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Parklife is such a laugh
Original at Norwich Evening News
• Wed, Jun 17
UK She divides her time between performing live, writing for the likes of Graham Norton, Ruby Wax, Joan Rivers, Anne Robinson and Denise Van Outen, appearing on panel shows such as Have I Got News For You, Mock the Week and Never Mind the Buzzcocks, ...
The Roots: How They Got Over
Original at JamBase
• Tue, Jun 16
CA That forced The Roots to make a last-minute audible for Joan Rivers' recent entrance, as Timberlake's "Cry Me a River" was deemed too expensive. As they cut to commercial break right before Rivers was to appear, Questlove jumped online - he keeps a ...
Are you ready for the summer?
Original at Gay City News
• Tue, Jun 16
On June 25, legitimate comedy legend Joan Rivers mops up the floor with deserving targets ranging from Hollywood to reality TV. If you've never seen her live, you've not yet lived. This lady is the real thing; rare, opinionated and machine-gun-paced ...
Annie Duke keeps emotions at bay
Original at Casino City Times
• Tue, Jun 16
MA But it was her acrimonious verbal battles with comedienne Joan Rivers, the show's eventual winner, that had audiences watching and drove the show's ratings skyward. At times during the episodes, Rivers said Duke was worse than "Hitler" and compared ...
KATIE'S SHOCKING REVELATION
Original at Ok! Magazine
• Tue, Jun 16
UK Sharp-tongued comedian Joan Rivers lays into our favourite celebs, while Britney Spears takes a break from touring to talk about fame, her kids and sexy men. We reveal Katie's life support team, while Peter talks of the joy of being reunited with his ...
Joan Rivers coming in November
Original at thonline.com
• Mon, Jun 15
IA She won the title of The Celebrity Apprentice in the second season of the NBC-TV series, appearing with her daughter, Melissa. She is filming a new reality show, "How'd You Get So Rich?" It is scheduled to premier on TVland in August. Comedy diva Rivers coming to Diamond Jo Gazette Online
Reality Bytes: Bret Michaels gets clocked
Original at Colorado Daily
• Sun, Jun 14
CO Celebrity Apprentice" winner Joan Rivers has a new gig. The sharp-tongued comedienne will host "How'd You Get So Rich?" on the TV Land network. The new show features Rivers scouting the country for "richies." The comedienne will find out how they make ...
Producer vows 'Wedding' bliss
Original at Arizona Republic
• Sun, Jun 14
AZ Q: You're doing a show with Joan Rivers later this year about wealthy people, and that also sounds uplifting. A: Joan and I are on the same wavelength. In this country, you can have what you want. We found stories of people who started with nothing, ...
Guess the top 10 celebrities who are rocking the grandchild cradle
Original at Examiner.com
• Sun, Jun 14
Joan Rivers – Emmy-award winning Comedienne, TV talk show host, movie script writer and director, Broadway performer, cable shopping host, and mother of sassy and brassy Melissa, (we saw both of them recently on Trump's Celebrity Apprentice), ...
Poker ace Annie Duke keeps emotions at bay - Las Vegas Review
Original at Las Vegas Review-Journal
• Sat, Jun 13
Las Vegas Review - Journal, NV But it was her acrimonious verbal battles with comedienne Joan Rivers, the show's eventual winner, that had audiences watching and drove the show's ratings skyward. At times during the episodes, Rivers said Duke was worse than "Hitler" and compared ...
Annie Duke: Life after Celebrity Apprentice
Original at Poker News Daily
• Fri, Jun 12
NV Half of the comments were defensive of me and half were repeating what Joan Rivers said. One of the problems was that Melissa Rivers and Joan used the private interviews to frame a story. Brande Roderick and I just being friends resulted in Melissa ...
TV Land Announces Premiere Date for Joan Rivers Series
Original at Stage Time Magazine
• Thu, Jun 11
NY TV Land announced that How'd You Get So Rich? starring Joan Rivers will premiere on Thursday, August 6 at 9 pm ET/PT. The comedy legend takes viewers on a journey to meet the millionaires who struck gold as she tours the most lavish and extravagant ...
Joan Rivers' show gets earlier debut date
Original at United Press International
• Wed, Jun 10
UPI Photo/Michael Bush) | Enlarge NEW YORK, June 10 (UPI) -- TV Land says its new US show "How'd You Get So Rich?" starring Joan Rivers will debut Aug. ... and more »
Joan Rivers calls Kate Gosselin a dumb b*tch
Original at Examiner.com
• Wed, Jun 10
Joan Rivers appeared on CNN's Larry King Live and called Kate Gosselin a "dumb bitch." As part of a panel on June 8th with fill-in host Joy Bahar, Rivers expressed her opinion on reality TV stars including Jon and Kate Gosselin. ...
