Joan Rivers passed away today after suffering complications during surgery.
She was 81.
Posted on 09/04/2014 12:15:42 PM PDT by Nachum
Joan Rivers passed away today after suffering complications during surgery.
She was 81.
NBC News reported:
Raspy-voiced and brassy, Rivers was always self-deprecating, foul-mouthed and politically incorrect. A master of reinvention, she endured in show business because of her tenacious work ethic — which she credited to her “immigrant mentality.”
Comedians typically push the envelope, but Rivers proved time and again that she didn’t even see the envelope. To her fans, she was as shocking as she was endearing.
“The way she is funny, she tells the truth according to herself,” the late film critic Roger Ebert wrote in 2010. “She hates some people. She has political opinions. Her observations are so merciless and her timing so precise that even if you like that person, you laugh. She is a sadist of comedy, unafraid to be cruel — even too cruel.”
No topic was off limits. From Elizabeth Taylor to Queen Elizabeth to even Anne Frank, Rivers loved going after public figures.
“I mock everybody, regardless of race, creed or color,” she told the Toronto Star in July. “Every joke I make, no matter how tasteless, is there to draw attention to something I really care about.”
Sad :-(!
RIP Joan. Say hello to Johnny Carson, Phyllis Diller and Bob Hope for us.
Very sad, she was healthy & working in the days before this procedure, glad to see the clinic being investigated. You’d think they’d have the means to treat what happened to her, right there, instead of wasting time waiting for an ambulance. Too much time passed without proper treatment.
A very funny and beautiful woman.
RIP Joan. Wish we could have talked.
Oh what a shame..
well she had a long successful life and made people laugh..
hopefully she found time for God..
She was fairly conservative and a friend of Israel.
Robin Williams
Joan Rivers
Nobody is laughing.
and Lauren Bacall...................
RIP, dear Joan, and thanks for your outspoken support of Israel.
One of the few celebs courageous to speak out openly in support of Israel and in condemnation of Hamas. God will bless her soul for this. RIP Joan the Lionheart .
Will miss this lady. RIP.
Let’s face it, for this one, it’s the blue heaven.
Very sad news :(
May God rest her soul.
Leaving a trail of laughter is a big accomplishment. I’m sure she’ll be welcome in heaven.
Melissa will dispose of it properly in the recycle bin
Reserve judgment until all the facts are known. Sometimes 81-year-olds die just because their time is up, and she could have had a stroke or embolism or whatever no matter where she was that morning. How many of us know people who are fine one day, gone the next?
The matter certainly should be investigated, but throwing stones is a bit premature.
“The world was her oyster and she devoured it” — Larry King, just now on Fox News
HELLO, Larry, you idiot, she was Jewish!
“she did not take the suicide of her husband well”
Larry King, social commentator of the year.
Awww, I am so sad - I was hoping that she’d pull through. My own mother died at age 81, 10 years ago this week, and I’m feeling more emotional about Joan and Melissa because of this milestone. But there’s no denying that Joan was a good skate, and most of us loved her.
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