Phyllis Diller, born Phyllis Ada Driver in 1917, began her life and lived a good part of it thinking she was ugly. Her family was not a hugging one and at times she was the brunt of cruel jokes ...

LOS ANGELES -- Phyllis Diller is hanging up her wigs and ending her road career as a purveyor of raucous one-liners that skewered fads, fancies, imaginary husband Fang and her own cosmetic surgery ...

At 88, Phyllis Diller has published a memoir, appears in the film The Aristocrats and has a documentary out about her retirement from stand-up comedy.

PHYLLIS DILLER: Everybody says, why do you call him Fang? He's got this one tooth, it's two inches long. I met him at a cocktail party, I kept trying to light it.

For many years, Perry Diller had a standing Monday lunch date at the home of his mother, Phyllis Diller. She was an excellent cook — despite her many jokes to the contrary — but she liked to ...

Legendary comedian Phyllis Diller has died at the age of 95, her manager confirmed to ABC News. TMZ reported that Diller’s health has been on the decline since a recent fall, in which she ...

(AP) Phyllis Diller, the housewife turned humorist who aimed some of her sharpest barbs at herself, punctuating her jokes with her trademark cackle, died Monday morning in her Los Angeles home at ...

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Phyllis Diller (1917-2012) began her comedy career in the 1950s at the age of 37 and broke barriers in the comedy world to become the first solo female comic to be a household name. She developed a ...

Comedienne Phyllis Diller, the former housewife whose raucous cackle and jokes about her own looks made her one of America's first female stand-up comedy stars, died in her sleep on Monday at age ...

Diller, the cackling template for Joan Rivers, Sarah Silverman and so many others, died Monday morning in her Los Angeles home at age 95. She faced the end, fittingly, “with a smile on her face ...