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
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.
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
It's in the drawer."
Now, I actually saw a reading
of it a year earlier,
and I enjoyed it.
So I said,
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?
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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