Sign in. It’s quick, free and it’s up to you.
An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more.
JOAN RIVERS, THE acerbic US stand-up comic renowned for her rapier wit, was rushed to hospital after suffering complications during a medical procedure, colleagues said.
US media said the 81-year-old Rivers stopped breathing while undergoing surgery on her vocal cords at a clinic in New York’s Upper East Side and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital.
A spokesman for the New York Fire Department told AFP that officers responded to an emergency call at 9:39 am (1339 GMT) after a woman suffered a possible cardiac arrest.
The patient was taken from 201 East 93rd Street, the address of Yorkville Endoscopy clinic, to Mount Sinai, he said.
The hospital confirmed Rivers had been admitted but gave no immediate details on the nature of her condition.
“Her family wants to thank everybody for their outpouring of love and support. We will provide an update on her condition as it becomes available,” said spokesman Sid Dinsay.
The E! television channel on which Rivers hosts the show “Fashion Police” reported that she was in a stable condition after suffering “complications from throat surgery”.
“Our own lovely living legend Joan Rivers is in stable condition at Mt Sinai hospital,” tweeted E! journalist Ken Baker.
Celebrity news site TMZ earlier said that Rivers was in critical condition after she stopped breathing. Her daughter Melissa was reportedly en route to New York.
Rivers earlier this week filmed a special 90-minute episode of “Fashion Police” and has a string of appearances scheduled in the coming weeks, followed by a UK tour in October.
Born in Brooklyn and a long-time New York resident, Rivers has spared no one her razor-sharp wit and is considered one of the best at delivering a cutting one-liner with a well-timed zinger.
The E! network reported that the surgery was “a minor endoscopic procedure” performed under sedation to check her vocal cords.
To embed this post, copy the code below on your site
after her comments regarding innocent children been murdered in Gaza i dont see her gaining much sympathy.some would call it karma……
Her comments were unfortunate. But saying mean things doesn’t earn you a death sentence, at least that’s not how I think karma works ..
She also said recently that Michelle Obama is a man.
‘Unfortunate’??? Wanting children dead is ‘unfortunate’
Joan Rivers: “They were told to get out. They didn’t get out. You don’t get out, you are an idiot. At least the ones that were killed were the ones with low IQs.”
This is Karma!!
Maybe the obamas arranged for that operation to go wrong? If any ones vocal cords needed to be fu*ked up that venomous old bitch did.
Tim Stephen Hendy .. She didn’t give a damn about the death of Palestinian children.
So what? lots of people didn’t. Do they all deserve to die too?
Wow. So because she has a different point of view than the Hamas apologists she deserves to die? Pathetic.
Hitler had a different point if view….
David Lynch “Hitler had a different point of view”?
Seriously?
You are equating Joan (Molinsky) Rivers with Adolf Hitler? Joan Rivers the daughter of Jewish immigrants and whose late husband of 22 years Edgar Rosenberg’s family fled Germany to escape the Nazis?
Seriously? You think Pogroms and the Holocaust with the genocide of eleven million people including six million Jews is comparable with comments made by Joan Rivers?
And for that she deserves to die. Wow.
Yes seriously and no I don’t think those are comparable, but thanks for trying to put words in my mouth!
Im just highlighting that they both had similar points of view, alas Rivers didn’t act on that opinion!
What a cold woman. I was utterly shocked when I heard her speak on the Israeli Palestinian apocalypse. What a fascist.
Compare the lack of fallout from her disgraceful, venomous,comments compared to Helen Thomas, the 90 year old correspondent and member of the whitehouse press core (the only one who would ask the the president the tough questions) whos stellar career was brought to an abrupt end for simply saying the settlers in the occupied territories should go back to where they came from (which would actually be in accordance with international law).
Sickening.
Karma for killing animals and wanting Palestinians dead
Aye not too much sympathy from me anyways.
Well and truly karma bitten, I’ve made a determined point of having not a squirt of sympathy for her, hope the pain lingers somewhat.
Describing her as a comedian is definitely pushing the boundaries of journalism.
I have as much sympathy for her as she had for the Palestinians.
…but not actually harming anyone. Vicious bunch, the so-called compassionate ones.
I never harmed anyone. Just stated anecdotal evidence for the existence of Karma. It refers to the principle of causality where intent and actions of an individual influence the future of that individual. Karma is a *itch my friend.
She never harmed anyone, merely said nasty things – meaning that her actual death would not be “karma”. If people said mean things about her, that would be karma. Maybe. If I believed in it.
There is no karma. It is merely a religious notion which is appealing to us because it suggests that there is justice in the world. A fallacious, if comforting, belief.
Are you all fourteen?
