user: – Iconic funnywoman Phyllis Diller has died in her Los Angeles home at the age of 95, reports TMZ. The trailblazing comedienne who rose to fame alongside Bob Hope had been in hospice care following a recent fall in which she injured her wrist and hip. “Phyllis Diller passed away peacefully in her sleep at 9:30am PT," her manager tells CNN. "Her son, Perry, found her with a smile on her face.” “She was a true pioneer,” Diller’s agent tells Entertainment Weekly. “She was the first lady of stand up comedy. She paved the way for everybody." Diller mastered the art of self-deprecation, poking fun at her looks (“I love to go to the doctor. Where else would a man look at me and say, ‘Take off your clothes'?”) or her housekeeping prowess ("The only thing domestic about me is that I was born in this country"). But for a generation of female comics, she was it: “To a lot of us she was better than Bob Hope,” says Roseanne Barr.
Let's expand this into a news article: Comedian, actress, artist, and author Phyllis Diller died Monday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 95. 
  
 “She was a true pioneer,” Diller’s longtime agent Fred Wostbrock told EW. “She was the first lady of stand up comedy. She paved the way for everybody. And she conquered television, movies, Broadway, record albums, nightclubs, books, and radio. She did it all. A true pioneer.” 
  
 The housewife-turned-advertising copywriter and mother of six got her big showbiz break in 1955 at the age of 37 when the owner of San Francisco’s now-defunct Purple Onion nightclub gave her a substitute stand-up spot one night. “When I went on, the room went totally quiet and I knew that I had this magnetic thing that you had to be born with,” Diller told EW in 2005. “You can’t buy it or even learn it.” Diller’s shtick — often revolving around her pathetic fictional husband “Fang” and her less-than-gorgeous looks (“I love to go to the doctor. Where else would a man look at me and say, ‘Take off your clothes?’”) — quickly made her famous. She became a legend to generations of female comics (“To a lot of us she was better than Bob Hope,” Roseanne Barr told EW). 
  
 In the 1960s and ’70s, Diller became a frequent guest on The Tonight Show, The Flip Wilson Show, and Laugh-In, though TV series meant to showcase the comic (The Phyllis Diller Show, The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show) never took off. She continued to get work as she got older, appearing in movies like A Bug’s Life as well as TV shows such as Family Guy, 7th Heaven, and The Drew Carey Show. In 2005, the same year she published her autobiography (Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse), she appeared along with Sarah Silverman and Bob Saget in the humor documentary The Aristocrats, proving that even 88-year-olds can tell dirty jokes — in her case, in a typically zany wig and punctuated by her trademark cackle of a laugh. 
  
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 "Her son, Perry, found her with a smile on her face," Milt Suchin said. 
  
 Diller , who paved the way for female comedians, began her legendary stand-up comedy career at the age of 37. 
  
 "We lost a comedy legend today," comedian Ellen DeGeneres tweeted. "Phyllis Diller was the queen of the one-liners. She was a pioneer." 
  
 Diller's career as a stand-up comic skyrocketed in the 1960s, partly because of her many appearances with Bob Hope on his television specials and USO tours. Diller remained good friends with Hope until his death. 
  
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 She became a pop culture icon for her disparaging jokes about her looks, her cooking and her husband "Fang." 
  
 "She was a true pioneer," said talent agent Fred Wostbrock. "She was the first lady of stand-up comedy. She paved the way for everybody. She paved the way for Joan Rivers, Chelsea Handler, Roseanne Barr, Ellen Degeneres, and all the women stand-up comics. She was the first and the best." 
  
 Comedian Whoopi Goldberg tweeted that she was said the world lost a funny, classy and smart woman like Diller. 
  
 "A true original has died," Goldberg tweeted, adding that there was nobody who looked or sounded like her. 
  
 Diller's first appearance on TV was as a contestant on Groucho Marx's show "You Bet Your Life." 
  
