CelebReadies: Joan Rivers' Enter Talking & Still Talking

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Comedy, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

It's time to kick back with some turkey day leftovers! Joan Rivers, everyone. What a character. She's complicated. But this book is about the first seven years of her career, and it's fascinating. This is Joan in her own voice, describing how she spent her 20s, in the 1950s, as a single woman trying to make it as a stand up. We certainly understand people who don't like her jokes, and still, it's amazing to hear the story of how she got her first break. This is a one and done, but we'll be back next week with her next book, Still Talking! Man, it just goes to show you how OPTIMISM is TERRIFYING. In this week's brand new book, we pick up a few decades after last week's book ended on its moment of beautiful, hopeful opportunity for Joan. This book is about how it all goes to shit. This book also really helps us understand how Joan Rivers became who she was to many of us who got to know her in the 90s and 2000s. This is a story of blind ambition, industry pissing contests, and professional and personal tragedy. Big ol' content note for discussions of suicide. This one is as much a list of grievances as it is a book, but if you're interested in show biz, it's a fascinating list of grievances!

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0:00.0	Get your turkeys out.
0:12.0	Oh yeah, and get your gravey's up.
0:14.7	Okay, and get that baser in.
0:17.3	But where?
0:18.6	I hope that everybody made it through their holiday experience.
0:23.9	I know we're still in the middle of all of it, but we made it through, we got two of
0:28.3	them down, we got a couple more of them to go, and we got this.
0:33.0	And I hope everybody is having a wonderful holiday week.
0:37.0	And if not, plug yourself in with some
0:40.5	podcasts, just as to the podcast, and it will all be over soon. But we had Adams Family Values
0:47.4	coming at you yesterday. And today, we're going on a little bit of a sadder place, but also I feel
0:54.0	like a very interesting place because,
0:56.3	yes, today we are talking about Joan Rivers' first two memoirs. Yes, over on our Patreon,
1:05.4	if you are a lucky member of our Patreon, and if you're not, you should definitely come join over
1:09.9	on patreon.com slash page
1:11.4	seven podcast. Every Wednesday, we put out an episode of celebrities where MJ and I read a celebrity
1:18.2	memoir and then discuss it so that you don't have to read it if you don't want to, or there are times
1:24.4	when sometimes we're like, maybe you should totally read this book.
1:27.9	Now, I really enjoyed Enter Talking and Still Talking, which are the two books we're going to
1:33.1	discuss about Joan Rivers today.
1:35.7	And I really enjoyed them because I loved Joan Rivers.
1:39.7	And yes, it is all, our relationships with her are very complicated.
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