Joan Rivers Net Worth

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 Parker-Bowles 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!

Interesting Facts about Joan Rivers

1. Mother of Melissa Rivers.
2. Attended Adelphi University in Garden City, New York.
3. Attended Connecticut College for Women in New London, Conneticut.
4. Received her Bachelor's degree in English literature and anthropology from Barnard College in New York City (1954).
5. Before she was a successful comedienne, actress, talk show hostess and a television personality, she briefly worked as a shoe buyer for Lord & Taylor, a department store in New York City, after graduation from college.
6. Collected Faberge eggs.
7. Said the most difficult celebrity she ever interviewed was Tommy Lee Jones, whom she thought was rude.
8. Was the national spokesperson for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
9. Hosted a daily talk show on WOR-AM radio in New York City from 1997 until 2002, syndicated to about 50 stations.
10. About 1982, she was appointed the first permanent guest hostess on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962). She infuriated Johnny Carson when she left to host her own show, The Late Show (1986) on rival Fox network. Johnny Carson never spoke to her again.
11. 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.
12. Was one of the final guests to appear on The Wayne Brady Show (2002).
13. 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".
14. Started performing as a stand-up comedienne using the stage name Pepper January.
15. She was a Phi Beta Kappa Sorority key holder from Barnard College, where she studied anthropology.
16. She had her first cosmetic surgery procedure (an eye-lift) in 1965 at age 32.
17. She had her nose thinned in 1983.
18. The majority of her plastic surgery was performed by Santa Monica surgeon Steven Hoefflin (who also performed plastic surgery on Michael Jackson's nose). She also received Botox and collagen injections every four months from New York City dermatologist Patricia Wexler.
19. She was an advocate of plastic surgery for older women saying that if a woman can afford it, it is worth it for her self-esteem.
20. Before she was a successful comedienne, actress, talk show hostess and a television personality, she performed as half of the comedy team of "Joanie and Bill". "Bill" was former actor William Perry (1936-2006) who was the nephew of actress Toby Wing.