“It’s so exciting,” Melissa stated, and the ultimate exhibition, due to open in 2025, is “really going to be a true salute to her life.” Multiple positions asked about her mom’s documents, she kept in mind, however “this, for me, felt like the right home” together with the works of George Carlin, Carl Reiner therefore much more icons.
“Joan was one of the funniest people I ever met, and a friend for decades,” fellow pioneer Carol Burnett stated about the museum’s most current acquisition. “It’s wonderful to know that her archives will join the National Comedy Center, a one-of-a-kind museum dreamed up by none other than Lucille Ball: a woman whom Joan and I both loved and admired very much.”
Comedian Lewis Black, establishing chair of the center’s board of advisers, called Joan’s body of work “an essential part of comedy history and her full life was a model of creative resilience.”
While fans await the in-person experience, they can pre-order Joan Rivers–The Diva Rides Again, a brand-new four-disc box set of never-before-released funny recordings and a 16- page collector’s book, being launchedAug 18.
