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Comedy is queen at MIPCOM this year


October 06, 2009 Brash met business on Tuesday as Joan Rivers brought her brazen comedy to MIPCOM to promote "The Comedy Central Roast of Joan Rivers." The Cannes police squad met its match as the chief of fashion police hammed it up along the Croisette to promote the 90-minute roast. The comedy genre has been a popular one at this year's MIPCOM, which Rivers attributes to the uneasy global financial climate.

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