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Joan Rivers: My Palin Jokes Cost Me A Fox News Booking

By Michael Musto Thu., Jan. 20 2011 at 1:51 PM
Categories: Featured, Joan Rivers, Sarah Palin

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My favorite comic, Joan Rivers, recently joked that Sarah Palin should go to another planet and get out of our faces, and that people are right to blame her for the Arizona shootings because "she's stupid and a threat."

Next thing you know, Fox News Channel's Fox and Friends show cancelled her booking!

Unlike Palin, Joan is a smart woman, and she made the connection. Fox was censoring her for making fun of Palin, even though Palin's whole line of bull these days is about free speech!

(As if Palin's crosshairs imagery had anything to do with free speech. It had to do with editorial choices indviduals in the public eye make, and how responsible they choose to be.)

Anyway, Fox says the cancellation was simply an accident and she'll be rebooked.

Meanwhile, funny daughter Melissa had this to say about mama's Palin crack: "I often say that about my mother."

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/19/joan-rivers-says-palin-joke-cost-her-fox-news-booking/?hp

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Bindi the jungle GURL
Bindi the jungle GURL

JR crosses the line all of the time. We love it when it's the stuff we want to hear. Everyone knows how politicized the country is so it's not really surprising Fox/RM cancels someone for exercising free speech. The Media business the the biggest fluff-whore operation going...I'm sure at another time in another situation they will have her own and praise what an institution she is. After all- it is Show Business.

Lilith
Lilith

I actually think Sarah Palin is smart, but also exceptionally ignorant. She's managed to make a lot of money and achieve enormous celebrity (which seems to be her raison d'etre) by spouting off her bigoted nonsense. Many Americans have a deep-seated fear of people who appear smarter than they are, which is why oafs like Palin and W always find supporters.

Joan is wonderful, as usual, for having the balls to call out not just Palin, but the Fox network (Dr Frankenstein to the Palin Monster).

Carlo
Carlo

Only "Melissa is Fugly" can make a 76-year-old woman who is still on every single channel and has a smash movie sound like a failure.

And if you're so offended by Joan's crassness, why are you even saying "Melissa is fugly"? That's VERY offensive.

@JoeWatchesTV
@JoeWatchesTV

And everyone, you gotta watch Joanie on Fashion Police on E!. I am not that kind of gay who is into the fashion thing but she kills every night with great material. Watching Giuliana and Kelly Osbourne laugh themselves to tears is priceless.

Kimberly Davis
Kimberly Davis

You go girl...talk about a trouper! I always loved her and hated whenever she got canned...I am reveling in her 75th comeback, loved the docu and she's making E interesting again ( for 1/2 a week, anyhoo)! If I were the head of FOX I'd be afraid to let her on...nobody comes close!

Musto
Musto

"How come Joan never became a TV star?"??

Please!

She guest hosted for Johnny Carson, then got her own late-night talk show, then got her own daytime talk show, then was on Celebrity Apprentice, and now has two or three reality shows at once!!!

And I'm leaving of a lot of other stuff.

As for movies, her documentary was one of the year's biggest.

And on Broadway, she got a Tony nomination!

Melissaisfugly
Melissaisfugly

rosanne barr had a hit tv show....rosie odonnel had a hit talk show---joan flopped, and flopped again.

Snookie right now has a best selling book out---does that make Snookie a great writer.

Snookie has lots of stuff going on right now too.

Brandt Hardin
Brandt Hardin

Don't shut up Joan! The public is finally coming around to seeing the true Sarah Palin. Instead of smiling and nodding while talking about murders and national tragedies, she should have shown some humility. I was compelled to create a visual commentary of her political rhetoric and its effects on my artist's blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot... Drop by and let me know what you think.

Teri
Teri

We love Joan!!! Keep speaking out!!!

melissa is fugly
melissa is fugly

just what england needs---another queen.

joan rivers said that in the 1980s about boy george; is that why you love joan?

"if mamma cass eliot had given her last sandwich to karen carpenter, they'd both be alive right now"----another joan rivers joke.

Movielover
Movielover

I don't get your criticism. I can see you don't get her humor. Joan had her own late night talk show. Ain't that a tv star? Who hasn't heard of Joan? She is often crude and it's usually funny! You could lighten up a bit. If you wonder all about her, which I doubt, you might see her recent movie all about her.

Melissa is fugly
Melissa is fugly

Is it true that blacks can get into college easier than whites...?

Joan asked this of an african-american girl.

when some hillbilly porn actress said on joan's afternoon talk show that she had to do porn cause it's hard for whites to get into college, after an african-american college girl said the hillbilly could have gone to college instead of doing porn.

melissa is fugly
melissa is fugly

SO HOW COME JOAN RIVERS NEVER BECAME A MOVIE STAR, OR A TV STAR-----HOW COME THE LIBERAL MEDIA NEVER MADE HER A STAR?

and then there's joan's no-talent kid, melissa.

and let's not forget joan's joke about boy george: "just what england needs----another queen"

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