone remember what Phyllis Diller actually did?

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I just remember her appearances on the Match Game and the Muppets Show.. and her trademark "Ha... HAAAAA" laugh. But what did she actually, you know, do?

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 20 September 2002 04:05 (twenty-three years ago)

she was a hip hop m.c. didn't mca or someone say something about having more rhymes that phyllis diller?

― ron (ron), Friday, 20 September 2002 04:20 (twenty-three years ago)

This is true - as far as I know she's the only mc to work with both Big Youth and Schooly D (did Brett Somers ever work with Schooly D?)

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 20 September 2002 04:33 (twenty-three years ago)

She's also a hell of a lay, according to Ned anyway :^)

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 20 September 2002 04:34 (twenty-three years ago)

She was a comedienne in the 60s, no? And she was famous for having plastic surgery, too, I think.

What did Brett Somers do besides Match Game?

― rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 20 September 2002 04:47 (twenty-three years ago)

She's a comedienne and plastic surgery advocate.

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 20 September 2002 04:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Simultaneous posts hooray.

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 20 September 2002 04:49 (twenty-three years ago)

And just who's J.P. Morgan?

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 20 September 2002 04:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Brett Sommers was married to Jack Klugman, I think.

It's Jaye P. Morgan, and I don't know what else she did other than Match Game, sorry.

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 20 September 2002 04:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Jaye P. Morgan was on the Gong Show! Where is she now?

― rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 20 September 2002 04:59 (twenty-three years ago)

duh, she was on scooby doo. and that should be enough for anyone.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 20 September 2002 05:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It wasn't enough for Mama Cass.

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 20 September 2002 05:05 (twenty-three years ago)

but then what was?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 20 September 2002 05:12 (twenty-three years ago)

thanks, i'll be here all week.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 20 September 2002 05:13 (twenty-three years ago)

jess for Match Game 2002.

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 20 September 2002 05:27 (twenty-three years ago)

i see jess in the upper left corner of the hollywood squares

― ron (ron), Friday, 20 September 2002 05:29 (twenty-three years ago)

charcoal, wood, and your mother in law.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 20 September 2002 05:30 (twenty-three years ago)

name three things you wouldn't want at your barbecue.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 20 September 2002 05:31 (twenty-three years ago)

a pirate walks into a bar...

― ron (ron), Friday, 20 September 2002 05:36 (twenty-three years ago)

...and he's got a tiny steering wheel sticking out of his fly...

― ron (ron), Friday, 20 September 2002 05:36 (twenty-three years ago)

my own personal match game would be: me, mike "touch" connors, the drummer from cheap trick, mc 900 ft. jesus, marilyn from the munsters, and bob eubanks.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 20 September 2002 05:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I want jess' show to be on Match Game Monday!

― rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 20 September 2002 05:58 (twenty-three years ago)

My version would be Match Game PM (send the kiddies to bed!): Me, Brett Somers & Charles Nelson Reilly (I can't break up the team), Earl Weaver, Blowfly, & David Lynch.

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 20 September 2002 06:02 (twenty-three years ago)

David Lynch in the Richard Dawson role.

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 20 September 2002 06:03 (twenty-three years ago)

nine years pass...

RIP

http://www.tmz.com/2012/08/20/phyllis-diller-dead/

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 20 August 2012 19:22 (thirteen years ago)

;_;

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 20 August 2012 19:25 (thirteen years ago)

Really, really important--not 100% sure, but she may have been the first female to do what's thought of as stand-up today (I think the Joan Rivers documentary credited her as such).

― clemenza, Monday, 20 August 2012 19:28 (thirteen years ago)

I'd always feel better, a little lighter, after seeing her on tv (which, granted, got far less often over the last decade or so).

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 20 August 2012 19:32 (thirteen years ago)

Phyllis's first ever tv appearance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86SyZ12ReIk

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 20 August 2012 19:49 (thirteen years ago)

I've been looking at some of her '60s and '70s clips on YouTube--I think she beat Cher in inventing Lady Gaga.

― clemenza, Monday, 20 August 2012 19:52 (thirteen years ago)

CNN just had Joan Rivers on the phone, and she said that yes, Phyllis was the first female to do 100% stand-up. She drew a distinction with Totie Fields, who came along around the same time but who also incorporated some singing into her act.

― clemenza, Monday, 20 August 2012 20:13 (thirteen years ago)

klassik

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 August 2012 21:33 (thirteen years ago)

http://media.philly.com/images/9a574893-76d7-4524-bc40-fb012e820c30.jpg

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 August 2012 22:24 (thirteen years ago)

Another one from another planet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mRK5A45Qrc

― clemenza, Monday, 20 August 2012 22:35 (thirteen years ago)

First acquainted with her thanks to Scooby-Doo.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 August 2012 22:58 (thirteen years ago)

Sported punk rock hair in 1966

http://d1g4sq00ps2bp3.cloudfront.net/img/_categories/_images/Entertainment_Items/Lobby_Cards/CGC_Graded_Lobby_Cards/21010_4.jpg

― Josefa, Monday, 20 August 2012 23:17 (thirteen years ago)

that's one of the films that pushed Hope into full-time TV cue card reading.

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 01:20 (thirteen years ago)

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