Agree

17, maybe 18.

Lighthearted … that came from a place of real hatred… I mean love. Yes. Love.

I love them both. And I too miss them.

Absolutely Iconic Women Hysterical!!

Appreciate your nice comment brother. Are you from Chicago, you look familiar? I played basketball in the projects and I lived on a Christian campus for 18 months on the west side.

@Amy Brennan I like vodka martinis, margaritas, and Bloody Mary. You?

@@dannetterousseau4095 thanks

I bet they’re on a cloud right now cracking jokes together about everyone in heaven 💕😂

@@kafkollectif525 2 fab party girls having much fun ! 🥰

And people like you don’t understand that we do understand

Dont blame us for being young. Were here watching arent we? We do understand. It was funny and cutting-edge for its time. In fact Im 23 and cracked up multiple times to this. Ofc we understand.

@@river_acheron my bad. I should rephrased my opening sentence. I hope younger generations appreciate how incredible this moment was. My meaning is that there are iconic moments in every generation. And one can only hope that the next generation appreciates the impact of their predecessors. There’s no way younger people can understand something that happened decades before they were born. A different world that they grew up in, the aftermath of these pivotal moments. Me included! I have no understanding of what it was like to grow up during the great depression or WWII. I’m a baby of the 70’s. But I appreciate the journey of those before me because I listened to their stories.

@@yacobeinauan9533 I’m sorry my comment bothered you. 🙏❤️

I was in high school for some of those guest host duties and my friends and I would get together to watch her monologues. I liked Johnny Carson but Joan did such great crowd work, and rapid fire jokes.

You do know the Friars roasts from the 70s were more filthy than most things on TV today? You understand that Joan and Betty cursed up a storm during their stand-up acts? Dont act like the 70s and 80s were more wholesome than now. You just couldn't get away with as much on TV then, which is why they are not cursing. Facts

They throw compliments just as frequent as their shades. Amazing!

@@river_acheron not understanding your comment. Not acting like anything....I was around when the Friar's Roasts were on T.V. I watched these ladies, and others like them, curse up many many storms. Not really sure where your comment is coming from. You do know that the Friar's Roasts were intentionally raunchy, don't you?

@@lc6750 Your original comment mentioned how they were funny NOT cursing. You sounded like one of those boomers that thinks comedy is better off being G-Rated. I metely wanted to say that the comedians of old were in many ways more offensive than the ones now. Dont get me wrong. I like all of it and nothing offends me.

​@@river_acheronhardly.

But weren't we all priveleged to have them for a small amount of time.

@L S almost 100 years and 80+ is a decent amount of time.

But they WILL be forgotten. We all will.

@@AddictionToAwareness No, not everybody. They say you don’t truly die until someone forgets your name. There have been many people throughout history who have left a lasting impact on the world, and Betty White is certainly one of them.

@@AddictionToAwareness I bet your fun at parties. 🙄😂

Comparing them, though, is apples and oranges. Joan was a comedian. Truly. She did stand-up. Betty White, whom I adored, was just a funny lady. Big difference. Both were great. Betty held a special place in my heart because she did so much for animals. They were her first love, I think, as they are mine. Doris Day was another, who adored animals. She died in May of 2019. Two great ladies for animals. Such a loss. Doris Day was another funny lady. She did a lot of movies in the 60s. Some with Rock Hudson. They were so funny.

Every word @Buna Buna writes, 💯 agreement from me. My grandmother (God rest her soul) raised St. Bernards, was friends with Betty back in the early-mid 1960s. Such great women. I remember Doris Day going to animal rescues when I was a teen. Both missed :-(

@@bunabunatetu6130 They're still too giants of comedy tho. We all know Betty wasn't a stand up, bit she was a celebrated comic actress

@@popland1977 s y.o

@@bunabunatetu6130 Betty was an actess withi impeccable comedic timing. She could have done anything in the realm and probably did at some point. Joan was of a certain type of comedian. Lets just say that..

Such a lovely comment :)

I convey a - 2nd hand yet up close private discussion with GM of Salem Witch Museum . Where Joan would visit when attending North Shore ( of Boston ) Music Theater. -- QUICKLY get to point - Miss Joan Rivers could NOT have been more lovely , gracious and invited the staff of Salem Witch Museum to her show ... + she comp'd --- paid for hundreds of $ for ....... people in the gift shop. --- _ I'm fortunate to have obtained this INSIGHT .. regarding Miss Joan Rivers ....... People of Salem / The Witch City --- never knew when her ' broom' touched down then took off to Beverly ......... [ Love you Miss Joan Rivers]

Joan's comedy often went over my head when I was a young man, but watching reruns and new performances makes me realize that she was more clever and creative than Carson and less boring than Letterman. She didn't have to appear on TV every night, but when she guest hosted or appeared, she was a barrage of jokes--much like Robin Williams.

