<p>AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, file Comedian Phyllis Diller gets a lift from emcee Buddy Hackett prior to an Oct. 9, 1985, celebrity stag luncheon roast at the New York Friars Club in New York City. Diller, the housewife turned humorist who aimed some of her sharpest barbs at herself, died Monday, Aug. 20, 2012, at age 95 in Los Angeles.</p>
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Phyllis Diller, 1917-2012
Housewife turned humorist dies in L.A.
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: