Joan Rivers may expose her life in a new reality show (WE TV's Joan and Melissa: Joan Knows Best?), continuously offer Twitter one-liners and cattily dish on celebrities, but it's only in stand-up, she says, that she feels like she's chatting with her friends.
"Unfortunately, I'm outspoken with my friends," she says. "What I do onstage is talk about things that I find upset me very much, and make them funny. I love doing that. … If you can take something that annoys you and make everyone laugh at it, it isn't so bad anymore, is it?"
Rivers, who appears at Tennessee Performing Arts Center's Jackson Hall, 505 Deaderick St., at 8 p.m. tonight, offers a kinder, gentler, mostly profanity-free version of herself on the phone; she notes that she reads four newspapers a day to keep up with what's going on, and she's been having a great time using Twitter. "I'm on there all the time," says Rivers, 77, who saw her comedic career soar after appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson back in 1968. "When you do a joke, it goes right out. You're getting to the people faster. It used to be that I'd have to save it up. Now, it's, 'Oh, this just happened? Here's what I think...' The trouble is, you do things a little too fast, and then you're sorry." And how often is that? "Probably twice a day." Tickets are $25-$70.
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