The Late Joan Rivers: 'Does this urn make my ash look fat?' — Page 8

So is my new thread title and none can convince me otherwise.

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I admit your title is very clever Mamo

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I love her, yes she can be mean spirited with get comedy at times and I can totally understand why people would dislike her for that, I get it. What I don't get is that the people on here who are so offended by her comedy are the ones who are telling mean spirited jokes about an 80 year old mother and grandmother dying and trying to disguise it as ' well Joan did it so I'm just following her lead' that makes no sense to me. Also the fact that it's coming from some on here who can be the nastiest posters on this board and frequently either tear others do?n or tell mean spirited jokes and share vile comments about other celebs in other threads.

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They don't. She's in a coma and unlikely to live.

I just don't see the point.

Updated On: 8/30/14 at 10:19 PM

I'll always treasure the night she came and sat with me and a bunch of other fellow theater fans and dished theater (not in her persona-but as Joan, the theater fan). She was so funny and sweet to us.

I will miss her and my thoughts and prayers are with her family now as they face the terrible decision they have to make.

I think it's the third one, boo.

Name, your TRHEAD TITLE says she "deserves it." That is all I meant. You are flat out saying because she's made jokes you don't like it's funny to mock it and say it's karma she's going likely going to die.

I DO think Joan would like the new thread title and laugh at any actual jokes about her, pulling the plug, etc. However, 90% of what you're spewing isn't even remotely a joke, but a "she said mean things! she's evil!! haha" tone. Write something in an actual joke format and I'll think it's funny. For the record, I've laughed at several jokes about her in heaven I've read online so far so I'm by no means sensitive towards her dying.

Joan was right, everything IS fodder for comedy. Is everything she ever said funny and in perfect taste? Of course not, but that doesn't mean we/you/i/Amy Schumer/WHOEVER shouldn't try. Just like not every joke about Hilter was funny, Mel Brooks can make us laugh and make light of the monster. I'm not saying her jokes about the abducted girls were great, but surely SOMEONE at some time can make us/them feel better about the horrors of that event so they shouldn't be off the table.

Again, I ask you why didn't you spew venom at Robin Williams threads? He also said questionable things in jokes. You seem to be personally anti Joan in reasons that seem beyond "She made jokes I don't think are funny!"

I'll say, in my own opinion, I think what Michael Richards and Tracey Jordan said were said in a comedy club, not in a political essay or personal opinion. It IS a bit of persona, but I've also heard very negative things about them as people, something I can't say for Joan, whom I've always heard glowing things about.

I am mildly intrigued that so many of her supporters here have already got her buried.
Here is the thing- we don't know anything other than 1) she stopped breathing 2) she is in a medically induced coma. There are so many variables here I can't begin to make even an UNeducated guess on this outcome. examples- was it a witnessed arrest? did she then go into cardiac arrest? Did she have CPR? Was she defibrillated? If yes to any of these how long was she" down"? What meds was she given?What was the underlying cause of the arrest? a PE? Stroke?
Since the coma is medically induced it should (at least potentially PLANNED for) be reversible.

Is it just her age? sorry that isn't a definitive element for predicting outcome. I had a 92 yr old who threw a massive PE ( and was on her way out the door!) went to ICU and 3 weeks latter went to rehab and home. She lived another 2 & 1/2 yrs ( i saw the obit.)
I always miss Rachel but it's times like these i especially miss her medical knowledge.

I don't feel Joan Rivers humour requires this much discussion-potatoes/pottatas.
She makes you laugh/she doesn't. Why do we laugh when someone farts or falls over-who knows-were we born that way or did it develop?
For whatever reason Joan Rivers made many people LAUGH for many years, so much more important than causing misery that is abundant throughout the world.

Go peacefully Joan .x

If any topic can be funny then any topic can be analyzed and discussed. If you want to discuss, discuss. If you don't, don't.

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Phyllis I personally liked Robin Williams as a performer and esp as the person I met.
I did not mention that there were MANY standup comic that hated him as they felt he had ripped them or friends of theirs off using bits in his act. I can't swear to accuracy of the accusations but I| know they were out there. So There! I repeated bad stuff about Robin Williams.
Continue with what you were doing...

I understand there should be some modicum of decorum around these things, but I can't begrudge Phyllis and Namo their fun - if we were to truly take events like this to heart, about people we don't know, we would all be emotional and mental basketcases.

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good riddance to bad rubbish