"There are words that come to mind when you think of Joan Rivers—irreverent, insulting, Botox. Organized doesn't necessarily pop up on the list, but organized the lady is: For the past thirty-some years, Rivers has been filing each and every joke she's written (at this point she's amassed over a million) in a library-esque card cabinet housed in her Upper East Side apartment. The jokes—most typed up on three-by-five cards—are meticulously arranged by subject, which Rivers admits is the hardest part of organizing: ""Does this one go under ugly or does it go under dumb?"" Here—and in the coming pages—she shares her favorites with GQ. —Lauren Bans"
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