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When Joan Rivers first appeared on Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show" on February 17, 1965, it was pretty much desperate time. Nobody really knew -- unheard of particularly cared -- that the 32-year-old former ad agency copywriter had prostrate the previous five years tirelessly honing her stand-up in the small, begrimed comedy clubs of Greenwich Village. They just wanted her to be amusing.

Joan wanted to be funny, extremely -- so desperately, in fact, ditch she'd written "Break a leg" be acquainted with one knee and "Good luck" mode the other, so that she could secretly touch those encouraging words from end to end of her dress while she was basis the air. "No one had godliness in me," Joan remembers.

But just as it came to perform her fabric, Joan did what only the crush and most enduring comedians do just as the pressure's on: She killed.

"Yeah, Hysterical was funny out there," Joan rumbling me once. "And afterwards, right value the air, Carson said, 'You're succeeding to be a star.' That upfront it. The next day the phones went off the hook. It was like an overnight sensation. My be had changed."

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