Thank you for this comment. ❤

​​@@swingersonian You're right. There was a reason Carson chose her to do more hosting on his show than any other and Joan should have succeeded Johnny, not Leno. Leno was pretty good, but not as good as Joan. There is no telling how much better the Tonight Show would have been. I think it would have been epic.

RIP and ALL THE LOVE

Not able to get it.

Agreed that was great !

Betty White gave Rue McClanahan (Blanche) a lovely compliment when discussing the character of Blanche in The Golden Girls "Rue took her into orbit a place I never would have gone". Betty was initially thought to play Blanche. Those two ladies were wonderful.

Growing up I remember Betty as Sue Ann on the Mary Tyler Moore show and from Match Game...iconic TV shows and she killed it on both of them.

Watch Trixie and katya 🤣

@@lepotatoes I went to comment the same 😂

Oh no, she was all over the scene back then! They knew 😄 Just watch her as Sueann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, that’s my favorite character of hers! ❤

Read? She was always like that.

She was very quick and sharp..ppl today wouldn’t know it!

When she was much older, a host asked her about continuing to work so much. She said, "I'm a whore. I can't say 'No'."

Betty was the best game show guest

That was extremely funny and quick-witted.

Pros....scripted...

I mean, you can tell that this is their friendship, and they must’ve played off of each other like this all the time. It’s so natural and quick.

“That’s my babysitter and laundress.”

@@hrh-xj4fh Amateur writing a commenter about ‘pros’ and the whole interview going way over his head. Swoosh.

Those two ladies were blessed with great minds, a great comedic timing. Just a joy to watch & listen to. Betty White's facial expressions in the Golden Girls were priceless. She could do confused, embarrassed & surprised in a matter of split seconds when playing Rose Nyland. Joan was sharp, sharp, sharp. She learned of famous people in all of the English speaking countries she visited, who's in & who's out. She never missed a trick. She made you laugh whether you were in the UK or New Zealand, what a fabulous fantastic brain.

Betty White was evil to the core. She drank adrenochrome that's how she lived so long. Be careful who you idolize Hollywood is filled with demons that are evil as hell. these 2 are both transgenders just like most of Hollywood is. They were born male. shut off your tv's and do some research.

Bone structure does not lie. they were born dudes.

How old were they there?

@@adorable3817 BW was born in 1922 & JR in 1933.

I😅 😥 j

imo The all around best two person interviews where both the host and the guest fed off each others talent and wit were CRAIG FERGUSON interviewing ROBIN WILLIAMS If you haven't yet watched those shows (The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson) I highly recommend you do. 😄😄😄😄

Ferguson's awesome. Really enjoying this interview with these wonderful comidiens.

@@cindyoteri1869 Ya. I think Craig Ferguson was highly underrated. I miss him.

​@@joannaedwards6325he was great

FYI: She was a Mrs., not a 'Ms', and happy to be Mrs. Allen Ludden.

And she spoke, beautifully, for the women's movement, without ever losing her comedic edge! Wonderful woman. And she was very happily married to Allen Ludden as was he to her!

@@jstrahan2 thanks for the correction but I feel like she’d forgive my horrific mistake.

​@@localfan8174 😭

This 12 minutes will be forever. So effortless and spontaneous.

Maybe a 6’ pole would be more useful in this situation

@@jimdavenport4484 oh man! I came in here to say the EXACT same thing! Nice bro!✌️

Because todays folk lack something THESE women had. Class, style and dignity. All the attributes of a lady. Which is ALSO something lacking today!

Agreed and real comedy happens off the cuff and is not scripted. These two women were just genuinely funny.

When comedy was funny....

Love Joans sarcastic humour ! A sensitive and kind woman esp after her husband's suicide.

Maybe not. Betty White is probably busy with Allen Luddin (spelling???) while Rivers is off behind a group of angels whispering mean sarcasms and gossiping trying to start a rumor about Gabriel.

@@joannaedwards6325 NO sarcasm and gossiping in heaven !! Everyone that is allowed there must be honest, pious, & sincere !

@@SweetChicagoGator You don't understand my humor? You must be very young to think I was being literal.

@@joannaedwards6325 NO ! UR NOT FUNNY !! ...AND NO, I don't care or need to understand LAME HUMOUR !! 😡

Missed it by _that_ much. -Agent 86

George Burns just made it.

