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Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube.
Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube.
Approximate author period: c. 1959 AD · modern
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- Joan Rivers
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- Approximate author period: c. 1959 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Joan Rivers: documented activity in 1959. Wikidata Q240933, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q240933 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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