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unusual facts about Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work



Cafe Wha?

Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen, The Velvet Underground, Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys, Kool and the Gang, Peter, Paul & Mary, Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, Joan Rivers, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, and many others all began their careers at the Wha?

Cleft Lip and Palate Association

At BAFTA Television Awards at the London Palladium Theatre in London on 20 May 2007, when presenting Ricky Gervais with the award for best comedy performance Joan Rivers made a joke referring to the statuette as a "Jew with a harelip".

Club Kids

At the height of their cultural popularity, the Club Kids toured the United States and appeared on several talk shows, such as Geraldo, The Joan Rivers Show, and the Phil Donahue Show.

Darcus Howe

Howe appeared on the discussion programme, Midweek (on BBC Radio 4), to promote the documentary on 19 October 2005 and, live on air, became involved in an angry debate with American comedienne Joan Rivers.

David Evangelista

David Evangelista is a fashion/beauty contributor to The Early Show, as well as a guest judge on Iron Chef America and a well known red carpet regular who seeks Joan Rivers as his rival.

Des McLean

McLean recorded a series of wind-up telephone calls for the programme, fooling stars that included Sean Connery, Rod Stewart and Joan Rivers.

Dominique Ansel

In November, 2013, Dominique Ansel Bakery collaborated on The Cronut™ Mission with celebrities such as Heidi Klum, Joan Rivers and the cast of several Broadway shows to raise money for God’s Love We Deliver, a soup kitchen located near the bakery in SoHo.

Edinburgh Comedy Festival

High-profile names from the 2008 festival include Joan Rivers, Paul Merton, Clive James, John Pinette and Rhona Cameron

Essie Weingarten

Essie's nail polish has been seen on stars such as Joan Rivers and even HRH Queen Elizabeth II.

George Reinblatt

He has also been a writer for Rick Mercer's Monday Report, was the head writer for Canada's Walk of Fame in 2006, and has been a writer at Montreal's Just for Laughs comedy festival, where he has written for the likes of John Cleese, Tina Fey, Kelly Ripa, William Shatner, Howie Mandel, Jason Alexander, Dame Edna, Joan Rivers, George Lopez, Tom Arnold and James Belushi, amongst others.

H8R

Had the series not been canceled, the producers had hoped to book Sarah Palin, Joan Rivers, Mel Gibson and Lady Gaga for future episodes.

Hannah Friedman

In October 2009, Friedman was asked to perform at the 35th Anniversary Celebration of the National Coalition Against Censorship, a charity benefit gala hosted by Judy Blume that also featured appearances by Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker, Joan Rivers, Rachel Dratch, Michelle Branch, and Junot Diaz.

Jim Bohannon

When Jim is away guest hosts have historically varied in nature and political views greatly; past substitute hosts include conservative talk host and comedian Dennis Miller, progressive talk host Leslie Marshall, and comedienne Joan Rivers.

Look Who's Talking Now

Unlike the previous films, it does not feature the voice-over talents of Bruce Willis, Roseanne Barr, or Joan Rivers as the children's interior monologues; rather, Danny DeVito and Diane Keaton provide voice-over roles for the couple's newly acquired dogs, Rocks and Daphne, respectively, and the film focuses more on the life of the family pets.

Louise DuArt: The Mouth That Roared

Her guests include Barbara Walters (who has a clip of an interview with Tammy Faye Bakker), George Burns (who shows a clip of he and Gracie in a performance), Woody Allen (who has a clip of himself in therapy with Dr. Ruth) and Joan Rivers.

Maggie Cassella

Over the years Cassella has interviewed comedy legends such as Phyllis Diller, Bea Arthur and Joan Rivers, as well as performers such as William H. Macy, Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Robert Downey, Jr., Laura Linney, Eartha Kitt and k.d. lang.

Melissa Rivers

Rivers was born Melissa Warburg Rosenberg in Manhattan on January 20, 1968, the only child of Joan Rivers and Edgar Rosenberg.

Mike Super

He has entertained millions of people during his career, including celebrities Criss Angel, Ellen DeGeneres, Kim Kardashian, Carmen Electra, Kenny Chesney, Uri Gellar, Regis Philbin, Joan Rivers, Paul Reiser, and Robin Leach.

Paul Bollenback

Paul Bollenback (born 1959) is a jazz guitarist who has appeared on Entertainment Tonight, The Tonight Show, The Today Show, Joan Rivers, and Good Morning America, and has performed with musicians including Charlie Byrd, Arturo Sandoval, Herb Ellis, Stanley Turrentine, Spyro Gyra's Scott Ambush, and Della Reese.

Paul Brill

He has scored dozens of feature films, television series and commercials, most notably including: Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, The Devil Came on Horseback, The Trials of Darryl Hunt, Freakonomics, Full Battle Rattle, Page One: Inside the NY Times, Better This World, and No Woman, No Cry, among many others.

Ralph Schoenstein

Schoenstein was also the ghostwriter of a number of books for celebrities like Joan Rivers, Ed McMahon, and Bill Cosby (he was the uncredited co-author of Cosby's Fatherhood and Time Flies).

Salah Bachir

He has produced numerous charity events featuring big-name celebrities, including gala fundraisers in support of The 519 featuring Sandra Bernhard, Eartha Kitt, Andrea Martin and Joan Rivers, and The Premiere Video Awards, which raised money for Variety Club, with such special honourees as Norman Jewison, David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, Ginger Rogers and Christopher Plummer in attendance.

Sarah Blacher Cohen

Dr. Cohen has also given talks and papers including "The Unkosher Comediennes: From Sophie Tucker to Joan Rivers".

Superstar Limo

Riders were introduced to animated figures modeled in the likeness of celebrities (some of whom appeared at the time on ABC shows.) The celebrities were Joan Rivers (appearing only in puppet-form on TV screens in the attraction's queue), Regis Philbin, Melanie Griffith, Antonio Banderas, Cindy Crawford, Tim Allen, Jackie Chan, Drew Carey, Cher, and Whoopi Goldberg.

The Bob Monkhouse Show

A number of notable guests appeared on the show, such as Joan Rivers (2 episodes), Janet Brown (2 episodes), Jim Carrey (1 episode in 1986) and Peter Cook.


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