Joan Rivers's biography

Joan Rivers is 81 years old comedian born on on Thursday 8th of June 1933. She is often nicknamed as The Queen of the Barbed One-liners. According to year of birth 1933 she belongs to Silent Generation. Birthday on 8th of June means she is Gemini. Gemini is a dual sign of Zodiac Belt. One born with this rising sign is very dual and creative in nature with lots of verbosity. They are the most expressive people as they love talking.She was married 2 times.

She is native english speaker. She is citizen of United States of America. Her primary profession is to be comedian. You can know her also as television presenter, film director, screenwriter, writer, film actor, television actor, stage actor, journalist, voice actor. She is recently known as film producer.

Joan Rivers's dad

Joan Rivers's father's name is Meyer C. Molinsky.

Joan Rivers's mom

Joan Rivers's mother's name is Beatrice Grushman Molinsky.

Joan Rivers's family

Joan Rivers's ex spouses

Edgar Rosenberg

Joan Rivers and Edgar Rosenberg have been together since 1965 for 22 years. He is known as film producer. Her ex spouse was born in 1924 in Bremerhaven. Her ex spouse died on Friday 14th of August 1987 in Philadelphia. Edgar Rosenberg was 54 years old, when this happened.

James Sanger

Joan Rivers and James Sanger have been together less than a year in 1955.

She has 1 daughter.

Joan Rivers's daughter: Melissa Rivers

Joan Rivers's daughter's name is Melissa Rivers. She is known as actor. Her daughter was born on Saturday 20th of January 1968 in New York City.

Joan Rivers's schools

We found 3 schools She attended. Complete list of schools: Connecticut College, Barnard College, Columbia University.

Detailed informations about her schools

Attended Adelphi University in Garden City, New York.
Attended Connecticut College for Women in New London, Conneticut.
Her father, Dr. Meyer C. Molinsky, who graduated from medical school at Long Island College and in the mid-1930s kept an office at 760 Montgomery Street in Crown Heights, New York, historical records show.
Had briefly attended Brooklyn Ethical Culture School in Brooklyn, New York.

Joan Rivers's career

Her main focus is to be comedian. She is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa Society.

How did Joan Rivers die

She died on on Thursday 4th of September 2014 when he was 81 years old at Mount Sinai Hospital. Joan Riverss death was caused by anoxic encephalopathy. It happend like natural causes.

Awards and competitions

Joan Rivers's Awards

She won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1990 for best talk show host and was nominated for a Tony Award for the play "Donna Marr and Her Escorts" in 1994. She was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Recording in 1985.
Was nominated for Broadway's 1994 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for portraying the title character, Sally Marr, in "Sally Marr... and Her Escorts".
She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7030 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on July 26, 1989.
Joan Rivers passed away on September 4, 2014, at age 81. Just before her death, she hosted her final taping of Fashion Police (2002), about the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards and the 2014 MTV Movie Awards.
In her 55-year career in television, she was nominated for 8 Daytime Emmy Awards, but only won once, in 1990, for Outstanding Talk/Service Show Host, which absolutely was The Joan Rivers Show (1989).

Joan Rivers's Rankings

Rolling Stone Magazine ranked her 6th on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time. [2017].

What Joan Rivers has done for a first time

She had her first cosmetic surgery procedure (an eye-lift) in 1965 at age 32.
Had first watched television; when she was only 6 at the World's Fair.
Was brought on to The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962), seven times and was turned down, until she made her first appearance.
The first joke she ever stole was on The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1957).
Like fellow talk show host and television personality, Regis Philbin, and game show host, Bob Barker, Rivers was one of the two talk show hosts and was the first comedienne to have nearly guest-starred on every talk show, either daytime or prime-time.
At first, Tribune Entertainment was supposed to hire Nell Carter as a talk show hostess for her own show, when it didn't work, Rivers was the company's second choice, and the show was retooled, The Joan Rivers Show (1989).

