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The 22 pages that link to Joan Rivers, each with the reason it gives.

• Stand-up comedyRelated: Her relentless joke writing and career challenged barriers facing women in mainstream comedy.

• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonRelated: Her appearances helped establish her as a national comedy star and Carson's former protégé.

• Observational comedyRelated: Her routines drew comic premises from social behavior, appearance, and everyday frustrations.

• The Comedy StoreRelated: Her performances connected the venue to a wider history of American stand-up.

• Johnny CarsonRelated: Her appearances led to a break with Carson when she launched a competing late-night show.

• Lenny BruceRelated: Her willingness to make taboo subjects comic extended a stage Bruce helped open.

• Women in comedyRelated: Her career challenged expectations for women's subjects, delivery, and authority in stand-up.

• American comedyRelated: Her long career challenged gender barriers in stand-up and television.

• American humorRelated: Her career challenged expectations for women in American stand-up and television comedy.

• Borscht BeltRelated: Rivers performed in Catskills clubs early in her career.

• Don RicklesRelated: Rivers’s career offers a parallel example of sharp-edged comedy crossing stand-up and television.

• Sarah SilvermanRelated: Rivers is a prominent predecessor in women’s boundary-pushing stand-up comedy.

• Amy SchumerRelated: Rivers is a predecessor in the tradition of women using provocative stand-up.

• Margaret ChoRelated: Rivers hosted The Joan Rivers Show, where Cho appeared early in her television career.

• Phyllis DillerRelated: Like Diller, Rivers built a prominent stand-up career around a boldly comic female persona.

• Regis PhilbinRelated: Rivers and Philbin both built careers around live television conversation, with markedly different comic styles.

• Graham NortonRelated: Norton has cited Rivers as an influence on his comic interviewing style.

• Rodney DangerfieldRelated: Rivers was among the comedians Dangerfield helped bring to New York's comedy club scene.

• Chelsea HandlerRelated: Rivers provides an earlier precedent for a woman host using sharp comedy to cover celebrities.

• Garry ShandlingRelated: Rivers was among the comedians whose television guest spots helped Shandling’s early writing reach national audiences.

• Kathy GriffinRelated: Rivers’s sharp celebrity jokes provide a prominent predecessor to Griffin’s comic style.