There’s no love lost between Joan Rivers and Angelina Jolie. Actually, I wonder if Angelina is even aware of Joan’s presence, but Joan is very aware of Angelina. Joan has been engaged in some sort of delusional battle with Angelina, where she uses Angelina as the butt of some very strange “jokes”. Last year, Joan went on Britain’s GMTV and “joked” about Angelina’s lack of intelligence, saying “Well, I’ve worked with stupid actresses — I’ve worked with Angelina Jolie — she saw a sign that said ‘WET FLOOR’ one time, and she did! I mean, she’s attractive, but not a bright girl — stunningly beautiful, but stupid.” Oh, burn. Yo’ mama so fat…
Right after the Oscars, Joanie was at again, criticizing Angelina because… she was seated in the front row at the Oscars, I think. Joan made these remarks on the Rachel Ray Show, which is like saying “Coffee Talk with the Devil”. Joan said: “I thought what was interesting was that they sat in the front row even though they kind of knew they weren’t going to get anything. But I think that she was hoping that one of the Slumdog kids would fall off. Grab it, take it home. Wouldn’t that be great? And then you say, ‘Did you win anything?’ ‘I got an Oscar, I should give the kid a name!’” Zing!
GMTV invited Joanie back this week and she had to bring her A-game. Oh, what to joke about? There’s so much out there right now, so much to choose from… let’s see… screw it, Joanie thought, let’s do another round of Angelina jokes. Here’s the thing – these are the same jokes from the Rachel Ray Show, with one addition. Joanie is now making a “Angelina makes her kids work in a basement sweatshop” joke. Rimshot!
Joan Rivers has again mocked Angelina Jolie for adopting children from other countries.
In addition to having three biological children, Jolie has adopted children from Cambodia, Ethiopia and Vietnam.
Speaking on GMTV, Rivers said that Jolie and husband Brad Pitt are her favourite celebrity couple and her “bestie” friends.
Rivers said: “I love them because they keep adopting all these children. At the Oscars they were in the front row. And when Slumdog Millionaire came out they were hoping the kids would fall off the stage so they could get them – take them home!
“Then she puts them in the basement and they make clothes. She’s so smart – not just all lips and eyes.”
Rivers made a similar gag in the US on the Rachel Ray Show earlier this year. She also called Jolie “beautiful but stupid” on GMTV last year.
[From Digital Spy]
Eh, the only way Joan Rivers ever makes the gossip news is when she’s making lame jokes about celebrities or when she’s telling off someone on one of those dumb reality shows. I’ve got a joke for Joanie – if she gets one more facelift, she will literally be talking out of her ass. I think what offends me more than the sweatshop joke is that Joan recycled the same lame material internationally. She is not one of America’s greatest exports.
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Joan Rivers es basura asquerosa.
Oh, come on. Joan Rivers is a comedy legend. Never could I find fault with Ms. Rivers. Never. She does real charity work, and I mean work. She doesn’t just lend her name to something, she either believes in it and gets her hands dirty or she doesn’t attach herself to it. She helped pave the road for female comedy acts, and I don’t care if she has 20 more plastic surgeries – she’s Joan Rivers.
I suspect A.J. and Brad were laughing at & with her comments about them. The woman is funny.
jeez: doesnt anyone get it: she’s just making jokes; they may not all be good or in incredible good taste, but hey: at least she’s making them and by doing so upholding the tradition of crafted joke-scripting. i mean: who is really funny these days anyways, aside from kathy griffin, and she’s getting the same kind of guff as joan. mhmh. lighten up, sweetie, these are crazy days and angelina does have issues; just because she’s adopting kids left right and centre doesnt mean she necessarily is a good mom; i mean: mia farrow, anyone? she did the same, and was ridiculed as well and look what happened there…
Joan is tacky. It’s hard for me to be ok with a grandma type person making such comments. I get that she’s a supposed lol comedian, but like come on… a sweatshop joke? At her age? She should know better than to pick on children. Pick on adults in Hollywood all you want, but don’t pick on the kids. (Call Jolie stupid, suggest she wants to take every foreign kid home with her, but don’t put her kids and sweatshop in the same sentence)… super offensive. Sweatshops are not a funny matter.
