Joan Rivers television critic Jack Gould called Rivers "quite possibly the most intuitively funny woman alive". In 2017, "Rolling Stone" magazine ranked her sixth on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time, and in October the same year, she was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame. Joan Alexandra Molinsky was born on June 8, 1933, in Brooklyn, New York, to Russian Jewish immigrants Beatrice (née Grushman) and Meyer C. Molinsky. She had an elder sister named Barbara Waxler. Rivers spent her early life in Prospect Heights and Crown Heights in Brooklyn, where she attended the progressive
Here's How (TV series) acted and better scripted, better lighted and better directed would have made a program"" The magazine reviewed the third episode more positively, saying that ""after two scannings, Super Suds' Station WABD's Here's How has eliminated most of the bugs that were in its first presentation"". Methods to record live television did not exist until late 1947, and as such "Here's How" is now lost. Billboard magazine indicates that some of the commercials were done on film, and it is not known if copies of these commercials still exist. A behind-the-scenes still photograph of the series in production can be seen