TV Land Announces New Premiere Date for Highly-Anticipated Joan ... - PR Newswire
Original at sev.prnewswire.com
• Tue, Jun 9
NEW YORK, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- TV Land announced today that it is making changes to its summer schedule as "How'd You Get So Rich?" starring Joan Rivers and the comedic hidden camera series "Make My Day" will now premiere on Thursday, ...
Charity doesn't make for better TV
Original at TV Squad
• Mon, Jun 8
CA There are other criteria (business savvy, presentation, and the fact that the Don had a hard-on for Joan Rivers) that get put into the equation, but money is important. Dancing with the Stars garnered both better celebrities (even their replacements ...
Rivers Impersonators Challenge Annie Duke
Original at Online Casino Reports
• Fri, May 29
By Nadav S | May 29, 2009 The long-running battle between poker pro Annie Duke and comedian Joan Rivers is set to continue, with Duke slated to take on not one but 20 Rivers impersonators at a charity tournament. Duke announced on her Website that she ...
Leno, Rivers celebrate career milestones in ACOriginal at Cherry Hill Courier Post
• Fri, May 29
By DAVID J. SPATZ • For the Courier-Post • May 29, 2009 When the dice began rolling on the Atlantic City Boardwalk 31 years ago, Jay Leno and Joan Rivers were opening acts on the fast track to becoming headliners. Both return to Atlantic City ...
Joan Rivers chews up her co-stars and spits them out
Original at This is London
• Thu, May 28
Maybe not for anyone who has seen Joan Rivers before, but for Rivers virgins this was a chance to see the irreverently brash New York comedienne who ... Photos: Joan Rivers Milks Udderbelly for LaughsWhatsOnStage.com all 4 news articles »
The Celebrity Apprentice: It's Annie Duke vs Joan Rivers ...
Original at BuddyTV
• Wed, May 27
Perhaps most importantly Joan's--after all, she called poker players worse than "white trash" in that oft-highlighted spat between the two, when Melissa Rivers was fired. "I think that after this poker tournament, the real Joan Rivers will quickly ...
NORM: Fans to pay tribute at Gans memorial - Las Vegas Review
Original at Las Vegas Review-Journal
• Thu, May 21
Las Vegas Review - Journal, NV Joan Rivers, above, beat out poker champ Annie Duke for the "Celebrity Apprentice" title earlier this month. Now, Duke has recruited 20 Joan Rivers impersonators to go head-to-head with poker players in a charity event next week at the Hard Rock Hotel. ...
Joan Rivers Makes No Apologies for 'Hitler' Comment Made to ...
Original at wowowow.com
• Tue, May 12
NY Speaking to CNN's Larry King last night, with Donald Trump dialed in, Rivers — "hired" by Trump and deemed the winner of the competition — talked about her TV feud with Duke and country singer Clint Black (whom she called a "chauvinist"). ...
Joan Rivers to host TV Land series
Original at Entertainment Weekly
• Mon, May 11
Fresh off her Celebrity Apprentice win, Joan Rivers will be participating in another TV program: TV Land's How'd You Get So Rich? The 30-minute, six-episode series, which premieres Aug. 12, follows Rivers as she explores the homes belonging to ...
Crooner Brian Evans to Open for Joan Rivers - PR Newswire
Original at prnewswire.com
• Sun, May 10
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Celebrity Apprentice Annie Duke on Ellen
Original at CBS News
• Tue, May 5
• 3 related articles
CA After Melissa and Joan Rivers appeared on The Ellen Degeneres Show, Annie Duke called the show to ask to tell her side of the story. Annie says she hasn't played the Apprentice personally......Joan says Annie plays one way when she's around people or ...
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Ellen Auctions -Simon Cowell, Joan Rivers, Heidi Klum and more
Original at CBS News
• Tue, May 5
CA Joan and Melissa Rivers stopped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show and brought with them jewelry and a handbag from the Joan Rivers Classics Collection. Joan and Melissa even signed the inside lining of the handbag. Heidi Klum Dress During Heidi's interview ...
Who should win the Celebrity Apprentice?
