R.I.P. Joan
by Leesa Dean
I’ve been working towards a deadline and it’s been nuts (pulling 12-15 hour days) so this week will be short. I was going to postpone but instead decided to write a few words about Joan Rivers, who, unless you’ve been living under a rock and didn’t hear, recently died.
I don’t think there’s a female comedian today who’s not indebted to her. And while I’m not a stand-up, I do write comedy and her influence and the kind of material she did had a huge impact on me. The political incorrectness. The great snappy one-liners. The I give zero f*cks of it all. When she was on, as Chris Rock said, nobody could follow her.
I think the moment I really started paying attention was when she began doing red carpet (which, I guess, is a reflection of my age.)