Ya but she didn’t make it did she 😂

@@mrchihuahuaboy4306 couldn't resist could you, seek help 😉

@@marcoevans2155 nah lol I’m good 😘

Stupid remark. Why would a younger person have a sharper wit? I can't even imagine what impossible age you are!

LOVED Betty, I was lucky enough to see Joan live a couple years before she passed and she was amazing.

i agree she was amazing - but I'd say most 60 year-olds I've know have pretty refined wit, certainly better than the typical 15 year old!

@@6foot5bill Exactly. This is very ageist and an outdated way of looking at people this age...I wish more people took a basic Lifespan Development class. They would learn that most average, healthy 60 year old people don't experience any significant cognitive declines. Being older doesn't mean you're no longer sharp or intelligent!

They were both hilarious and sharp til the end.

Allen Ludden was a LUCKY man.

Wrong. Bea Arthur didn't love Betty LOL

@@valentinomiller6251 Obviously wrong, Bea.

@@valentinomiller6251 Bea was a contrarian.

Tell that to Ryan Reynolds.

@@iowaguy6470 I agree completely! Johnny was really picky when it came to Comedians though!

"Damn" Funny is NOT!!!!! Extremely Funny Is...

Johnny Carson was such a big baby to be so offended when Joan got her own show on Fox. He should have been happy for her.

​@@NoteFromSELFhe really screwed her over

There are very few people out there who have the quality that makes them look wonderful and shine a light on anyone with them, too. Betty White definitely had it. It sounds a bit rude to say she makes Joan look even better, but their beauty, charm, wit and humour shines so much brighter with them together because Betty just has that quality.

It wasn't quite so dismal back in 1982.

@@Tessmage_Tessera true, but we only just lost her

The 80's were awesome compared to today. I was a high school senior when this aired. The future, at the time, only looked bright. Like the song of the day said "the future's so bright I gotta wear shades." Who would have thought what MY generation inherited we would ruin in just 20 short years.

@@Tessmage_Tessera It was if you were an adult who lived through Reagan's recession. Businesses were closing all over the country. His "trickle down economics" was the beginning of the loss of our middle class and his illegal wars destroyed Latin America. The Reagan/Bush administration was the most corrupt in American history.

@@retroguy9494 You didn't ruin it. Reagan & Daddy Bush did. They set it all in motion. Bush Sr. always talked about a "one world government". (his thousand points of light speech) YUCK! He meant it. The Bush crime family is responsible for much of the terrorism that happened in this country. When Bill Clinton took office he also sold Americans jobs away with NAFTA & deregulated banks by repealing with the Glass Steagall Act of 1999. Wave goodbye. He did balance the budget that way, but Bush Jr. spent it immediately after stealing the election, by sending all Americans a $300. check his first 3 months in office. That depleted all the cash on hand; so when he took us to war, there was no $ or plan to pay for it. They just keep printing cash for perpetual wars and giving our money to rich corporations or lobbies and definitely the war machine. The most important thing your generation did was to stage the Occupy Wall St protests. Other than that, I've seen nothing but apathy.

Yh, I'm just now realising how awesome she was in retrospect

Is that a reference to her breast size? Cause that was one joke I didn’t understand. Joan doesn’t look too big to me.🤷🏻

The best was the answer! Front hahahahaha

“Front”

WTF? Joan Rivers HONEST? She wasn't honest with herself, let alone anyone else...

@@DDumbrille When's the last time you got taken down to the wood shed? 🤔🤨

@@DDumbrille almost all humans have elements of self deception. Even you. Even me...though I've worked at mining my own psyche for sure. She was often very honest about her struggles and insecurities. Many people cannot admit those. All you can do is be radically honest with yourself. If it's so important to call others out for it. Dig down beyond all the defenses, the illusions, the ego protections, the cognitive distortions and the biases...it's a warriors job. To be that wholly brave to look at oneself, unedited, holding space, and fully accepting...that is very, very rare. It's too scary a proposition for most. Your statement incredibly shared something about you. That you must be pretty hard on yourself, and project it outwards...that you likely have an unaddressed core wound of shame. We can not have empathy if we see ourselves and others through a lens of shame...therefore we readily try to shame others, simply for being human. I hope you can heal.

