Non-motoring > Joan Rivers - Comedienne. Miscellaneous
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New Thu 4 Sep 14 22:26 
 Joan Rivers - Comedienne. - Roger.
Died today.

Parts of her were 81 years old.

(Yeah - bad taste joke, I know - but a lot of her stuff was in bad taste too!)
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New Thu 4 Sep 14 23:03 
 Joan Rivers - Comedienne. - Armel Coussine
She was always quite funny, but she really blossomed as a crazed old harridan making heartless jokes about colostomy bags and fatal diseases.

RIP
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New Fri 5 Sep 14 13:32 
 Joan Rivers - Comedienne. - Focusless
Good selection of quotes on the BBC:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29075239
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New Fri 5 Sep 14 13:43 
 Joan Rivers - Comedienne. - smokie
Thanks, those reminded me how much I liked her.
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New Fri 5 Sep 14 14:00 
 Joan Rivers - Comedienne. - Fenlander
Clever woman and anyone who thought it was all spite completely missed what she was about.
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New Fri 5 Sep 14 15:41 
 Joan Rivers - Comedienne. - R.P.
Tributaries have been pouring in...
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New Fri 5 Sep 14 16:54 
 Joan Rivers - Comedienne. - hjd
www.bitterwallet.com/tfl-pay-tribute-to-joan-rivers/78652

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New Fri 5 Sep 14 19:22 
 Joan Rivers - Comedienne. - Dutchie
Some good jokes,never met the Lady,she looked fun not now she is dead.

Something she said about Palestine bad taste.
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New Fri 5 Sep 14 23:08 
 Joan Rivers - Comedienne. - zookeeper
never found her funny?
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New Sat 6 Sep 14 10:59 
 Joan Rivers - Comedienne. - R.P.
Nor me.
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New Sat 6 Sep 14 18:18 
 Joan Rivers - Comedienne. - Westpig
I think she was a hideous old harridan who hid her appalling spitefulness and rudeness behind so called wit.
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New Sat 6 Sep 14 18:34 
 Joan Rivers - Comedienne. - Armel Coussine
Honestly Westpig. How can you be funny in that mode without being over-the-top rude?

OK, the jokes weren't to your taste. But a lot of them were damn funny all the same.
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New Sat 6 Sep 14 19:33 
 Joan Rivers - Comedienne. - Zero
>> I think she was a hideous old harridan

that was her persona for the act, using her age an excuse


>>who hid her appalling spitefulness and rudeness
>> behind so called wit.
there was no spite there at all, rudeness? yes sure lot of humour and wit is.


IMHO she was a mixed bag (ha! see what I did there?) some of it fantastic, some of it pretty dire.
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New Sat 6 Sep 14 19:55 
 Joan Rivers - Comedienne. - Armel Coussine
>> some of it fantastic, some of it pretty dire.

However adoring the fans may be, no stand-up would think they could win them all. You just can't.

I never saw a standup incapable of delivering a naff passage.
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New Sat 6 Sep 14 19:12 
 Joan Rivers - Comedienne. - Armel Coussine
>> Something she said about Palestine bad taste.

Bad taste was her stock in trade Dutchie. And she was a Jewish comedian playing to Zionist-leaning American audiences.
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New Mon 8 Sep 14 11:48 
 Joan Rivers - Comedienne. - helicopter
Read about what she was really like ...from someone who knew her well and worked with her.

www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/comedy/comedy-news/11077240/Joan-Rivers-My-loyal-mad-generous-galactic-friend.html

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New Mon 8 Sep 14 13:08 
 Joan Rivers - Comedienne. - Focusless
Great read, thanks.
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New Tue 9 Sep 14 11:50 
 Joan Rivers - Comedienne. - Armel Coussine
Bryony Gordon in today's comic tells a story that makes Rivers sound really sweet.
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