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Joan Rivers' daughter Melissa reveals twist of fate saved her mom's archive of jokes from being destroyed in LA fires


Melissa Rivers may have lost everything in the recent Palisades fire, but the TV personality can rest a little easier knowing one of her mother's greatest legacies is safe.

'The jokes and the major archival pieces, fortunately, about two and a half, three months ago were picked up for a national comedy center,' the Group Text podcast host told People. Other items belonging the former Fashion Police star, including her clothes, have been auctioned off over the years to support the late comedian's favorite charity, God's Love We Deliver, which provides food to people suffering from serious illness who can't cook for themselves. Rivers announced previously she had been able to rescue Joan's Emmy, and revealed she had been able to escape with a photo of her later father, Edgar Rosenberg (Pictured in Los Angeles in March 2006)

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