Comedienne Phyllis Diller Dead At 95
(CBS/AP) - Phyllis Diller, the housewife-turned-comedienne with the cackling laugh who aimed some of her sharpest barbs at herself, died Monday morning in her Los Angeles home. She was 95.
Diller, who suffered a near-fatal heart attack in 1999, was found by her son, Perry Diller. The cause of her death has not been released, but TMZ reports that she had recently fallen and hurt her wrist and hip and that her health had been declining ever since. Diller had been living in hospice care at her home, according to the website.
She was a staple of nightclubs and television from the 1950s - when female comics were rare indeed - until her retirement in 2002.
Diller built her stand-up act around the persona of the corner-cutting housewife ("I bury a lot of my ironing in the back yard") with bizarre looks, a wardrobe to match (by "Omar of Omaha") and a husband named "Fang."
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