Original at TV Squad
• Tue, May 5
By Isabelle Carreau No matter if you like or hate Annie and/or Joan, you have to admit that out of the four contestants that were left at the beginning of the episode, those two will offer the most entertaining finale. Now that we know it's officially Joan Vs. Annie, who do you think should be hired?Continue readi...
Joan Rivers talks about new books, new shows, and plastic surgery
Original at Toledo Blade
• Sun, Apr 26
OH By PATRICIA SHERIDAN She is the ever-present, ever-green Joan Rivers. With a career that spans decades, the comedienne, television personality, and now author loves her life and her work. Two tomes — one fiction, one nonfiction — by Rivers are in ...
Celebrity Apprentice: Annie Vs. Joan
Original at TV Squad
• Wed, Apr 22
By Isabelle Carreau As for Joan, she has been a so-so project manager, acts like a diva, orders Melissa to support her even if Melissa didn't see her mother at work (they now are on different teams), cries in the boardroom, and threatens to quit every time Melissa is in danger of being fired. However, I must admit...
Everything about last night's Celebrity Apprentice was boring - VIDEO
Original at TV Squad
• Sun, Apr 12
By Joel Keller It turns out that it was none of these things. In fact, when the scene came in this week's episode, it was so anticlimactic that you might have missed it if you had turned away to get some ice cream. In fact, this week's entire two-hour episode ambled along so slowly that I thought NBC expanded it...
George Lopez, you get a talk show! And you get a talk show! And you... - VIDEO
Original at TV Squad
• Wed, Mar 25
By Nick Zaino Lopez seems like a personable guy, and if his ABC sitcom was any indication, he should have a pretty good mainstream appeal. But this will be an experiment for Lopez and TBS. The network has only dabbled in late night programming, and many a comedian and comic actor (Joan Rivers, Chevy Chase,...
Bruce Blitz on the Joan Rivers ShowOriginal at YouTube
• Wed, Feb 4
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Phil Spector Brandished Gun At Joan Rivers' Christmas Party, Jury Hears
Original at Huffington Post
• Tue, Nov 4
By The Huffington Post News Editors Rivers' manager, who dated Spector in the 1990s, also took the witness stand and told of being threatened by him with a gun. He's Phil Spector, music legend, and I'm Joan Rivers' manager. I really don't like publicity and there would have been publicity because of Joan Rivers' name," she sai...
Morning Links: David Archuleta to try acting
Original at The Buffalo News
• Mon, Oct 6
By David Valenzuela American Idol runner-up David Archuleta is going to take a try at acting. Little David has signed on to do an episode of the Nickelodeon series "iCarly," to be filmed today and to air in the Spring. He will play a contestant on an American Idol-like program, who begins to become popular as a res...
Joan Rivers on Tom Hanks, Ricky Gervais, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus: 'Nazis' [Goose-Stepping Down The Red Carpet]
Original at Defamer
• Thu, Sep 25
• 4 related articles
By Kyle Buchanan Joan, it's one thing to take on Russell Crowe (or even the Girl Scouts) but Forrest Gump himself? Go after Hanks, and soon enough the only place you'll be allowed to do red carpet commentary is on a Geocities page, nestled amid blinking unicorn .gifs. Video of all the relevant Rivers moments i...
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Joan Rivers Ejected From British Talk Show After Calling Russell Crowe A 'F***ing S**t': With Video!
Original at Defamer.com
• Tue, Jun 17
By Seth It's getting so that there are fewer and fewer places where Joan Rivers can peddle her celebrity-terrorizing wares lately, having been banished from virtually every red carpet in town—but the 75-year-old post-Vaudeville warhorse shows few signs of slowing down. Case in point, she sto...
Joan Rivers celebrates her 75 years with 75 shows
Original at IndieLondon
• Fri, May 23
By Anne AS PART of her 75th birthday (June 8) celebrations, comedy icon Joan Rivers will make her London acting debut in Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress By a Life in Progress Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress By a Life in Progress was originally produced as a workshop at the Magic Theatre, San Francisc...
About that Urban Myth
Original at BlogHer
• Sun, Sep 23
By Elana Centor A television ad in which a woman is being beaten to death with a bat in a subway, with a man ripping off her fur coat, and the inscription: "What if you were killed for your coat?" The ad was pulled by PETA as "too violent in the wake of September 11," but it remained on PETA's web site.
Will Joan Rivers Terrorize Red Carpets For VH-1?
Original at Defamer
• Thu, Sep 20
By Seth Many awards show viewers still long for the heyday of the late '90s, when unsuspecting stars would recoil in terror upon being accosted by Grand Frock Inquisitioner Joan Rivers, followed closely behind by loyal henchspawn Melissa, one finger held to her ear as she received instruction...
