It has been a big week for Joan Rivers: She survived a vicious Comedy Central mauling and a cheap shot by a Good Day Sacramento host that resulted in an expletive-laced live TV tell-off. Yesterday, Joan Rivers channeled her inner Joan Rivers (it's somewhere in there) at a TCA press conference to attack Jay Leno, her former Celebrity Apprentice enemies and anyone else in schvitzing distance, including a blood relative.
Rivers was at the Pasadena television critics event to promote her upcoming TV Land program, How'd You Get So Rich? In between talk of the reality show, she managed to hurl some barbs at Leno, an enemy since his predecessor, Johnny Carson, banned Rivers from The Tonight Show:
"I think it's brilliant that they put [Jay] Leno on at 10 p.m. because America can get bored more easily and go to sleep earlier," she said. "It will be nice for the Midwest because their crops will be greener."
Rivers also referenced her heritage:
"I had a grandmother that came to this country with 13 children and no husband. Slut!"
On David Tutera, the event planner that screwed her Celebrity Apprentice team by quitting during the finale challenge:
"He was very grand. You know why I'm still around? I'm not grand. This man was so fucking piss elegant. I am queen of the gays, but this was one mean little snotty fairy. And I can say that. And if he comes to my charity, God's Love We Deliver, he's gonna be the first person not to get a meal."
On pokah playah and Celebrity Apprentice rival, Annie Duke:
"Annie Douche...I don't like her. I would not have liked her is she played f***ing bingo!"
- TCA 2009: Joan Rivers Invades TV Land [Media Week]