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Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse
Phyllis Diller
My Life in Comedy
Tarcher
February 2005
288 pages ISBN: 1585423963 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
"From housewife to humorist, Phyllis Diller has been making
millions laugh for five decades with her groundbreaking
comedy, blazing a trail for comediennes during the fifties
and sixties. She achieved this by poking fun at her own
looks and frustrating life as a bored, ignored, and inept
housewife. Yet while the routine broke new ground and opened
the doors to subsequent generations of female standups, it
also served as a form of self-therapy amid a life steeped in
tragedy and turmoil." "Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse is
Phyllis Diller's own story about the struggle and the pain
behind the comedy and the success: her Depression-era
adolescence; her marriage to a chronically unemployed first
husband; the desperate attempts to stave off poverty as a
professional comic while raising five children; the
disastrous club engagements that coincided with homelessness
and separation from her young family; and the problems that
clouded her stage and screen success when a second marriage
unraveled because of her new spouse's alcoholism and inner
demons." Diller also describes her separate careers as an
artist and as a piano soloist with symphony orchestras; her
failed attempts to become a Playboy centerfold; and her
outspoken attitude toward her extensive plastic surgery that
earned her a special award from the American Academy of
Cosmetic Surgery.
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