In her last onstage performance, Joan Rivers was presenting new comedy material at Manhattan's Laurie Beechman Theatre on the late evening of August 27th. According to one fan who saw the show, she ...

The Gist: After Tiffany Haddish opens things up with a musical tribute, a hip hop take on “Hava Nagila,” Patton Oswalt gets on stage to talk about the filing cabinet that Rivers showed in the 2010 ...

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Larry Amoros first met Joan Rivers in 2008 to write material for the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor ceremony. In getting to know her comic sensibilities, he asked: Is anything off-limits? For ...

She had experienced complications during a medical procedure and was put into a coma In 2016, her daughter Melissa Rivers settled a lawsuit against the surgical center that performed the operation for ...

For the new biographical play “Joan,” world premiering on the South Coast Repertory stage, Joan Rivers’ daughter Melissa Rivers was asked, if her assertive mother were still alive, would she have ...

It is impossible to know what Joan Rivers would think about “Joan Rivers: A Dead Funny All-Star Tribute,” despite her leaving instructions for her daughter Melissa Rivers to pass along to “whatever ...

Melissa Rivers is thrilled that her mom Joan has “finally” been cited as an inspiration for “The Marvelous Mrs Maisel” — after revealing she felt “violated” by the show. Actress Rachel Brosnahan ...

Joan Rivers was funny. Fall-on-the-floor funny. And sharp. And quick. And, of course, truthful. If her humor took aim at others—and she equally turned it on herself—it dared to expose their ...