The crew this morning remembered Joan Rivers along with Don Berman from Channel 19 News and gay man and gay journalist Doug Dannger. Berman admitted to hanging up on Rivers herself when he heard her late night show bombed but then tried calling her back when she got nominated for an Emmy, but she didn’t take his call. Berman also talked about how he was under the impression Joe Garagiola was a frontrunner to replace Carson even though he was about the same age as Carson…
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