Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Gist: After Tiffany Haddish opens things up with a musical tribute, a hip hop take on “Hava Nagila,” Patton Oswalt gets on ...

Larry Amoros first met Joan Rivers in 2008 to write material for the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor ceremony. In getting to know her comic sensibilities, he asked: Is anything off-limits? For ...

This past Wednesday, the day after one of the most contentious elections in US history, I spent most of it in a state of shock from the events of the night before, occasionally breaking into ...

PITTSFIELD — There is very little in playwright Daniel Goldstein's do-we-really-need-this biographical comedy, “Joan,” about iconic comedian Joan Rivers, that you can’t already glean from Wikipedia or ...

For the new biographical play “Joan,” world premiering on the South Coast Repertory stage, Joan Rivers’ daughter Melissa Rivers was asked, if her assertive mother were still alive, would she have ...

PITTSFIELD, MASS. — My first impression of “Joan,” a play about Joan Rivers playing at Barrington Stage Company, was that it felt like a juke box musical without any music. The assumption rang true ...

Joan Rivers was a force to be reckoned with. The comedian, who died nearly 11 years ago in 2014, is the subject of a May 13 NBC special, Joan Rivers: A Dead Funny All Star Tribute. In the lead-up, ...

It is impossible to know what Joan Rivers would think about “Joan Rivers: A Dead Funny All-Star Tribute,” despite her leaving instructions for her daughter Melissa Rivers to pass along to “whatever ...

“Can we talk?” Joan Rivers’ stand-up tagline had a way of turning audiences into confidants. Rivers may be remembered for her relentless jokes about Elizabeth Taylor’s weight, but she herself was her ...

She had experienced complications during a medical procedure and was put into a coma In 2016, her daughter Melissa Rivers settled a lawsuit against the surgical center that performed the operation for ...