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Guests: comic Joan Rivers; writer William Caulfield.
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1981
English
Stereo
Talk
Variety
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Did You Know..
Joan Rivers
(Actor)
Born:
June 08, 1933
Died: September 04, 2014
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Died: September 04, 2014
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Trivia:
Was billed early in her career as Pepper January, Comedy with Spice. Wrote for Candid Camera. In 1961, worked with Chicago's Second City improv group. In 1988, replaced Linda Lavin on Broadway in Neil Simon's Broadway Bound. Won a Daytime Emmy in 1990 for Outstanding Talk Show Host for The Joan Rivers Show. In the 1994 biopic Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story, she and her daughter played themselves. Had a lucrative side job pushing her own line of jewelry on QVC. Played herself in the second-season finale of Nip/Tuck. Collected Fabergé eggs. Posthumously nominated for a Grammy award for Best Spoken Word Album for her album Diary of a Mad Diva, in 2014.
