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
Bitter Is Better later appeared on a French-issued compilation entitled "Top 16" and for many years was considered a rarity. It finally gained Europe-wide release in 2006 as part of the compilation "The Hits Collection". This also marked the first occasion the track appeared on the CD format. Bitter Is Better "Bitter is Better" is a song by British singer Kim Wilde, first recorded in 1981. In 1982, it was used in support of a Japanese commercial for the B&L Bitter Lemon brand, and was subsequently released in that country as a single. It was also an extra track on the Japanese release