U.S Joan Rivers blasts Cleveland ‘house of horrors’ vics: ‘They got to live rent free for a decade’

[LynneSin]

I'm sorry but when did it get funny to joke about women who were held captive and raped for over a decade? I think it's time that Joan River is given the boot. She is an offensive crazy lady who I think had her face pulled one too many times that it stretched her brain out of whack

Joan Rivers blasts Cleveland ‘house of horrors’ vics: ‘They got to live rent free for a decade’


oan Rivers has no sympathy for the women locked in Ariel Castro’s Cleveland “house of horrors.”
One day after Rivers compared on the "Today" her daughter’s cushy Malibu guestroom to the three women’s decade-long plight — “Those women in the basement in Cleveland had more space” — she doubled-down Wednesday on the inappropriate joke and called the victims freeloaders.

“They got to live rent free for more than a decade,” a defiant 80-year-old Rivers told TMZ on Wednesday.

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“There is nothing to apologize for. I made a joke. That’s what I do. Calm down. Calm f------ down. I’m a comedienne. They’re free, so let’s move on,” Rivers told the newspaper.

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It's time that E! channel dumps this idiot. They showed a picture of those 3 girls and they look beautiful Compared to the photo of Joan Rivers who has spent her life destroying her face with plastic surgery and it looks like she has her daughter doing the same thing too.

[Initech]

1. Yeah if you call "being tortured in a basement with no outside contact" living rent free, sure.

[comrade snarky]

6. Yeah, next thing someone is going to use Nazis for comedy

Uh oh...

[Initech]

15. Too late!

[comrade snarky]

18. Funny, but is it POW camp level funny?

I just don't know...

[PeteSelman]

2. It IS merely a joke.

I don't really care about her red carpet bullshit but she's a good standup and always hilarious on the Stern show.

It's just a joke. She didn't "blast" anyone. That implies she was serious.

[pipoman]

4. Yeah, she's a jewel. ..

I can't wait for her 'crime victims are pussies' tour....

[PeteSelman]

5. You're giving her exactly what she wants.

Attention.

She knows a joke like this in the hyper-sensitive media society we live in will garner her attention she would not have otherwise gotten.

Tell that joke in a bar and no one will care at all. It's not even really funny as black humor goes. A joke like that needs a run up. But put it online or in an interview and people will go nuts.

Clever really. More so for its simplicity.

[pipoman]

3. She's still alive? She looked dead 10 years ago when I last seen her..

[Crunchy Frog]

20. Some time ago I was flipping through the TV (back when I still watched)

and there was a show on about mummies. And then I flipped channels and there was Joan Rivers who had obviously just had a major face lift. She looked so much like one of those mummies that I nearly jumped out of my skin, it was so creepy.

[MohRokTah]

7. Joan Rivers stoppedd being funny a few decades ago.

Now she's just a mean person.

[SummerSnow]

8. not funny at all.

Being a comedienne is no excuse .

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

9. Lighten up, Francis....

It's a comedian's job to make jokes. And "dark" humor is a well-known genre of comedy.

It pushes the envelope and it pushed buttons. That an 80-year-old can still be this edgy is oddly comforting to me.

[JaneyVee]

12. Part of me feels this way, the other part feels

Like if someone has to resort to that for humor maybe they're just not funny.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

13. People used to say that about Lenny Bruce...

It's not everybody's cup of tea, I'll grant you. Comedy is always walking on a tightrope -- and sometimes you go full-Wallenda and plunge to your death. What one person thinks is not funny and offensive has the person next to him peeing his pants in laughter. There's no accounting for it.

But getting irate about it just strikes me as....well....sort of Republicanish.

[Boom Sound 416]

16. Just keep your meat hooks off my stuff!

[LynneSin]

17. Sorry, I just don't see anything funny to joke about in regards to RAPE

There are a trillion things out there in this world she can joke about including plenty of dark humor. But I hardly find rape very humorous and I most would agree with me on that one. Especially rape that occured for 10 years while 3 women were held hostage in a basement.

You think that's funny - maybe you'd like to live rent free in the home of a person who will rape you for 10 years and hold you hostage?

Just saying....

And sorry Joan isn't edgy, she's long overdue for retiring. I volunteer at a job where I work surrounded with 70-80 year olds and rest assured they are all much more alive and aware than Joan Rivers.

[Ex Lurker]

19. She isn't Bill Hicks, Sam Kennison, or Mitch Hedberg

Comedians like them use edgy humor to make audience members think and examine their worldview. She's doing it to get easy laughs by taking cheap shots. It's one thing to do that to do that to celebrities and the rich and powerful-they can take it and often need to be brought down a peg or two.. It's another thing entirely to do it to the weak, powerless and downtrodden. The latter is vicious, mean, and socially iredeemable. If Joan can't figure out the difference, she needs to hang it up.

[Skittles]

21. mmmmmmmmm I dunno

I understand the pushing the buttons part but making jokes about that situation just seems indecent - really not funny at all

[Cha]

10. It's so fucking stupid. she's on some car commercial on hulu

that I can't even look at.

[Archae]

11. I liked her humor until she spit in Johnny Carson's face.

Figuratively, of course.

When she pulled that fast one on Johnny with her failure of a TV show she lost me.

I can still laugh at her older stuff, including her cracks about Heidi Abramovitz. (Fictional school tramp)

[Boom Sound 416]

14. When the screwed her out of the tonight show

She got a license to say anything she wants as far as I'm concerned.

She is the funny and a comedy titan.



(Though I'm a huge fan of Jay)

[CBGLuthier]

22. What is hilarious is in the guise of outrage about her treatment of women

Some very nasty remarks about an older woman are flying.

She is a comedian. She tells jokes for a living. If you can't take a joke that is your problem not hers.