Joan Rivers' interview for CNN

[Steven_Draker]

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[Boink]

Unlike any other comedian I've ever seen (except maybe the equally pompous Jerry Lewis), she has spent so much of her career explaining WHY her humor is funny - like it's some kind of science. Lord, she is thin skinned - must be all the plastic surgery. Next stop, The Howard Stern Show for damage control. He will kiss her ass.

[LouieD]

Ha! That old broad's ship left the dock years ago.

[mmk123]

I did not think that the interviewer was that bad. She was just asking questions and did not seem to be going for the jugular or anything like that.

[+ nycman]

I thought the interviewer was a bitch.

 

I didn't buy her "is she serious" routine for a second.

 

She nagged, nagged, and then nagged some more….indirectly criticizing Rivers the whole time.

 

I thought her interview style was a very poor and unprofessional.

 

And then she “acted” surprised that she pissed her “guest” off?

If she’s that clueless to reading a person’s behavior, she shouldn’t be doing interviews on national television.

 

Did Joan over react?.... yeah....but I don't blame her.

[Epigonos]

Yea Joan Rivers over reacted if her reaction was real. Just think of all the free publicity she has received from this little episode. The old broad ain't dumb.

[Frequentflier]

I thought the interviewer was a bitch.

 

I didn't buy her "is she serious" routine for a second.

 

She nagged, nagged, and then nagged some more….indirectly criticizing Rivers the whole time.

 

I thought her interview style was a very poor and unprofessional.

 

And then she “acted” surprised that she pissed her “guest” off?

If she’s that clueless to reading a person’s behavior, she shouldn’t be doing interviews on national television.

 

Did Joan over react?.... yeah....but I don't blame her.

 

Joan Rivers is an ugly, offensive bitch. People who spend their time listening to her or reading her crap books are likely of low intelligence. Wasting eyesight or hearing on her insults the God that gave us those. How's that for venom NYCman? Or are you really Joan Rivers?

[MiamiLooker]

I never thought she was a talented comic; just loud and crass. Edgar took the easy way out.

[OrdinaryJoe]

I did not think that the interviewer was that bad. She was just asking questions and did not seem to be going for the jugular or anything like that.

 

The interviewer was setting her up. Leading her down a path and was going to rip her to shreds for her comments on Michelle Obama.

 

I think Rivers has taken a lot of heat for that comment over the last several days and was worn down and on edge as a result. Someone with as much experience both being interviewed as well as interviewing likely saw the trap coming a mile away and probably had enough.

[armadillo]

She is a hypocrite of exceptional proportions. She can insult others but when she feels she is being even slighted she walks off... really?

[AdamSmith]

Yea Joan Rivers over reacted if her reaction was real. Just think of all the free publicity she has received from this little episode. The old broad ain't dumb.

 

Agree in full. From watching her of course on TV and then up close at a few NYC social events, in the theatre of public self-presentation she plays 3-dimensional chess. Instinctively, and extremely well, for her purposes.

[Steven_Draker]

I thought the interviewer was a bitch.

 

I didn't buy her "is she serious" routine for a second.

 

She nagged, nagged, and then nagged some more….indirectly criticizing Rivers the whole time.

 

I thought her interview style was a very poor and unprofessional.

 

According to Queerty, the interviewer "CNN anchor Fredricka Whitfield is admittedly one of the most obnoxious and condescending people sitting behind the CNN news desk"

 

Joan Rivers found her match apparently

[Steven_Draker]

The interviewer was setting her up. Leading her down a path and was going to rip her to shreds for her comments on Michelle Obama.

 

I think Rivers has taken a lot of heat for that comment over the last several days and was worn down and on edge as a result. Someone with as much experience both being interviewed as well as interviewing likely saw the trap coming a mile away and probably had enough.

 

+1

 

Just a few days ago she was confronted by PETA at a conference ...

 

[video=youtube;uJ6L03BPS6I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=uJ6L03BPS6I

 

and then there was the Michelle Obama comment

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Et38_Ufv-Jw

[Frequentflier]

Joan's money didn't get her looks or class.

[Guest ChrisW]

Joan's money didn't get her looks or class.

 

She is Jone fucking Rivers! She doesn't have looks or class which is why she is so beloved

[SteveEscort]

I am obviously in the minority because I love Joan Rivers

 

I love Fashion Police, it's must see tv and hey.....let's be honest they only say what everyone else is thinking

[Justice]

I'm old enough to remember Joan's earliest television appearances. When shows were in black and white and there was no such thing as color TV. She was funny then. Unfortunately, her humor, like black and white TV, ended a LONG time ago.

[instudiocity]

I'm old enough to remember Joan's earliest television appearances. When shows were in black and white and there was no such thing as color TV. She was funny then. Unfortunately, her humor, like black and white TV, ended a LONG time ago.

Damn, you're OLDer.

[marylander1940]

[video=youtube;6lKS-Et-VmE]

 

I'm late to come to this thread... but let me tell you she has skin-deep sensitivity for someone who's been around for so long. She should have known better to take a joke or in this case some criticism, and actually she did get back at the interviewer at first in a good way but somehow got upset about it.

 

I guess we all have bad days and make mistakes. I'm a big fan of her!

[bigvalboy]

I'm late to come to this thread... but let me tell you she has skin-deep sensitivity for someone who's been around for so long. She should have known better to take a joke or in this case some criticism, and actually she did get back at the interviewer at first in a good way but somehow got upset about it.

 

I guess we all have bad days and make mistakes. I'm a big fan of her!

 

As am I Marylander, a little late coming to this thread, but have loved all the comments about her so far. She does seem to polarize peoples opinions. In the end, I think that a little of it was staged, and done to create drama. I don't think that the interviewer was so bad that it was worth walking out on. She had backed the interviewer into a corner, and I thought at that point she had the upper hand, so walking out was a little dramatic. If it was all real, maybe there was bad chemistry between them off camera...no matter, All in all, I love the ol bitch.

[whipped guy]

...All in all, I love the ol bitch.

As do I! Too many good memories of literally rolling on the floor... and especially when she was guest host on the Tonight Show!

[marylander1940]

As do I! Too many good memories of literally rolling on the floor... and especially when she was guest host on the Tonight Show!

 

[video=youtube;H6rwCp-QXvA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6rwCp-QXvA

 

me too, I love her!

 

She wasn't upset during this interview.

[+ quoththeraven]

I used to like her back in the day. I'm tired of her now -- too much nasty (and controversy for the sake of controversy), not enough funny.

[whipped guy]

I really don't think that she has changed much at all regarding her approach to comedy over the years... She was just as bad, good, funny, or offensive depending on your point of view all those many years ago... Perhaps what has considered to be off limits has changed... Possibly????

 

Still, she is selling a book... Think of statements by others who have been attempting to sell books... and put things into perspective...

[AdamSmith]

I really don't think that she has changed much at all regarding her approach to comedy over the years... She was just as bad, good, funny, or offensive depending on your point of view all those many years ago...

 

Exactly. And besides her sensibility, I admire (envy!) her energy and indestructibility. At 81 she does ten times as much every day as I can manage.

 

Encountered her in person a few years ago. She was in the audience at a performance of 'Our Town' running at the Barrow Street Theatre in the West Village, which I and an (escort ) friend also happened to attend. At intermission he asked her if I could take a pic of them together. She could not have been more gracious. Chatted with us for a little while, no snobbery or annoyance at being approached like that.

 

Nor did she make a crack or raise an eyebrow at our fairly obvious situation, with his being less than half my age and many times more good-looking.