Joan Rivers, comic stiletto, and main perpetrator - along with Johnny Carson - of Orson fat jokes, dies at 81- Joan Rivers: “What’s Orson Welles’s favorite food? Seconds!” Johnny Carson (as Carnac): Answer: A full moon. Question: What do you see when Orson Welles drops his pants? Orson Welles on Johnny Carson and Joan Rivers, From “My Lunches With Orson” by Peter Biskind and Henry Jaglom: OW: …Ken Tynan wrote a profile of Johnny (Carson) in The New Yorker in which he quoted one of Johnny’s assistants as saying the only guest Johnny was visibly in awe of was Orson Welles. Since then, I haven’t been on the show. For five years. There goes two million copies of my autobiography when I publish it, because I can’t even get on to publicize it! HJ: Well, you can if somebody else hosts. Joan Rivers. OW: I did go on (The Tonight Show) with ‘John Rivers’, as she ought to be called, when she was replacing Carson. After four-and-a-half years. Obviously, just so I couldn’t go around Beverly Hills saying I was being blackballed by Carson. And I knew she was all set for me; I knew. Before I even sat down I began by telling her that my wife thought she was the best dressed woman in show business. And so on. Cut her right off at the knees. She couldn’t do a fat joke to save her life. HJ: So she was on good behavior. OW: She had to be, after that. How could she sail into me? HJ: She runs on impulse. God knows, she’s got balls. And talent. Very, very bright and talented. OW: Yes, I’m sorry to say. In her terrible way, she’s very talented. i1.ytimg/vi/Jj5m9ce9feI/0.jpg
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 21:16:55 +0000
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