Joan Rivers dies aged 81

[iup=3556594]Banjo[/iup] wrote:strawberry float off Cal.

There are 17 posts in this thread (including my own now), of which only two people make any form of commentary on disliking her (a few are indifferent, but the majority of posts express at least a minor appreciation of her work). But don't let that stop you from writing your own fiction to justify the nonsense you post. Cretin.

Joan Rivers has died from complications resulting from throat surgery. She was 81. For many, she was the best. The funniest, sharpest, most mischievous comic we will ever know. And though she’d hate us for saying it, she was also a true feminist pioneer. Well before it had been settled whether women should be doing stand-up at all, she was not only doing it but shaping it – and subtly shaping society too.

She was the first American stand-up to make gags about 9/11:

“Two and a half thousand widows, each with a cheque for five million dollars. There’s got to be six happy.”‘

Never was there a time when her ‘taboo-busting’ spirit was needed more. She will be sorely missed. Here are three of her best:

‘I’m Jewish. I don’t work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.’

‘When I was born, my mother asked the doctor, “Will she live?” He said, “Only if you take your foot off her throat.”‘

‘The whole Michael Jackson thing was my fault. I told him to date only 28-year-olds. Who knew he would find 20 of them?’