Here’s the ugly truth: the late Joan Rivers was snubbed from this year’s Oscars‘ “In Memoriam” montage.
But before you unleash your rage upon the internet — and just to be clear, you have every right to — let’s just take a step back. The woman who succeed by saying what everyone else was thinking would have loved being excluded from the annual sequence. Can you imagine the bit she would have written about this? It would have been hilarious! Because there was no one she loved mocking more than herself.
So much of Rivers’ comedy was self deprecating. In fact, the beginning of her 2010 documentary, “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work,” was an opportunity for Rivers to laugh at herself. “This is my career,” she said. “I mean, how depressing is this? Forty years in the f–king business, and this is where you end up?”
But if there was one thing the icon loved more than anything, it was the attention. So the fact that the entire Twitterverse freaked out when she wasn’t included in the “In Memoriam” sequence would have made the comedienne smile more than anything. Or, you know, form something resembling a smile. (That one was for you, Joan.)
Omitting Joan Rivers from that in memoriam was genuinely disrespectful.
— Melissa Radz (@melissaradz) February 23, 2015
#Oscars #JoanRivers Wasn’t Joan Rivers a comedienne? Not an actor or playwright or anything in motion picture arena?
— Charie V (@rabdancr) February 23, 2015
People watch the Oscars because of what #JoanRivers created on the #redcarpet and you don’t even mention her? Joan is coming after you Oscar
— WILLIAM ASHMAN (@williamashman) February 23, 2015
And for the record, Rivers was a movie star in her own right. She appeared in many films during her remarkable Hollywood career, including the classic “Muppets Take Manhattan,” “Serial Mom,” “Spaceballs” and “The Smurfs.” Oh, and she also directed her own feature film in 1978 called “Rabbit Test.”
Here’s Why Joan Rivers Would’ve Loved Gettting Snubbed By Oscars’ ‘In Memoriam’ Montage
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