The Phil Spector Trial: We Watch Court TV So You Don’t Have To
Original at Rolling Stone
• Tue, Jul 10
By Daniel Kreps After a long July 4th hiatus, Phil Spector came back to court under the worst possible circumstances: The prosecution had a new witness. Former NYPD detective and current Joan Rivers bodyguard Vincent Tannazzo took the stand to testify concerning two separate encounters he says he had w...
Plastic surgery addict Joan Rivers unmasked
Original at This is London
• Mon, May 21
She's the plastic surgery addict who was having lipo the day her husband killed himself. Now, in a funny, poignant interview, Joan Rivers reveals the deep insecurity behind her ever-changing face
Podcast: Hot Air Meltdown Theater!
Original at Hot Air
• Sat, May 5
By see-dubya About two thirds of the way through the clip, Buckley reminds Vidal that Nazi sympathizers were isolated during the last war, and calls for the continuing ostracism of people “who egg on other people to shoot American Marines, and American soldiers”. And then Vidal calls Buckley “Pro-cr...
The Joan Rivers-Lisa Rinna smackdown transcript
Original at Entertainment Weekly
• Thu, Apr 19
By Michael Slezak You may have already heard that the TV Guide Channel booted trashy, unpredictable Joan and Melissa Rivers (pictured) as its red-carpet hosts and replaced them with the fabulously earnest Lisa Rinna. Which is kind of a pity, really. What you...
Defamer Casting: Hollywood's Next Top Jerry Bruckheimer
Original at Defamer
• Fri, Mar 9
By Mark We know what you're thinking right about now: "How can I compete to win a hundred grand and the chance to develop the kind of exciting basic cable programming that will run on top of a slowly scrolling schedule grid on the TV Guide Channel, and which contractually must include the talents of...
Bravo Executive Andy Cohen Scores Audition For Joan Rivers' Talk Show On Talent Alone [Joan Rivers]
Original at Defamer
• Mon, Aug 14
By Seth For weeks now, a search has been on to find the perfect three Gays to join Joan Rivers on her upcoming Bravo talk show, Can We Dish?. (For the pitch-arithmetic inclined, the show is basically The View - 3 loud women + 3 loud women with dicks.) The enormous field of sassy-mouthed opinion-havers...
Bravo Executive Andy Cohen Scores Audition For Joan Rivers' Talk Show On Talent Alone
Original at Defamer.com
• Mon, Aug 14
By Seth For weeks now, a search has been on to find the perfect three Gays to join Joan Rivers on her upcoming Bravo talk show, Can We Dish?. (For the pitch-arithmetic inclined, the show is basically The View - 3 loud women + 3 loud women with dicks.) The enormous field of sassy-mouthed opinion-havers...
Podcast: Episode 36 - How many posts could John Smedley post if John Smedley could post posts?
Original at swgpodcast.libsyn.com
• Fri, Apr 7
By swgpodcast@gmail.com Surely, this episode will be the foundation of the âStar Wars Galaxies with Yivvits and MrBubble Archives.â? Now, we just need to find a hoity-toity, pompous, domineering old lady to be our archive librarianâ Whatâs Joan Rivers doing these days?
Opinion: Joan Rivers Not Above Internet Hook-Ups
Original at Defamer
• Thu, Mar 9
• 2 related articles
By Seth Joan Rivers can strike terror in the hearts of even the heartiest and best-traveled of red carpet footsloggers. Beyond her vicious barbs, her grasp on industry facts is iffy at best (she once greeted Ron Howard and Brian Grazer with a cordial, Names! ), and then there s the small matter of he...
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Gawker Stalker: Joan Rivers Hits Jury Duty Red Carpet [Culture]
Original at gawker.com
• Mon, Jul 11
This made Jury Duty completely worth every boring minute of it. We were sitting watching the introductory video (Mon Jul 11), when who walks in (20+ minutes late) but Joan Rivers! She stood in the front of the room with her assistant so everyone could have a good look at her wicked tight face a...
Gawker Stalker: Joan Rivers Puts The Pee-Pee In The Basket [Culture]
Original at gawker.com
• Sun, Jun 12
Sightings are sent in by readers; send yours to tips@gawker.com. 6/9 Uma Thurman sitting in first row on an American flight JFK to LAX. My girlfriend and I noted she's even more stunning without Ethan's dirty little hoo-ha inside of her.