Joan Rivers

Jo Caulfield on why Joan Rivers is her comedy hero

27 Oct 2010

Joan Rivers is like The Rolling Stones: you may not like what she’s turned into but her early work will blow your mind. She was the first female comic I really connected with. She made me laugh LOUD and HARD: ‘A man can sleep around, no questions asked…

Apprentice Joan Rivers

Celebrity Gossip

3 Oct 2008

Joan Rivers, Tom Green and Jesse James are set to star in this year's 'Celebrity Apprentice'. They will reportedly be joined by Dennis Rodman, Khloe Kardashian, Claudia Jordan, Brian McKnight, Andrew Dice Clay, Tionee 'T-Boz' Watkins, Herschel…

Joan Rivers - Work in progress by a life in progress

New York's comedy diva explores the ageing process - again

21 Aug 2008

It has fallen to Joan Rivers, the world's best-known female comic, to provide some much needed glamour at this year's Fringe. Clad in a black pantsuit and hot pink shawl, the crude magnetism of her celebrity status keeps the packed house fixed on her…

Joan Rivers' comic ageing

Celebrity Gossip

3 Aug 2008

Joan Rivers says she is getting funnier with age. The outspoken comic has revealed that her act has improved as she has got older, and she is now more well-received than ever before. She said: "People come up to me and say, 'You still got it.…

Fringe celebs

Star turns

31 Jul 2008

Joan Rivers, the funnywoman and enemy of Loose Women stars in her play on the ups and downs of ageing, Work in Progress by a Life in Progress. Karen Dunbar, the Chewing the Fat star gets serious in Denise Mina’s A Drunk Woman Looks at the Thistle.

The generation game

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

22 Jul 2008

Age is no barrier to performing at the Fringe. Allan Radcliffe talks to veteran stand-up Joan Rivers and 12-year-old debutant Eros Vlahos as they head to Edinburgh, armed with their own distinctive brands of innocence and experience

Joan Rivers' Crowe curse

Celebrity Gossip

18 Jun 2008

Joan Rivers was thrown off a live TV show after branding Russell Crowe a "f***ing s**t" yesterday (17.06.08). The 75-year-old comedienne was a guest on Britain's 'Loose Women' when she lashed out at the Oscar-winning actor. Joan - who preceded the…

Joan Rivers' healing help

Celebrity Gossip

4 Jun 2008

Joan Rivers tried to become a faith healer to save her dying dog. Rivers was so desperate to stop the cancer spreading in her beloved Boston Terrier Lulu, she resorted to unconventional measures. The US comedienne said: "When I was alone in my…

Gayharhar

28 Feb 2007

In this fortnight’s hamper of homo-friendly delicacies at the Glasgow Comedy Festival (Thu 8 Mar - Sat 24 Mar) sit such shrink-wrapped Scottish favourites as Craig Hill and Karen Dunbar, alongside extra-matured, expensive import Joan Rivers, and new…