Sometimes people give Joan Rivers a hard time, usually for the massive amount of plastic surgery she’s had done over the years, or her role as E!’s fashion critic for the big award shows. And, yeah, she didn’t exactly sound like a peach to work with in this revealing interview with her former manager. Fine. I’ll give you all that.
I am willing to concede all that because, every now and again, she will do something that simply delights me. Like, for example, making a terrific documentary about her life. Or getting high and drinking hot tub water out of a shoe. Or, as she does here, going on television and trashing three of my least favorite comics: Jay Leno, Dane Cook, and Chelsea Handler.
I don’t care what anybody else says, Joan. You’re all right with me.
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Favorite Joan Rivers moment: Her pity fucking Louis CK on Louis. That whole exchange was awesome.
Joan Rivers is like your crazy old aunt: sometimes embarrassing, sometimes totally hilarious and awesome.
There’s some irony involved in Joan Rivers saying she doesn’t care about going on Jay Leno’s show because he’s not funny while she’s on Andy Cohen’s show. Is it just me or is that man a total charisma vacuum? He’s got that dead-behind-the-eyes Kardashian thing going.
You make a fair point. But, on the other hand, Leno is a dick and I hate him. I think you see what I’m getting at here.
Leno must be some type of dick…..because Joan Rivers can be funny at times……
…She was great on Loius CK’s show last year…….and that movie biop of her was very enlightening……..
…as I ponder the situation…..I suspect that Leno sees a non-existent parallel between Leno and Conan and the fact that Joan Rivers has the balls to try and do her own show after Carson had so graciously tolerated Rivers for a few shows of his…..
Imagine…..someone trying to be a success in showbiz….without asking……what a cunt….
Here scene in “Louie” was amazing.
Observer: There’s definitely a parallel. Joan Rivers was the regular guest host before Leno came in and it was supposedly an unspoken thing that when Carson got tired of the grind she was next in line. But when it seemed like Johnny was in it for the long haul, Rivers got antsy and jumped ship.
“Tolerated” isn’t the right word, Carson LOVED Rivers. Her betrayal hurt Johnny more than Leno’s.
Anyone who hates on Dane Cook, Chelsea Handler and Jay Leno deserves to be canonized in my book.
You’d have a lot of saints in your book.
So who actually like Jay Leno because I have yet to meet someone who does. If I did meet one I would probably point and squeal like the end of Body Snatchers.
I liked Jay in his time before becoming the host of the Tonight Show. He went to hell after that happened. Job security made him lazy. He was goofy funny in his younger years.
Joan Rivers is a real life Malory Archer.
This is… pretty accurate. I’m not sure how many people she’s killed, but it’s probably comparable as well.
How exactly does she trash Chelsea Handler?
I took her emphasis in “I’ll have to take the fifth” was a sly reference to the fact that Handler is a lush.
I think the fact that she chose to say “E! asked us not to talk about each other” instead of “She’s nice” speaks VOLUMES.
I respect Joan Rivers quite a bit. She’s been around long enough that she’s earned the right to be lazy and keep using the same schtick from 40 years ago, but she still puts effort into it- even if it doesn’t always work.
Isn’t this like the proverbial pot calling the kettle black? Joan can be entertaining, but come on…she’s a living meme any more.
Joan Rivers was on Letterman a while ago complaining that since her name was different on her ID and passport (due to a former marriage I guess) she wasn’t allowed on a flight here in Costa Rica. She was raging that a Costa Rican immigration official didn’t know who the fuck she was. Ever since then I can’t help but picture her plastic’ed face yelling at a bored Tico who just thinks she’s some rich Jewess while Reggaeton plays in the background.