So Joan’s finally moved on from Elizabeth Taylor, I see.
I loved her on the red carpet because she was so out of it and unintentionally hilarious. When she tries to be funny,she harkens back to the days of the Borscht Belt.
Ditto Boom and Bob Laker. Why get offended by something so silly? Rivers is just doing what she does, making people laugh. I love her.
For the record, the JPs hoping one of the little SM kids would fall off the stage so they could take them home is hilarious! You need to lighten up, Kaiser, and stop taking every little JP piss-take so personally! 😛
yeah, the kid falling off the stage joke was pretty funny.
and yes, she’s a comedienne and I also bet that brangelina laughed at what she had to say about them.
jebus, Don Rickles has been doing insult comedy for how long now?
I don’t find her funny or silly. She grates. And she’s already talking out of her ass. Dahling.
I’ve got a joke for Joanie – if she gets one more facelift, she will literally be talking out of her ass.
Or to quote Patsy Stone “If she has one more facelift, she will have a beard!”
I found it a little funny.
It reminds me of Bob Hope at the end of his career…not funny, had not been funny for years, but everyone felt obliged to give him a pass because “He’s Bob Hope!” and “He’s done so much charity work!” etc.
I wonder which of our currently hot comics will still be around 30 or 40 years from now, well past their prime but still jabbering away. Chris Rock? Jon Stewart?
CandyKay, I think Jon Stewart will always be funny, but Chris Rock? I don’t find him funny now.
Boom, I think it’s a generational thing. Johnny Carson at the end of his career was also hopelessly out-of-touch – I remember him making jokes about Rudy Vallee, a silly singer from the 1930s, to a befuddled 1980s audience. If Jon Stewart is making Obama jokes to a 2039 audience, it’ll be pretty much the same thing.
joans comments are not jokes…they are pathetic, rude and offensive!
so brad and angie have adopted and adopted children from other countries…what gives people the right to put them down because of that? why do people have to judge them so harshly for loving and wanting these children? as a mother through adoption I think their family is wonderfully diverse and special.
When I read joan’s sweatshop comment my jaw dropped…and I was shocked that some of you on here think those comments were jokes/funny. Stupidity is alive and well in america…obviously!
I agree with candykay, Joan is like Bob Hope funny at the begining of his career but not so funny in the end. I believe Joan is struggling and grasping for straws. Seems every drowning celeb call on Brad or Angelina’s name for attention.
Hear that, the female Joker is not amused. Her head looks like a jack-o-lantern.
The way she looks now, she should not be making fun of anyone. Puppet face. I wish PETA would dump red paint all over her dead animal fur coat…
when you put your coat away in a refrigerator…that’s just creepy!
This hag is about as funny as a crutch. Pack it in, Joanie. Your time has come and gone.
Oh Kaiser, wah wah wah. I read a ton of other gossip blogs and so far CB is the only site reporting on this. If you find it so unfunny or so offensive – gasp – don’t write about it! Crawl out of AJ’s butt and realize there are other, more important, FUNNY, stories to write about.
Lizzy, it’s no use. Every time Brangelina farts, you can be sure you’ll find detailed coverage of the “event” here at CB.
Joan Rivers has always been an insult comic, she is the female version of Don Rickles. If you ever get a chance to listen to some of her older stuff, do she is really funny.
I don’t get why anyone would be so upset about the AJ jokes, I am sure it the Jolie-Pitts were mad about it they would have taken care of it them selves, they really don’t need your help.
I think it’s funny.
AJ is sick. I mean how can one claim to be all about human rights and yet can’t find it within themselves to forgive their own father?!? Jeez……one is not in a healthy place when they carry around hatred. (if it’s not hatred for her father, and solely a dislike….let the kids meet him, have him in their lives – I know he must be good w/kids, because on the Catherine Van something show…..the princess chick, she said Jon Voight babysits/sat her kids)
I vote that this site have a moratorium on Kaiser writing ANY stories on the J-Ps. She’s a dreadful writer in the first place, and her head is so far up AJ’s colon you can see her bouffant popping out of Jolie’s mouth.
Give it a rest and stop trying to inject your horrible home-spun “humour” and faux-moralistic mores into a freakin’ gossip site.
