I used not to like her but her appearance on Louie made me love her a little bit.
If you like Space Angel, you’ll love Clutch Cargo, which was made at the same time, for the same budget, and with all the same regard for the quality of the end product. They’re all public domain (no copyright owner) because nobody cared enough to renew the copyright, back when that was still required, and can you blame them?
The process of having a static drawing and using actors speaking lines to provide mouth movements is called Syncro-Vox.
Oh, and the animation that the young future boxer was watching when Christopher Walken gives him his ass watch in Pulp Fiction was Clutch Cargo. Just thought you’d like to know.
Wow, what a cunt.
Right, what sickish behavior!
I get more of a Madame vibe from her, actually.
ETA: Come to think of it, you never see the two together. Hmm…
The Joan Rivers Show had a celebrity gossip segment. One show the gossip columnist she had on was discussing an unmarried celeb and the celeb’s baby’s father. The gossip kept refering to him as ‘the father of her child.’ After a few times, frustrated at having to repeat the phrase, she wondered aloud what you call the father of someone’s child. Without missing a beat, Joan said, “We used to call them husbands.”
I can see why he didn’t want to link to it; it exposes his post as total bullshit.
No kidding.
Charlie Wayne I hope that you were able to get some therapy after that encounter and are now back to your old self. If that had been me I’m sure I’d need at least a couple of years worth of therapy to get my psyche back in check.
Was it Joan, or Phyllis Diller who said: “My first husband was so dumb, he couldn’t count to twenty-one unless he was naked.”
I did meet Joan Rivers and I did write a post about that meeting. But I never submitted to this forum for some reason. I forgot that I never posted it and I assumed that I did post it.
I’m sorry for any inconvenience.
You did write it. I quoted it.
I really liked Piece of Work too. It was quite an interesting trip into her mind and now I mostly feel sorry for her. The blend of narcissism and paranoia she displays is just amazing.
There’s a chunk of one of her shows on youtube and the part I find most fascinating is how she just starts giving away the potted plants on the stage to members of the audience. Maybe she thinks she can win over people one perennial at a time.
I’m sure that, like her, the plants are 100% fake.
She’s a bitter, angry old woman, who’s keeping the act alive so Melissa can take over when she’s gone. But what is Melissa without Joan? Whatever. It all adds up to zero.
Came in to say this. Really, really casts her in a different light – she’s much more self-aware that she’s a schticky, washed-up comic than I assumed, and she’s somebody that really understands the roller coaster of fame.
I still don’t really like her act much, but she’s somebody who wants to work and I won’t blame her for doing the act that she’s found gets her hired.
Knowing Rivers, she probably thought, “What can I do to milk this, so I get the most possible publicity?” And if so, it worked.
How shocking. A celebrity entertainer chooses the jobs that get them the most notice. Next you’ll be telling me all those movie stars aren’t just friends of Letterman.
I always thought Joan Rivers was highly overrated. After all, she is just the bastard daughter of some lordling from the Trident.
The comment about Michelle Obama being a tranny was definitely unfortunate. I don’t know what she was going for with that line but it bombed loud. I’m sure it’s not her first bomb in her long storied career. I’m willing to write it off as either that or dementia.
As to the TV interview… meh. Joan’s got demons. Something got under her skin and she acted out. BFD. At 81, I think we’ll all earn the right to be annoyed and short tempered now and then.
I love her “Fuck 'em if they can’t take a joke!” attitude, even if not all her jokes work for me.
Literally. And lots of it.