{"id":93045,"date":"2024-09-22T21:34:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T04:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=93045"},"modified":"2024-09-22T21:35:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T04:35:21","slug":"remembering-joan-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/09\/22\/remembering-joan-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Joan Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile on the left coast (as a friend of mine used to say), the <em>South Coast Repertory <\/em>in Costa Mesa is mounting a world premiere play called <strong><em>Joan<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 a clever name for a show about <strong>Joan Rivers<\/strong>.&nbsp; It was written by <strong>Daniel Goldstein<\/strong>, who claims to have been inspired by Joan\u2019s climb to the top, her struggle to stay relevant, and her relationships.&nbsp; For a show opening on October 27<sup>th<\/sup>, it\u2019s curious that no casting has been announced.&nbsp; But I\u2019m guessing they\u2019re looking for an unknown.&nbsp; How will it fare?&nbsp; Grab a ticket at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.SCR.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>SCR<\/u><\/strong><strong><u>.org<\/u><\/strong><\/a> and find out for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>The 10<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of <strong>Joan Rivers<\/strong>\u2019 death will be celebrated with an all-star tribute at the legendary <em>Apollo Theatre<\/em>.&nbsp; Because when I think of Joan Rivers, I think of the famed Harlem venue!&nbsp; This evening, which is also kicking off the <em>New York Comedy Festival<\/em>, is a fundraiser for Auntie\u2019s favorite charity, <em>God\u2019s Love We Deliver<\/em>.&nbsp; <strong><em>Dead Funny \u2013 An All-Star Tribute to Joan Rivers<\/em><\/strong> (I kid you not) will take place on November 7<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; And who are all the stars, you may ask?&nbsp; <strong>Missy <\/strong>(who is co-producing the event with our own <strong>Erich Bergen<\/strong>) told an interviewer, \u201cThe lineup is&#8230;the top three female comedians performing right now.\u201d&nbsp; OK, let\u2019s pretend that\u2019s the truth.&nbsp; So, who could it be?&nbsp; Well, <strong>Kathy Griffin <\/strong>should be included since Joan loved her, but Missy clashed with her on <strong><em>Fashion Police<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Maybe <strong>Margaret Cho <\/strong>\u2013 who Joan also loved, and who replaced Kathy on <em>Fashion Police<\/em>.&nbsp; Who else?&nbsp; Well, maybe <strong>Amy Schumer<\/strong>?&nbsp; Maybe <strong>Wanda Sykes<\/strong>?&nbsp; Maybe <strong>Chelsea Handler<\/strong>?&nbsp; I suppose it will be announced eventually on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.GLWD.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>GLWD.org<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile on the left coast (as a friend of mine used to say), the South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa is mounting a world premiere play called Joan \u2013 a clever name for a show about Joan Rivers.&nbsp; It was written by Daniel Goldstein, who claims to have been inspired by Joan\u2019s climb to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93046,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93045\/revisions\/93046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}