Perhaps a gardening venue would be more your speed, dear.
EDIT to #22: It’s a word in the dictionary that you have no copyright to, and my first time posting here. Do get over yourself.
that post (#21) was NOT me.
get your own handle, bub.
The writing is fine, no need to be ridiculous. I just find all the whining about the tabloids and other celebrities being so mean to the JPs ironic, since by posting the information AGAIN on this website only perpetuates it. You’re not setting any records straight, you don’t know them, you’re only adding your opinion, which is fine, but then don’t complain when other commenters/tabloids won’t let the BS die. Let it die on CB first. How about a moratorium on all the BS that’s posted on the JPs and only REAL gossip, like the stuff at Cannes. Not, “OMG, AJ eats cake! See you haters, AJ eats cake, PROOF that she eats ALL THE TIME.” Which it’s obviously not, and so obviously you kissing her nonexistant a$$. Boring!
First. Let’s lay off the writers, if you have an issue (even as childish as this one) just go to a different site. There are dozens of celeblogs, and celebitchy is even kind enough to list them at the bottom.
Second. I didn’t see that much of a bias towards the JPs because frankly, I’ve stopped thinking Joan Rivers was funny a decade ago.
Third. Since when is it ever funny to joke about the living conditions of children of a different culture? You guys ever think of it like that? ever think that yea, there are Cambodians working in sweat shops, Vietnamese, Ethiopians. How the FUCK is that funny? That’s not a good joke when it passes off a serious problem in those areas as something that can be laughed at on late night television.
It’s funny to me that no one can just see the fact that these were children who could’ve honestly been put into really unfortunate circumstances but they now get to have something more. Child trafficking is a HUGE issue in those countries and many others.
well,rock and stewart are funny,b/c they are intelligent! a good comedienne knows his material.
AJ is NOT stupid. I’m not a fan or anything,but the woman is on the council of foreign relations and reads Ayn Rand…[okay,she could be on the council and just have a seat to look pretty,but still,she has some knowledge and actually thinks about why she does what she does…whether I agree with it/her or not,she ain’t dumb.]
SO,Rivers,regardless of her outdated comedy style,needs to use the truth to get her jokes across. Rock and Stewart are brilliant at times b/c they take the information out there and point out the irony,making us realize it’s stupid. They don’t just say ‘Bush,he be stupid’.
duh.
Tacky,obnoxious and now i’ll add stupid to joan rivers,IMHO,of course.
Ha! I liked the kid falling of the stage joke. Joan is just Joan. You either love her or hate her. She’s so wacky.
Thank you, Annie.
No one is holding a gun to any of your heads, forcing you to read any given post. And part of the reason we do so much Jolie-Pitt coverage is because those are posts that get the most hits and comments.
Have a good day, people.
Blahblah: take your ageist, bigoted comments somewhere else. My gramma has a pottymouth that would put most bloggers to shame, age has nothing to do with it. I don’t personally think that once someone reaches a certain age, they aren’t allowed to crack crass FUNNY jokes anymore. Get a grip, if Angelina doesn’t know/doesn’t care then why would you say something so closed-minded in her defense? Swap “old” for any other unchangeable characteristic (gender, race, sexual orientation) and you will see for yourself how bigoted your comments are.
yes, it’s a word in the dictionary, and yes, it’s clearly your first time posting here.
maybe ANYwhere, if you didn’t know that it’s common courtesy to not take a handle that’s already being used.
“do get over myself”? do piss off.
Annie, spot on.
Is that post from Annie Duke that lost to Joan?! JOAN IS FUNNY. Her jokes mean no harm, and AJ probably laughs herself. And I am sure AJ & BP have heard from MUCH worse critics!
Who the f is Annie Duke? lol.
Oh. And you’re welcome Kaiser and thanks Hmm. 🙂
gotta laugh at all the brangeloonies saying it wasn’t funny.
if Rivers had made the same joke about Aniston hoping that the kid fell off the stage because she’s so desperate for a kid, you’d all be talking about how funny it was. (and it would have been, too!) but because it’s about your holy St. Angie, it’s not funny?
get a grip, would you?
after all the stuff that’s been said about her “collecting kids”, don’t you think that an obvious joke like that would make both Brad and Angelina laugh?
shee-it, maybe with all her money, Angie can buy all of her fans a sense of humor.
