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Joan Rivers on Gays, On Outsiders, On Keeping Her "Edge"

The 77-year-old comedy icon and QVC pitchwoman is the subject of a startlingly candid documentary, "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work." Can she talk?

Joan Rivers began her career in the early Sixties doing standup in clubs – "mainly gay places," she says, and gay audiences have remained a key part of her fan base for all the many decades since she yammered "Can we talk?" in those little café bars in Greenwich Village.