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.”
LOL yeah I posted the same sentiment on the comment section of an article a couple days ago... been waiting for the knock on my door every since...
He texted me during the show:
"Barbara Streisand is so cross-eyed that she can walk down Bleeker Street in the Village without looking right or left and cross every street safely."
I think she was targeted by the Obama Administration for saying that Michelle O is actually a man.
It is rather suspect and coincidental.
Very interesting and as I singer I also find that fascinating if true. Either way may Joan rest in peace. Very sad. She is already missed by me.
I’m sad to hear this. Funny lady. RIP Joan.
“Say hello to Johnny Carson”
Well,,,, maybe that will happen, but Johnny wouldn’t speak to her after she got her late night show. He felt betrayed. Loved Carson, but that was kind of negative.
Make all LAUGH!!!
Am devastated. God bless her and her family.
The first reports said that she suffered respiratory failure which led to cardiac arrest. That sounds like overdose of anesthesia.
She was fun to listen to.
Har!
She called Moochelle a man. Breitbart comes to mind. LOL
Yeah, just one of those things that make you go “Hmmm”
I am not saying that this is the case. That said, it did pop into my beady mind;)
Oh ... just some voices from the past that are sorely missed. :-(
Any idea if they patched it up before he died? It would have been a shame if they didn't ... :-(
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