Last night I was reading Joan Rivers's new book and randomly thought, "I haven't updated the Entertainment blog in over a month, and my Wilkes-Barre/Scranton references have run dry." Then, out of the blue, I came across a Wilkes-Barre reference on page 153 of the book.
I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me is the hilariously offensive (or is it offensively hilarious?) new book by Joan Rivers in which she comically details what annoys her about every conceivable type of person and situation. A New York Times Bestseller, the book was also banned from sale by retail chain Costco due to profanity on the book's back cover (on August 8th, Rivers staged a media coup by handcuffing herself to a shopping cart at Costco and selling her book in the parking lot).
Page 153 of the book details why Joan Rivers hates private planes:
"...because I'm a guest that means whoever owns the jet is a lot more rich and famous than I am and if that private jet goes down, the obituary in The New York Times will read: INTERNATIONAL OIL MAGNATE SHEIK ABDULLAH MUCKETY MUCK AND FOUR OTHER (POORER) PEOPLE DIE IN PLANE CRASH. I haven't spent forty years playing one-nighters in Wilkes-Barre to die as an 'other.'"
Joan Rivers will next be appearing in Wilkes-Barre on Saturday, April 27th at The F.M Kirby Center. Click here for more information on her upcoming appearance.
Click here to place a hold on I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me.
2 comments:
Maybe I should buy a copy of the book and aske her to autograph that page after her show?
If you do, see if she would autograph page 153, take a pic, and I'll post it here.
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