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Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EoiGLjH-zs
Joan Rivers a piece of work showed how hard Joan Rivers worked every day even when she had made it and was living in a 35 million New York City Apartment
She still played venues in remote areas of the country and worked extremely hard every day It also showed her joke making process where she would write jokes on big pieces of paper on her bathroom floor and also had filing cabinets upon filing cabinets of jokes
NY times obiturary
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/05/arts/joan-rivers-legendary-comedian-dies-at-81.html
Biography.com’s Joan Rivers Profile:
https://www.biography.com/actors/joan-rivers
her parents were rushing immigrants, and her father was a doctor she was born in Brooklyn, but the family later moved to Larchmont, New York. She went to Barnard College.
She acted in many campus theater productions
She got married for six months and then went back to theater she had a role as a lesbian character with a then unknown. Barbra Streisand.
She discovers maybe Acting isn’t her true calling and does seven years of stand-up in Greenwich Village
Her big break was on the Johnny Carson show
She was a frequent guest house on the Johnny Carson show,
She gets offered her own late night talkshow which causes a falling out with Johnny Carson
The late show starring starring Joan Rivers launches
Her husband and producer commit suicide in 1987
She has a comeback in 1989 and gets a star on the Hollywood walk of fame and launches her own daytime talk show
She gets nominated for a Tony
And then she has a show on E red carpet, fashion police
2010. She has a documentary called Joan
Rivers a piece of work.
She wrote more best selling books
Still touring still doing stand-up in her 80s
In 2014 she goes into cardiac arrest during a vocal court surgery
Funeral was attended by many celebrities
WHAT I WISH I COULD TELL YOU - MELISSA RIVERS TO JOAN RIVERS, PEOPLE MAGAZINE
https://drive.google.com/file/d/189LhglG7ThNVFSFXSuOxydduyFJu3r4P/view?usp=sharing
PIONEERS OF TELEVISION
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/pioneers-of-television/pioneering-people/joan-rivers/
1978 stand up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crCWQkvQQVs
This was some of Joan Rivers stand up it's had a mix of self-deprecating humor observational humor and a few shock value insults about the British royal family and flight attendants and Dolly Parton
There were times where Merv Griffin tried to interject that she was maybe going too far but he couldn't stop himself from laughing hysterically it some of her jokes
The Real Joan Rivers Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9s-JnKY61A
Can we talk? The reframing
of social permissions in the
comedy of Joan Rivers
Can we talk joan rivers.pdf
Joan Rivers could have been a big broadway star
https://www.thespec.com/entertainment/stage/joan-rivers-could-have-been-a-big-broadway-star/article_aa020f14-d85f-54bd-a694-6f0d7524d3b4.html
Joan Rivers best one liners
https://abc7.com/entertainment/joan-rivers-25-best-quotes-and-one-liners/295082/
From toothpick legs to dropping vaginas: Gender and sexuality in Joan Rivers' stand-up comedy performance.
Published in: Comedy Studies,6/ 1/2011
Database:International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text