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Comedy is tragedy revisited.

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Phyllis Diller
Age: 95 †
Born: 1917
Born: July 17
Died: 2012
Died: August 20
Actor
Comedian
Comedienne
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Lima
Ohio
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My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
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Once my husband said to me, 'I'm going to have some coffee. Do you want me to put some hot water on for you?' I thought that was the least he could do considering I was giving birth.
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Fang and I are always fighting. When we get up in the morning, we don't kiss we touch gloves.
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Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.
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My doctor is a family physician. He treats my family and I support his.
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I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.
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I'm from such an old family, it's been condemned.
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My sister was so promiscuous she broke her ankle in the glove compartment of a car.
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Too many comics today ramble. By the time they get to the punch line, the audience has either gone to sleep, gone to the bathroom or gone to bed.
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We named all our children Kid. Well, they have different first names, like Hey Kid, You Kid, Dumb Kid . . .
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Choose a checked or striped wall paper. People will be halfway home before they are able to focus.
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When I was a kid and we used to play Post Office, I was the Dead Letter Office.
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Everybody knows how lazy he is. One day the neighbors saw Fang mow the lawn and I got three Get Well cards.
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This man I was going with asked me for my finger measurements. I thought he was going to buy me a ring for Christmas, but he gave me a bowling ball.
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I realize it is normal to argue. I almost missed World War II watching my parents fight.
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A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.
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self-pity is better than none.
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Absolutely nothing was happening in my marriage. I nicknamed my waterbed, Lake Placid!
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In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.
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Remember, only a policeman is allowed to express himself on an expressway.
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