Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For many years, Perry Diller had a standing Monday lunch date at the home of his mother, Phyllis Diller. She was an excellent cook ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian 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 ...

Stone and late comedian Diller were "very close friends" for years. “I do want to play Phyllis Diller very, very badly,” Stone said. “She and I were very close friends. Phyllis made little paintings ...

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"I told her I wanted to play her, and she sat down and taught me her laugh," Sharon Stone said of the comedian, who died in 2012 Bailey Richards is a Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

When I heard that Phyllis Diller had died at the age of 95 — here’s a tribute by my colleague Richard Zoglin — I mourned the loss of one of stand-up comedy’s few true legends. But I also thought back ...

Phyllis Diller, groundbreaking comedienne, has died at 95. Her longtime agent Fred Wostbrock confirmed the news. "It is a great loss today," Wostbrock told NBC. "She was a true pioneer and the first ...

Sharon Stone has her sights set on bringing her late friend Phyllis Diller’s story to the big screen. The 67-year-old Basic Instinct Oscar nominee revealed in a new interview that she’s “desperate to ...

In the 1950s, when Diller started being funny for a living, there were no female standup comedians making it big. Some critics have said she... Comedy's Self-Deprecating Pioneer Phyllis Diller Dies A ...

Phyllis Diller has died at the age of 95. It seems relevant to mention that very recently we were talking about whether women can be funny or not. It's a topic that comes up repeatedly, even though, ...

Nearly 13 years after the comedy legend’s death, Sharon Stone hopes to make a biopic about her late friend Phyllis Diller. The Oscar nominee recently admitted she’s “desperate to play” Diller, who ...