[markjo]

Joan Rivers, a raucous and often-ubiquitous comedic presence on TV and nightclubs since the 1960s, has died. She was 81.

[Ghost of V]

I thought she was 16?

[Lord Dave]

She lived to 81 with an unknown number of face lifts.

I'm surprised it took so long.

[Lemon]

Wasn't she supposedly a complete asshole? I'm not going to google it but if anyone cares to tell me I'd appreciate it.

[Ghost of V]

Wasn't she supposedly a complete asshole? I'm not going to google it but if anyone cares to tell me I'd appreciate it.

Yes. She was supposedly a little bitch, but she was brutally honest and candid about herself which was endearing to many.

This is a direct quote from her regarding her funeral, directed toward her daughter:

When I die (and yes, Melissa, that day will come; and yes, Melissa, everything’s in your name), I want my funeral to be a huge showbiz affair with lights, cameras, action…I want Craft services, I want paparazzi and I want publicists making a scene! I want it to be Hollywood all the way. I don’t want some rabbi rambling on; I want Meryl Streep crying, in five different accents. I don’t want a eulogy; I want Bobby Vinton to pick up my head and sing “Mr. Lonely.” I want to look gorgeous, better dead than I do alive. I want to be buried in a Valentino gown and I want Harry Winston to make me a toe tag. And I want a wind machine so that even in the casket my hair is blowing just like Beyoncé’s.

[Lord Dave]

Wasn't she supposedly a complete asshole? I'm not going to google it but if anyone cares to tell me I'd appreciate it.

Yes. She was supposedly a little bitch, but she was brutally honest and candid about herself which was endearing to many.

This is a direct quote from her regarding her funeral, directed toward her daughter:

When I die (and yes, Melissa, that day will come; and yes, Melissa, everything’s in your name), I want my funeral to be a huge showbiz affair with lights, cameras, action…I want Craft services, I want paparazzi and I want publicists making a scene! I want it to be Hollywood all the way. I don’t want some rabbi rambling on; I want Meryl Streep crying, in five different accents. I don’t want a eulogy; I want Bobby Vinton to pick up my head and sing “Mr. Lonely.” I want to look gorgeous, better dead than I do alive. I want to be buried in a Valentino gown and I want Harry Winston to make me a toe tag. And I want a wind machine so that even in the casket my hair is blowing just like Beyoncé’s.

That sounds awesome.

[Ghost of V]

That sounds awesome.

My favorite part is the bit about the wind machine.

[Particle Person]

My favorite part is the part where she's dead.

[rooster]

Joan Rivers died doing what she loved: having surgery. r/toosoon

[Lemon]

My favorite part is the part where she's dead.

[Ghost of V]

People would be freaking out if this was how Robin William's death was handled. Damn double standards.

[Saddam Hussein]

Robin Williams.  And they were two different people, so of course there are going to be two different reactions.

[rooster]

Joan is not sprinkled throughout my childhood. I just remember her as a hateful woman whom I never found humorous.

[Ghost of V]

Joan is not sprinkled throughout my childhood. I just remember her as a hateful woman whom I never found humorous.

So her life is less important than Williams?

[rooster]

Joan is not sprinkled throughout my childhood. I just remember her as a hateful woman whom I never found humorous.

So her life is less important than Williams?

I was unaware of saying such a thing.

[Ghost of V]

Joan is not sprinkled throughout my childhood. I just remember her as a hateful woman whom I never found humorous.

So her life is less important than Williams?

I was unaware of saying such a thing.

You clearly implied that he was more important to you.

[rooster]

Joan is not sprinkled throughout my childhood. I just remember her as a hateful woman whom I never found humorous.

So her life is less important than Williams?

I was unaware of saying such a thing.

You clearly implied that he was more important to you.

Yes. One sentence is subjective, the other is objective.

[Ghost of V]

Joan is not sprinkled throughout my childhood. I just remember her as a hateful woman whom I never found humorous.

So her life is less important than Williams?

I was unaware of saying such a thing.

You clearly implied that he was more important to you.

Yes. One sentence is subjective, the other is objective.

I don't even know what those words mean.

[Crudblud]

Well that's the thing, Robin Williams appealed largely to the generation that is presently dominating social media, it's no surprise his death was treated as a big deal on the internet while that of Joan Rivers was just kind of "old woman who was on tv dies or something".

[Eddy Baby]

Just looked her up, quite glad I'd never heard of her