Joan Rivers's quotes

[on her idea of a perfect childbirth experience] Knock me out with the first pain, and wake me up when the hairdresser arrives.
If you're not a wreck in this business, you're not around.
Once I was having lunch in a fancy restaurant with Lily Tomlin and Richard Pryor. We were all struggling comics together and the day we had lunch, any one of us could have picked up the check. That's when I knew I'd made it.
Camilla Queen Consort is an earthy, funny woman. You can swear in front of her.
[on Parkinson (1971), when entering] I am a dyke! And I'm DAMN proud of it!
I want them to know I don't think I'm wonderful, or better than they are. Part of comedy is saying: "I am you and you are me, and we're all feeling the same thing".
The only thing that's saving me is my age. Because I don't care. I've been up, I've been down. I've been fired, I've been hired. I've been broke. What are you gonna to do me? Not like me? I don't give a damn.
There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
One of the earliest jokes I did about my husband was that I was the one who really caused Edgar's suicide, because, while we were making love, I took the bag off my head.
My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at [the department store] Neiman Marcus - that way, I'd visit him every day.
I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
[Interview with Andrew Scott, June 10, 2010] I've never been in the "in" group. I've never been considered. But that's what keeps me punching, if that makes sense. I'm still in the "I'll show you" mentality.
[on the passing of Elaine Kaufman] Elaine's was a place you went to let everyone know you were in town. It was first stop L.A./N.Y. You knew your name was above the title when Elaine sat with you. I also loved that the prices changed constantly.
Having my daughter, I screamed for twenty-three hours straight. And that was just during conception.
Boy George is all England needs. Another queen who can't dress.
Men who look down my dress usually compliment me on my shoes.
That awful, vulgar, loud woman on stage, that's not me. I wouldn't want to be her friend.
[on antiques] If Louis XIV hasn't sat on it, I don't want it.
[In 2010, on Twitter] With all the plastic surgery I've had, I'm worried that when I die, God won't recognize me!
I don't exercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.
[on the red-carpet] Who are you wearing?
[her trademark line] Can we talk?
My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.
The secret of my success is just saying what everybody else has been thinking.
I haven't missed the Emmys since that year my makeup team was nominated for "Best Special Effects"!
Look at Gwyneth Paltrow being named the Most Beautiful this year. Congratulations, Gwyneth! Now look at who she got to vote: Ray Charles, JosÃ© Feliciano, Helen Keller, Ronnie Milsap, Tom Sullivan, and Stevie Wonder.
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself; after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
I hate housework. You make the beds, you do the dishes...and six months later, you have to start all over again.
There are three things all children should be taught never to do: touch a hot stove; pull lamps off tables; and wake their mother before noon.
A study says owning a dog makes you 10 years younger. I'd rescue two more, but who wants to go through menopause twice?
At my funeral, I want Meryl Streep crying in five different accents.
[on Justin Bieber] He looks like the daughter Cher wishes she'd had.
Want to know why women don't blink during foreplay? Not enough time.
[on Renee Zellweger] Push her face against a glass door, and you'll see what all babies look like at birth.
If you don't want gays in the military, make the uniforms ugly.
My love life is like a piece of Swiss cheese: much of it's missing, and what's there stinks.
The great thing about irrigating your colon is that sometimes you find old jewelry.
People say that money is not the key to happiness. But I've always figured that, with enough money, you can hire a battering ram.
All I ever heard when I was a kid was,"Why can't you be more like your cousin Sheila?" And Sheila had died at birth.
I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.
I have no sex appeal. If my husband didn't toss and turn, we'd never have had any kids.
All my mother told me about sex was that the man goes on top, and that the woman goes on bottom. For three years, my husband and I slept in bunk beds.
My sex life is so bad, my G-spot has been declared a historical landmark.
[on turning 50]: Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
'Beyonce' said she delivered her baby naturally, which for her meant no wind machine or back-up dancers.
I feel so sorry for that British woman who was born with two vaginas. Can you imagine having to fake orgasm twice?
I love photo-shopping. It's God's gift to ugly people.
Ever since the divorce announcement, Heidi Klum looks angry. She gives new meaning to the word sauerkraut.
"Happy Hollywood Homes" is really a contradiction in terms. Like "attractive leper", "huge miniature poodle", "well-read Kardashian".
Life is hard and we better laugh at everything, otherwise we're going down the tube.
I succeeded by saying what everyone else was thinking.

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