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Input: (CNN) -- Comedian Joan Rivers is "resting comfortably" in a New York hospital after apparently suffering cardiac and respiratory arrest during a procedure at a medical clinic Thursday. 
  
 Her daughter, Melissa Rivers, issued a statement Thursday night after arriving at the hospital following a flight from Los Angeles. 
  
 "I want to thank everyone for the overwhelming love and support for my mother. She is resting comfortably and is with our family. We ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts and prayers," she said. 
  
 A law enforcement official told CNN that Rivers stopped breathing during throat surgery. Rivers, 81, was taken by ambulance in critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. 
  
 The clinic address given by a New York Fire Department spokesman is a building that houses an endoscopy clinic where doctors perform minor procedures on patients. The clinic is a mile away from the hospital. 
  
 "This morning, Joan Rivers was taken to the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, where she is being attended to," hospital spokesman Sid Dinsay said in a statement. "Her family wants to thank everybody for their outpouring of love and support. We will provide an update on her condition as it becomes available." 
  
 Rivers had been scheduled to perform her comedy act at the Count Basie Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey, Friday night. 
  
 Michael Lucas, who was in the audience for Rivers' show at New York's Beechman Theater Wednesday night, told CNN that she joked about death. 
  
 "She said, 'You know I'm 81 years old, and I could drop dead at any moment and you would be so lucky because you will have a story to tell your friends for the rest of your life,'" Lucas said. "Then she mimicked people talking about what it was like to see her drop dead on stage." 
  
 Rivers was in fine form, he said. "There was no sign (Wednesday) night that she was declining. Her show was over an hour long and she never stumbled or even paused to catch her breath." 
  
 In 2013, Rivers allowed cameras to record a health scare for her and her daughter's reality show, "Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?" 
  
 Rivers said on the show that doctors found a spot on an X-ray after she had a persistent cough. 
  
 "We're just not going to be sad about this," Rivers said during the episode. "We're gonna do jokes and be up until we know. That's how I deal with things. I'm not just gonna sit around the next couple of days and go crazy." 
  
 Rivers has been open about her health issues. She was diagnosed with osteoporosis in 2002 after a fall down some stairs left her with broken bones, and she became an advocate for screenings for women. 
  
 She also admitted to not being as healthy as she could be. 
  
 "I try not to be, but I'm a terrible eater," she said. "I wish I could say I eat super-healthy, but I don't. I love junk food -- it should be its own food group -- so I help my bones with supplements and medicine." 
  
