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Joan Rivers

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Joan Rivers’ Remarkable Rise to (and Devastating Fall from) Comedy’s Highest Ranks

Excerpted from Last Girl Before Freeway.

Leslie Bennetts Vanity Fair Nov 2016 15min Permalink

Arts

Joan Rivers Always Knew She Was Funny

“People always ask Rivers why she doesn’t just retire, enjoy her old age. ‘But they don’t get that I love it,’ she says. ‘All I ever wanted was this. I’m lucky, you idiots.’”

Jonathan Van Meter New York May 2010 25min Permalink

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Joan Rivers Always Knew She Was Funny

A profile of the comedian.

Jonathan Van Meter New York May 2010 25min Permalink