Actually. I really like Jennifer, and I’d still find it not funny if Joan had used her instead.
Joan Rivers is just not funny. Plain and simple. It has nothing to do with her subject matter.
You know what was funny? What was funny was the Family Guy episode where she’s interviewing people but her mic’s not actually hooked in to anything and she’s not even being filmed at all. THAT was funny.
Sharon Stone has 3 adopted white kids all adopted in a 6 year period Marie Osmond 5 adopted white kids, Lauren Holly 3 adopted white kids,adopted over a 2 year period. Are they baby collectors? Angie adopted 3 non white kids over a 5 year period and she is a baby collector. Explain? Oh, never mind non white foreign kids, I guess is the difference.
yeah, Annie, but you’re not a brangeloonie. you can look at an Angie post objectively.
to sonia…if that was directed at me, please re-read my post. *I* personally did not call her a baby collector. I said “with all the stuff that’s been said about her collecting kids”…
jebus on toast!…YOU are exactly the type of person I’m talking about. I’m surprised I didn’t get called a “jenhen” or whatever euphemism you nutjobs are using these days.
I suggest you go back to your Angelina shrine and pray for the ability to read for comprehension.
Annie, your defense of Kaiser is tiresome. However, your reference to the Family Guy segment involving the joke that is JR completely makes up for it. Despite being truely crass show, it’s bits like those that really show the brillance that is Seth McFarland.
Joan Rivers has and always will be an insult comic. If you don’t like insult comedy, then you won’t like her.
Personally, I think she’s funny. Kinda weird, and insult comedy always makes me slightly uncomfortable, but she’s like Don Rickles. And everyone knows that.
I’m sure Brangelina (if they’ve even heard these jokes) laughed them off because *gasp* she’s a comedian and isn’t saying that they literally wanted the kids to fall of the stage or that they literally put their kids in a sweatshop in their basement.
Calm down, Brangeloonies, your Saints are unscathed.
Defense of Kaiser? Like I’ve been making this my lifetime crusade or something? LOL
I just happen to agree that Joan isn’t funny. At all. She’s about as funny as a cardboard box.
I adore Joan. She’s fearless. She is old enough not to care what anyone thinks of her. So what will Jolie do? Make sure Joan is not co-starring in a movie with her?
joan is right. Have you ever seen jolie in interviews, SHe can’t put sentences together. Jolie is dumb as a brick.
Has Joan Rivers ever been funny? Seriously. Maybe it’s just me. Sweatshops? Now THAT’S prime comedy material. Can’t wait for her jokes about slavery, the Lost Boys of Sudan, and AIDS orphans.
Er, I’ve read Ayn Rand. Doesn’t make me a fricking genius. I also have read plenty about quantum physics but that doesn’t make me a genius either. Not a very good benchmark….Not saying AJ isn’t smart…
This woman can’t die fast enough.
#31 HUH?
You must be THE first person ANYWHERE on the interwebs to use that name as a handle EVER, eh?
You need a big nap. Night-night.
Bob Hope,Don Rickles, Red Skelton, Phyllis Diller, and Joan Rivers all fit into the same category. They are/were the best in the business. Those of you who find them not funny, or too old, are totally lacking a sense of humor. I feel sorry for those who have to spend time around you, as it must be woefully lacking in any kind of laughter – unless you personally dictate that it is “appropriate” sand politically correct, and therefore safe to laugh.
These comments about their ages indicate indicate a certain mind set; that older people should just shut up and die already. We will all get old someday and that seems really insensitive and short sighted to say the east
Annie– I like the celeb gossip sites and will come here as often as I please. Kaiser is a bad writer. If she doesn’t want her writing to be judged, she should keep a journal. JayBird, MSat and SamHill are hilarious and articulate and intelligent. All of Kaiser’s articles read like she’s dashed them off in between putting the kids down for a nap and before As the World Turns starts as she’s studying for her GED.
not the first ever, you condescending prick, just the first HERE.
respect…and you got none, apparently.
GFYS.
How did I miss this bitch slap?
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