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What Joan Rivers’ Legacy Means For Women of Late Night
Joan Rivers' late night legacy has
As the only female host in the 2024 late-night television landscape, Taylor Tomlinson, who is Variety ‘s 2024 Creative Impact in Comedy honoree, represents a big win in one of the longest-running battles for gender equality in American entertainment. Rivers was Carson’s go-to guest host, but she decamped for Barry Diller and Rupert Murdoch’s fledgling Fox network when she found out she wasn’t on NBC’s list of “Tonight Show” successors. “Hacks” stars Jean Smart as veteran comic Deborah Vance, a character that owes many of her defining traits — and a Season 3 story arc involving her dream of landing a late-night talk show gig — to Rivers.
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