Ahead of her darkly humorous Edinburgh show, comedian Joan Rivers talks to Dominic Cavendish about being thrown off a TV talk show and why only Charles and Camilla are safe from her acid tongue By Telegraph Saturday August 09 2008 Taking tea with America's most famous comedian at The Ritz, I keep thinking: "Where's the old lady?" Joan Rivers turned 75 last month, and it's 50 years since she first pounded the streets of New York looking for an agent, determined to make it in showbusiness. Yet the woman sitting opposite me has the golden sheen of youth. There's not a wrinkle on her face. One knows, of course, that this is all down to the magic of plastic surgery. Rivers has been persistently open about her many 'jobs'. Yet the effect isn't as grotesque as you might suppose. Rather than feeling that some outrageous fraud has...
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