She was offered film work and became famous after co-starring with her mentor Bob Hope, who described her as "a Warhol mobile of spare parts picked up along a freeway." They worked together in films such as "Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!", "Eight on the Lam", and "The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell", all critically panned, but "Boy..." did well at the box office. Diller accompanied Hope to Vietnam in 1966 with his USO troupe near the height of the Vietnam War. She appeared regularly as a special guest on many television programs, including "What's My Line?" Mystery Guests. The blindfolded panel on that evening's broadcast included Sammy Davis, Jr., and they were able to discern Diller's identity in three guesses. Diller made regular cameo appearances, making her trademark wisecracks on "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In". Self-deprecating to a fault, a typical Diller joke had her running after a garbage truck pulling away from her curb. "Am I too late for the trash?" she'd yell. The driver's reply: "No, jump right in!" She became a semi-regular on "The Hollywood Squares", starting in 1967, appearing in 28 episodes until 1980. Diller continued to work in film, making an appearance as Texas Guinan, the wisecracking nightclub hostess in "Splendor in the Grass". Throughout the 1960s, she appeared in more than a dozen, usually low-budget, films. She also began a career in voice work, providing the voice of the Monster's Mate in "Mad Monster Party" (1967). Diller also starred in the short-lived TV series "The Pruitts of Southampton" (1966–1967); later retitled "The Phyllis Diller Show", a half-hour sitcom on ABC. She received a Golden Globe nomination in 1967 for her role in "Pruitts". Diller hosted a variety show in 1968 titled "The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show". Beginning December 26, 1969, she had a three-month run in "Hello, Dolly!" (opposite Richard Deacon), as the second to last in a succession of replacements for Carol Channing in the title role, which included Ginger Rogers, Martha Raye, Betty Grable, and Pearl Bailey. After Diller's stint, Ethel Merman took over the role until the end of the series' run in December 1970.