Joan Rivers

As a trailblazer for women in the world of stand-up comedy, Joan Rivers played Greenwich Village cabarets and Borscht Belt hotels before breaking through on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1965. She hit one of her career highs many years later when she became the show’s first sole guest host. In 1990, she won an Emmy as the host of The Joan Rivers Show. Now noted as the red-carpet interviewer for The TV Guide Channel, she also has her own line of jewelry and cosmetics on QVC. Rivers also keeps busy writing, lecturing, and doing guest appearances all over cable and network television. Audiences at Mohegan Sun will find her returning to her roots and connecting with a live audience in an event that promises a night of outrageous laughs.