Phyllis Diller Book Signing--Palm Springs 2005

Phyllis Diller at a 2005 Palm Springs book signing. 

At 90 years old, Phyllis Diller had her her autobiography published. Phyllis Diller's autobiography, Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse reveals a woman who had overcome a sl

Diller rose from the shadow of red hot mama, Sophie Tucker, one of a few woman to made it to the top, kicking the funny bone of through the 20th century. Diller picked up the bone and lived seemingly forever, taking comedy from the female perspective by making fun of housewifery, herself and her cosmetic surgery. She revealed the name of the doctors in a list that summed up her facelift history.

Just as the other hoots of show business came to Palm Springs, so did Diller, defining the desert as a Shangri La, a place to kick back atop a Palm Springs hilltop with her friend Bob Hope.