VIDEO: Melissa Rivers Pays Tribute to Joan Rivers at DAYTIME EMMYS

Melissa Rivers appeared on Sunday's Daytime Emmy Awards as part of a tribute to her mother, Joan Rivers, who died September 4th. Watch the moving tribute below.

The segment started with a clip of Joan accepting her Daytime Emmy for best talk show host for The Joan Rivers Show 25 years ago - "the only Emmy she would ever win," according to Melissa. Melissa also noted that the accolade came during a time in Joan's life that was challenging both personally (following the suicide of her husband, Edgar Rosenberg) and professionally.

It "invigorated her career," Melissa said.

Melissa also introduced the "In Memoriam" segment paying tribute to others in the daytime industry who died over the past year. Paul Walker, who died in November 2013, also was featured - having once co-starred on The Young and the Restless.

Click here for a full list of winners from last night's event.

Joan Rivers won an Emmy and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1994 she wrote and starred on Broadway in Sally Marr and Her Escorts, for which she received a Best Actress Tony nomination. Since then, Joan wrote five more best-selling books, maintains her own jewelry line on QVC, served as host of the series "How'd You Get So Rich?" on TVLand, and filmed a special for Bravo. In 2009, she was the winner of Donald Trump's "Celebrity Apprentice". In 2010, she returned to The FASHION POLICE show on E! and was featured on the big screen in the acclaimed Sundance Award-winning documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work. The documentary also followed the creation and development of a solo show, first titled as Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress. That show opened at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, before moving to Edinburgh Festival Fringe, followed by a run at the Leicester Square Theatre in 2008.

In 2011, she launched the reality TV series Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best? on Oxygen, which is now in its 4th season. Another show launched on Youtube in 2013, called 'In Bed with Joan' where a different guest joins her in her bedroom to sound off on the issues of the day.

Her Broadway credits include Fun City, Broadway Bound and Sally Marr...and her escorts, for which she received a Drama Desk Nomination as Outstanding Actress in a Play and a Tony Nomination for Best Actress in a Play.

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