I was really saddened to hear about the death of Joan Rivers. She was a one-off, a no nonsense, shoot from the hip, tell it as she saw it kind of gal who fought hard against massive odds to crawl her way to the top at a time when a woman’s place was either in the kitchen or the bedroom. And she was a great supporter of gay rights long before it was a trendy bandwagon. Many years ago, I saw Ms Rivers in concert in the West End. Her Gatling Gun wit left the audience shell-shocked. I laughed so much, I hyperventilated. During her untouchable years as the elder stateswoman of American comedy, the great and the good queued up to be insulted by her because if you hadn’t been dressed down by Joan, you were a no-body. Her very last public rant was about the recent upsurge in violence between Israel and Palestine. It was not her finest hour. Joan Rivers deserves to be remembered for more than that.
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. . your ‘Gatling Gun’ describes her well – both needed to be well cranked!
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So did the audience…
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I love a fiesty female. Joan Rivers was all that. ❤
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They don’t come much feistier.
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No mistaking that! 🙂
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She was an acquired taste, but I ‘m sad she went out after such an idiotic rant.
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Hopefully, it’ll get forgotten.
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Loved Joan – 95% of the time – but can’t help but wonder if her demise was somehow related to lack of remaining available skin. Her plastic surgery addiction became quite grotesque towards the end.
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Indeed she was rather fond of a nip and tuck…
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Funny you should mention Joan. Right now I’m watching one of her comedy performances at the Montreal Comedy Festival. Most is hysterically funny, but she has her moments when it’s really in bad taste: Marg Hargitay golfing with her mother’s head? Really Joan?
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Her death has really opened the archives. Her best moments cannot be bettered. And her worst…
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yup! Her good moments far outweigh her not-so-good. 🙂
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Joan Rivers: ‘All Palestine should die’ Says it all.
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Not what she actually said from what I saw but, yes, as I mentioned, not her finest hour.
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