Joan was an intellectual but never lauded it over people. It’s because she was very intelligent that she mastered her on stage career. People confuse Joan Rivers the comedic legend with Joan Rivers private citizen. She was fascinating when she was doing interviews like this. People get so offended by some of the things she’d say in public but each time she was basically right.. she got us to laugh and even until she died, she was better than any of today’s comedians. The world lost a great lady..
This is the most perceptive comment I've read on her, she is acting most of the time as a commedian a role which allows her to tell the truth. She had courage and audacity and grace and cunning and humility equal to intelligence.
Lovely interview, and I love the interaction with Liz Sterling. She gives such a great interview because she asks questions from a different point of view, almost as if she's trying to learn more of Joan, rather than it being just another book press interview. Thanks for uploading it!
I liked it because it seemed like a couple of jews shooting the breeze like they seem to with each other..that customary familiarity between the dames 🍷
I love the fact that she is a survivor Crash and Burn... Overcoming tragedy... Being over 50.... Having a child that doesn't seem to understand where you're coming from... Learning to survive without the support of others... That would be out cheering for you as you climb the ladder to success...like Johnny Carson... Then problems and tragedies.. came more destructiveness..... But you want to push through all that.... And rise above it!!!! Bravo!!!! Brave Joan!!!!! I'm definitely learning Alot from Joan...!! We need this....... Knowledge is Power...... Power is Knowledge.......!!!!!!
She was such a fascinating person. To me, she is the funniest person I have evet heard or watched. She's often called the funniest female comedian, but she was just hilarious and so quick witted. For a time, I thought Kathy Griffin was her heir apparent but when Kathy took over her role on the E! show, it was immediately apparent that Kathy is hilarious when telling stories, and she is very quick witted, but even toward the end of her life, Joan was sharper and she was armed with an arsenal of one-liners that never failed to make people laugh. And yet to her, comedy was her "safety career." She wanted to be an actress on stage and screen, not a comic. She always aspired to be an actor and felt she was never given the opportunity. It seemed to me as if that frustration fueled her comedy and her career ambitions but it also made her a little bitter (which frankly helped the comedy) and kept her from ever feeling as if she reached her potential. I worked for a nonprofit on whose board Melissa Rivers served, and both she and Joan sent holiday gifts and cards and they were as gracious as Joan is rumored to have been, as little known as that remains. As a person, privately, she seems to have been really kind and also brilliant, but never quite satisfied or fulfilled.
Butch Lane this book I read has gotten me confused. Now that you show me this it kinda makes this whole book inaccurate. I read in "last girl before freeway" that stated neither her or her sister were in that soriety. Than again it is just Wikipedia
Joan was my favorite comedienne-by far. Really miss her off-the-wall quips, such as, “Can we talk?” or, “Oh, grow UP!” It was such a tragedy that she turned her bright face over to some plastic-surgeon butcher, late in life. The rash move told me how insecure she was in her looks-and so needlessly so. Wish that I could have implored Joan Rivers to not change a thing! Her sparkling face-her entire being-*glowed* within its own unique beauty.
