Heathcote Williams 08 September 2014. Posted in News
Joan Rivers was "utterly irreplaceable", said Prince Charles, not noticing that most of her had been replaced by plastic.

JOAN RIVERS died in an endoscopy clinic
Where she was having her vocal chords examined.

Her voice had been getting raspier and raspier,
And recently she'd berated an interviewer
On leaving LAX, Los Angeles airport,
Who'd had the impudence to solicit her opinion
On the then current massacres in Gaza.

She turned on him angrily screaming
That she had "zero sympathy
For the civilians killed in Gaza"
Because "they had fair warning to get out, and they didn't ...
"So they deserve to die. They were told to get out.
"They didn't get out. You don't get out? you are an idiot.
"Hamas," she continued, "was re-elected
By a lot of stupid people who don't even own a pencil.
"At least the ones that were killed," she added with a savage relish,
"Were the ones with very low I.Q.s."

She then praised World War Two being ended by Hiroshima and Nagasaki
And she continued hoarsely shouting
At the interviewer who'd had the gall to ask her,
In view of her uncritical support for the Israeli State,
What were her feelings about the deaths of 1400 people:
"They started it. We now don't count who's dead.
"You're dead, you deserve to be dead."

In her snarling triumphalism
She was suggesting
That three hundred and seventy three children,
Killed by Israel's 'Protective Edge',
Had brought their own deaths
Upon themselves.
"You're dead, you deserve to be dead."

However karma is also a bitch,
And shortly afterwards Rivers
Would lose her voice
And, worse still, upon her entering the endoscopy clinic
And being given an anaesthetic
She fell into a coma and died.

The friend of Nancy Reagan, the friend of Netanyahu,
And the friend and favoured wedding guest of Prince Charles,
She would dance attendance upon the rich and powerful
And make it clear that she held political opinions
That matched theirs. She'd play court jester
And then growl, "We must bomb the shit out of Iran".

Her friend, the Prince, said that he was 'deeply saddened'
By the comedian's death 
And, keen to identify himself with outpourings of showbiz grief,
He added that, "Joan Rivers was an extraordinary woman
"With an original and indefatigable spirit,
"An unstoppable sense of humour and an enormous zest for life.
"She will be hugely missed and utterly irreplaceable."

In his dull insouciance the hapless Prince
Had overlooked the fact that his heroine,
Fawned upon in Hollywood as the 'Duchess of Dirt',
'Queen Wise-Arse', and the 'Goddess of Snark',
Had advised his future daughter-in-law, Kate Middleton,
'If you ever want to go to Paris, fly, don't take the tunnel.'

But perhaps he hadn't really forgotten it –
Perhaps he'd perversely savoured Rivers' sick reference
To his ex-wife's untimely death…
And nor did Charles seem aware that,
Far from her being "irreplaceable",
Much of Joan Rivers had been replaced by plastic.

Thanks to nearly three hundred operations
She'd become a smooth skinned gargoyle
Coated by a lustrous chemical sheen;
A reflective veneer on her tautened pink skin.

In 2010 she tweeted, "With all the plastic surgery I've had,
I'm worried when I die God won't recognize me."

The historian Alan Hart responded,
"If she was still alive today, I would say to her something like,
'If he does recognize you, perhaps you should worry
About whether he will forgive you for saying
That, because they voted for Hamas,
The Palestinians of the Gaza Strip prison camp
Deserved what they were getting
When Israel was delivering them
More death and destruction."

Others disobligingly wondered whether
Those disposing of her body would cremate her
Or would recycle her plastic corpse.

"I've had so much plastic surgery," she'd declare,
"When I die they will donate my body to Tupperware."
Although sadly, Tupperware might not think it served their brand –
Devoted to keeping food fresh in a hygienic fashion.

Most tragically of all, despite her surgery she was wistfully to confess,
"No man has ever, ever told me I'm beautiful."

