We shall see. Thanks for inviting us into your home. That is it for this report. Fair, balanced, and unafraid. Dont forget, tomorrow, 10 00 p. M. Eastern time, the full hour about benghazi. 13 hours. Meantime, greta goes on the record right now. In is a fox news alert this is a fox news alert. She made us laugh. The woman who made the world laugh and who loved every second while doing it, joan rivers has died at age 81. Tonight, fans, friends, and colleagues remembering the comedy legend. Some people tend to take themselves too seriously. Its a silly, fluffy business, and we should never forget that. The sharptongued but goodhearted comedienne died at a new york City Hospital one week after being into cardiac arrest during a routine medical procedure. Joan rivers daughter, melissa, says her mother was surrounded by family and close friends, and over the next hour, you will
hear from some of those friends and colleagues who knew joan rivers best. Well also give you another look at joans best work, the funniest moments. First, tmzs mike walters joins us. Good evening, mike. Good evening. The reaction in hollywood i imagine is enormous. Well, absolutely. Its funny because a lot of people have joan rivers stories. I have my own. Joan always called in to tmz, every time his a story on jonesboro riveron auto on joan rivers, she wanted to talk to me specifically. She always wanted to get on the phone and yell at me. That happened a lot. Everyone reacting in hollywood, all of it is great photos with joan because she always took photos. Great jokes, and great, Great Stories about hanging out with her. That is the way i am seeing it here in social media and with people from hollywood. What happened . I mean, we hear theres a routine medical procedure, and the next thing we know shes rushed to the hospital. A week later were doing this
show. I can tell you, heres what i know. I know that joan of about to go on tour was about to go on tour, so she was in for a routine procedure on her vocal cords. Basically, they were going to go clear up i believe polyps and straighten out the voice so that she could go on tour and be clear. Remember, she was 81 years old and had had stuff like this done before. Were not ready to give out the doctors name yet, but i can tell you that the doctor works with all kinds of celebrities and stars. Broadway singers, people you know, that have these issue. So very routine, very simple serge. What were told went wrong here is that in the middle of the surgery she just stopped breathing. Now, this is the question that were going to answer over the next few days that is whether or not the anesthesia was right, whether or not they had the proper, you know, things in the office to make sure that this didnt happen and, if it did, make sure they could properly
assess the situation and handle it. So what instruments were there, whether they were used properly. Well figure that out. I am told that the family wants answers. They want to know how in the world this could happen. Joan rivers was one of the most healthy 81yearolds youve ever come across. So for it to end this way is so tragic, and they want answers. Mike, thank you. Of course, tmz will have all the latest as this event unfolds. Thank you, mike. Thank you. From standup comedy clubs to late night tv to the red carpet, joan rivers career spans at least five decades. The 2010 documentary aptly titled joan rivers piece of work, gives an upclose look at joans life both professional and personal. Here are clips from the documentary. Weve also added some of our favorite and most memorable joan rivers moments. Welcome [ applause ] this is my career. How depressing is this . [ laughter ] 40 years in the [ bleep ] business, and this is where you end up. You live where your mother is a mother. Just a mother. How do they look upon this, what it is you do . These are all my jokes. These are jokes over the last 30 years. These are just every time i write a joke, i try to remember to get it on a card. I bought gifts for the staff. Yoon didnt buy you a gift, mark. I was looking. I wanted to get something hip. So because he is hip, and i wanted something with fur. I went in this store, i said [ laughter ] what have you got with fur on it, they said, look at your upper lip. Why should a woman cook some so her husband can say, my wife makes a delicious cake to some hooker. You wonder why im still working at this age. If we didnt laugh, where the hell would we all be . Think about that. [ applause ] where the hell would we all be . Happy enough there is one outlet, hes on dialysis. Theres one outlet in all of afghanistan, find a plug and follow the cord. [ laughter ] everywhere you look, there are jokes. Jokes to be filed, jokes to be written. Jokes that i thought of something. My life is just jokes. I hate everybody. I hate old people i hate ugly children i hate sad people i hated china i hated whiners. I hate dead people. I tell you, if i invested wisely, i wouldnt be doing
this. While i was growing up, my mother used to say [ laughter ] looks dont count now, get out of my sight, you big lump dont you think men like intelligence more when it comes down to it . Ah, please. Were going back to that . Are you kidding . Sure. The brain, caring no man has ever put his hand up a womans dress looking for a library card. I was there whether she gave bierth ick. To see the birth ugh, ick. My day having a child was better. They knocked you out with the first pain. They woke you up when the hairdresser slowed. You knew nothing. It was so much better. Miss rivers, you had a girl. Good. Good, good. [ laughter ] is she normal . Yeah. Good. [ applause ] is she white . Yeah. Good. [ laughter ] the marriage continues. Can i ask you something, please . Anything. Be honest are you a republican . Yes. Why . Because i work very hard for my money, and i dont care if youve got 19 children, use condoms. Ill pay for your first four children, thats it. You dont like obama . Let me clarify were fiscally conservative, socially liberal, which is called either a California Republican or a country club republican. Wait a minute. California republican . Thats me. [ applause ] hello, hello, hello. We are here to celebrate the career of a groundbreaking comedienne and legendary [ bleep ]. How much worse would your real face look than that clown
