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Daniel Goldstein’s play "Joan" at Barrington Stage delivers an intense yet familiar portrait of Joan Rivers, offering few new revelations about the comedy legend’s life and legacy.
That's how many you can find in the new Joan Rivers Joke File Exhibit opening during the annual Lucille Ball Comedy Festival.
Thursday, the Lucille Ball Comedy Festival will turn 35 years old. The festival begins Thursday, and ends Sunday, and is ...
Melissa Rivers opened up about her mom Joan, who she says actually had 'really bad social anxiety' and felt 'tremendous ...
“Joan,” a new play about the trailblazing comic Joan Rivers, opens with one of her searing standup routines, but playwright ...
Joan Rivers was a force to be reckoned with. The comedian, who died nearly 11 years ago in 2014, is the subject of a May 13 NBC special, Joan Rivers: A Dead Funny All Star Tribute.
Joan Rivers (born Joan Molinksy), died in 2014 after she stopped breathing during a procedure on her throat. She became the first woman to host a late-night show, was celebrated for her brutally ...
Joan Rivers, a raucous and often-ubiquitous comedic presence on TV and nightclubs since the 1960s, has died. She was 81.
Rivers’ career sank. But she wasted little time plotting a second act. She tried a daytime talk show, “The Joan Rivers Show,” which lasted five seasons in the early 1990s.
Joan Rivers' daughter, Melissa Rivers, is honoring her mom on what would have been her 90th birthday as she's inducted into the National Comedy Center with her own exhibit.
Rivers told documentary filmmakers how Don Rickles kept performing into his late 80s, George Burns and Phyllis Diller into their 90s. “And I’d like to beat them all,” Rivers said in 2009.