Playboy Interview: Joan Rivers

November, 1986

The lady or the champ?She's been called the funniest lady in America. She's also been called the most tasteless and grating comedienne in the country. With her fast, broadsword wit, she inspires epithets and rage in viewers--though these same people will avidly tune her in to see which poor movie star or princess is going to be skewered next. And now, after a bumpy career in the high-risk world of stand-up comedy and sit-down talk shows, Joan Rivers is headed for the confrontation of her life: a...