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Joan Rivers was an American comedian and television show host born in 1933 in Brooklyn, New York. Rivers first rose to fame as a guest on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1965. She went on to host shows such as The Late Show, The Joan Rivers Show, Fashion Police, and Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best? Movies that she appeared in include The Swimmer, Serial Mom, Les Patterson Saves The World, and The Intern. In 1989, she earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Rivers also won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host in 1990. She was married to James Sanger in 1955 and to producer Edgar Rosenberg from 1965 to 1987. Her daughter is television show host Melissa Rivers. In 2014, Rivers died in Manhattan, New York at the age of 81.

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8 Sep, 2014

The Talk interview

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Judge Judy shares her thoughts on friend Rivers:

Joan was one of those people and she can’t be replaced, you’re absolutely right there are some people who just are so important to our history but more than that knowing her personally she was one of the kindest, most generous gracious ladies.

4 Sep, 2014

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Rolling Stone releases the full text of an interview with Rivers from 2012. The magazine had only used some snippets of the text before.

Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I’m being funny, but I’m reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything, otherwise we’re going down the tube.

Joan Rivers’ interview

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In a an interview with Cooper, Griffin discusses her friendship with Joan Rivers, and recalls advice she gave her:

When you are a woman in this business, you have to hold on until your knuckles are white and they chop your fingers off. Then you hold on by your wrist, then you hold on by your elbows and you never let go.

Kathy Griffin: Respect must be paid to Joan Rivers

5 Aug, 2014

Joan Rivers interview

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Rivers guests on Late Night with Seth Meyers to promote her new book, Diary of a Mad Diva. She also talks about Anne Frank, her pregnancy struggles with her daughter Melissa, and being a grandmother.

He

me “Nana Newface”, which I think is funny. What I do do, I take him every year to a summer school because the summer schools here in L.A. are pfft. We go to Grandma Week. Last year, we did 13 colonies, this year we did Italy and it’s amazing.