Sorting Through Joan Rivers’s Massive Files Of Jokes

“The drawers are jammed with jokes typed on 4-by-6-inch cards – 52 drawers, stacked waist-high, like a card catalog of a certain comedian’s life’s work, a library of laughs. … She arranged the 52 drawers alphabetically by subject, from ‘Annoying habits’ to ‘Zoo.’ … A drawer in the G’s begins with ‘growing older’ and ends with ‘guns.’ It takes the next drawer to hold all the cards filed under ‘guys I dated.'”