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     • Rivers never stopped working (and if you haven't already, absolutely watch the great documentary A Piece of Work, streaming on Netflix, that gives some insight into what a creative force she was).
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   Did Joan Rivers retire?

   • Joan Rivers never stopped working in comedy. From start to finish, she never stopped updating her act and always pushed the envelope. This article is from the archive of our partner. Joan Rivers, who sadly died today at age 81, started doing stand-up in the early 1960s and worked comedy clubs in Greenwich Village until she got her first break on The Tonight Show.

   Six Decades of Stand-Up That Show Joan Rivers' Enduring Genius

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   Was Joan Rivers just a comedy legend?

   • Joan Rivers Wasn’t Just a Comedy Legend. She Was a Tireless Activist. Joan Rivers Wasn’t Just a Comedy Legend. She Was a Tireless Activist. I can’t remember the first time I became aware of Joan Rivers, but when I was growing up in New York City—and being as obsessed with show business as I was—she seemed to always be there.

   Joan Rivers Wasn’t Just a Comedy Legend. She Was a Tireless Activist

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   How will Joan Rivers be remembered?

   • We look at how this comedy trailblazer – in the public eye for six decades – will be remembered... Joan Rivers exits the office of New York dermatologist Patricia Wexler, her regular go-to doctor for Botox and fillers. As she gets down on her hands and knees and crawls into the crowded waiting rooms, she pulls her face into a stroke-like grimace.

   Inside the fascinating life of the unforgettable Joan Rivers

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   How did Joan Rivers get on the Tonight Show?

   • “Joan said that here’s how she got on The Tonight Show: Bill Cosby was on as a guest, there was a comic on the show who died, and Bill leaned over to Johnny and said, ‘Joan Rivers could do better, why don’t you put her on?’ That never happened. Joan just wanted to associate herself with Bill’s comedy persona.

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

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   Did Joan Rivers cross over?

   • Like Moses and the Promised Land, she couldn’t cross over. A devotee of rude candor, Joan Rivers had always blown a raspberry at the concept of “too soon.” After her husband, Edgar, committed suicide, she said she’d scattered his ashes at Neiman Marcus, so she could visit five times a week.

   How Joan Rivers Got That Way - The New Yorker

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   Was Joan Rivers a feminist?

   • Joan Rivers was a survivor of a sexist era: a victim, a rebel, and, finally, an enforcer. If Rivers’s act wasn’t explicitly feminist, it was radical in its own way. She was like a person trapped in a prison, shouting out escape routes from her cell. Photograph by David Montgomery / Getty

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3. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2015/02/23How Joan Rivers Got That Way - The New Yorker

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   Feb 16, 2015 · The “Girls” creator was violating the rules that Rivers built her life on—was hemmed in by, protested, and enforced, often all at the same time. From the nineteen-sixties on, Rivers had been...

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   Jun 9, 2016 · ‘I’ll work the rest of my life to pay that off,’ she said at the time. Fifteen years later, the documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work showed Joan still haunted by failure.

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5. www.nytimes.com › 2014/09/05 › artsJoan Rivers Could Never Stop Working - The New York Times

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   Sep 4, 2014 · Most days, Joan Rivers, who died at 81 on Thursday, looked as if she couldn’t stop herself, as if, should she stop telling jokes, the well would dry up and the lights would go out.

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   Apr 8, 2022 · It was a tumultuous working relationship—the breezy, gentle Rollins and the volatile, emotionally needy Rivers—and it wouldn’t last long. But with his help she well and truly found her voice, her calling, during those years doggedly working on her act and, indeed, her very presence on the Downstairs stage.

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   4 days ago · Advertisement. Joan Rivers Wasn’t Just a Comedy Legend. She Was a Tireless Activist. Erich Bergen. Tue, 29 October 2024, 7:10 am GMT-4 · 2-min read. Joan Rivers Was More than Just a Comedy LegendRommel Demano. I can’t remember the first time I became aware of Joan Rivers, but when I was growing up in New York City—and being as obsessed ...

10. www.vanityfair.com › hollywood › 2016Joan Rivers’s Remarkable Rise to (and Devastating Fall from ...

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    Nov 3, 2016 · In May 1987 the First Lady of Comedy was fired from her job, and publicly humiliated. Her husband, Edgar — unable to bear his own failure as her manager and producer—killed himself. Their ...