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The last place you'd want to find yourself at a JOAN RIVERS show is in the front row. Here's a sample of wit and wisdom from the queen of the barbed one-liner.

My best birth control now is to leave the lights on.

Before we make love, my husband takes a pain killer.

Money can‘t buy you happiness but it can pay for the plastic surgery.

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My perfect childbirth experience?

Knock me out with the first pain, and

wake me up when the hairdresser arrives.

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There is not one female comic who was

beautiful as a little girl.

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Want to solve the problem in the Middle East? Send over five post-menopausal Jewish women.

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They say the art of telling a simple joke is a dying one. Well, maybe. So we asked three comics performing at the festival

to take a familiar opening line to a gag and finish it off. It‘s the way they tell ‘em.

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it was the Prince of Wales

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‘Who's there'?’ answers; the second

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