Maybe that was because there was an inner ugliness
That couldn't be concealed by cosmetics:
The inner ugliness of a woman who'd often complain
How much she was inconvenienced by children on 'planes
By saying "where is Casey Anthony when you need her?"
Casey Anthony being an infamous mother
Accused of killing her two-year-old daughter
By suffocating her with parcel tape;
Ugliest of all perhaps, Rivers took a hideous pride
In doing anything for money:
"For $500, I'll write for Hitler," she said.

There is now a new face in hell,
With its mouth made of collagen
And a voice that may mercifully be silent
http://stopwar.org.uk/news/the-children-of-gaza-and-the-death-of-the-plastic-joker-joan-rivers#.VA3a1WP0e3N

life's untimely turns. its a soap opera where we never know what's next...

CashdownNG: life's untimely turns. its a soap opera where we never know what's next...

sadly she is dead and can't read all these.

even though i didn't agree with all she had said about people, but what can i say?
everyone has his/her own opinion. i still have respect for her.
such is life.

Velvet86:
sadly she is dead and can't read all these.

even though i didn't agree with all she had said about people, but what can i say?
everyone has his/her own opinion. i still have respect for her.
such is life.

really did you ever watch her shows? if people did not care about what they did, there would not be a need for the word legacy..

CashdownNG:

really did you ever watch her shows? if people did not care about what they did, there would not be a need for the word legacy..

You just said it, Show, it's all a show, a show to make money and get famous. You really think that woman was been herself on does shows? Celebrities sell what the world wants in order to remain relevant, eg Beyonce becomes Sasha Fierce when she wants to entertain, Drake become Drizzy, Chris Brown becomes breezy, Nicki Minaj take advantage of having a big azzz, Kayne West basically turns into a douchebag, thats his own survival mechanism in the industry, So who am I to judge? God is the ultimate judge. But what she said about gaza was absolutely wrong, and irony I don't know who wrote that article but the person is doing the same, justifying another human's death....totally uncalled for.

rokiatu:


You just said it, Show, it's all a show, a show to make money and get famous. You really think that woman was been herself on does shows? Celebrities sell what the world wants in order to remain relevant, eg Beyonce becomes Sasha Fierce when she wants to entertain, Drake become Drizzy, Chris Brown becomes breezy, Nicki Minaj take advantage of having a big azzz, Kayne West basically turns into a douchebag, thats his own survival mechanism in the industry, So who am I to judge? God is the ultimate judge. But what she said about gaza was absolutely wrong, and irony I don't know who wrote that article but the person is doing the same, justifying another human's death....totally uncalled for.

wonderful. gladiators killed for sport, pornstars have sex for show, people do some crappy stuff and call it differently cos they can't just say that they do what they do... such a pretentious world..there is a difference between shows that entertain all and ones that entertain the showmasters themselves.

Mean is mean,black is black,I'm not to judge but I saw a couple of her shows and its tough on any person who's the subject of the matter.


I call it as I see it.

CashdownNG:

wonderful. gladiators killed for sport, pornstars have sex for show, people do some crappy stuff and call it differently cos they can't just say that they do what they do... such a pretentious world..there is a difference between shows that entertain all and ones that entertain the showmasters themselves.

Mean is mean,black is black,I'm not to judge but I saw a couple of her shows and its tough on any person who's the subject of the matter.


I call it as I see it.

gbam!!! u said it all!!!! i just loved her criticism of celebs dat dressed badly #datsAll

parrotibaba: gbam!!! u said it all!!!! i just loved her criticism of celebs dat dressed badly #datsAll

glad you share my sentiments

There is a big difference between criticims and insult. Joan Rivers was unquestionably insulting. While some chose to make their money by dressing one way (also a show), she chose to make hers by destroying them. But what shocked me most was that, when politely asked if this was not mean in a CNN interview (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lKS-Et-VmE), the so called queen of humour could not take what she considered to be CRITICISM and stormed off the set. She can dish it out but cannot take it herself.