mask youve had welded on your face . Look at her, shes a cougar. I say youre lucky to have a joke made about you because exactly. If america doesnt know who you are, theyre not going to get the joke. I only put down people that are very, very famous. Christie brinkleys a living testament a what . [ laughter ] you never can look at may and do these, can you . Shes a tell me about her a little bit. [ laughter ] shes a living Testament Living testament to that that what . Christie brinkleys a living testament that [ laughter ] peroxide causes brain damage. Bill cosby, who was a good friend of mine, was on the tonight show. The comic on with bill bombed. Bill, god bless him, went to the director and said, listen, why dont you use joan rivers . She cant be any worse than he
was tonight. They put me on the next night. It was one of those nights do you know like when everything goes right . The stars are in alignment and the audience we just connected. And carson, at the end of the act, after nine years of work ing bungalow colonies and strip giants and Greenwich Village where you pass the hat and the hat wouldnt come back, carson said on the air, youre going to be a star. You finished the routine, you were devastating. The audience was falling apart. You sad down, and i said, youre going to be a big star. Thats something you dont say because i looked behind me. I couldnt believe you were talking to me. Yeah. Ill show you fear. Thats fear. If my book ever looked like this, it would mean that nobody wants me and everything i tried to do in life didnt work. Nobody cared. Ive been totally forgotten. I love rihanna, i think she can do no wrong. But why the green lips . It looks like she [ bleep ] the grinch. Talk about christmas [ bleep ] early. I love the Golden Globes it is the most fun awards show the entire season. Its like a big party. Everyones laughing, talking and drinking. The only place you will see more drunk celebrities is at the betty ford clinic. I think we are so politically correct these days that its ruining everything. I mean, i cant say indian anymore. I dont know if im talking dot or feather. I dont know what youre supposed to say. I am 75 years old, and i tell you, i havent peaked. That is why i am going to go out that door and the door after this and the door after that and the door after that and the door after that, and i invite all of you come with me [ applause ] thank you. It was one week ago today
news broke joan rivers rushed from a new york city Doctors Office to a nearby hospital after going into cardiac arrest. Today, the news that everyone feared wnyw news reporting from mt. Sinai hospital with the latest. Sharon, whats going on at the hospital . Reporter greta, fans are really still stunned by this news, as you mentioned. Just a week ago, she was having a routine procedure in yorkville, not far from where i am on the upper east side. She was rushed to mt. Sinai hospital, nuts a medically indusd hospital, put in a medically induced comb amp she was on life support and died at 1 17 eastern time, surrounded by her daughter, melissa rivers, and her grandson, cooper, and friends and family. Now, weve been talking with fans who heard the news this afternoon and literally rushed over here to mt. Sinai to express condolence and memories. One of the things that struck me is that as you know one of joan
rivers many jobs was as host of the Fashion Police on the e network. There were so many young people here as long as their mother, their grandmothers here weighing in on joan rivers and how much joy she brought to their lives. And their fond memories of her and how many times she made them laugh. And maybe just think about the fact that a whole new generation of young people learn good joan rivers, had no idea what a long career she had before they were even born. Dont you think, greta . If ts absolutely extraordinary. Five decades. Sharon, thank you. Our next guest was a friend of joan rivers. Standup comedian jess ross even roasted joan. And jeff joins us. Good evening, jeff. And i read that you said she was a hero of yours. Why do you describe her that way . Because joan rivers you know, she shined a light on the darkest corners of the world. I think thats what comedians are supposed to do. I loved her for doing that. She defined the line. People say she crossed the line. Joan defined it. She was a great comedian and loved comedy. What was it that she lasted five decades, such a competitive and tough business. Its amazing. Its one thing to be sort of a flash in the pan, but five decades . Thats what fascinated me most. She found a way to stay relevant even in to her 80s. Comedians normly seem antiquated or oldfashioned. She always had fresh stuff. Thats whats so tragic about the way she went, greta. That she was doing something very noble. She was taking care of her instrument. She was fixing her voice so that her fan would continue to hear her. Its devastating. She shfs our comedy mother. Jeff, she was so brassy and said the most incredible things. She made jokes that we laughed at and probably thought we shouldnt laugh at. You know, we didnt want to admit we laughed at. But you know, when you knew her on a social, personal level, was she sweet, or was she brassy like that . Was she like as a friend . If you got her off stage, she was very endearing and very curious. You know, she wanted to know who you were dating, if you were happy. I remember at the party for her documentary, a piece of work, which im honored to be a part of in a small way, i was in there, she had a party. And there were celebrities and socialites in new york, and all she wanted to do was grab amy schumer and i and take us in the corner and talk to us. She liked to be around other comedians. I think that that was her religion. That was in her blood just to be around other funny people who thought and talked in punchlines
