Joan Rivers

Joan's first appearance with Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show was in 1965, not 1968.

Good riddance. Nasty cunt.

I too miss her. Often.

Edgar had the right idea

R2 even if that were true she’d fit right in here.

But actually, she really wasn’t.

Well, it was a long career and she was something of a pioneer, but some of those later ad hominem and feminam cracks were beyond the dictates of comedy, imnsho.

A very funny woman, but her politics were questionable, she said of Palestinian victims of Israeli bombing "if you are dead you deserve to be dead" evil old witch.

Her "all Palestinian children should be killed" views were escalating -- that, her "Michelle Obama is a man" jokes, and her inevitable love for Trump would have killed her career. She'd probably be on alt-right podcasts bitching about how the LIEberal elite were censoring her from telling the truth.

She left us Melissa . . .

I miss her. One of the few celebrities who have passed away that I say that about. Good old Patty Duke as well.

If she really said that about Palestinian children, that's it. Maybe there was some dementia at that point? I've mentioned elsewhere that many years ago I worked at a small,NYC publisher (called "Silver" by Rita Mae Brown, who had worked there) and one of the editors had gone to Barnard with Rivers. She said, "I didn't like her when she was Joan Molinsky and I don't like her now that she's Joan Rivers."

Joan was an ardent supporter of the Broadway community. The last show she saw was Rocky, when she took grandson Cooper.

[quote]that, her "Michelle Obama is a man"

Of course if she said "Barron was retarded" or "Melania is a whore" you would think she was great.

It's one thing to hate someone for what they say but it shows how uneducated and ignorant you are when you apply it only when it suits you.

Gracie) OK, George you're the boss

George) I am?

Gracie) You are when it fits in with what I'm saying.

R10. I miss Joan and Patty Duke as well.

[quote]Of course if she said "Barron was retarded" or "Melania is a whore" you would think she was great. It's one thing to hate someone for what they say but it shows how uneducated and ignorant you are when you apply it only when it suits you.

WTF?! That poster at no point indicated they would think that was great. No one here has. You're accusing someone of hypocrisy on no basis whatsoever.

If she didn’t die we would have hated her because her lips would be firmly placed on the anus of the Orange Bastard.

R15, That's what trampsters do. Project their own hypocrisy. WINNERS!!

R12, Joan was just trolling for Karl cock.

Joan hated stupid people. She would have hated Trump.

Well I DO miss Patty Duke.

Two words: work ethic

Two more words: so what

Patty was wonderful.

Believe it or not but there are some people who think Trump isn’t stupid. Joan was also on Charles and Camilla’s side.

Joan was wrong about Charles and Camilla. They are slime. But I still miss Joan.

Never cared for her. One of those "can dish it out but can't take it" types.

The biggest causes of her become uber-cunt. 1) Edgar committed suicide 2) Carson rejected her. Interesting that she never really got over #2. I think she and Edgar had a marriage of convenience as she had a long affair with comic Tom Dreesen.

The final joke before her throat was cut:

r26 source???

Joan Rivers in an early Tonight Show appearance in 73. She's amazingly unfunny and you can hear Carson really working with her. However, she's very likeable. Hard to remember when Rivers could be considered likeable.

R26 Edgar killed himself to get the fuck away from the car wash cunt

Wasn’t she one of the 60s comics who bought jokes from housewives for 50 cents apiece.

I wonder how many of her ‘classis’ weren’t even hers.

It’s a little like a news reader. For laughs.

‘Classics’

There's an interview on You tube with George Michael that has George laughing all the way through.

R27 was she on her way to that fatal procedure there?

Thank you for posting that interview, OP.

Enjoying it and missing Joan, too.

[quote]One of those "can dish it out but can't take it" types.

This is true. But when she dished it, she was habitually the funniest woman on the planet.

I also loved that she never apologized and caved when she had gone too far.

R36 Oh dear, did you ever see when someone mentioned Edgar killing himself and how septic she got, she could dish it out but not take it.

R36, she apologized numerous times on TV when she was sued for giving out Victoria Principal's phone number on the air. Stereotypically, Rivers responded when money was involved.

She didn't give a shit about Edgar or whatever anyone said about him. Melissa, on the other hand......

Whoever said that Joan rivers loked like a victim of a devastating car accident in late life was not far off. Truly scary looking.

Joan looked like Madame of Wayland and.....

Who bought the art deco duplex on top of 1 East 62nd Street where Joan lived? Think back in the mid-80s, she also bought an apartment there for Melissa.

From December of 2002:

"Can we talk?” is cops’ question for Joan Rivers after the caustic comedian threw a hissy fit – and a marking pen – that struck a clerk in the eye at an East Side car rental agency yesterday, authorities said.

The incident, in which she allegedly tossed a curse as well as a yellow marker, happened at Dollar Rent A Car at Lexington Avenue and 84th Street, where she has a leasing plan, a police source said.

Rivers, known for her acidic red-carpet fashion commentary, went to Dollar with her driver at 2:20 p.m., the source said. His name is on the lease plan and Rivers, 69, wanted to add hers, the source said. The driver went in alone. There were two people ahead of him on line and he got tired of waiting and left, the source said. Then Rivers allegedly stormed in and went up to the female clerk behind the counter.

“Don’t you know who the f- – – I am?” Rivers asked her, a police source told The Post.

“How could you let me wait on line? You stupid . . . bitch!” the police source quoted Rivers saying.

She then allegedly threw the marker, which hit the woman, and left.

Rivers then drove off in an SUV, witnesses told cops.

A surveillance tape is believed to have captured the alleged incident, cops said.

The clerk, who was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital, declined comment. The hospital said she had a contusion to the eyelid, a police source said.

The 38-year-old Bronx resident filed a formal report.

Cops want to discuss the matter with Rivers. Last night, two detectives went to her home off Fifth Avenue, but she is out of town and due back tomorrow evening, police sources said.

Rivers’ publicist, Richard Grant, said yesterday afternoon he had not spoken to her.

“She started her holiday vacation today,” he said. “Joan has a deal with Dollar Rent A Car. When she needs a car, it’s there for her.

“When she went to pick up the car, there was some misunderstanding and Joan got into a disagreement with the woman behind the counter.

“Eventually, Joan got her car and left,” he said.

A police source said that if the clerk’s allegations are substantiated, Rivers might be charged with third-degree assault.

R31, Phyllis Diller used to purchase jokes.

A bit OT, but does Paula Poundstone write her own material? I think she's great. On Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, she's very quick with what I think are ad libs.

^^^ I think some are ad libs and some are scripted bits. I also don't think Peter likes her all that well. he seems a little dismissive of her sometimes. Maybe she gets too much attention when he's the headliner.

There are other people, who don't like stupid people.. such as Judge Judy... who support trump. Joan would have been with him..

No one else commented on it but I saw Melissa in a VIP seat at The Orange Bastard’s Inaugural......

An even better (and longer) interview of Joan by a shrink

^^^no sound

R47, Mel was also on Megyn Kelly's final show and took part in the blackface panel.

I miss her as well.

I miss her too.

Thanks to the poster who shared the "Shrink" interview.

The shrink interview is amazing. Very thorough. Joan had a peculiar and tough life.

I thought Joan was at her most endearing there.

R50 yes, calling the bitch out - you conveniently forgot that part.