My recipe for dealing with anger
by Joey Garr on 14/09/09 at 6:30 pm
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“My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual”
-Phyllis Diller-
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Biography…
Phyllis Diller (born Phyllis Ada Driver; July 17, 1917) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress and comedienne, considered one of the pioneers of female stand-up comedy. She created a stage persona of a wild-haired, eccentrically-dressed housewife who makes jokes about a fictional husband named “Fang” while smoking from a long cigarette holder. Diller is credited with opening the doors of stand-up comedy to women In the mid 1950s, while residing in the East Bay city of Alameda, California, near the Naval Airbase, Diller was employed at KGO-TV in San Francisco as a secretary. A man named Willard Anderson hosted a TV show there called the “Belfast Pop Club” along with a young Don Sherwood. They would conduct interviews and do skits with celebrities and the younger generation. The show was filmed live on set and it lasted only a half-hour on Saturdays. More…







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