the way she did. How did she take being roasted and being roasted by you . [ laughter ] you know, it was one of the greatest hugs of my life. When she hugged me at the end of that roast, she made me so happy. I could tell she took it as a big honor. She dished it out, but she could take it. Joan rivers roasted. I love that she kept all her all her jokes. Did you see the filing system she had . That was something i think she learned from milton berle who had that famous filing cabinet. Joan was a real organized and professional we roasted howard stern at his 60th birthday bash together. Joan and i actually did the first dueling roast. And i remember how prepared she was and how she really showed me that day how much work it is to be great. To kill. I remember she had all this material, more material than she needed. We had similar joke. She dropped hers so i could do mine. She was very generous. She didnt try to mentor me in that moment. She let me be her partner that day. To me that was a career highlight. Im going to police this lady a lot. Miss this lady a lot. Did she write her own jokes . I dont have the sense that she had a staff write them. Didnt have joke writers like some comedians might have. Did she write her own . I believe that she wrote most of her own material as comedians at her level do. Every ti or a news story, people expect to hear joan rivers take on it. So yeah, she was loved comedians, being around, and occasionally she would hire them. Its amazing. We all knew she was sick a week ago and seriously sick. I think we were all still nonetheless surprised that joan rivers died. This is a tough one for the comedy world. Its up to us now to remember her and keep laughing through the pain. I dont think shed want tears. I think shed want us laughing for some reason. Thank you for joining us. Thanks for talking about her today. We appreciate it. Thank you. Our next guest has known joan rivers for years. She says joan is the reason she does standup comedy. Comedienne Rhonda Shearer joining us. Nice to have you with us. Well try to keep this laffey because for some reason i think joan rivers doesnt want people crying. It doesnt look like her personality. Much too caustic. Am i right . Hi, greta. Youre 100 right. I thought she would go on stage because thats how she wanted to i do, on stage. As jeff said she care good people. When i was starting comedy, she cared, she said, go for it. Every other male, men in the business, im not putting down male comics, but they werent as
encouraging. She said, go for it. I met her at a cosmetic Surgeons Office in 1984. I went to get my nose done because i was told it was big to be on camera, that i wouldnt be lit well. She was there with her beloved dog, spike, on her lap. Shed, youre a beautiful girl, why are you sneer i said, my nose. She turned my head and looked at my profile and said, you could do better. I was selfdeprecating because one if you put yourself down, you can make fun of others. If you take the joke first. She wasnt just a comic. She was a woman doing comedy in the 50s, 60s when no one was doing it. She led the way for female comics. There was filler diller before her Phyllis Diller before her who came out and dressed funny to be funny. Joan rivers came out and said, i
can be pretty and brilliant. The comedic genius and timing. Believe she, she would look in the audience and know what everyone was thinking and knew the eyes of her audience. Theres no one like her. Were all weeping. A Living Legend she would be. I tell you what one of her quotes in her book was, i dont want some rabbi rambling on, at her funeral. I want meryl streep crying in five different accents. She would want humor, she would. Comics do hate things like she said, i hate this, i dont like this. Shes right. All of us have. That but she only spoke what we all think or would be too afraid to speak. She lit the way for me in another career now, i ran into her at the Shopping Channel, a Shopping Channel in canada. She said, how you doing, kid . I said, great. It was all about competition for herself. Win, winning. Thats what stage meant to her. It was getting the laugh. Getting the sales. And and that we all do, we laugh and cry tonight. Thank you. Thank you very much for celebrating her life. Thank you. Thank you. Our coverage of the life and death of joan rivers continues. One of her most recent interviews was here on fox news. And a military veteran, marine, and calk show host, Montel Williams joining the battle to free Sergeant Andrew tomeriesy from a mexican tahmooressi from a mexican prison. Going straight to mexicos president and getting a response. Montel williams is here to tell you about it coming up. And our special coverage, remembering joan rivers, will continue. Stay with us. A girl, youre 30 years old, not married, youre an old maid. A man, hes 90 years old, not married, hes a catch. Its a whole different thing. Isnt that so . Yes. Yes latte or au lait . Cozy or cool . Exactly the way you want it. Until boom, its bedtime your mattress is a battleground of thwarted desire. Enter the sleep number bed. Right now, all beds are on sale. Hes the softy. His sleep number setting is 35. Youre the rock, at 60. And snoring . Sleep numbers even got an adjustment for that. You can only find sleep number at a sleep number store. Head in for the final days of the biggest sale
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