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  • Its amazing. Its ok to do all these little dirty things behind clothes door but not on tv.

  • Today is Sunday, July 17, 2011.....today is Phyllis Ada Driver Diller's 94th birthday.

    What a way to celebrate her birthday by watching Phyllis in many of the YouTube videos that featured her, including this one. She has come along way since her early days in Lima, Ohio. Happy birthday Phyllis.

  • i wonder if ed was that prudish,or simply worried about the censors ? then again, it was the last show,or did he really know, that it was the last show at the time?

  • When Bo Diddley appeared on the "Ed Sullivan Show" in November 1955, he was supposed the sing the Tennessee Ernie Ford hit "Sixteen Tons", but Bo instead sang his own hit, "Bo Diddley", and Ed was none too happy!! Bo never appeared on the "Ed Sullivan Show" again

  • She did the right thing

    Ed was known for censoring acts that came on the show

  • Ed was extremely Disney World regarding sexy material): he was to careful not to offend

    his audience. Phillis could never be her self on his show? he had stripped her of her comic talent and deluted her into a luke warm comedian. I dont blame her for leaving his tv show it would have hurt her image.

  • I love this woman.

    Just read her book "Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse".

    She's such an inspiration. Wish I could meet her someday.

  • yeah, me too!

  • Ed wasn't a "moron", 'Levesque'; it was simply HIS show, and HE had the final say as to what went on and what didn't. Remember what happened to The Doors in '67; he wanted them to sing a "diluted" version of "Light My Fire", yet Jim Morrison defied him and sang it straight. Of course, they never appeared on his show again...

  • Of course the Rolling Stones gave in on the "Ed Sullivan Show" and changed the lyrics to "Let's Spend the Night Together" to "Let's Spend Some Time Together", with Mick rolling his eyes whenever he sang the altered lyrics...

  • She played the Crystal Palace in Gaslight Square in St. Louis in the 1960's and the SRO crowd was so large that it grew out of the nightclub, onto the sidewalk and into the street and stopped traffic.

  • Ed was a moron and Phyllis is an American Treasure

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