You know what’s a great way to make yourself relevant when everyone’s forgotten you’re alive? Start swearing like a sailor… on national television… when talking about a celebrity. At least that’s the strategy from the Joan Rivers School of Fame. And let’s be honest, that’s a pretty small school.

Rivers has been in London promoting her new play Joan Rivers: A Work In Progress By A Life In Progress. She was on the show Loose Women (I haven’t seen it, but it appears to be similar to The View), when she let loose with quite the expletives – calling actor Russell Crowe a “fucking shit.” Unfortunately the show is live and couldn’t be bleeped.

Joan Rivers’ salty tongue got her booted from a British daytime talk show in the middle of its live broadcast.

Rivers used two expletives while talking about Russell Crowe as a guest host on the live gab-fest “Loose Women.” She was asked to leave during a commercial break.

The 75-year old comedian said in a statement Tuesday she was sorry for the swearing, and assumed that a censor would be able to “bleep” the words out.

Then she cracked wise, saying the incident reminded her of her wedding night - because she was asked to leave in the middle of that, too.

[From the Huffington Post]

The show’s hosts apologized profusely. Though they said Joan would be back after the commercial break, when the show resumed they noted, “We apologize for the offensive language in the previous part. Unfortunately Joan’s had to leave us.” They’re so polite.

Rivers seems to view the incident as a high point in her career.

‘I said: ‘I apologise’. Everyone apologised. It was hilariously funny.’

But she said that during a commercial break: ‘They whipped me off. It’s the first time in 40 years.

‘I’m thrilled - everyone keeps saying to me: ‘What more is there in your career? You’ve got every award there is.”

[From the Daily Mail]

Well now she can be known as the lady with the craziest face and the craziest mouth. High point indeed.

Here’s Joan Rivers at a book party for Bernadette Peters held at Le Cirque in New York City on May 12th. Images thanks to WENN.

That Joan Rivers doesn’t know when to keep her mouth shut. Perhaps it’s not her fault - with all the stuff that’s injected into her face, I think it’s probably due to the fact that her jaws will no longer close properly. Joan has made a living for herself by loudly criticizing famous people [JayBird laughs nervously], even though she’s about as tacky as they come. Though she’s been demoted from most of her red carpet duties, Joan is still blabbing on about the celebrities she hates, and this time she’s taken aim at Victoria Beckham.

Joan Rivers recently insulted Victoria Beckham, saying that she is an “arrogant” woman who is “just a Spice Girl.” Rivers (in her distinctively raspy voice) was holding nothing back during an exclusive interview. “I dislike Victoria Beckham,” she seethed. “The entitlement - the total entitlement. You want to say: ‘Calm down, you were a Spice Girl.’ The arrogance when she walks into a room is astonishing.”

Joan is currently in the process of bashing celebrities in her new stand-up show “Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress.” She’s a spitfire, that one. I have a feeling that Victoria doesn’t really care: it’s free publicity, after all.

[From Splash News]

Um, and you were what Joan, the Secretary of State? Come on. I’m sure Victoria Beckham’s ego is so big it’s hard for her to squeeze through the door, but so far she has yet to annoy billions for generations like Joan Rivers. And if nothing else, Posh generally keeps her mouth shut. While I don’t really think she’s interesting (you generally have to talk to be interesting) there is no way in hell she’s as annoying as Joan Rivers. Arrogant? Sure. Too thin? Check. Way too fake looking? Posh and Joan will have to battle to the death for that title.