Remembering Joan Rivers

2019-09-04

Joan Alexandra Molinsky
aka Joan Rivers
June 8, 1933 – September 4, 2014

I will always remember the acerbic wit of Joan Rivers. She was a controversial American comedian, actress, writer, producer, and television host whom I came to know when I was quite young.

That rapier wit never failed her and her observations (Michelle Obama is a Tranny) often intrigued me in their circumstantial relevance at the time they went live.

What caught my eye early on is the self deprecation in her material and there was an underlying confidence that shone through it all and I always knew I would like her unconditionally from that early boyhood slug that I was in youth through the early loss of her due to botched medical care a scant five years past.

So much water under the bridge. So much left to say about so many around her. How I wish she were still her to share those insights and that fearless tell it like it is woman she always was.

Joan Rivers meant something to me and my life. She imparted a tolerance for myself that no one else could give me. Rest in peace.