Joan Rivers

Joan Rivers In Passport Fracas

tmz.com | Posted Jan 4th 2010 1:42PM by TMZ Staff | Posted 01.05.2010 | Entertainment


Joan Rivers claims she was "held hostage" by airport security in Costa Rica yesterday -- all because of a name from her past. The drama unfolded ...

No Women Featured in NY Comedy Festival! No Joke!

Beverly Wettenstein | Posted 10.15.2009 | Entertainment


Beverly Wettenstein

The Primetime Emmy Awards showed that women writers on a comedy or variety series are a rare and endangered species. Only seven of the 81 writers were women.

The Power of the Mind: Lior Suchard Is a Living, Breathing & Entertaining Example

Ellen Sterling | Posted 10.22.2009 | Entertainment


Ellen Sterling

At 27, Suchard is the heir apparent to Uri Geller, the self-described Israeli "mystifier" who gained fame bending spoons seemingly only with the power of his mind.

Joan Rivers: Gadhafi Eyed My Apartment To Rent For Week

New York Post | Posted 10.16.2009 | Entertainment


JOAN Rivers was ready to rent her $25 million apartment in the East 60s to Libyan dictator Moammar Khadafy, although she was afraid "he would have roa...

Joan Rivers: "I'm at a Good Moment"... and She's Back in Las Vegas

Ellen Sterling | Posted 09.12.2009 | Entertainment


Ellen Sterling

Joan Rivers: "The networks are still very much an old boys club. They think women at night just want to watch men. I'd love to have my own late-night talk show and I think I could take them all."

Joan Rivers Roast: Kathy Griffin, Melissa Rivers And More Take Shots At The 'Queen Of Mean' (VIDEO) (NSFW)

Huffington Post | Posted 09.07.2009 | Comedy


Two weeks ago friends and soon-to-be-former friends of Joan Rivers gathered together to send up and put down the Emmy Award-winning comedienne and bes...

Red Carpet Barbecue: Joan Rivers and a Gaggle of Celebs Spawn the Roast of All Roasts

Greg Archer | Posted 09.07.2009 | Comedy


Greg Archer

The red carpet was actually snow white, making the color scheme the only thing "clean" at the taping of the Comedy Central Roast of Joan Rivers.

Joan Rivers On Her New Show, Redford's Plastic Surgery And Not-Funny Chelsea Handler

AP | ALICIA RANCILIO | Posted 09.03.2009 | Entertainment


NEW YORK — Joan Rivers is having a TV good year: She won "The Celebrity Apprentice" and now she's got a new show debuting, "How'd You Get So Ric...

Joan Rivers Slams Jay Leno: "America Can Get Bored More Easily And Go To Sleep Earlier" When He's On At 10PM

Huffington Post | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media


Joan Rivers slammed Jay Leno Wednesday in a continuation of her 23-year fight with "The Tonight Show." Speaking at the Television Critics Association...

Joan Rivers: Johnny Carson Was A "Bastard" And A "Nasty Man" (VIDEO)

Posted 07.24.2009 | Entertainment


MSNBC interviewed Joan Rivers about the sad passing of legendary entertainment figure Ed McMahon. Rivers had nothing but praise for McMahon, however ...

Monday's Late Night Round-Up: Obama's Stand-Up, Joan River's Faces, And Manny's Mother's Day (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Patrick Waldo | Posted 06.12.2009 | Comedy


Letterman marveled at President Obama's jokes at the White House Correspondents' Dinner last night, while Stephen Colbert berated Barack for his new c...

Joan Rivers Wins 'Apprentice' After Bitter Battle

AP | FRAZIER MOORE | Posted 06.11.2009 | Entertainment


NEW YORK — Comedian Joan Rivers was hired and poker champ Annie Duke was fired on the final faceoff of "Celebrity Apprentice." Rivers beat out ...

Joan Rivers Goes Mama Bear Defending Melissa

AP | Posted 05.28.2009 | Entertainment


NEW YORK — Think twice before crossing Melissa Rivers _ her mother might just step in and chew you out. Joan Rivers unleashed an earful of insu...

Susan Boyle: Talent Without Judgment

Tamar Abrams | Posted 05.16.2009 | Entertainment


Tamar Abrams

When a beautiful, under 30-something sings like an angel, she can become an American Idol. When a dowdy, homely 47-year-old woman sings beautifully, it is headline news.

Comedy Central To Roast Joan Rivers

Huffington Post/Comedy Central | Posted 05.09.2009 | Comedy


Comedy Central announced today that their next roast will center on Joan Rivers--the ever-present queen of the face lift and arbiter of all things low...

The SNL FAQ: #34.18 (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson)

Sean L. McCarthy | Posted 04.08.2009 | Comedy


Sean L. McCarthy

It's Sunday morning. You have questions about last night's Saturday Night Live. We have answers.

The Celebrity Apprentice: Now Officially a Sitcom!

Sean L. McCarthy | Posted 03.29.2009 | Comedy


Sean L. McCarthy

Just when you thought your 2009 was going to be Trump-free...the second edition of The Celebrity Apprentice starts.

Joan Rivers: Obama Should Have Pinned Back His Ears

New York Times Magazine | Posted 02.04.2009 | Entertainment


Joan Rivers talks not only about her own plastic surgery (2 face lifts, liposuction, lip fillers) in this week's New York Times Magazine, she also wei...

Lucky Diamond Guest Spot on Celebrity Apprentice

Wendy Diamond | Posted 12.05.2008 | Living


Wendy Diamond

This week was our always-entertaining Annual Halloween Pet Costume Party benefiting the Humane Society and par usual the party featured some downright adorable canine costumes.

Phil Spector Brandished Gun At Joan Rivers' Christmas Party, Jury Hears

AP | LINDA DEUTSCH | Posted 12.05.2008 | Entertainment


LOS ANGELES — A security guard for Joan Rivers testified Monday in Phil Spector's murder retrial that the music producer was ejected from two of...

Joan Rivers' Raunchy Emmy Humor Gagged By AOL (VIDEO)

NY Post | Posted 10.26.2008 | Entertainment


JOAN and Melissa Rivers are livid over AOL's censorship of them. The duo did their comedic routine for myhollywood.com on Sunday for the Emmys, and AO...

Joan Rivers To Compete On "Celebrity Apprentice"

Huffington Post | Posted 07.19.2008 | Media


Joan Rivers will be a contestant on the next season of Celebrity Apprentice, she told Ron Pascoe and Paul Telner for the Canadian Jewish News this wee...

George Carlin Remembered By Jerry Seinfeld, Joan Rivers, Ben Stiller And More

Huffington Post | Posted 07.02.2008 | Entertainment


George Carlin, who died on Sunday, has some A-list eulogizers. Jerry Seinfeld has penned an obit for Tuesday's New York Times called "Dying Is Hard. ...

Joan Rivers Kicked Off Show For Calling Russell Crowe A "Fucking Shit" (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 06.25.2008 | Entertainment


LONDON - Joan Rivers' salty tongue got her booted from a British daytime talk show in the middle of its live broadcast. Rivers used two expletives wh...

Joan Rivers Q&A: Fondness For Metamucil, Katie Holmes

Variety | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment


What book would you like to see brought to the big screen and what book do you hope never gets adapted? Adapted? Anything by Jackie Collins. Never ada...