Comedy Icon Joan Rivers at Uptown Theatre Napa

Joan Rivers is a force of nature, and one of the hardest working celebrities in the world. Comedienne; Tony-nominated actress; best-selling author; Emmy Award-winning television talk-show host; playwright; screenwriter; motion picture director; columnist; lecturer; syndicated radio host; jewelry designer and cosmetic company entrepreneur; red-carpet fashion laureate; businesswoman and, most importantly to her, mother and grandmother. She is exhausted! 

Don’t miss Joan Rivers plus special guest Tony Tripoli on Friday, August 26th.  Joan created her own brand of irreverent, unconventional comedy to forge her remarkable rise to stardom in the entertainment world. Enduring humiliation and deprivation for nearly a decade playing tawdry clubs, Borscht Belt hotels, and Greenwich Village cabarets, Joan’s career skyrocketed in 1968 when she appeared on THE TONIGHT SHOW Starring JOHNNY CARSON.

Within three years she was hosting THAT SHOW WITH JOAN RIVERS, one of the first syndicated daytime shows, and went on to become the first sole guest host of THE TONIGHT SHOW. In 1989, she returned to daytime television with THE JOAN RIVERS SHOW, winning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host the following year, and her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Joan has enjoyed an illustrious career spanning more than four decades in the entertainment industry and beyond, and as her recent accomplishments reveal, she’s as robust and hard-working as ever.  In 2009, she starred in NBC’s hit reality series The Celebrity Apprentice with her daughter Melissa, emerging as the Season Two winner.  She also celebrated the publication of two critically acclaimed, best-selling books: Men Are Stupid and They Like Big Boobs: A Woman’s Guide to Beauty Through Plastic Surgery and Murder at the Academy Awards: A Red Carpet Murder Mystery.

In August 2009, the iconic funny woman was roasted, toasted, and honored in The Comedy Central Roast of Joan Rivers.  From her signature question “Can we talk?” (a Federal trademark) to her red-carpet mantra “Who are you wearing?,” the woman who asks the questions gets the answers America -- and the world -- wants to hear. Joan Rivers embodies class, confidence, and chutzpah in all the right proportions, and her accomplishments are extraordinary. 21+.