RIP Joan Rivers

I have a friend who worked for her for a number of years and raves about how kind, generous, and hard-working Rivers was. RIP to a legend.

 

I guess that God needed someone to make fun of what he is wearing.

 

And I have done it, too, no question.

But I thought the Robin Williams outpouring was over the top. I think a lot of people did.

When Dylan goes, though, I'm no holds barred ...

Carry on.

 

Joan Rivers on Ed Sullivan in 1967:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpPCFoXXhF0

 

Funniest woman ever?

I'd say she's on a short list with Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball, Gilda Radner and maybe Roseanne.

 

She died doing what she loved.

 

The center square just got a lot less funny.
RIP Joan.

 

This is where I first heard her, as a kid -- "It's a bird, it's a plan, it's LETTERMAN!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3y_H3SaoAY

 

Throw in Phyllis Diller.

 

Actually, "It's a word, it's a plan..."

I loved when Letterman took the E off his chest to turn the glob into a globe.

What a great cast -- Morgan Freeman, Bill Cosby, Rita Moreno...

 

I would say funniest female stand-up without question.