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How I Used Kim Kardashian To Rouse Joan Rivers From Her Coma

LEGACY

Joan Rivers’ head writer, Tony Tripoli, recalls a desperate bid to wake Rivers up, what she taught him about comedy, and why her dresser full of jokes should be in the Smithsonian.

Tim Teeman
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