Joan Rivers and ZO2 Rock TCA - Ed Martin Live at TCA

IFC introduced the band ZO2 to members of the Television Critics Association on Friday with a late-night bash in the penthouse of the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The footage below includes opening comments from IFC and Sundance Channel president Evan Shapiro and his special guest Joan Rivers, who is featured in ZO2's upcoming semi-scripted IFC series, Z ROCK.

Joan Rivers and ZO2 Rock TCA

In the series, ZO2 guitarists and real life brothers Paulie Z and David Z and drummer Joey Cassata play a fictional band leading a double-life: By night they are a hard-partying rockers, but by day they play children's birthday parties.

Here they are in day mode:

Introducing ZO2

And here they are by night:

Joan Rivers and ZO2

Joan Rivers, incidentally, plays the band manager's aunt. Other celebrity guests who will appear in the show include Sebastian Bach, Gilbert Gottfried, The Whitest Kids U'Know and Dave Navarro. Watch for the premiere of Z ROCK August 24 on IFC.