PHYLLIS DILLER -- Pictured: Comedian Phyllis Diller -- Photo by: NBCU Photo Bank PHYLLIS DILLER -- Pictured: Comedian Phyllis Diller -- Photo by: NBCU Photo BankNBC via Getty Images—© NBC Universal, ...

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 ...

Sharon Stone revealed that she's desperate to play late comedian and actress Phyllis Diller in a biopic. While speaking to Business Insider, Stone, 67, was asked if she would ever want to play Diller ...

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 ...

Phyllis Diller (July 17, 1917–August 20, 2012) is widely considered to be the first woman stand-up comic to perform as a solo act. To celebrate her 100th birthday in 2017, the Smithsonian worked with ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...