{"id":26,"date":"2012-11-05T09:23:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T03:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=26"},"modified":"2021-06-18T00:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T18:22:19","slug":"remembering-phyllis-diller-thank-you-ben-affleck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"REMEMBERING PHYLLIS DILLER; THANK YOU BEN AFFLECK"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>\"ScottI have known for a week or so what would be the subject of this blahg.\u00a0 It’s Phyllis Diller.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 I have to be honest but I really liked Phyllis Diller.\u00a0 I’m not one of the band wagon jumpers who say nice things after an artist passes.\u00a0 I’m a true fan.\u00a0 I have some history with Phyllis Diller or rather I wished I had history with Phyllis Diller\u00a0 Confused?\u00a0 Relax, here comes the story.\u00a0 Did you doubt for even a moment that I had a story?\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When I was in grade 7 I had a friend named Steve Bailey.\u00a0 There was nothing really significant about Steve except he had me convinced he was rich.\u00a0 I never questioned why a rich kid was going to a public school nor why a rich kid wanted anything to do with me.\u00a0 He had elaborate stories about his family’s wealth which included fancy cars and a mansion in Hollywood.\u00a0 Again, I never questioned any of it.\u00a0 Maybe I should have been suspicious when he said his mansion in Hollywood was next door to Phyllis Diller’s.\u00a0 Who would make that up?\u00a0 He even promised to take me down there in his family’s helicopter.\u00a0 I waited and waited but that never happened.\u00a0 Eventually I saw him cutting the grass outside an apartment building in the neighborhood.\u00a0 He tried to tell me his family owned it as an investment property.\u00a0 I didn’t question that either until his cousin told me he lived in the building and his father was the superintendent.\u00a0 My dreams of meeting Phyllis Diller were shattered…but hey, I now had a friend who had a father who was a superintendent.\u00a0 Cool.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Over the years, my enthusiasm for Phyllis Diller has not waned.\u00a0 She was someone who was over the top and under-appreciated.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/a>She had three great pairings with Bob Hope in, “Boy, Did I Get A Wrong Number!”, “Eight On A Lam”, and “The Private Navy of Sgt. O’Farrell.”\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong>Maybe Phyllis Diller is an acquired taste and certainly pairing her with Bob Hope, although in my mind a stroke of genius, might not seem significant to most viewers.\u00a0 Throw in Jonathan Winters on “Eight On The Lam” and you’re cooking with comedy gold.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong>Luckily, all three of these funny films are available on DVD.<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong>Click on any of the images for a larger viewing of the pictures in this blahg and <\/span><\/strong>check out this clip from “Eight On The Lam” with Jonathan Winters & Phyllis Diller.\u00a0 You don’t get to see that kind of pairing every day.
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