Book: <i>The Joys of Aging and How to Avoid Them</i>
date: label: Date made
content: 1981
name: label: publisher
content: Doubleday and Company, Inc.
label: illustrator
content: Klein, Norman
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content: Diller, Phyllis
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content: Doubleday and Company, Inc.
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content: <p>
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content: <i>The Joys of Aging and How to Avoid Them</i> by Phyllis Diller with illustrations by Norman Klein was published by Doubleday and Company, Inc. in 1981. Throughout her career Phyllis Diller wrote three other comedy books (<i>Phyllis Diller’s Housekeeping Hints</i>, <i>The Complete Mother</i>, and <i>Phyllis Diller’s Marriage Manual</i>) as well as an autobiography (<i>Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy</i>).
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content: Phyllis Diller (1917-2012) began her comedy career in the 1950s at the age of 37 and broke barriers in the comedy world to become the first solo female comic to be a household name. She developed a stage persona of an incompetent housewife and dressed in outlandish outfits with wild hair. Her material focused on self-deprecating jokes that tackled the idealized image of American mothers and homemakers. She also created many mythical personas for her stage act including her “husband” Fang, her “neighbor” Mrs. Clean, and her “mother-in-law” Moby Dick.
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label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Garden City
topic: label: Subject
content: Humor
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content: Comedians
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content: Books
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Phyllis Diller
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Phyllis Diller
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0289.35
label: accession number
content: 2003.0289
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0289.35
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content: Book
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label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 5 3/4 in x 5/8 in; 21.59 cm x 14.605 cm x 1.5875 cm