June 8th, 2007 - Happy Birthday Joan Rivers!

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Joan Rivers (born June 8, 1933) is an American comedian, talk show host, businesswoman, and celebrity.

She's 74!

She is known for her brash manner and loud, gruff voice with a heavy metropolitan New York accent. Rivers is the National Chairwoman of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and is a board member of God's Love We Deliver. Like the ground-breaking Phyllis Diller, whose career preceded and overlapped hers, Rivers' act relied heavily on poking fun at herself. A typical Rivers joke about her unattractiveness: "I used to stand by the side of the road with a sign: 'Last girl before freeway.'"


Joan Rivers was born Joan Sandra Molinsky in Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish parents Beatrice and Meyer C. Molinsky. She was raised in Westchester County, New York. She attended Connecticut College between 1950 and 1952, and graduated from Barnard College in 1954 with a B.A. in English and anthropology.

In the 1960s Rivers made television appearances as a comedian on the popular shows The Tonight Show and The Ed Sullivan Show, as well as hosting the first of her several talk shows. Later in that decade she made a brief but notable appearance opposite Burt Lancaster in the film, The Swimmer. She was also a regular gag writer and performer on TV's Candid Camera.

Personal Life:

Rivers is an avid and unapologetic user of plastic surgery to enhance her looks. However, it is arguable that excessive surgery has caused her appearance to deteriorate to the point that she has become a subject of Internet ridicule. She appeared in two episodes of the show Nip/Tuck during its second and third seasons. During her first appearance, she wanted to find out what she would look like without all the plastic surgery she has had and was horrified by the result. During her second appearance, she wanted to invest in a post-surgical health spa.

She is also an avid collector of jewelry. Rivers also appears regularly on television's The Shopping Channel (in Canada), and QVC (in both the U.S. and the U.K.), selling her own line of jewelery under the brand name "The Joan Rivers Collection," which in fact is one of that network's best-selling lines.

Retro Joan:

From the very first episode of the ill-rated FoxTV Joan Rivers Show, October 9, 1986. Elton John and Joan Rivers sing The Bitch Is Back, and Cher joins in.



Other June 8th Birthdays:

Barbara Bush -82
Jerry Stiller-Actor/Comedian -80
Nancy Sinatra-Singer -67
Kanye West-Rapper -30
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