Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse My Life in Comedy

Name: Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse My Life in Comedy
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ISBN: 9781585423965

ISBN-10: 1585423963

ISBN-13: 9781585423965

Edition: 2005

Authors: Phyllis Diller, Richard Buskin

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From housewife to humorist, Phyllis Diller has been making millions laugh for five decades with her groundbreaking comedy. Now the laughter continues with her uproarious autobiography. Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouserecounts how, against all odds, Phyllis Diller became America's first successful and best-loved female stand-up comic. She began her professional career at age thirty-seven, in spite of the fact that she was a housewife and mother of five, and was working at a radio station because of her husband's chronic unemployment. Now, fifty years later, after two traumatic marriages, extensive cosmetic surgery, numerous film, television, and stage appearances, and separate careers as…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 2/17/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Phyllis Diller, the world's first and foremost successful female stand-up comic, has been at the top of her game for five decades. She lives in Brentwood, California. Richard Buskin has written more than a dozen books, including biographies of Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe, and Sheryl Crow.