Posted on 09/06/2014 5:43:06 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
That’s what I think - me, me, me.
ROTFLMAO!
“I am not sure she ever felt accepted by the showbiz elite,”
I wonder who the showbiz elite are?
Yeah. I always thought that was a funny monologue.
I love the end about her wedding night.
That's Noonan, all right. She wouldn't know how to write otherwise.
This part of the article made me laugh:
"Joan and a friend had just come back from a safari in Africa. One day they were walking along a path when they saw some local tribesmen. As the two groups passed, a tribesman exclaimed, “Joan Rivers, what are you doing here?!”
Then Noonan had to screw it up a couple of sentences later:
"We talked about it, and I asked, beyond the idea of what might be called Western cultural imperialism , what else does the story mean to you?"
Also, she needs to pay more attention to proofreading.
Rodney Dangerfield:
When I was born, I was so ugly,....... The Doctor slapped my mother!
Love it. She was so not cool with modernity.
No, no f-bombs, but almost all of her jokes in recent years were so crude. I remember seeing her on Carson’s show in the early years, when TV was still family friendly. She was brilliant and did not need to be gross then.
Being a bit older, I watched Joan Rivers pretty much start to finish. She always showed no mercy to the British Royals. One of my favorite bits was when she was relating about someone asking Princess Anne how old she was. The Princess thought and then started pounding her hoof....er foot “one...two...three...” ala Mr. Ed. In her prime Joan Rivers was merciless.
Oh, no! I didn’t get that far. Blowhard!
Of course, Noonan was using the oldest joke in the world - where somebody in Africa recognizes an American celebrity. I’ve used it myself with a friend who seems to know everybody on the planet. It always makes people laugh! I wish Noonan would knock off her show biz credentials - which are non-existent.
Actually, her prime target in her earliest years were herself and Edgar. Endless fat jokes and bad marriage jokes - very similar to Phyllis Diller and Fang. She started to change in the 1970s when she targeted Elizabeth Taylor. From there she shed her old roots and became something else. I remember when she was guest host on The Tonight Show and Michael Landon was a guest. He refused to speak to her (this was at the height of her taking hits in the press for her merciless attacks on Taylor) and just glared at her during his time on air. What a nightmare!
The article is littered with references to Joan’s raw earthiness. I seriously doubt Peggy would have boasted of friendship with such a person if said person hadn’t been so famous.
At the 1984 RNC convention in Dallas I worked the Reagan-Bush motor pool. Joan Rivers showed up at our door and needed a ride over to the convention center. It was my turn to drive so I drove her to the convention center. She was really nice and I told her how nice it was to see some Hollywood support of our president, and she said, "Honey, I am not from Hollywood, I am a New Yorker."
My husband once pointed out old Peggy at a B’way show we were attending about 4 years ago. She overheard him and, boy, did she preen like a peacock. I wanted to slug him!
......I got about halfway .....before nausea set in
Probably Barbra Streisand who took to Facebook to immediately tell us all that Joan’s name was originally Molinsky. Odd comment from somebody who dropped the “a” in her first name.
Peggy is obsessed with the high-life and the wealthy - she makes F. Scott Fitzgerald look like a writer of the lower depths.
LOL! I wish you had video of that. It’d be priceless.
I would have been tempted to reply, “Who? Never heard of her.”
Why didn’t I think of that? Good comeback!
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