Joan Rivers dead at 81

[demarpaint]

Title says it all. I was never a fan. RIP Joan Rivers.

 

[Apollo14]

I thought Joan Rivers was awesome and I was very close to seeing her perform just a few weeks ago. I wish I had now.

 

[L_Sludger]

I made a thread about her. It disappeared.

 

[aquariuscsm]

RIP Joan :^(

 

[dishdude]

I just heard her on Howard Stern a few weeks ago, she was entertaining as always.

 

[demarpaint]

Originally Posted By: dishdude

I just heard her on Howard Stern a few weeks ago, she was entertaining as always.

Actually she was pretty good when she was on with Stern. He had her on a few times over the years, it totally slipped my mind.

 

[Colt]

Very funny lady who made controversial statements at times.I was a fan. RIP Joan.

 

[andrewg]

Liked her or hated her...she had definitely made her mark. I hope her daughter deals with this well. They seemed to be very close.

 

[dave1251]

RIP.

 

[eljefino]

Wicked Funny. RIP. She did voice overs on a few kids movies which made them more palatable (via in-joke) for the adults chugging through.

 

[morepwr]

I wasn't a fan but she did entertain a lot of people.

 

[Benzadmiral]

She and Phyllis Diller helped to make standup comediennes mainstream. "Elizabeth Taylor is a woman being kept alive by a machine. A refrigerator!" (-- Joan on The Tonight Show, snarking about the former movie star's weight gain)

 

[JDW]

RIP Joan. Remember you from way back in the day.

 

[Colt]

Originally Posted By: Benzadmiral

She and Phyllis Diller helped to make standup comediennes mainstream. "Elizabeth Taylor is a woman being kept alive by a machine. A refrigerator!" (-- Joan on The Tonight Show, snarking about the former movie star's weight gain)

She also said Liz Taylor puts mayo on an aspirin.

 

[BISCUT]

Originally Posted By: L_Sludger

I made a thread about her. It disappeared.

Didn't go well! I never appreciated her but I very much did respect her refusal to bow to politically correct crowd.

 

[Benzadmiral]

Originally Posted By: Colt

Originally Posted By: Benzadmiral

She and Phyllis Diller helped to make standup comediennes mainstream. "Elizabeth Taylor is a woman being kept alive by a machine. A refrigerator!" (-- Joan on The Tonight Show, snarking about the former movie star's weight gain)

She also said Liz Taylor puts mayo on an aspirin.

I'd never heard that one! (I know a lot of people that could be applied to as well.) Somehow she, Joan I mean, gave you the impression she was just tossing these remarks off on the spur of the moment. Yes, she probably had writers supplying a lot of them; but she always made them seem ad-lib and spontaneous. That, I think, is a testament to her ability.

 

[simple_gifts]

I posted this before, but I thought I'd give it another look.

She speaks the truth A woman speaking this candidly in the late 1960's. History in the making. "Howard Johnson's again, horray horray"

 

[Kuato]

Originally Posted By: demarpaint

Title says it all. I was never a fan. RIP Joan Rivers.

I wasn't either, until I saw some of her edgy stuff from the 60s/ 70s in a documentary...then her style made sense.

 

[BAJA_05]

[censored], I thought she was going to live to be Yodas age???

 

[JustinH]

I only know her from the red carpet doing that silly E! show.