COMEDY

In this 2006 interview outtake, Joan Rivers recalls her early inspirations towards comedy.

In this 2006 interview outtake, Joan Rivers outlines a guide to success in the entertainment industry in the late 1960’s.

In this exclusive 2006 interview, Joan Rivers explains how she and her cohort were the 1st generation of American-born comedians.

In this 2006 interview outtake, Rivers recalls her experiences as a member of The Second City improvisational comedy team.

In this exclusive 2006 interview, comedian Joan Rivers recalls her experience as a young comedian on the road. During one particularly challenging tour of Jewish summer resorts in the Catskills, she explains the difficulties of cultural barriers, and how it feels to tell a joke ...

In this exclusive interview outtake, Joan recounts a tepid audience response to her more taboo material.

“I had a lot of false starts,” says comedian Joan Rivers in this interview outtake. Beginning her storied career in a period when female performers were given rigid expectations, Rivers describes the difficulties she often encountered.

American Masters – Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work takes the audience on a year-long ride with Joan Rivers in her 76th year of life; it peels away the mask of an iconic comedian, laying bare both the struggle and thrill of living life as ...

Comedic legend Sid Caesar passed away February 12, 2014, at the age of 91. Caesar was a friend and mentor to Mel Brooks and the two worked together through much of Brooks’ early career. See Brooks talk about Caesar’s genius for comedy in this film ...

In 1963, Mel Brooks and director/animator Ernest Pintoff came up with the animated short film The Critic, a satire of arty, esoteric cinema. Brooks supplied running commentary as the baffled moviegoer trying to make sense of the obscure visuals. The short film won the Academy ...