Nearly a decade after the death of comedian Joan Rivers, her daughter Melissa Rivers is still finding handwritten jokes in her mom’s sweater pockets
The younger Rivers has spent years slowly sorting through her mother’s archives, some of which is now part of a National Comedy Center exhibit in honor of the late comic and producer. “We still find scraps of paper, shoved in a book or on boarding passes. The beginnings of a joke,” Melissa Rivers said in a recent interview with CNN. “The other day we were going through some of her clothes, trying to figure out what to do with some of the real archival pieces.
The Rivers archive includes a file cabinet containing over 65,000 original jokes, spanning from the start of her career. There are also clips of her early gigs in Greenwich Village nightclubs and Chicago’s Second City. The later years include her red carpet interviews and late-night appearances.
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