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Comedian Joan Rivers greets the audience at the Comedy Central Roast of Joan Rivers in Los Angeles in July 2009. (DAN STEINBERG / AP / via TODAY)Related Posts聽鈥?Joan Rivers, a pioneering female stand-up comic and the queen of Can We Talk? gossip, has died. She was 81, her daughter, Melissa Rivers, said Thursday.
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Comedian Joan Rivers arrives for the premiere of the documentary Joan Rivers 鈥?A Piece of Work at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, in January 2010. (LUCAS JACKSON / Reuters file)
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Raspy-voiced and brassy, Rivers was always self-deprecating, foul-mouthed and politically incorrect. A master of reinvention, she endured in show business because of her tenacious work ethic 鈥?which she credited to her immigrant mentality.  
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Comedians typically push the envelope, but Rivers proved time and again that she didn t even see the envelope. To her fans, she was as shocking as she was endearing.
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  I mock everybody, regardless of race, creed or color, she  in July. Every joke I make, no matter how tasteless, is there to draw attention to something I really care about.  
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Four years earlier, she explained her no-holds-barred approach to The Times of London: If you laugh at something, you shrink the dragon.  
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Her favorite punching bag, though, was always herself. My mother used to look at me and say, Looks don t count. Now, get out of my sight, you big lump.'
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Comedian Joan Rivers greets the audience at the Comedy Central Roast of Joan Rivers in Los Angeles in July 2009. (DAN STEINBERG / AP / via TODAY)Related Posts聽鈥?Joan Rivers, a pioneering female stand-up comic and the queen of Can We Talk? gossip, has died. She was 81, her daughter, Melissa Rivers, said Thursday. Rivers was undergoing surgery on her vocal cords <a href=http://www.truesreligion.com>True Religion Outlet Store</a> at a clinic in New York City on Aug. 28 when she stopped breathing and had to be transported to Mount Sinai Hospital. Melissa Rivers and her 13-year-old grandson, Cooper, who lived with her in Malibu, Calif., rushed to her bedside. Comedian Joan Rivers arrives for the premiere of the documentary Joan Rivers 鈥?A Piece of Work at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, in January 2010. (LUCAS JACKSON / Reuters file) Raspy-voiced and brassy, Rivers was always self-deprecating, foul-mouthed and politically incorrect. A master of reinvention, she endured in show business because of her tenacious work ethic 鈥?which she credited to her immigrant mentality. Comedians typically push the envelope, but Rivers proved time and again that she didn t even see the envelope. To her fans, she was as shocking as she was endearing.

The way she is <a href=http://www.trueireligion.com>True Religion Sale</a>  funny, she tells the truth according to herself, the late film critic in 2010. She hates some people. She has political opinions. Her observations are so merciless and her timing so precise that even if you like that person, you laugh. She is a sadist of comedy, unafraid to be cruel 鈥?even too cruel. 

No topic was <a href=http://www.sunglassmalls.com>Cheap Ray Ban Sunglasses</a> From Elizabeth Taylor to Queen Elizabeth to even Anne Frank, Rivers loved going after public figures.

I mock everybody, regardless of race, creed or color, she  in July. Every joke I make, no matter how tasteless, is there to draw attention to something I really care about. 

Four years earlier, she explained her no-holds-barred approach to The Times of London: If you laugh at something, you shrink the dragon. Her favorite punching bag, though, was always herself. My mother used to look at me and say, Looks don t count. Now, get out of my sight, you big lump.' Click to read more.

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