Posted on 03/01/2019 6:26:36 AM PST by sodpoodle
Missed one...
If I have one more face-lift I’ll have a Goatee.
AND…’You know it’s a bad day when you get, put your underwear on backwards… and it fits better.”
I had lunch with Phyllis Diller. I was tending bar at Stockdale Country Club when they first launched the Bakersfield Business Conference. It started out as a small affair, maybe 100 people on the back lawn behind the clubhouse. She was one of the entertainers for the day. Once lunch was served to the guests the waitresses and I sat down at a huge table in the clubhouse just inside the back doors to eat. Phyllis got her lunch and came over and asked if she could sit with us. Nicest lady! And kept us laughing all the way through lunch.
Diller often portrayed herself as a horrible cook in her stand-up routines.
In real life, she was reputed to be an excellent cook, and in the late 1980s, a recipe she had devised for chili was licensed and canned; “Phyllis Diller Chili” would be sold in supermarkets across the United States.
The reason why people loved her is because she laughed at herself ! Being self-deprecating is a special kind of humor.
Or shortly thereafter.
Need to get ants out of the kitchen? Pour sugar on the living room rug! — P. D.
I know it’s time to clean the oven when I’ve only got enough room for a cupcake. — P. D.
If my husband didn’t toss and turn in his sleep, we would have never had our daughter... -PD
In 1975 Phyllis hosted a two hour TV special called “Phyllis Diller’s 102nd Birthday Party”. The setting was a huge Hollywood mansion; all the comedy superstars were there doing a celebrity roast where the guests circulated and dropped their one liners and my gut hurt for days afterward I was laughing so hard.
Belongs to another time. Anything similar today would be an all night Trump hate fest. Wait a sec - they just did the Emmies.
I remember listening to her on the radio.
Her dog was named FANG, I think.
Fang was her ‘husband’.
FANG was her husband! Or at least the husband she used in her comedy routines.
Back when comedy was actually funny.
“My living-bra died of starvation.”
Here she is on the old Groucho Marx “You Bet Your Life” TV game show c.1958 She was just starting in the biz....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnzT46uTQ0s
I stand corrected. She was a funny lady.
That was back when you could make fun of everybody.
And ‘Fang’.
That was back in the days when comedians were funny. Today’s comedians aren’t.
I met quite a few of the older ones working at the club. Ronald Reagan, Charlton Heston, Robin Williams and Henry Kissinger. And many more. I consider myself lucky to have met a bunch of them.
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