RIP Joan Rivers - 81

[Trekker4747]

Watching some of her older stand-up bits on YouTube, mostly stuff from late-night TV appearances from the 1960s-1980s) and recalling her appearance on an episode of "Louie" a couple years ago, I find I respect her more as a comedian.

Her stage persona was an act, that really should have been obvious to anyone willing to pay attention. Seems she's done quite a bit of good in her personal life, personal accounts of her actions in the "real world" seem to reflect she was a different person off-stage not to mention charitable.

It's often to hard to remove the stage persona of someone from the true person they are and it seems that's the case for many when it comes to Joan Rivers. The stage persona was an act. It wasn't her. And you shouldn't judge her based on who she played on stage anymore than we should judge, Robin Williams, based on "Mork." Or any other performer on a persona they are known for rather than who they were when there wasn't a camera pointed at them.

Joan was a funny woman and more than that a funny person who achieved a lot in her life. As said above the world is even more less funny now without her.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Joan Rivers is kind of like William Shatner. She's in on the joke about herself. She understands her public character and she plays into it. She knows she's the punch line of plastic surgery and has embraced being a parody of herself.

A great comedian is dead.

But like I said before, I have trouble feeling too bad when I person I never met dies at an old age of natural causes. She got 81 good years. Good for her.

 

[Trekker4747]

Joan Rivers is kind of like William Shatner. She's in on the joke about herself. She understands her public character and she plays into it. She knows she's the punch line of plastic surgery and has embraced being a parody of herself.

A great comedian is dead.

But like I said before, I have trouble feeling too bad when I person I never met dies at an old age of natural causes. She got 81 good years. Good for her.

While I get your basic point, a person dying in their 80s isn't "as tragic" as, say, someone dying at much younger age, at this point there's questions on how she died, or rather what led to the heart-attack that caused her death. It's not quite as clear as "natural causes" right now. Because it seems she was in otherwise good health, not to mention still very active and working.