Phyllis Diller, the silver-tongued comedienne who saved some of her sharpest barbs for herself, died Aug. 20 at the age of 95. She'll be remembered for blazing a trail for female stand-up ...

LOS ANGELES — Phyllis Diller, the housewife turned humorist who aimed some of her sharpest barbs at herself, punctuating her jokes with her trademark cackle, died Monday, Aug. 20, in her Los … ...

Editor's Note, August 20, 2012: Phyllis Diller died today at the age of 95. In 2007, Owen Edwards wrote about her joke cabinet in the Smithsonian collections as part of the Object at Hand department.