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
Joan Franka Joan Franka Joan Franka (born 2 April 1990 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch singer with the birthname of Ayten Kalan. Her late father was Turkish, while her mother is Dutch. She represented the Netherlands at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with You and Me. She became well known in the Netherlands through her participation in the first series of "The Voice of Holland", a talent show. In September 2010, Joan Franka entered the talent show, "The Voice of Holland" in its inaugural 2010-2011 season where she auditioned with Nickelback's "How You Remind Me". Two of four judges hit their "I