Joan Rivers would have been 92 today

Bullshit on all counts.

My favorite Joan joke:

The whole Michael Jackson thing was my fault. I told him to date only 28-year-olds. Who knew he would find 20 of them?

"He's so gay, one of his 4 major food groups is lube..."

I loved Joan!

I'm sure I've told this story before, but years ago I was a host/waiter for a local restaurant near where Joan had a home. Without fail, she learned my name quickly, and while she rarely had someone call ahead, I always made sure she had the table she wanted. Surprisingly in real life, her plastic surgery didn't look weird in person. She just looked...well preserved? Whenever I saw her, she was low key funny, not on, just sharply noticing all and quick to comment. I had just bought a house in REALLY rough shape, all that I could afford in my 20s. That job helped me to renovate it and pay mostly in cash. Joan was a major reason I could do that. RIP, Joan!

Just got done reading Last Girl Before Freeway.

Fascinating book....she certainly was a ball of contradictions.

I loved that the last page suggested Joan would find Liz Taylor in heaven and say "you really did let yourself go, you fat bitch!"

I figured a Datalounger HAD to have written that!

She’d be MAGA if she was alive today.

We were spared her undoubted support for Trump.

R8 that really would've sucked.

Loved Joan. ❤️

Her book also mentioned something about a Johnny Carson sex tape....I must have completely forgotten about it.

Supposedly she carried lots of her jewelry with her. If a woman complimented a necklace or bracelet she was wearing, Joan would take it off and give it to her.

Today is her birthday? So we think she’d be an honored guest at the military parade, her and what’s his name sharing their birthday?

No, you have it really, really wrong, R13.

I feel that way about Frank Sinatra. Maybe you have to have a bit of shittiness in your character to be memorable.

R13 This thread was from last weekend. So no, her birthday wasn't today.

Joan and Melissa are so MAGA that if Trump gave Melissa $50, she would have dug up Joan coffin and marched with it down today's parade.

I've had to re-examine her in recent years. I enjoy the jokes but a lot of it was cruel. Same for Howard Stern. They were driven by the desperate quest for fame, but mostly fortune.

Oh, after they were filthy rich they could relax and be charitable. But on the way up the ladder they would step on anyone to promote themselves.

Her favorite motif in her jewelry was the bumblebee. Makes sense.

She’s Dead-Good!

I don’t think Joan would be MAGA because of the abortion issue. She once joked that abortion should be retroactive.

Once on her New York radio show of 25+ years ago, a right wing caller said he liked gay people because they don’t get abortions. Interesting, I thought, never heard that one before. Well, Joan LIT INTO HIM. Anyone, anyone against legal abortion was going to get their head cut off.

Elegance? I wouldn’t put elegant and Joan in the same sentence. She was classy though, just cause she was so New York Jewish. WOW 92. Rip Joan. The funniest woman in showbiz of all time.

Nothing can be forgiven after Joan Rivers loosened that grotesque devil spawn Melissa on the world.

A nepo baby nightmare.

[quote] I don’t think Joan would be MAGA because of the abortion issue.

Abortion isn't exactly a top priority issue for MAGAts. Notice how Trump sidestepped the issue in last year's campaign.

r22 She loosened her? How odd.

I wonder if she’s calling all the demons on the red carpet in Hell “fat pigs?”

“Is that a showa curtain, no it’s Chrissy Metz!”

Chrissy is incredibly lucky her ascent to stardom was after Joan died.

Joan was pretty fucking ruthless about Lens Dunham and she would have had a fucking FIELD day with Chrissy and her snack purse.

She would have no money now and a goatee.

R27 I wasn’t so lucky.

She was a Trump-loving Republican. No love for that cunt.

Fat, fat, the water rat!

She died in 2014. How MAGA could she have been?

Are there any current snaps of Cooper?

Yeah she’s so MAGA that she voted for Obama. Listen to her talk about it on Howard Stern.

My favorite line from Joan about a friend who died when someone said, "Well, she's in a better place now."

Joan responded: "No she's not. I've been to her house in the Hamptons."

Even if she was MAGA, she would have blasted him just like anyone else. She held back no punches.

