Joan Rivers

Well, I'm hoping that Joan Rivers and Johnny Carson have now ironed out their differences and are talking once again, with Robin Williams up there also, just laughing at the grudge those two carried for so many years.

There's a YouTube video showing Joan Rivers at a memorial for Johnny Carson.... his picture is etched into the granite stone, and Joan is sitting on the bench-like part of the memorial which sort of resembles Carson's old desk on The Tonight Show.  You can tell by Joan's voice that she was still sad over the loss of Carson's friendship, and never wanted that friendship to die just because she had been offered her own late-night talk show when Carson was still on the air.

Egos are huge in Hollywood... that's my guess... and Carson being Carson, I think he let his ego rule his mind, thus destroying the relationship between himself and Joan Rivers.

As for Joan.... she made us laugh, she said what was on everyone's mind, and she just let it all come out without caring who liked it or didn't.  There were times in her stand-up career that she sprinkled shocking expletives into her stories... which (in my opinion) weren't needed because her material was funny on its own... it didn't need all the four-letter punctuation marks.

Joan Rivers is being buried today. I'm hoping that Carson was there waiting in the wings for her, and as she walked through the gates of Heaven, wouldn't it be nice if Carson could be heard saying "Heeeeeeere's Joanie!"