The legendary American comedienne Joan Rivers is dead. 81-year-old died as a result of an operation. She was the first and only woman in the long US-humor and shrank from no taboo. But behind her mask put a lot of suffering.

Their last appearance they had last week, in a small theater on 42nd Street. As Joan Rivers was in her element, tore a hundred raucous fans the usual dirty jokes -. Especially about yourself “I’m 81, I could die at any moment,” she groaned. “I could fall over right here, on the stage And then you could all say., I was there”

The day after the legendary American comedienne denied the heart during an outpatient treatment vocal cord. After a week in an artificial coma she died this Thursday.

About the morbid timing they would have gekalauert most. The older Joan Rivers became, the more ruthless they joked about their “expiry date”. About in her book “I Hate Everyone … Starting with Me”: your funeral may please be a “big showbiz event”, “howling in five accents” with TV cameras, paparazzi and a Meryl Streep.

Not far-fetched. Even while Rivers was in the hospital, America’s entertainment scene collectively bowed before the “Queen of Mean” – although their 50-year career had denied trying to insult Stars. Since even feared Donald Trump, one of her favorite objects: “Get well soon, Joan,” tweeted the real estate shark. “Hold on.”

To be panned because of Rivers, was the ultimate accolade. Cher – endlessly about the Duke Rivers – should have protested when the jokes stopped over them. “Get busted their ass from you” tweeted “Girls” star Lena Dunham to the address “Your Majesty Joan Rivers,” “is a high honor.”

Behind the cold but mask the solidified product caricature of dozens of cosmetic surgery (“When I die, I donate my body to Tupperware”), located deep wounds and even deeper loneliness hidden. To be a pioneer, as long as the only woman in a macho-dominated career field, requiring strength, hardness and victims.
Rivers was the first of its kind – and the last. Relic of an era in which America late at night crouched in front of the TV to the world can be explained in the joke of polite gentlemen. Above all, talk icon Johnny Carson, who helped her in his “Tonight Show”, a sexist male bastion breakthrough.

1965 was the. Previously, the daughter of Jewish Russians spent years crisscrossing through clubs and spa hotels, rejoiced at every boo. How can a woman not talk yet, they roared – and inspired them only.

At Carson she came in cocktail dress, pearl necklace and feather boa and had “Break a leg” and “Good luck” scrawled on the pointy knees. Your stand-up set was infinitely dirtier than the humor of their gallant host. “You’re going to be a star,” prophesied of it immediately.

Carson became her mentor, she hired as its permanent representation – and cast them in 1986 when they ventured their own talk show. Until his death in 2005, he spoke not a single word with her and also ensured that the NBC Network punished with excommunication.

Records, setbacks, bully trouble. Rivers handed out as good as they had to take what you did and left. Their suffering was their inspiration, their comedy the only way to cope with such a life. Million she spoke thus from the heart.

They willingly played the Red-Carpet-pest, the celebrity critic, the specter of cosmetic surgery. Before anything or anyone she recoiled. Neither before the suicide of her husband Edgar Rosenberg: “According Testament I get money only when I visit him every day, so I let him cremated and scatter his ashes in the department store Neiman Marcus.” Even before the Holocaust taboo: “I am the funniest Jewish woman who has not landed in the gas chambers.”

Behind gardens sorrow and “the fear of being forgotten.” “My sex life is so bad,” she cried, “my G-spot was declared a national monument.”

And so they started him from the front, the cycle of trauma, Trash and Glamour. Launched a new talk show, got a star on the Hollywood Boulevard, was unemployed again, reinvented himself as Oscar fashion critic new (“Who are you wearing?”), Was again deposed, was a guest at the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, won Donald Trump’s reality show “Celebrity Apprentice”, verhökerte jewelry shopping channel QVC.
“I’ll never retire,” she vowed in 2010 in “Joan Rivers – A Piece of Work”, an award-winning documentary about them. “If need be, I do television advertising for seniors diapers.”

Only about one she was not ready. Written she had life-sustaining measures prohibited, they should be so ill that she could make no more jokes.

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