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Lot #91. Joan Rivers | Matt Groening-Inscribed "Simpsons" Print Featuring Joan Rivers
13007 S. Western Avenue, Gardena, California 90249
Phone 310-836-1818 | Fax 310-742-0155
September 19, 2025
A pair of voodoo dolls, with straw hair and bead decorations, including a red "ruby" heart on each. One has an affixed note (typed on red paper) which reads: "If you want the things / you love, / your wishes will come / true. / Squeeze me tight / rub my heart, / my luck will come to you."
Dimensions: 8.5 x 5 x .75 inches (each)
Category: Furniture & Home Décor, Memorabilia & Ephemera
Provenance: PROVENANCE: From The Estate of Joan Rivers
An award presented to Joan Rivers by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons for doing an ad campaign for the organizaion, together with 11 posters and two photo proofs from the campaign.
The award consists of a faux-marble base with a star design and a resin top with etch white printing of Rivers in the ad campaign and the debossed gold text: "American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons / To / Joan Rivers / In Grateful Appreciation / 2006 / Beauty is bone deep."
The ad campaign features Rivers holding large piles of jewelry and features the copy "Weight-bearing exercise helps prevent osteoporosis. / Thirty-four million Americans are at risk for osteoporosis. How can you keep your bones healthy and strong? Like Joan, lift those weights. And get plenty of calcium and Vitamin D. / Beauty is bone deep."
The AAOS was one of the organizations for which Rivers, who suffered from osteoporosis herself, did philanthropic work.
Dimensions: Award: 13 x 8.25 x 2.5 inches; Posters: 24 x 18 inches (some rolled, some folded)
Category: Awards
Provenance: PROVENANCE: From The Estate of Joan Rivers
A pair of x-rays of Spike Rosenberg's thorax. As most will know, Spike was Rivers's beloved Yorkie. The x-rays come in an envelope from the veterinarian. Both the envelope and the x-ray itself are labelled "Rosenberg 'Spike' April 12, 1993." The envelope is also labeled "Thorax."
Spike was known to be a bit of a diva himself. Rivers took him everywhere and was frequently photographed with him. He appeared with her on The Tonight Show, on the cover of People, and in a Got Milk? campaign ad. She frequently spoke about how Spike saved her life. After Rivers's husband Edgar Rosenberg died in 1987, she was in a deep depression and contemplated suicide.
She told The Daily Beast:
"What saved me was my dog jumped into my lap. I thought, 'No one will take care of him.' It wasn't a friendly dog--only to me. I adored this dog...I was sitting in this big empty house in Bel Air, with a phone with five extensions which we no longer needed. I had the gun in my lap, and the dog sat on the gun."
Spike's death in 2001 made headlines, including in The New York Daily News.
Dimensions: X-ray: 14 x 17 inches; Envelope: 14.5 x 17.5 inches
Category: Pets
Provenance: PROVENANCE: From The Estate of Joan Rivers
A framed print with an image from season 23, episode eight of The Simpsons (Gracie Films, 1989-present), "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution," featuring animated Joan Rivers, who guest starred. Series creator Matt Groening has drawn a picture of Bart in black felt-tip pen with a dialogue bubble which reads "Thank you, / Joan Rivers!," under which he has inscribed "Your fan, / Matt Groening 2013." Printed text under the image reads "PABF02 - 'The Ten-Per-Cent Solution' / Special Guest Voice by Joan Rivers."
On the episode, Rivers plays Annie Dubinsky, Krusty the Klown's former agent and girlfriend. He begs her to take him back as her client after his show in canceled, and she gets him on the air with a new show for adult audiences. However, her interference bugs network executives.
Promoting her appearance on E! News, Rivers said:
"I've done animated voiceovers before, I'm an animation whore, but I've never had a large part like this...I adore The Simpsons. It's so clever and so funny on so many levels. So when they called and said, 'Do you want to do it?' without even reading a script I said, 'Absolutely.' Didn't read the script until yesterday."
Dimensions: 13.25 x 19.25 x 1 inches
Category: Photographs & Prints, Signed Items, Production Materials
Provenance: PROVENANCE: From The Estate of Joan Rivers
A vulgar battery operated talking parrot toy gifted to Joan Rivers by "Billy" (likely Billy Sameth) for opening night of her autobiographical play A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress in 2008 in Edinburg, Scotland. Rivers is seen showing it off, with delight, in the critically acclaimed documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (Break Thru Films, 2010), which chronicles the production of the show. In the film, it says "Polly wants a f*cking cracker! Give Polly a f*cking cracker now!" Video of Rivers with the parrot toy can be seen here.
When one waves one's hand in front of the censor on the bird's swing, it says one of several choice phrases, including:
"Quack! Who's the f*cker then? Who's the f*cker then? Quack! Quack!"
"Hey baby! Show us your tits!"
"Polly wants a blowjob! Polly wants a blowjob! Oooh that feels good!"
"Dickhead alert! Dickhead alert!"
"Who's a pretty Polly? Who's a pretty Polly? Not you, smarta**!"
"Hey you! Go f*ck yourself! Quack!"
"Quack! Nobody loves you. Quack! Everybody hates you!"
"Come closer! Close closer! Scratch Polly's a**!"
Please note: Part of the parrot's swing is not present. However, it is fully talkative.
Dimensions: 7 x 7.25 x 9 inches
Category: Memorabilia & Ephemera, Production Materials
Provenance: PROVENANCE: From The Estate of Joan Rivers
