Product Details

• Actors: Joan Rivers
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Standing Room Only
• DVD Release Date: August 29, 2006
• Run Time: 63 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000GNOSJU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,374 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Filmed during her sellout, first annual farewell tour at the legendary London Palladium in 2005. Over an hour of inspirational humor. This is Joan at her very best. You¹ll laugh until it hurts, then show your friends and laugh again.

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Acerbic, hysterical wit from the one and only Joan, November 23, 2006

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blondeguy10 "blondeguy10" (South Africa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Joan Rivers - Live at the London Palladium (DVD)

Can we talk? The one and only indomitable, inconquerable, inspiring Joan Rivers live at the Palladium in London, is at once "allegedly" biting, tasteless, and utterly charming and hysterically funny. You do not want to miss her takes on everything from celebrities to farts to politicians and a whole lot more. I laughed from beginning to end...its that good and that funny...and also quite funny watching some of the 'stiff upper lip Brits in the audience' reacting to some of Ms Rivers brash humour. She tells it like it is. Joan you are truly an inspiration. First Class and highly recommended as an all round mood enhancer.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lord of the (wedding) Rings, June 27, 2007

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Boxodreams "[e-mail]" (district of columbia) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Joan Rivers - Live at the London Palladium (DVD)

Here is the diminutive Larchmont dynamo just one step below full throttle, pulling very few punches from her honed-to-Ginsu sharp, raunchy nightclub routine. Gone is the outlandish visual image of old women using their ... as suction cups to go down the walls of the World Trade Center during 9-11, but her gray bunny slipper remains. The London Palladium is not made for Joan Rivers. It is huge and daunting and very stuffy looking. So are its inhabitants, who like Joan in theory, but in practice have trouble permitting laughter to rise up through their staid bodies. Nothing, particularly, is in good taste. But Joan is on her game and goes for it. She almost doesn't seem to care if she gets the laughs or not. She knows the material is strong. It is dense, full of set pieces and subtle asides. Past 70 now, the woman does not take the easy way out and coast. This is a master class in stand-up comedy, extended verbal clowning of the first order. Small things are hilarious (Theresa Heinz' waving during the John Kerry campaign like she's shaking a stubborn ketchup bottle) and so are longer bits, like about burying her mother-in-law -- actually, cremating -- before the show. You momentarily feel for Joan, displaying a wistful sadness, until she complains how tiring it was keeping her foot up for so long on the oven door. If this had been filmed in the New York nightclub where she holds court every Wednesday, where the deserved laughs flow like a river of delicious sin, this would be a five-star DVD, the perfect artifact of a great comedian raging into the twilight at or near the top of her game. What she lacks in energy from the "What Becomes a Semi-Legend Most?" days, she makes up for by being fiendishly feral, dare I say sexy? The only drawback is the audience. They're lucky to have her, but they don't deserve her.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Joan is Funnier than ever.I LOVE this DVD, September 12, 2009

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Bob Waskiewicz (Wintersville, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Joan Rivers - Live at the London Palladium (DVD)

I play this DVD for everyone that comes to my house,its hysterical.Some people find Joan mean spirited,but the women makes fun of herself more than anyone else.
My favorite joke from the show is when she talks about the first time she had sex.Joan says it was a RAPE,and it was horrible,Thank God the guy never pressed charges.
And when she's on the floor trying to get up at her age.She says this is why she never made out with Bill Clinton.
The ending is kind of sad,when Joan talks about her late husband,but she still has a great joke that ends the show when Edgar died.
This women is funnier than ever.