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Addition of Joan Rivers to Women in comedy#Late night television
NOTE: Might have to amend this. Actress Faye Emerson hosted The Faye Emmerson Show, a 15-minute late night talk show that rand for a single season in 1949 and was broadcast on both NBC and CBS, although the format may have been slightly different.
Joan Rivers became the first woman to be the primary host an American late-night talk show when she debuted as the first host of The Late Show on Fox. Broadcast as The Late Show starring Joan Rivers, she hosted the show from October 9, 1986 to May 1987.[1][2] The talk show was a direct attempt at competing against NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, where Rivers had been Carson's permanent guest host since 1983.[3]
Rivers went on to host The Joan Rivers Show, a syndicated talk show that ran for four seasons, from September 5, 1989, to December 26, 1993.[4][5] The show was nominated for numerous Emmy Awards, with Rivers winning the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host in 1990.[6][7]
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- Ostrow, Joanne (September 4, 2014). "Joan Rivers 1989 interview: Workaholic Rivers re-enters talk-show fray". The Denver Post. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
- Rivers, Joan (May 26, 1986). "Can I Talk? I Am Mad and Sad and Feel Attacked—So Here Is the Truth About Why I Left Tonight". People. Retrieved February 19, 2014.
- O'Connor, John J. (October 9, 1989). "Review/Television; Channel 2 Enlists Rivers And Rivera in Ratings War". The New York Times. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
- "The Joan Rivers Show – Episode Guide". TV.com. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
- Tucker, Ken (September 14, 1990). "The Joan Rivers Show". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
- Takeda, Allison (September 5, 2014). "Joan Rivers' Daytime Emmy Acceptance Speech in 1990 Was Both Funny and Heartbreaking: Watch". Us Weekly. Retrieved May 31, 2016.