Kathryn Hahn's Joan Rivers Bio-Series Scrapped

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Last month it was announced that Kathryn Hahn, 48, would be portraying the late comic and talk show host in the Showtime miniseries “The Comeback Girl.”

Now those plans have been scrapped as the network does not have Joan’s life rights, Variety reported.

The rights are currently held by the brash funnywoman’s daughter, Melissa. While the project could have gone the unauthorized route, Joan’s jokes and trademark catchphrases could not have been used without rankling Melissa or the estate.

“Trailblazer. Adored. Cruel. Diva. Joan Rivers had a life like no other,” the original logline for “The Comeback Girl” had teased. “At age 54, she was a superstar comedienne … and then it all fell apart. THE COMEBACK GIRL is the awe-inspiring untold story of how Joan Rivers persevered through near suicide and professional abyss to rebuild herself and her career to become a global icon.”

The limited series was to be produced by Warner Bros. and Greg Berlanti.

Comedienne Sarah Silverman previously had something to say about Hahn’s casting. The 50-year-old called out Hollywood earlier this month for casting non-Jewish actors to play Jewish characters, referring to the technique as “Jewface.”

After Hahn, whose roots run deep in Catholicism, was first announced, Silverman had this to say on her podcast: “There’s this long tradition of non-Jews playing Jews, and not just playing people who happen to be Jewish but people whose Jewishness is their whole being.

“One could argue, for instance, that a Gentile [a non-Jew] playing Joan Rivers correctly would be doing what is actually called ‘Jewface.’”

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Jewface? 

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It's so funny how woke Sarah has become after she had one of the most offensive, low brow comedy shows on Comedy Central in the early 2000s. She's trying to save her career by being an outspoken political radfeminist now. I've lost respect for her because I know her being woke is just a gimmick. she's said awful, extremely racist things in the past as part of her act and literally dressed up like Hitler on her show. Which she might claim she's allowed to do because she's Jewish, but come on.. Her comedy used to be on par with Lisa Lampanelli, who quit the comedy business because she didn't want to assimilate to SJW culture. Sarah has become so phony, imo. She's probably jealous that she wasn't cast as Joan Rivers. I would be fully on board with Sarah and agree with her if I believed that she was being genuine. 

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Joan Rivers was a bad person. She was blatantly racist (no not just in comedy...she was racist in her personal life too). She does not deserve a documentary acclaiming her and rendering her some sort of hero. If they do make one on her I hope it shows a true and raw perspective of her. Both the good she has done by breaking walls for women and Jewish people in comedy but also the ugly side of her (the racism etc...)

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And there's plenty of jews playing non-jews characters as well so Silverman comment was weird.

Blackface comparisons are not decents here.

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3 hours ago, dit said:

Joan Rivers was a bad person. She was blatantly racist (no not just in comedy...she was racist in her personal life too). She does not deserve a documentary acclaiming her and rendering her some sort of hero. If they do make one on her I hope it shows a true and raw perspective of her. Both the good she has done by breaking walls for women and Jewish people in comedy but also the ugly side of her (the racism etc...)

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RIP queen