# Joan Rivers Joke?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-rivers-joke/349351
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 21, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-rivers-joke/349351 "2006-03-21T22:07:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Jacob\_Silj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jacob_Silj)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2006, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-rivers-joke/349351/21 "2006-03-22T22:26:35Z")
I don’t know about terrible- weird maybe, not terrible. Terrible is what she would like without all that surgery- I mean, she’s 72 I think.
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2006, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-rivers-joke/349351/22 "2006-03-22T22:36:08Z")
Maybe they bowdlerised it even more. Substitute “suppository” for “pill” and you have the old one about the guy who was given suppositories and was told by the doctor to put them in his “back passage”. Returning to the doctor he says “these things you gave me were useless. I put them in my back passage and the dog kept licking them. For all the good they’ve done me, I might as well have stuck them up my arse.”
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2006, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-rivers-joke/349351/23 "2006-03-22T23:07:25Z")
> [@jjimm](#):
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> Maybe they bowdlerised it even more. Substitute “suppository” for “pill” and you have the old one about the guy who was given suppositories and was told by the doctor to put them in his “back passage”. Returning to the doctor he says “these things you gave me were useless. I put them in my back passage and the dog kept licking them. For all the good they’ve done me, I might as well have stuck them up my arse.”
😃 Very funny, Jjimm!
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2006, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-rivers-joke/349351/24 "2006-03-23T00:06:26Z")
> [@Jacob Silj](#):
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> I don’t know about terrible- weird maybe, not terrible. Terrible is what she would like without all that surgery- I mean, she’s 72 I think.
Woosh.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-rivers-joke/349351/25 "2006-03-23T04:37:49Z")
My guess is that the original joke said “her rear” instead of “her ear”. The woman was given birth control pills, she was supposed to swallow them but thought they were suppositories, and so she ended up eight months pregnant.
Funny? No. Well told? No. Original? No. But comprehensible.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2006, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-rivers-joke/349351/26 "2006-03-23T07:27:25Z")
> [@Joan Rivers Joke Archive](#):
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> _My gardener in the country used to be a tree surgeon–until he fell out of a patient._
This was stolen from _You Bet Your Life_ starring Groucho Marx. Groucho asked a guest what he did for a living. When the guy said he was a tree surgeon, Groucho said, “Did you ever fall out of a patient?”
I realize that comics don’t make up all their own jokes, but it’s pretty lame to steal a famous line from one of the masters.
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### Author:  [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2006, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-rivers-joke/349351/27 "2006-03-23T07:57:38Z")
> [@Jacob Silj](#):
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> I don’t know about terrible- weird maybe, not terrible. Terrible is what she would like without all that surgery- I mean, she’s 72 I think.
She’s had her face lifted so many times she is getting a goatee.
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-rivers-joke/349351/28 "2006-03-23T15:10:05Z")
> [@Weirddave](#):
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> I saw her today on an Arby’s commercial for chicken cordon bleu. She looks terrible!
I was shocked by how much Hulk Hogan has wasted away.
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