Can we talk. Joan River died the other day as she was well on her way to the morgue being on life support for a week. Joan was making news often this year with incredible stupid shit she was saying and perhaps the crap she spewed in her "Golden Years" will tarnish a career and trend setter she happened to be in her era. before Joan Rivers you never ever saw a female stand up comedian on television and most of the women you saw on early television or late radio were ones married and getting boned by a famous male comedian.
Joan was the first woman to host the "Tonight Show" and likely much more rounded and funny as a comedian and host as that joke Leno that took over for the king of late night. She appeared often on stage in her later years and I actually enjoyed a show she did in Waukegan some years back. The only problem I had with Joan Rivers was she often highlighted celebrities in this culture that too often highlights and puts on a pedicle this nobility class of folks. She lampooned the shutout of these folks but she would become a butt of jokes as well with her stupidity later in life making crude sexiest jokes. She outraged the world not too long ago with her comments about feeling like those women in Cleveland who were held in captivity by a sadist for over a decade. Old people often don't think before they say things and this was the case with Joan Rivers. I really don't think she ever really understood why people were so incensed with this comment among others she would say to get a highlight on the Internet for a day or too to remind us that she was still alive.
Well she is no longer kicking and will have to pass on the torch to stupidity comments passed off as comedy to some other old comedic hag to be named later. Joan Rivers is dead at the age of eighty two.
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