A Groundbreaking Comedian, Joan Rivers Got Knocked Down–But Never Out
After her first appearance on “The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson” in 1965, Carson declared on-air to Joan Rivers, “God, you’re funny! You’re going to be a star!” By the next day, she was. The difficulties of holding her own in a male-dominated industry, battling against people who had told her that she wasn’t good enough, vanished…