Roasts are supposed to be harsh words from good friends that are meant in good humor and no one should know that any better than Joan Rivers. Joan found herself as the roastee at the latest installment of the Comedy Central Roast. The show will air on August 9th at 10:00 p.m. on Comedy Central and the emcee is none other than D-List celebrity Kathy Griffin.
Joan took it all in good stride, promising that the show would be great. She said, “I was in shock at what they said” and added, “They call me evil, mean, and [a] plastic surgery whore and disgusting. I kept saying to myself, “How do they know so much about me?”
Of her pal Kathy, Joan said, “She was evil. We made a pact. No matter what we say on camera…we stay friends forever. And she really lets me have it.” Would any less be expected from Kathy?
I’ll probably try to catch this one. I’ve seen the William Shatner, Flavor Flav, Jeff Foxworthy, and Bob Saget roasts and those were all hilarious, so how could I miss one of Joan, who has made a career of harsh words for people?
On a less funny note, the September issue of Vanity Fair will feature Farrah Fawcett in her prime, but the story inside the magazine will be from Ryan O’Neal and his regrets about the past. He told the interviewer that he wishes he had a second shot at his relationship with Farrah, acknowledging that he was cruel to her at times. If he had another chance, he said he would be “much kinder, more understanding, more mature.” He even wonders during the interview if his brutalness somehow may have caused the beauty’s cancer. He said when they split up in 1998 that it was due to her menopause and his lack of sympathy.
O’Neal goes further to acknowledge his shortcomings as a father, even telling a weird tale of an incident that happened at Farrah’s funeral in June. He said he had finished helping put the casket in the hearse when beautiful blonde ran up to him and hugged him. O’Neal asked her if she had a drink and a car – I assume because he wanted to get drunk and run off with her. As it turns out, it was his own daughter Tatum. Did O’Neal really think it was some “strange Swedish woman” he was hitting on as he told the interviewer? If this story is true, I think that says a lot about the troubles of the O’Neal family.
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