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 Comedian Joan Rivers remains sedated at the hospital two days after going into cardiac arrest during a procedure at a doctor's office.The 81-year-old is in serious condition at Mount Sinai on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Doctors are keeping her sedated and under close observation.TMZ is reporting that Rivers is being kept alive on life support and her family will decide what actions to take in the coming days.Rivers was brought to the hospital in critical condition on Thursday, after doctors say she stopped breathing during a minor throat operation at a medical clinic."My mother would be so touched by the tributes and prayers that we have received from around the world. Her condition remains serious but she is receiving the best treatment and care possible. We ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts as we pray for her recovery," said Melissa Rivers in a statement to E! network.Sources say Rivers has been unconscious since her arrival at Mt Sinai.It is not clear what Rivers' prospects of recovery are because it is not known how long her body was deprived of oxygen. According to an earlier family statement, Rivers is resting comfortably.She most recently performed on Wednesday night in Manhattan, even joking about her mortality during the show.A few hours later, Rivers was undergoing what is described as routine outpatient procedure at Yorkville Endoscopy on her throat when she suddenly stopped breathing. She became unresponsive, went into cardiac arrest and was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital by the New York City Fire Department.The pioneering female comic maintains a jam-packed schedule on TV and stage, and there has been tremendous outpouring of support from around the entertainment world.Daughter Melissa Rivers rushed from Los Angeles to be by her mother's side. She released a statement Thursday saying, "I want to thank everyone for the overwhelming love and support for my mother. She is resting comfortably and is with our family. We ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts and prayers."In addition to the E! TV show, Rivers continues to do stand-up comedy. According to Ticketmaster, she had seven shows planned across the U.S. for November.Rivers had been scheduled to appear at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, N.J., at 8 p.m. on Friday.The entertainer has logged a half-century in show business and gave rise to red carpet commentary - and the snarky criticism that often accompanies it. Her signature red carpet query: "Who are you wearing?"She was to perform a show Friday at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey, but that show was postponed because of her hospitalization.Rivers spoke at an employee event at Time Inc. in New York on Wednesday night and appeared healthy, practically jogging when she walked in to take her seat, said Shira Blum, an online project manager."She seemed totally healthy," Blum said. "She was very energetic, hilarious, funny. And it was such a shock, a surprise to hear the news this morning."Rivers took questions and said she wakes up every morning and "is thankful that everything works," Blum said.An early and outspoken proponent of cosmetic surgery, Rivers' drastically altered her appearance over the years - and found plenty of material for jokes. ("I've had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.")The host of "Fashion Police" on E!, Rivers also presides over an online talk show, "In Bed With Joan" and co-stars with her daughter, Melissa, on the WEtv reality show, "Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?"Her latest book, "Diary of a Mad Diva," was released this summer.In 2009, Rivers emerged as the winner of NBC's "The Celebrity Apprentice." A documentary, "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work," premiered in theaters in 2010.A native of New York, Rivers originally entered show business with the dream of a theatrical career, but comedy became a way to pay the bills while she auditioned for acting roles."Somebody said, 'You can make six dollars standing up in a club,'" she told The Associated Press in 2013, "and I said, 'Here I go!' It was better than typing all day."After proving herself in comedy clubs as a rarity - a woman comedian - Rivers was a smash on her first booking on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" in 1965. "God, you're funny," Carson told her. ||||| Joan Rivers is "resting comfortably" after she was hospitalized Thursday, her daughter said. 
  
 "I want to thank everyone for the overwhelming love and support for my mother," Melissa Rivers said in a statement released by Mount Sinai Hospital. "She is resting comfortably and is with our family. We ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts and prayers." 
  
 A law enforcement source told ABC News that Rivers was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City after an emergency call that she was in cardiac arrest. 
  
 The New York City Fire Department transported a woman matching Rivers' description after receiving a call that the woman was in cardiac arrest at an Upper East Side clinic, Yorkville Endoscopy, an FDNY source said. The law enforcement source confirmed the woman was Rivers. 
  
 TMZ reported that Rivers was having surgery on her vocal chords at the clinic. 
  
 Rivers, 81, had been hard at work of late, co-hosting her E! TV show, "Fashion Police" and doing stand-up comedy. According to Ticketmaster, she had seven shows planned across the U.S. for November. 
  
 "Ignore aging: Comedy is the one place it doesn’t matter. It matters in singing because the voice goes. It matters certainly in acting because you’re no longer the sexpot. But in comedy, if you can tell a joke, they will gather around your deathbed," she wrote in the Hollywood Reporter in 2012. "If you’re funny, you’re funny. Isn’t that wonderful?" 
  
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Output:
Joan Rivers is "resting comfortably" in the hospital with family, daughter Melissa announced late yesterday. But amid reports that the 81-year-old comedian has been placed in a medically induced coma, Melissa Rivers offered no further details about her mother, who reportedly stopped breathing during a routine throat procedure. "I want to thank everyone for the overwhelming love and support for my mother," she said, per ABC News. "We ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts and prayers." WABC reports that Rivers is in stable but critical condition. The FDNY rushed Rivers about a mile from NYC's Yorkville Endoscopy to Mount Sinai Hospital yesterday morning when she went into cardiac arrest during a check of her vocal cords. Just a day previously, Rivers joked about her death onstage. "She said, 'You know I'm 81 years old, and I could drop dead at any moment and you would be so lucky because you will have a story to tell your friends for the rest of your life,'" an audience member tells CNN. "Then she mimicked people talking about what it was like to see her drop dead on stage."