Terrible business, the face is still in the deep freeze but the adhesive doesn’t work as well after a while. A bit like those peel and stick packets of rashers.
Hey Joan!
Ain’t karma a bitch!!!
A bit like you eh?
No matter how natsy a piece of work she is, rather than wish ill of an octogenarian I’ll acknowledge the more enlightened jewish people of her generation and hope that Joan uses her recovery time in hospital to evaluate her near death experience in hospital against the actual death experience she endorsed in Gaza.
Were Jammin….class.8
Troll of a woman who gets her jollies laughing and ripping others.
Who’s laughing now…….
Karma
I have been banned from typing the word Israelites are called the ones who trying to take over the world. Begins with z — ionists
rhymes with shmionists?
Yes:) seriously though why the hell is that word banned. Have they taken over the journal???
Wow… It really is? It’s “offensive”?
Used to respect Joan Rivers. But after what she said about the Gaza conflict, screw her. I don’t wish her any harm, but I wouldn’t shed a tear over her. Pillock.
Wagon.
Awww…cry me a river.
I won’t be losing any sleep.
I can’t believe all the vitriolic comments being made about JR. For pity sake the woman is ill in hospital. And it‘s nothing to do with bloody ” karma “. People who write those comments about karma and wishing her ill should be ashamed of themselves . For gods sake show a bit of humanity and kindness. No, I‘m not defending her remarks , I do think the is extremely cutting at times , but she is human and I for one wish her a speedy recovery. No doubt I will get more thumbs down than up but I think I’ll get over it !! Get well soon Joan and makes laugh again.
I’m a major major Gaza supporter and I think her remarks of late were utterly disgusting…however I wish her nothing bad…recovery is way to go, hatred is not great really is it?
I’m sure her friend satanyahou will be stoking the fire waiting for her arrival, it’s gonna be hot
Fu*k her she gets what’s coming to her
She’s being doing that for years – is mild compared to some of the stuff she has come out with in the past
Wow a lot of hate being poured of for Joan Rivers. Whatever opinions are of her, I hope she gets well soon.
I hope she dies screaming, the faces of the Palestinian children tormenting her.
So how then are you any different from her
More plastic surgery no doubt.
Lots of self righteous holier than thou folk on here. Hilarious altogether, not one of you ignorant fcuks must have ever said a bad thing about anyone… eh? Us Irish, we’re the biggest bunch of fcuking hypocrites on the planet…
Nursing home material
The funniest female stand-up comic around. Tells a lot..
Those penis enlargement procedures are lethal..I’m one of the lucky ones : )
Karma
“Renowned for her rapier wit” – renowned for being an odious bigoted trout more like. An actual quote from her recently was “Oh no, Palestinian children died – boo hoo!” – she is one of life’s common or garden a$$holes. The sad thing is that Republican voters in the US (48% of the population or so) believe her to be a legend.
She’s just a pathetic, unfunny old woman. So now she’s sick, big deal, she’s well past her sell by date.
She broke her funny bone!
She looks great for an 81-year old
If she dived into the sea she would cause an oil slick
If she dived into the sea the sea would probably spit her back out.
Best not go too near the fire she could melt.
Was she ever stable
Joan Rivers is still alive?
I kinda hope its slow and painful for her. What a bloody fool of a woman
Jesus, man, you have some issues.
michael boyle id say ur one of these over- sensitive people are u ,, or a woman
There is more plastic in her than 10,000 Barbie dolls !
Will take her years to rot down !
10,000 years from now during an archeological dig in what used to be Hollywood they will find her perfectly preserved plastic body along with hundreds more. They will think we had amazing embalming techniques.
The human sucker fish , hope she doesn’t recover !!
I know Joan has an extreme sense of humour but I think she’s hilarious on fashion police, and she is 81 fair play to her, I hope she has a speedy recovery.
In relation to the Headline,,, thats a shame !
So…..because she dared say something that disagrees with the Hamas apologists on this site “shocking!” it’s somehow “karma” that she deserves to die? That’s pathetic and shows the totalitarianism of the Left.
a very funny person ,, u are all idiots who think otherwise ,,, she told it like it was ,, people are was sensitive
Joan really put her foot in it recently with the revelation that the first Lady is in fact a man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvuulZPbfBg
Horrid person who wears dead animals.
The comments you people are writing are absolutely sickening. To wish ill of a sick old women. Yes she also said some awful things especially regarding Gaza however you people wishing her ill are no better than her. Animals!!!!!
What did she expect after outing Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et38_Ufv-Jw Surprised she is still alive.
http://news.in.msn.com/international/obama-was-%e2%80%98cocaine-using-gay-hustler%e2%80%99-claims-ex-classmate
have your say