Johnny Carson plays a practical joke on Joan Rivers

She wasn't done!

Thanks to Ann Althouse

She never preached to the liberal choir

Camille Paglia on Joan Rivers:

“In her most recent book, I Hate Everyone… Starting With Me, Joan demonstrates her scathing rejection of humanitarian pieties and political platitudes. Unlike virtually all American comedians these days, she never preaches to the liberal choir for easy laughs. On the contrary, she goes against the grain and overtly offends and repels. She has endeared herself to free-thinking gay men by her pitiless attacks on political correctness. She cracks jokes about Nazis, mass murderers, the handicapped, the homeless, the elderly, starving children, racial minorities, stroke victims and even suicides (despite the suicide of her second husband, Edgar Rosenberg).

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"That's how you get through life: You laugh, you can deal with it - done!"

"Jesus was Jewish - which makes sense, because He really loved His mother."

Susan Goldberg has a wonderful tribute of Joan Rivers videos over at Pajamas Media. Susan writes:

This is why I will most miss Joan and those of her generation: They were honest. Unfettered by political correctness, social disapproval, or cultural consternation, Joan illustrated what it means to be a fully self-actualized human being. Rife with opinions, emotions, and the ability to reason, she never asked that you agree with her, only that you respect her right to her own mind. And how refreshing was that?

Watch the videos and read more of Susan's tribute here.

Learning to love life

Can you truly say you love your life? Joan Rivers loved every aspect of show business that she was involved in. She had her share of ups and downs, but never wallowed in self pity. That's what I liked about her. I also admired the way she figured out how to love her life.

"Acerbic"

From Mail Online:

Joan Rivers is 'resting comfortably' in a medically induced coma just hours after she performed a typically acerbic show in Manhattan and joked about her own death.

The 81-year-old comic was rushed from an Upper East Side clinic to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition on Thursday morning after she stopped breathing during a routine medical procedure.

A picture of health only the day before, Rivers accepted a bouquet of flowers from a fan as she finished her stand-up performance at around 9.30pm on Wednesday.

The entertainment legend even posed for pictures with a fan on the way out of the Laurie Beechman Theatre, only to suffer respiratory failure less than twelve hours later during surgery on her throat.

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