National Comedy Center Becomes Home to Joan Rivers’ Career Archive Including Legendary Joke File

JAMESTOWN, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On the 90th birthday of the late comedy icon Joan Rivers, her daughter Melissa Rivers announced that the National Comedy Center, the United States’ official cultural institution dedicated to the art form of comedy, will become the home of Joan Rivers’ career archive including a file cabinet containing over 65,000 original jokes spanning from the start of her career in the 1950s to 2014 when she passed away. The archive thoroughly chronicles Rivers' artistic evo