Seriously - all this grief over Joan Rivers?

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It was throat surgery. NOT plastic surgery.

No one over 80 should have anything like that done in a doctor's office, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was throat surgery. NOT plastic surgery.

No one over 80 should have anything like that done in a doctor's office, though.

Is that normal to have throat surgery in an out patient facility? Is it possible that the family just said it was throat surgery because they didn't want to say what it was?

[Anonymous]

I liked her and will miss her. I am incredibly sensitive and cannot stand it when people make fun of others, but somehow she seemed to do it with a soft underside. I felt she was kind-hearted at the same time as being witty. And she made me laugh a lot. Not many comedians do.

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http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-joan-rivers-kathy-griffin-appreciation-story.html#page=1

She had the rep of a mean comic, but she was actually very kind.

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Anonymous wrote:I understand even the most malicious and obnoxious comedians have a good side and I'm sure Joan Rivers was a good person to some people in her life, but the over-emotional outpouring of grief, as if she was Mother Theresa, has really been grating on me today. Maybe because I've got the TV on and the news won't stop talking about her.

Seriously? She was a mean "comedian" who hit below the belt and exploited other people's misfortunes for cheap laughs (like Lindsay Lohan). She was nothing special.

Anyone who rips Lindsay Lohan is OK by me.

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Anonymous wrote:Except she WAS special, like it or not.

especially nasty!

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MarleySkye840 wrote:Any time someone dies, we typically mourn them. JR was not a murderer, rapist, or terrorist, she was just a "mean girl". I put that in quotes because I think she was actually a nice person in real life but her schtick was to be a rude bitch for laughs.

RIP

except she wasn't funny.

also, if you ever saw her weak attempt at a (very short lived) talk show, one of the guests was a school girl getting bullied in school. the kid talked about how awful the other girls were--name calling, calling her fat. she was oozing sympathy for this kid, but she was a first class hypocrite.

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Anonymous wrote:She was a constant. Always there for decades. That is why

like herpes. RIP

[Anonymous]

She WAS funny. Hilarious. Skewering celebrities is fair game and entertaining.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She was ground-breaking in the male-dominated world of comedy.

Yes, this., I have a friend who worked as a waiter in a restaurant she used to frequent and he says she was always very nice to him.

Well, that's just common sense. She didn't want him doing anything to her food.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was throat surgery. NOT plastic surgery.

Yes, her body was already saturated with plastic, crazy bitch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnNmJ7lKCm0

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I understand even the most malicious and obnoxious comedians have a good side and I'm sure Joan Rivers was a good person to some people in her life, but the over-emotional outpouring of grief, as if she was Mother Theresa, has really been grating on me today. Maybe because I've got the TV on and the news won't stop talking about her.

Seriously? She was a mean "comedian" who hit below the belt and exploited other people's misfortunes for cheap laughs (like Lindsay Lohan). She was nothing special.

Anyone who rips Lindsay Lohan is OK by me.

Strange how people are offended that she would joke about Lindsay Lohan. I already posted this, but every comic made Lndsay Lohan jokes -- every single one. Besides, Lindsay Lohan laughed. She has a sense of humor apparently.l

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She was ground-breaking in the male-dominated world of comedy.

Yes, this., I have a friend who worked as a waiter in a restaurant she used to frequent and he says she was always very nice to him.

Well, that's just common sense. She didn't want him doing anything to her food.

She had a lot of good friends that she spent time with often, and she was a good mother and devoted grandmother. She had a better life than many of the miserable people ripping her on this thread. So mean to make people defend themselves for feeling sad about her death.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I liked her and will miss her. I am incredibly sensitive and cannot stand it when people make fun of others, but somehow she seemed to do it with a soft underside. I felt she was kind-hearted at the same time as being witty. And she made me laugh a lot. Not many comedians do.

Agreed. And looking back, she always seemed to be on my tv one way or other; she'd be interviewed on a talk show, or I'd be flipping through channels and nothing else was on so I would watch Fashion Police and wind up highly entertained...I really will miss her. Mostly the self-deprecating side.

[Anonymous]

She was a pioneer in her field and a hardworking survivor who never gave up or gave in.

Though I wasn't much a fan of her style of humor, I absolutely applaud and respect her. There was a lot more to her and her career than the catty red carpet comments of her final decade(s).

For more information on her life history and contributions, see her NY Times obit, among others:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/05/arts/television/joan-rivers-dies.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpSumSmallMediaHigh&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news