It was a harsh, rasping voice, in its timbre not unlike a sawmill.

Actress and comedienne                          

Selected Works:

Filmography:

Splendor in the Grass - 1961
The Fat Spy - 1965
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! - 1966
Mad Monster Party - 1967 - voice
Eight on the Lam - 1967
Silent Treatment - 1968 - unfinished
Rowan & Martin at the Movies - 1968 - short subject
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell - 1968
Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady? - 1968
The Adding Machine - 1969
Mooch Goes to Hollywood - 1971
The Lion Roars Again - 1975 - short subject
The Sunshine Boys - 1975 - Cameo
A Pleasure Doing Business - 1979
Pink Motel - 1982
Doctor Hackenstein - 1988
Pucker Up and Bark Like a Dog - 1990
The Nutcracker Prince - 1990 - voice
Wisecracks - 1991 - documentary
The Boneyard - 1991
The Perfect Man - 1993
Happily Ever After - 1993 - voice
The Silence of the Hams - 1994
A Bug's Life - 1998 - voice
The Debtors - 1999
Everything's Jake - 2000
The Last Place on Earth - 2002
Hip! Edgy! Quirky! - 2002
Bitter Jester - 2003 - documentary
Motocross Kids - 2004
West from North Goes South - 2004
Goodnight, We Love You - 2004 - documentary
The Aristocrats - 2005 - documentary
Unbeatable Harold - 2005
Forget About It - 2006
Who Killed the Electric Car? - 2006
Upcoming:
The Last Guy on Earth - 2008

TV work:

The Pruitts of Southampton - 1966-1967
The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show - 1968 - cancelled after 4 months
The New Scooby-Doo Movies - 1972 - voiced herself
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - 1973 - guest star
The Muppet Show - 1976 - guest star
The Gong Show - 1976-1980 - regular panelist throughout run
Circus of the Stars - 1977
Jonathan Winters: Over the Ledge - 1987
Alice Through the Looking Glass - 1987 - voice
Full House - 1988 - guest star
Captain Planet and the Planeteers - episode Smog Hog, as Jane Goodare, 1991 - voice
Blossom - cast member from 1993-1995
Cybill As herself - 1995
Emily of New Moon - 1998 - guest star in 2 episodes
Hey Arnold! episode Grandpa's Sister in 1999 as Mitzi - voice
Titus - cast member in 2002
Even Stevens - episode Snow Job in 2002 as Coach Korns
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius - 2002-2004 - voice
Hollywood Squares - panelist
Robot Chicken - voices - including herself, - 2005-2006
Last Comic Standing - judge, 2005
The Bold and the Beautiful - Played Gladys Pope in more than twenty episodes from 1995-2004
Family Guy - episodes Mother Tucker and Peter's Two Dads, as Thelma Griffin.
Boston Legal, - as herself, - 2007

Upcoming:
Nip/Tuck, - as Magda, - 2008

                          

Mother Frances Ada Romshe
Father Perry Marcus Driver
First husband Sherwood Anderson Diller, six children, two died
Second husband Warde Donovan
Third husband Robert P Hastings                          

A record that still stands today in the Guinness Book of World Records for delivering 12 punchlines per minute.                          

One of the pioneers of female stand-up comedy.