Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Ada Driver (July 17, 1917 – August 20, 2012), commonly known as Phyllis Diller, was an American actor and stand-up comedian, best known for her quirky stage persona, self-deprecating humor, wild hair and costume styles, and her exaggerated laugh. In 1955 Diller was a working woman with five children, and at a time when suburban life was considered ideal for housewives, Diller decided it was time to reveal the secrets of the myth. So when she was 37 years old, she appeared on the stage of the Purple Onion nightclub in San Francisco with the image of the world's worst housewife. It was not until 2002 when she was 84 years old that she completed her last solo talk show. She was the first professional woman to make a name for herself through comedy. In 2003, she opened the door to the Smithsonian Museum and allowed the museum to select the collections included in the museum. In addition to Broadway costumes, touring costumes, shoes, gloves, etc.... the most special thing is a cabinet of "Jokes", which contains 50,000 jokes. Each joke was typed on a small card and then invented its own way of categorizing it. There is a small drawer of her mysterious first husband named Fang, who was a man who accomplished nothing; these jokes run through the history of comedy from the 1950s to the 1970s. The host called her and asked her how she collected so many jokes. She said that she practiced telling jokes for an hour every night and could tell about 800 jokes. She even made it to the Guinness World Record, laughing 12 times in one minute.