Susan Morrison's "Lorne" offers a history of a man and a show that changed the comedy landscape — and has been doing so for ...

Michaels learned a different lesson working on a cornball comedy show hosted by Phyllis Diller. Its premiere episode ... And to this day, he's always telling his young writers and performers ...

Michaels, a 30-year-old Canadian with credits on “Laugh-In” and “The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show,” was hired ... A black-and-whtie photo of a young Lorne Michaels standing in front ...

then producer of television shows such as “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In,” a Flip Wilson special and “The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show.” “Despite the success,” Morrison writes ...

Deborah Vance is expertly played by Jean Smart, and the Hacks protagonist was inspired by some legendary comedians who came ...

So Lorne realized that when he was working for shows hosted by people like Perry Como and Phyllis Diller, that television ... and sometimes even from his young cast members for the show to really ...

She paved the way for Phyllis Diller, all these women. BWW: Lucille Ball! Lucille Ball, who was gorgeous, but didn't really find it until she could be her quirky, kooky self. Yeah. You know ...

"The Railway Children," a play by E. Nesbit, produced by Bonnie Grice and her "boots on the ground theater" at the ...

A lot of young people came and went over the years and Joel gave ... Meeting fascinating people, from Moshe Dayan’s widow to comedian Phyllis Diller to Nobel Prize winners, was what Roteman loved most ...