@@Alphacentauri819 Very insightful. I AM hard on myself, and there is shame. Perhaps I was projecting that forward, but I still say that Rivers was full of self-hatred which SHE projected on everyone. Unlike Don Rickles, who would always end his bits by acknowledging he's just kidding, that these are jokes, etc., Rivers never did that. In the documentary that followed her around -- she bitched about 'having to' play vegas, or play some small town -- when it was HER CHOICE to do so. She could've retired 10-15 years before her death, but kept going back for the 'love' of applause. Very sad. Hopefully others (including myself) have learned lessons from her sad life.

@@DDumbrille my heart goes out to you. Being a human can, at times, be a tough endeavor. I too agree that Rivers seemed to have so much self loathing. It's heartbreaking. We abuse ourselves more than almost anyone else does.. her dismissing her own value, invalidating herself through various means...especially the self mutilation and suffering, of cosmetic surgeries. That screams "I'm not enough". If she'd loved, valued, honored herself, had her own back...she would never have decided to do all that. It's sad when people buy into the lies of society, their definitions of beauty, value etc. If each human thought they were enough, didn't live in shame...there would be no market for cosmetics, elective plastic surgery, and a plethora of other services/products, we are sold. Advertisers prey on humans need to belong...by targeting their weakness. Suggesting that if we alter things we might be loved, adored, validated, etc. Accepting oneself is the protection against it all. Takes work, but it's possible 💛

Did you ever see her daytime show? Was hilarious ! 😅😀

Oh that wouldn't be hard to do. Just do her regular routine and that would top them all currently airing.

Or back then either, if it hadn’t have been for Johnny Carson’s huge yet fragile ego. Joan never forgave him.

@@DeeEllEff Ego?! Duplicity in this situation Has nothing to do with ego. She dissd & betrayed Johnny who gave her the starting in comedy. She should have told him, I signed a contract with Fox to have my own show ! Then there wouldn't have been such a big deal by hiding this fact from him she hurt his feelings immensely !! Carson's Egp was always contained and never fragile or even flagrant. He was very respectful to all people, especially the common and senior citizens. I really admire that !! 💓 We all make mistakes, and Joan did a doozy ! Yet, she has The Gift of Gab and she was well loved on her day talk show. She's a very sensitive & kind human being, as was Johnny. I deeply miss both of them. 💔🤗

@@SweetChicagoGator Thanks for the different perspective on Carson. I’m still not sure if I agree with Johnny C. being a kind and sensitive person (there’s quite a bit of evidence to the contrary), but certainly anybody can suffer hurt feelings, that’s for sure.

I couldn't believe what Betty White insinuated with being lonely without electricity!!! 😂

Don't try to rewrite history. Joan was NEVER considered "Elegant".

@@JohnJohnson-mo4bn tell that to the women who bought her jewelry collection

Betty was gorgeous

Joan played Betty's twin sister on an episode of Hot In Cleveland.

@@trueshy No Kidding .... thank you for sharing that.

Agree!

I agree. I bet they also love each other.

The world is just a little darker without these shining stars.✨

Your comment here is beautiful, and of great value to those of us lucky enough to see it.

Both beautiful and brilliant and hilarious.. and missed

And even when the joke is barbed, it never feels like she’s putting Joan down, at all. It feels like a cheeky remark and never a catty one. Sharp, classy and witty.

@@agwarddd Yes, so classy, and very smart lovely woman. I love her humbel side, no arrogance is ever present. She is adorable.

@@karllansing7927 I agree. Joan was so offensive. A real C U Next Tuesday. I’d probably have still hit that. Just because I’m nasty like that.

@@karllansing7927 Nope !! She was sensitive & kind. Well-liked by most and esp the Gay community. U misunderstand her sarcasm !

@@karllansing7927 Give an example? You are too ambiguous about Joan ! 🤔

@@louskunt9798 Agree. Older she got the meaner she became. Did not mourn her death just felt really sorry for her daughter.

@@joannaedwards6325 oh I’m with you 💯. Her daughter is the only reason I tolerated her for as long as I did. She’s a much, much better/improved version of her mom. 👍✌️

That's insane actually

She didn't. She lived another 39 years.

@@JohnJohnson-mo4bn Ergo, the word *"almost"* 40 more years. Wisecracks are not wise when facts are ignored.

@@mikehike596 Do a year in jail & tell yourself everyday you're locked-up that the 1 year you're doing is "almost" the same as not doing that 1 year. Point is, 1 Year is a substantial amount of time in a human's life. Regardless if you throw a Greek word at it or not.

@@JohnJohnson-mo4bn ERGO..I think you have too much time on your hands lol

Definitely Broads

Hello my fellow fans of Betty..... How are you doing

Hello my fellow fans of Betty ..... How are you doing?