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 test the ...

"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 ...

Comedians and entertainers have been paying tribute to Phyllis Diller, who has died at the age of 95. A selection of tributes from the showbiz world follow below: Ellen DeGeneres: "We lost a comedy ...

FILE-- In this in this March 18, 1966 file photo, comedian Phyllis Diller models one of her 300 hats in Hollywood, Calif. Diller, the housewife turned humorist who aimed some of her sharpest barbs 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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Some of the most promising talent in show business was on the bill one day and night in 1955 at San Francisco’s Purple Onion: Eartha Kitt and Alice Ghostley; Paul Lynde and Robert ...

The braying laugh “was the real thing,” she said, “and I’ve had it all my life.” But nearly everything else about Phyllis Diller onstage was an affectation, almost a throwback to the vaudeville era: ...

A-List, 67, Actress Is 'Desperate' to Play Phyllis Diller in Movie originally appeared on Parade. Sharon Stone revealed that she's desperate to play late comedian and actress Phyllis Diller in a ...

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 ...

Sharon Stone wants to play Phyllis Diller — and she got training from the legendary comedian herself. While promoting her latest film Nobody 2 in a chat with Business Insider, the actress, 67, was ...