Joan Rivers pulls a Jon Lovitz

[RZM]

In an interview with POLITICO, Rivers said, “I’m also being chastised because I work 18 hours a day and make a living. I feel that I’m part of the 2 percent and I’m really not interested in a woman who has 95 children and has 95 husbands. I think the Chinese have it right: You each have one children, two children and you take care of them.”

Rivers agreed with the notion that the president’s policies were unfairly harsh to the rich, saying, “I think if I work very hard, I should be able to gather the fruits of my labor. And I think if you’re not about to work, you should get minimal and leave me alone. I think if you don’t wear a helmet and you fall off your bike, you pay for the doctor.”

Despite her comments Rivers added that she’s not interested in “making a political statement” and explained why she hates politics so much.

“They’re all a bunch of garbage,” said Rivers. “I’m definitely in favor of a monarchy because they’re there, they look good, and they always have good gift shops when you leave the palace. … I feel that it’s just all about party affiliation and it’s all about voting the way your party wants to vote and it’s not at all about what we should be about.”

I think they she might have been taken slightly out of context and was probably trying to sound edgy and provocative. And she does work hard. But it's not like the government is taking 85 percent of her income. She's doing just fine.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/77287.html#ixzz1xbYpo8l2

[jorno67]

1. Lovitz and Rivers have no credibility

absolutely none...at all...with anyone.

[rfranklin]

2. She is being forced to sell her $29 million New York apartment!

Joan Rivers' opulent penthouse apartment is for sale at an asking price of $29.5 million. The comedienne's 5,190-square-foot pad, known as the Spencer Condominium, is situated atop one of the Upper East Side's greatest pre-war limestone mansions, less than half a block from Fifth Avenue.

Designed by Horace Trumbauer -- the famed Gilded Age architect-to-the robber barons -- this neo-French Classic apartment contains four bedrooms and five baths. From the private elevator entry hall, guests enter a stunning two-story gallery, connected to a lavish, light-filled living room -- both rooms boasting wood-burning fireplaces, 23-foot ceilings and fine parquet-de-Versailles flooring.



http://realestate.aol.com/blog/2012/04/12/house-of-the-day-joan-rivers-opulent-penthouse/

[JHB]

14. Note to Joan: with a pad like that...

...you're NOT part of the "2%". You're somewhere in decimal point country.

And if not being able to make even more millions keeps you from working hard, then don't work hard. We have plenty of celebrities. Rest assured the void will be filled.

[Rectangle]

31. How may galllons of Botox do you think has gone into her head??

Anyone want to guess????

[HiPointDem]

3. joan rivers: barnard, 1954. upper-middle-class girl with upper-middle class mentality.

[annabanana]

4. sometimes funny, not terribly smart. . . . n/t

[Ian David]

5. I don't know how much of what she said, she actually meant seriously.

Also, unlike Jon Lovitz, Joan Rivers actually does work hard.

And speaking Joan Rivers and The Royal Family... if you want to see something funny...

[RZM]

6. I'm sure Lovitz would work hard if anybody was willing to hire him n/t

[Ian David]

7. Amazing... no demand for Jon Lovitz, no wealth for Jon Lovitz. n/t

[Gin]

10. Carson was funny

Joan...not so much....

[patrice]

8. Not sure how she thinks she knows what anything's about, when she apparently, from her statements,

has little to do with anything except what she does. So, how does she know that it's only about "party affiliation"? She obviously has no first hand experience of grassroots' political/issue activists.

[patrice]

9. Yeah, Joan, QVC is a real good place to experience the world.

sarcasmthingee

[Capt. Obvious]

11. She works hard?

At what? Keeping her daughter employed?

[obamanut2012]

25. She works very hard and always has

[patrice]

12. Celebrities are allowed to talk about us like this, but if I were to say something about, say, the

possible alienation of a husband with special emotional needs, that'd be considered too much.

. . . after-all she's the one who brought up husbands in a very FALSE and POLITICALLY manipulative way.

I mean, holy FUCKING wow. The nerve!

BOYCOTT JOAN RIVERS on QVC.

[patrice]

13. !!!

~

[rurallib]

15. "I'll take people I could give a fuck about for two thousand, Alex"

[Initech]

16. Fuck it - I'm glad. We have a president who is making the rich scared.,

We had W, Reagan and so on and because of that we have this shithole economy we're in now.

[magnifisense]

17. What is it with the cast of SNL from the 1980s?

First Dennis Miller, then Victoria Jackson.

Now Jon Lovitz.

[spanone]

23. has beens.

[closeupready]

18. I like her and her work with Meals on Wheels, but this is disappointing.

She veers into the political, espouses the right-wing narrative, and then says she hates politics.

Um, sorry, but you went there first, honey, so with all due respect, people have the right to respond.

[obamanut2012]

24. And yet is very pro LGBT rights

It's very

[closeupready]

27. Agreed.

nt

[Cali_Democrat]

19. See what happens when Obama extends their tax cuts? They spit in his face.

[mikeytherat]

20. She also thinks Donald Trump is "really, really smart."

'nuf said

mikey_the_rat

[monmouth]

30. She's a member of his mar-a-lago club and is there a lot during season..n/t

[theaocp]

21. Same moronic tune again and again and again

The "fruits of your labors" are not exclusive to you. Sorry, dumbasses. You do not exist, nor prosper in a fucking vacuum. What an ego.

Also, if you want to shy away from political statements, perhaps you shouldn't speak to POLITICO, moron. Put a couple thoughts behind it.

[spanone]

22. none of my tears are saved for the wealthy.

[Arugula Latte]

26. Right, 'cuz people who get minimum wage don't work hard at all.

[closeupready]

28. Since inflation diminishes a dollar's value, MW workers get paycuts every year

since they don't get raises that keep pace with inflation, yet they naturally are obligated to do just as much work from one year to the next, if not even more.

[cali]

29. she's a stupid, completely unfunny piece of shit. always was.

[NCarolinawoman]

32. Let's see, who is more valuable........someone who makes a living joking about people's crotches,

or a fireman, sanitation worker, teacher, utility worker, farmhand, etc etc.

Pay accordingly. Making jokes about people's body parts should be below minimum wage rates. Just not valuable to society.

[Egalitarian Thug]

33. When Johnny Carson screwed her over, she went insane and has

never looked back. She also stopped being funny at the same time. Kind of like Dennis Miller when he shit himself on 9/11.

[Hugabear]

34. She works hard? ROTFLMAO

Tell that to people who are working 2 or 3 jobs, doing manual labor, just to make enough money to take care of their families.

These celebrities don't get it. Sure, she might do a lot of "work" - but she also has people waiting on her 24/7, taking care of her every need.

[RZM]

35. You're right, it is definitely a different type of work

Even aside from the money, doing standup and appearing in movies/TV shows is a lot less taxing than most other jobs. Few celebrities would change places with a garbageman or truck driver, even if the money was the same.