for over 40 years, she’s been telling jokes and cracking wise
and she’s got a wall of filing cabinets full of those jokes to prove it
jokes about presidents, celebrities and other jokesters
anger fuels her comedy, she’s a bitter pill, lived through too much
she loves to start off almost every bit with ‘I hate…’
she says her life is the life of an actress -
she says ‘I play the role of a comedian’
she has lived her life in either LA or NY, the rest is just the middle,
something to separate the two
she says she has to keep working,
she knows nothing else and if she had
invested better, she would have known better…
her manager says she’s just a chronic workaholic
rivers stars in a just released, video biography about her life
‘this is the only business that offers you TOTAL REJECTION
and I’ve had 75 years of rejections’
she says she married – for the material
the very first time she was on
he told her (on the air) that she was going to be a big star
she appeared on the tonight show for 20 years,
eventually becoming its permanent guest host
(and johnny’s heir apparent)
the new fox network offered her - her own late night talk show,
they threw a lot of money at her,
she took it and
she said she'd been black-balled at nbc ever since
the documentary shows the struggles a comic faces on the road
and at 75 years old and with that face… it’s a struggle
she’s lost employees, a husband, friends and she still out on the road
constantly
she’s recently made what could be called a mini come back
when she won donald trump’s celebrity apprentice
(wonder what job the donald gave her)
she’s a survivor (maybe she should go on that show too)
she’s a hard worker, she’s a giver and most of all she’s funny
but after 40 years, she’s still struggling to make it…
can we talk?
