1. Okay, I tried to resist but can't help it. A few quick thoughts on Joan Rivers & 1950s "sick" or "new wave" comedy.
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9. Interesting tension between Rivers the rebel & the Rivers who gave in to social conventions (the WASPized stage name, plastic surgery)
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10. Perhaps the tragedy is that Rivers the rule-breaker ended up using her comedy to guard borders of status quo (via comments on fashion)
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@HeerJeet Phyllis Diller's version of this style was much more carefully pointed and, I'd say, cannily subversive. Also funnier. -
@DougSaunders@HeerJeet Rivers 'leaving' Johnny Carson was a seismic negative event for her both professionally & personally,great "what if"
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