Director: Ricki Stern, Annie Sundberg
So much of the entertainment that existed before my birth has been reduced to caricature and parody by the ravenous maw of comedy. It's interesting what lies behind that caricature - what the person is without the hooting commentary. Joan Rivers is a person I knew more for red-carpet interviews and plastic surgery, but as it turns out, she's an incredibly hard-working comedian. This documentary follows her for a year, around to Indian casinos in the Midwest and theaters in Edinburgh.
The constant undercurrent to this documentary is how difficult show business is for older entertainers. How does a person re-invent themselves when they have fifty years of history in the public consciousness? The answer is that they can't, but they can continue to perform until people stop showing up to see them.
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