 Diller was also known her for hilarious roasts of major personalities. You can watch her roast Ronald Reagan here: 
  
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– Justin Bieber teamed up with Mariah Carey for a new version of her '90s holiday classic, "All I Want for Christmas Is You," and the results are just about as bad as you'd expect. A sampling of the reactions: "Why has the Bieb launched a campaign to traumatize everyone who's old enough to remember the '90s?" moans Margaret Hartmann on Jezebel. His Boyz II Men video was bad enough, but "now he's released a Macy's commercial disguised as a Mariah Carey duet—though we used that term loosely because it sounds like Bieber is just wailing over the old recording of the song." "It is not so much that Justin Bieber's remix is bad—It's not! It can't be! This song is bad-proof!" writes a forgiving Amanda Dobbins in New York. "It's just that it feels particularly unnecessary, given the wonder that is the original. And when Justin is singing his verse, it's hard not to wish Mariah Elf were singing instead." On Gawker, Matt Cherette calls the video "life-ruining," and wonders what in the world was up with the fact that Carey spent most of it "dressed in a slutty Santa costume, dancing seductively in front of a green screen that was made to look like an artificial stone wall panel." Not surprisingly, the Huffington Post adds, some parents are less-than-pleased with the flirting between 17-year-old Bieber and 41-year-old Carey in the vid.


assistant: Let's expand this into a news article: Justin Bieber can't go a full week without getting himself into another controversy -- and this time, it has nothing to do with Mariah Yeater. There's a new Mariah making headlines with the Biebs, and her name is Mariah Carey. 
  
 In the duo's new music video for "All I Want For Christmas" -- a newer version of Carey's 1994 megahit, off Bieber's newly-released "Under the Mistletoe" album -- Carey shows off her post-pregnancy body in a sexy Santa Claus outfit, while Bieber and his friends shop for holiday gifts, like high-top kicks and Nintendo DS'. Then Bieber becomes some sort of Willy Wonka/Santa hybrid as people rush into the store with their golden tickets, only to be showered with gifts from the teen superstar. 
  
 Of course, it gets weirder from there. Throughout the video, Carey, 41, and Bieber, 17, share more than a few flirty looks, and some parents are not so pleased -- just look at these comments -- with Bieber getting cozy with the pop icon. We're sure it won't stop Beliebers from constantly playing it in their parents' cars from now until Christmas day. 
  
 Take a look at Bieber's latest controversy below. 
  
  
  
  ||||| Tonight, NBC aired its annual Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting special. It was boring! Well, except for the part where Justin Bieber debuted the music video for his duet with Mariah Carey of "All I Want for Christmas Is You (Superfestive!)." Because what the hell? 
  
 OK, so first of all, can we please discuss the fact that Carey spent the majority of the video dressed in a slutty Santa costume, dancing seductively in front of a green screen that was made to look like an artificial stone wall panel? Because what was that? Oh, and what was with Bieber spending its entirety standing atop some tacky riser in the middle of an abandoned Macy's, singing emphatically to... nobody? 
  
 What does it all mean? If your guess was, "The 17-year-old seemingly still prepubescent boy, singing all emphatically atop his riser, was doing so to woo the object of his affection, that being the 41-year-old slutty Santa green screen dancing lady, and vice versa," then congratulations/you're just as weird as the people who thought up the concept for this music video. ||||| This is how many of you will choose to interpret the "Superfestive!" remake of "All I Want for Christmas If You," and, frankly, Vulture hears you. It is not so much that Justin Bieber's remix is bad — It's not! It can't be! This song is bad-proof! — it's just that it feels particularly unnecessary, given the wonder that is the original. And when Justin is singing his verse, it's hard not to wish Mariah Elf were singing instead. Eventually, she chimes in again, and there's a nice bit toward the end with the two of them and a sleigh and a holiday puppy (even Bieber's harmonizing is kind of fun in that section, especially the "Shout" riff). There's also plenty of "Mariah sexily dancing against a fake wall," even though she has to split screen time with the Biebz. One final question: Is Bieber wearing a plaid "shircket" (shirt + jacket)? Discuss. ||||| We've never really had a problem with Justin Bieber. We may not get it, but the kiddies have their music and we have ours. So why has the Bieb launched a campaign to traumatize everyone who's old enough to remember the '90s? First he convinced Boyz II Men to make a ridiculous video with him, and now he's released a Macy's commercial disguised as a Mariah Carey duet — though we used that term loosely because it sounds like Bieber is just wailing over the old recording of the song. Hope you enjoyed listening to the original for the last 17 years, because this version is all you'll be hearing while doing your holiday shopping. 
  
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