Babyface Sings "Gone Too Soon" During Daytime Emmys Memoriam (Video)

Babyface performed at the 42nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.

Singer Babyface performed "Gone too Soon" during the Memoriam that honored members of the daytime television community at Sunday night's Daytime Emmy Awards. Watch below:

TV Tributes to Joan Rivers Scheduled

Joan Rivers died on Thursday at age 81, and now several TV networks are planning specials about the legendary comedian. Below is a list of announced television specials:

NBC - Dateline ("Celebrating Joan Rivers")
Friday, September 5, 2014 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
In a special edition of NBC's Dateline, "Celebrating Joan Rivers" will look back at the extraordinary life and legacy of Joan Rivers, airing tonight at 9pm/8c. Friends and fellow comics will pay tribute to the legendary comedienne and television host, including Kathy Griffin, Dick Cavett, Donald Trump, Don Rickles, Gilbert Gottfried and Lily Tomlin.

Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb will co-anchor tonight's one-hour special broadcast. "Celebrating Joan Rivers" will also feature memorable moments and interviews throughout Rivers' groundbreaking career, as well as additional reporting on the day she entered Mount Sinai Hospital.

E! - E! News special ("Joan Rivers: Celebrating An Icon")
Friday, September 5, 2014 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
Through her quick wit and no-holds-barred style, Joan Rivers revolutionized comedy, broke through barriers as no woman before or since, and sustained a successful career spanning more than five decades. Joan found humor in everything, fearlessly defended her right to make people laugh however she saw fit, and is adored by millions of fans throughout the world who mourn her passing. E! enjoyed a special relationship with the one-and-only Joan Rivers for the past 20 years, and will honor Joan's legacy.

Joan Rivers: Revisiting Her Soap Opera Past

Susan Lucci and Joan Rivers

Legendary entertainer Joan Rivers, a pioneering female stand-up comic and the queen of "Can We Talk?" gossip, has died, her daughter, Melissa Rivers, said Thursday. She was 81.

Rivers was undergoing surgery on her vocal cords at a clinic in New York City on Aug. 28 when she stopped breathing and had to be transported to Mount Sinai Hospital. Melissa Rivers and Joan Rivers' 13-year-old grandson, Cooper, who live in Malibu, California, rushed to her bedside.

"My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh," Melissa Rivers said in a statement. "Although that is difficult to do right now, I know her final wish would be that we return to laughing soon."

The beloved comedian had soap opera past. John Gabriel, who played Seneca Beaulac on Ryan's Hope for more than a decade, was once the opening act for her nightclub routine. She hosted VCR game "Predicaments" in 1986; appeared on NBC daytime drama Another World as Grant Harrison's (Mark Pinter) public relations expert Meredith Dunston in 1997; introduced a segment (with Melissa) on mothers and daughters at the 10th Annual Soap Opera Digest Awards in 1994; featured an all-star panel of stars on a 1993 episode of her talk show; and guest-starred as herself in a 1999 episode of All My Children opposite Susan Lucci and Vincent Irizarry.

Watch clips of the latter three below:

Joan Rivers Dead at 81

Joan Rivers died on Thursday, September 4 in New York City. She was 81.

"It is with great sadness that I announce the death of my mother, Joan Rivers," Melissa Rivers said in a written statement today. "She passed peacefully at 1:17 p.m. surrounded by family and close friends. My son and I would like to thank the doctors, nurses, and staff of Mount Sinai Hospital for the amazing care they provided for my mother."

Melissa Rivers added that she and her son, Cooper, who is Joan Rivers' grandson, "have found ourselves humbled by the outpouring of love, support and prayers we have received from around the world. They have been heard and appreciated. My mother’s greatest joy in life was to make people laugh. Although that is difficult to do right now, I know her final wish would be that we return to laughing soon."

Joan Rivers, who co-hosted the popular E! TV show Fashion Police, had been hard at work recently, critiquing the outfits worn by stars at the MTV Video Music Awards and the Emmys with her usual acerbic wit. On August 28, however, she was in New York City having surgery when she suffered cardiac arrest. She was rushed to the hospital, where she arrived unconscious and doctors kept her sedated. On September 2, her daughter, Melissa Rivers, revealed that she had been placed on life support.

Joan Rivers "Has Been Moved Out of Intensive Care and Into a Private Room"

Joan Rivers' daughter, Melissa Rivers, continues to provide updates about her mother's condition. In her latest statement, released Wednesday, September 3, she says the 81-year-old comedienne has been transferred to a private room at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.

"My mother has been moved out of intensive care and into a private room where she is being kept comfortable," the statement reads. "Thank you for your continued support."

Melissa has been offering near-daily bulletins since the Fashion Police host was first hospitalized on Thursday, August. 28, when complications arose during an outpatient procedure on her vocal cords.

After being admitted to Mount Sinai that morning, Rivers was placed in a medically induced coma.

Doctors began bringing the star out of the coma on Sunday, August 31, but as of Tuesday, September 2, she was still on life support.

"My mother would be so touched by the tributes and prayers that we have received from around the world," Melissa said in an earlier statement. "Her condition remains serious but she is receiving the best treatment and care possible. We ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts as we pray for her recovery."

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