This is why I LOVED her for decades, why I ALWAYS laughed at her jokes, and why I felt an identification with her from the very beginning, until the end: She was not, as some have said, cruel and vindictive, but a truth-teller—at least the truth as she saw it, and one that could be crafted into a zinger. She was a trailblazer, not just for female comics but all comics, who was utterly herself, beholden to nobody, willing to go absolutely to the edge and even over it for a joke, who never apologized, and who also was the one of the warmest, most devoted and most loyal friends those close to her could have wished for.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 19:27:07 +0000