Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work Page #2

- Just a mother.

- But how do they look

upon this,

what you're doing,

what it is you do?

- Frightened.

- Are they?

- Well, now they're

very showbiz.

And my mother and I are thinking

of doing a sister act.

But, um, still, uh...

- The audience here

really liked you,

and, uh, good luck to you.

Good night.

- Thanks, Jack.

Good night.

Good night.

Joan, here's the script

for the TV pilot

you wanted to look at.

Okay.

Thank you.

Do you know where I am in this?

I see no Joan on page two.

I see no Joan on page three.

I see no Joan on page four.

- I have worked with her

for about 15 years, I think,

somewhere in there,

so I definitely

have gone through

kind of the ups and downs,

you know,

with her,

with her career.

When I started,

it was definitely

kind of a lower point.

Her daytime talk show

was cancelled.

At the same time,

her play Sally Mar,

which ran on Broadway,

that shut down.

Everything was kind of closing,

you know, at that point.

So, of course, Joan being Joan,

then started to try

and reinvent herself.

No.

I ain't seeing me.

This year is no different.

Joan is looking

at new projects,

new ways to get out there.

And she's got two new books

coming out,

a new play that she's

really worked on very hard

for the past couple of years.

And Celebrity Apprentice-

she's booked to be

on the next series

of Celebrity Apprentice.

So she's hoping one of them hits

and puts her back on top.

I can't find me anywhere.

What we are planning is...

The cutoff date for the Emm-

for the Tony nominations

is somewhere in April,

so we have to open somewhere

in April.

For the next few months,

I am really focusing

just on my play.

It means a great deal to me

because it tells my life story.

- So she calls me up one night,

and she goes,

"Billy, it's Joan.

"Listen, I wrote a script

a couple years ago.

It's in the drawer."

Now, I actually saw a reading

of it a year earlier,

and I enjoyed it.

So I said,

"I think you should do it."

Hi, Joanie.

Hi, Billy Boy.

- Hi, Billy.

- This is Billy.

Hi, Seany.

I'm a little schvitzy.

- Schwitzy?

How you doing?

- Schvit.

- Schvit.

- Schvit.

- Schvit.

- Schvitzy.

- Schvitzy, schvitzy.

The name of the show is

A Work in Progress

by a Life in Progress,

you know, episodes

from her life,

how she got

to where she is now.

We're going to take this

to the Edinburgh Festival,

and then we're going to do it

in London's

glittering West End.

The ultimate goal?

I think Joan wants to play it

in her hometown.

- "I have very few hairs

left on my head,

"and each one has a name,

like last week, we had to sit

shiva for Bernice,"

or, "We buried Bernice,"

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