Her trademark hair, which often looked as if she'd stuck her finger in an electric socket, came about by accident. The Los Angeles Times wrote about it in Diller's obituary. Diller once said, "I had gotten into so much trouble bleaching my hair myself that I had to go to a scalp clinic, and they gave me this comb and said brush the top of your head for circulation. My hair was standing straight up after that, but I was so busy I'd forgotten to put it back down when I'd go out on interviews for jobs. But it worked."

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