She had the unflappable Michael Parkinson in stitches

But of course it’s well established that a goodly number of Obama voters flipped to Trump, R34.

Dataloungers actually think MAGA, aka white supremacy/homophobia/misogyny and class warfare, started in 2016. Morons.

Joan and Melissa have both said they were fiscally Republican but socially liberal. It's a bit of a strange crossroads to be at, but there are a lot of wealthy people who are like this. I cannot imagine Joan would have been supportive of the MAGA cultists, irrespective of whether she liked Trump or not. That said, I can guarantee you she'd be getting a load of shit about her stances on Israel if she were alive today. She's probably rolling in her grave as I type this.

r39 Do they? I think most just think the stupid term MAGA started then.

Joan Rivers was a Republican of the old school. She believed in fiscal responsibility, a strong military, and felt social issues lost elections.

She supported HIV/AIDS activism, was an Honorary Director of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, volunteered and donated to organizations that paired blind people with guide dogs, and worked to strengthen civics education in the school system.

She said she was "seated next to" Nancy Reagan at the wedding of Prince Charles and Camille Bowles.

r42 Why is "seated next to" in quotation marks?

Fun fact: I grew up outside Portland, OR in a small town called Boring (yes, it's real). One of the two headquarters for Guide Dogs for the Blind, an organization that trained and matched assistance dogs with the visually impaired, has a campus there of all places (the other one is in Southern California). We got to visit it when I was in junior high school, tour the grounds, and meet some of the dogs they were training. I remember learning that Joan was one of the organization's major donors. I had no idea who she was at the time (though I later would), but it's a fact I've always remembered. My parents' house is literally 5 minutes away from the campus.

Funny 1991 video mocking Barbara Bush, Cher, Madonna, Dan Quayle, Vanna White, herself, and Queen Elizabeth II

R43 "Seating next to" = I was forced to sit her and I didn't want to

as a comedian and talk-show guest, she was unmatched.

but a hardcore republican to her dying day who begged for trump to love her

joan was very lawyered up.

and if someone (especially someone not as seasoned as joan) talked shit about her, joan's lawyers would respond — even if that person was battling a fatal illness and became one of joan's red-carpet punchlines. [oprah knows all about it....]

her qvc jewelry line was tawdry crap

and all of her plastic surgery points to something more than a little off

while kathy griffin tries to claim joan as a bestie, melissa rivers begs to differ

joan's death is suspicious

What a pathetic thread.

In the biography the author repeated a rumor, which may have originated with Rich Juzwik (?) that Kathy called E! and said ‘if Joan doesn’t make it I can host.’

Here she has Michael Parkinson, George Michael, and Stephen Fry gasping for breathe. Parkinson is lost for words.

Kenneth Williams left her in the dust.

bianca del rio did all the heavy lifting with joan

r51 Kenneth Williams became much funnier after he poisoned his father.

I forgot that he killed his father. And collected a jar of assorted pills to use on himself. He was something else. With his ten minutes of fart jokes for Joan.

I remember watching her sell her fake jewelry on QVC

r55 Oh good

[quote] gasping for breathe.

Oh, dear.

Wow, Kenneth Williams.

A rare moment for Joan....the bitch couldn't get a word in edgewise!

R23, after Trump caused Roe v Wade to be overturned, Joan would be through with him.

R40, every wealthy New Yorker is like that.

Duh, R47, her daughter won a big lawsuit because of it.

Joan really should have NEVER been at a place like the endoscopy center. If she'd been in a hospital, she might still be alive today.

Trump was also pro-abortion until he ran for POTUS. That switch wouldn't have changed Joan's support of him.

^ You're dreaming

Let's talk! The states should decide!

I don't know what Joan would have thought of Trump as President, and I'm not sure it matters, but one thing Dataloungers do over and over again is put up blinders towards people you like. You're constantly trying to find ways to make them okay for you. Meanwhile, if you hate someone, you will always find ways not to like them, based on that one thing they did to make you not like them. You'll keep bringing it up over and over, long after it no longer really matters.

r65 You ok?

If DL was forced to discuss only things that really matter, it would shut down from inactivity in 20 minutes.

R65 welcome to DL!

Funny

Definition of class? Um yeah, NO.