Joan Rivers’ estate is getting the last laugh. In this week’s “Well boy, we sure got worked up over nothing,” Variety is now reporting that the planned Joan Rivers Showtime series “The Comeback Girl,” the origin of the “Jewface” controversy that launched a thousand think pieces, will not move forward. Looks like the producers didn’t…
What does the Jewish mother make for dinner? Reservations. And what did the server ask her table? Nothing; they never let a man finish a sentence. This was the image of the Jewish American woman when men were the only ones telling the jokes. She was materialistic, tacky and a charmless striver; she was domineering…
Joan Rivers, known for her sharp tongue and self-deprecating humor, was a female pioneer in the field of American comedy. Buy tickets here. Join comedian Judy Gold and Rivers’s niece Caroline Waxler for night full of controversial humor à la Rivers on October 3 at the American Jewish Historical Society in Manhattan. Beginning at 7…
As we approach the end of another weary week, the strength of Parkland’s survivors has renewed my hope. If a group of grieving teenagers can go on national television and confront both the NRA and a sitting U.S. Republican senator, we too can find the strength to fight for sensible solutions to the odious plague…
It’s hard to talk about Joan Rivers nowadays without acknowledging how backwards her sense of humor could so often be. As a woman on a path that still needed a lot of weed whacking, Rivers was often racist, homophobic, and, yes, sexist. But she was also fascinating, as much for her raw talent as for…
For 20 years I had a successful career as one of the first female sit-com writers, with credits including “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “The Bob Newhart Show” and “Maude,” among others. After a Writer’s Guild Strike in 1989, I moved from Los Angeles to New York and took a year off to re-connect with…
It’s weird to think of raucous comedians like Billy Eichner and Joan Rivers as serious professionals with a deep knowledge of their craft but that’s exactly what both of them are. Rivers famously started doing stand up comedy only to support her pursuit of a serious acting career (a personal favorite fun fact) and Eichner’s…
Who needs an orange when you can have a seder plate once owned by Joan Rivers herself? I used up my store of Rivers yucks in the headline, so I’ll give you the rest of the story straight. Auctioneer J. Greenstein & Co. is selling a seder plate that once belonged to the comedian Joan…
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