:-(

She would have laughed her ass off at your "Her face was just twelve" comment, Dan!

Rest in Peace, Joan

She went to a clinic, then a hospital on the same day.

What a tramp!

Thanks Dan. What a surprise. Has she been ill lately?

I hear she was also a really nice person when the cameras were off. She was also a very vocal supporter of Israel. Bless her and RIP.

RIP Joan. Will be greatly missed. Loved her acerbic humor.

It's become fashionable to rag on Joan for her increasingly nasty and un-PC public comments, but that's a common side effect of age. In her heyday, Rivers was spectacularly funny and profane. If you like any female comedians at all, any of them, you should be aware that you owe their existence to Rivers. The only one of her contemporaries who comes close is Phyllis Diller.

Actually, it's not just the female ones. If you like any comedian, male or female, who specializes in snark and shock and the unvarnished profane truth, honed to a point like a needle to the spinal column, you're listening to Joan Rivers's influence.

Her recent TV show was stupid but brutally funny, despite the presence of those other goons, the Q-Tip head woman, the sockless dude, the chick with the lavender hair -- everyone was just waiting for the queen to deliver her lines. Which she did right up to the end. Her comic timing was flawless even at 81.

"increasingly nasty and un-PC public comments, but that's a common side effect of age"

Fnarf, I pity you. Most of the old people I know are generally pleasant, not counting their ailments. And I am far more un-PC than any I know. Maybe you can find some new friends with a more positive outlook.

@8, so we know age-related dementia isn't your excuse, then. So what is it?

@9
I have respect for your inquiry Sir, despite the fact that I don't rely on excuses. It goes without saying that excuses are a tradition in your circle of acquaintances.

Can someone post some links to when she was funny? Because I only ever saw her hosting the Tonight Show and found her profoundly unfunny, just like everything else on that show. The late night talk show is just a lousy vehicle for humour, IMO.

But I'd like to see what she could do when she was really cooking, if there's a record somewhere.

A Joan Rangers salute to you - always underestimated, goodbye Joan.

@10, my circle of acquaintances doesn't post detailed descriptions of their own excrement, unlike you and your circle of one. Go fuck yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIibX4Dr…

"The Palestinian citizens deserve to be dead. You're dead, you deserve to be dead. Don’t you dare make me feel bad about that. They were told to get out. They didn’t get out. You don’t get out, you are an idiot. At least the ones that were killed were the ones with low IQs."

Let's have a big round of applause for Joan Rivers' marvelous sense of comedy.

Plug.
Pulled.

I never found her to be funny. Sanctimonious, self absorbed yes, sometimes heartless, never funny. I loved Phyllis Diller, she was raunchy be without the mean.

@11...I dunno...don't have time to hunt up links. I first experienced her in the late 70s and although I did like the tonight show, I didn't like her. I didn't grow to like her until I got older. I guess humor is in the eye of the beholder. For example: Conan O'Brien...how did he ever keep the late show for so long? Seth Rogan? WTF? Lots of clever people I know think they are hilarious...I think they are just...stupid. Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog was the one thing on Conan's show that I thought was funny...and of course, it wasn't O"Brien...it was Smigel.

Ms. Rivers never joked when she dehumanized dead arab kids. She meaned every word.

In 2012, I won front row tickets from The Stranger to her show @ Benaroya Hall.
During her finale, she handed out all the potted mums lining the stage because, as she explained/complained, the venue charged her for them anyway.
Well, I was one of the lucky recipients, and after the show, my friend reluctantly snuck backstage with me to the meet-and-greet and took my picture with Joan and the mums.
This past winter, the mums died.
The end.
RIP Joan Rivers.

I never found her funny, but I appreciate that other comedians did/do. I thought her humor was unfunny and most of it just seemed mean.

But I saw the documentary about her, "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work," and I've got to say, she came off as a much nicer person than I would have imagined from her comedy act. And as a tireless worker with little or no ego.

I never found Joan Rivers that funny. I don't like comedy that denigrates others, and her comedy was a bit neurotic to my liking. Her infamous Heidi Klum joke was perplexing to say the least..

However, she is a survivor from many entertainment battles, so she gets one or two gold stars for many battle campaigns. I would say a kaddish to her and rest in peace, with much warmth and peace to her loved ones and her many fans...

I've seen/heard her older stuff; I can't say I've ever been impressed. Take her rant from the '60s about how promiscuous men are studs and promiscuous women are tramps: where's the joke?

She seemed to really enjoy who she was. RIP.

Joan Rivers was an insult comic. Like Phyllis Diller, she found it necessary to use herself as her own primary target, but like Don Rickles, Sarah Silverman, and Kathy Griffin, she could be cruel. All of that group also occasionally comes off as sexist, elitist, credist, or racist. I think that's just an occupational hazard for insult comics. Joan occasionally made me laugh, but much of her humor was too mean for my taste. Still, she was a brave, tireless, and generous woman. Her profession is better for having had her, and we are lucky to have known her humor in our lives, even if we didn't always agree with it. I am sad to hear of her passing.

#11, yeah, I keep hearing that she's a legendary funny person too, but I only know her as mean, shallow, and pitiful (all that plastic surgery).

That being said, it says a lot that so many people love her, so I think I'm the clueless one.

@ 27 but lots of people loved Johnny Carson too, and I thought his monologues were the definition of lame and weak. So it might just be a question of taste. I think I'll spend some time on youtube trying to find some bits.

Fnarf, we all know several old "politically correct" folks. Let's take a guess at a few of your favorites: Jimmy Carter, Bernie Sanders, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Al Sharpton.

How do you suppose they did not succumb to the ravages of un-PCness that comes with old age? Lots of exercise, good diet, avoiding processed foods, or perhaps not watching the Fox News Channel?

Normally, your comparisons and juxtapositions (although I might disagree with them) are at least logical.