Joan Rivers' Straight Talk (Talk show pilot, 2006)
Comedy talk show pilot for Bravo, that was never picked up (2006)
In 2006, Joan Rivers filmed a pilot for a gay version of The View featuring her, Billy Eichner, Andy Cohen, Preston Konrad, and LZ Granderson.
Summary: For the first time in more than a decade, Joan Rivers is returning to host her own talk show. Featuring Joan unleashed with a quartet of male sidekicks, "Joan Rivers: Can We Dish?" will blend her trademark outrageousness with a sophisticated and topical take on the latest pop culture news. From politics to Hollywood, personal interest stories to fashion, Joan and her crew will take on one hot-button issue after another in front of their studio audience. Celebrity guests will also join the mix to offer their two cents on the topics that everyone has been talking about during the past week. The end result will be a free-flowing and fabulous discussion that is entertaining, enlightening and designed to feel like the world's hippest and funniest water-cooler discussion.
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Joan Rivers x Billy Eichner is something we were truly denied.
Oh my God, I heard about this and I always wanted to see it. Thank you so much for this absolute treasure
This was so much fun! I guess a little to ahead of its time that it wasn't picked up for more episodes. Unfortunately!
@narrativemode
Жыл бұрын
You can tell Andy Cohen based his own show on a lot of things from this pilot and took that Donny interview to heart. He gave himself WWHL, which he ‘picks up’ as exec every year, as Kathy Griffin famously called out. So who knows.
@User12345fan
Жыл бұрын
This was straight guy for a queer guy of it’s time
Thank you SO MUCH for posting this. I'm a huge Joan Rivers fan but never heard of this pilot. I'm amazed that it wasn't picked-up because it was so fun. Great format and content. As always, Joan was ahead of her time, though, and I'm sure this show would be successful if had been introduced today.
@narrativemode
Жыл бұрын
Reading old articles about the interview process for this show such as: observer.com/2006/08/joan-rivers-swishes-channels/ Bravo was keeping it under wraps early on in the development. Seems odd by today's standards in regards to creating premature buzz or speculation. Without that buzz about the show and most people not knowing about it, maybe that's why it wasn't picked up? Who knows for sure. Also LGBTQ+ representation was generally low, niche and heavily sterotyped at the time still. It was basically before it's time but so was Joan, like you said. The gay factor then was a blessing and a purse. 💅👛🤣
@scottgarbo1288
Жыл бұрын
@@narrativemode Thanks....and LOL on that last sentences 🙂Totally agree. Seems illogical not to have advance buzz about a show, particularly given that someone as well-known and adored by gay men, as the great Joan Rivers was the host.
Joan Rivers was ahead of her time. One smart woman
THE NATALIE WOOD JOKE HAAAAAH
Waaay Better than The View!!!!
Wow Andy cohen looked good
I used to watch this show. I had no idea that the Andy Cohen I watch on Joan Rivers is the same Andy Cohen I watched on Bravo. WOW!! 😮 It’s hard to say which version of Andy Cohen is better looking!
Wish Joan was alone
So strange to see them discuss Tucker Carson on DWTS, so freely especially since he’s become a powerful bigoted, white supremacist in the media.
Amazing. Aunty Joan did not age a day from here until we lost her, meanwhile the gays...sorry fellas.
@erikm8372
6 ай бұрын
It’s hard when we drink and party all our lives. Right? 🙄
when comedy was fun. Everything changed when Obama became President.
@narrativemode
Жыл бұрын
Yes, blame the first Black leader of the free world not other factors :/
@katyw7248
Жыл бұрын
@@narrativemode I’m he divided this country why do u think blacks hate whites
@flazeda8743
Жыл бұрын
@@katyw7248 Blacks don't hate whites overall and it was already existing as a minor thing before Obama anyway.
@erikm8372
6 ай бұрын
What! Haha you’re funny. And evidently ignorant of hundreds of years of history…
@erikm8372
6 ай бұрын
If anything comedy got more sensitive after 9-11-2001. And that’s only natural.