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[Silver Lotus]

Like it or not men and women are held to different standards and yes I personally do expect more from a woman than I do a man. I expect her to rise above being raunchy, vulgar, and crass.

[JustJules]

On 3/26/2014 Burnsite said:

George Carlin was not crass. About as good and as brilliant as comedians are. Mealy mouthed people don't like comedians. Mealy mouthed people usually also have no sense of humor.

I suppose crass is in the eye of the beholder. I never said George Carlin wasn't a great comedian, but he did have his crass moments. You're entitled to your opinion, just like I am to mine, nothing mealymouthed about it.

[Preds]

On 3/26/2014 Silver Lotus said:

Like it or not men and women are held to different standards and yes I personally do expect more from a woman than I do a man. I expect her to rise above being raunchy, vulgar, and crass.

Well, it's a little too late for that. That is what made her who she is. She is too old now to change what she built her career on .

[Irshgrl31201]

George Carlin was also crass. I like Joan. She is a comedian, I don't take what she says seriously and anyone listening to Howard Stern shouldn't be expecting anything less than the pinnacle of crass. That is what people listen to him and his guest for. Who else asks quest when the last time they had a n a l secks was? People look to he and his guests for crass humor, not a serious interview.

[adelle38]

I like Joan but I don't find any "fat" jokes funny. At least we've made progress. When I was a kid all the comedians were men making jokes about their wives and mothers-in-law...things like "my wife is so fat when she sits around the house, she really sits around the house." There's a fine line between funny and offensive and sometimes Joan crosses it. In my mind, it shows she's trying.

[Burnsite]

George Carlin was right. Crass is obviously the new keyword for ""this is out of my comfort zone.""

[chrystaltree]

Joan is Joan. Don't watch her if you don't like her. You know what you're going to hear. Do you think she's suddenly going to turn into Mother Theresa?

[adelle38]

On 3/26/2014 Burnsite said:

George Carlin was right. Crass is obviously the new keyword for ""this is out of my comfort zone.""

George Carlin was right about so many things.

[JustJules]

On 3/26/2014 adelle38 said:

On 3/26/2014 Burnsite said:

George Carlin was right. Crass is obviously the new keyword for "this is out of my comfort zone."

George Carlin was right about so many things.

I always laughed when he said a house is just a place to keep your stuff, and that people only get a bigger house because they have too much stuff and need more room to keep it. Now that I've gotten a bit older and wiser, I wish I had less stuff.

[lovescats]

I think Joan Rivers will say almost anything to keep herself in the news. She has a good interview on HuffPost live with melissa where she says if you don't like her don't watch her.

I used to like her but when I saw her as a guest on the tonight show with Fallon ( after his 1st show ) I could see why Leno never had her back to the tonight show.

This article says she needs to quit needs to quit concern-trolling younger women

http://www.salon.com/2014/03/26/joan_rivers_does_it_again_claims_lena_dunham_spreads_message_obesity...

Rivers, who overcame barriers against women in comedy early in her career and went on to have plastic surgery that rendered her unrecognizable, criticizing another person’s failure to conform with beauty norms is a bit painful — there’s clearly something going on here about which one can only speculate. But her pattern of lashing out specifically at younger women in the industry is so tiresome. Jessica Simpson is fat. Jennifer Lawrence is arrogant. Sofia Vergara is stupid. And none of these are really jokes in the classic sense, they’re just statements of opinion.

The “Fashion Police” star is consistently described as a comedy pioneer. But what, these days, would be worse: if her critique of Dunham and others were so damning as to be actively detrimental, or if it had become such a predictable drumbeat that Rivers finds herself next to irrelevant? Dunham ought not to respond at all; why give Rivers the attention she thrives on if her jokes haven’t earned it?