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1. • • Between 1963 and 1964, Rivers joined forces with Jim Connell and Jake Holmes in the cabaret act "Jim, Jake & Joan". Their appearance at The Bitter End in 1964 led to their inclusion in the motion picture Once Upon A Coffee House, marking Rivers' first credit in a feature film. However, the group disbanded soon after.
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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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   What did Joan Rivers say about show business?

   • Joan Rivers' attitude about show business was summed up in an appearance on comic Louis C.K.'s FX show, Louie, where she gave him a pep talk after a tough show. "Think it's been easy?" she said. "I have gone up, I've gone down; I've been bankrupt, I've been broke. But you do it.

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   How did Joan Rivers transform bad times into comedy?

   • No one transformed bad times into sidesplitting comedy like Joan Rivers, who kept audiences laughing through a 50-year career that included bankruptcy, getting banned from The Tonight Show and seeing a husband commit suicide. She even built a standup routine around caring for a handicapped boyfriend.

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

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   Feb 16, 2015 · The discussion felt oddly poignant: Joan Rivers’s reflexive emphasis on marriage and weight, her hard-bitten advice for surviving in a man’s world, seemed almost naïve in the context of...

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   Jun 9, 2016 · Fifteen years later, the documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work showed Joan still haunted by failure. ‘I’ll show you fear,’ she says, staring forlornly at a blank diary.

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

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   Sep 4, 2014 · Conner O’Malley, a cult hero in the comedy world, specializes in desperately ambitious men doomed to fail. But don’t ignore the element of empathy. Joan Rivers seemed as if she just couldn’t ...

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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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   Sep 4, 2014 · 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...

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   Sep 4, 2014 · But the fuss didn't stop her from working. In her 80s, Rivers still juggled concert performances, a TV show on fashion, an Internet show and promotion for her 12th book, Diary of a Mad Diva.

10. www.psychologytoday.com › backstage-joan-riversBackstage with Joan Rivers - Psychology Today

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    Sep 6, 2014 · Joan Rivers was hilarious. She was brilliant. And she could be shockingly cutting. Best of all, she was a real working girl.