I’m assuming that, if you wanted to see it, you’ve already seen the Celebrity Apprentice finale from Sunday night. If not, you missed a hum dinger of a cat fight between Poker Champ Annie Duke and the loudmouthed obnoxious Joan Rivers.
For about half the season, Annie and Joan had been going at it, mainly because when the time came to let her precious little girl go, Annie suggested to Donald Trump that Melissa (who apparently has had as much “work” done as mom) go over Brandi Roderick because she contributed very little to the team. Trump obliged, setting off a cat fight and turning Joan from jovial and obnoxious into a vengeful vindictive nut.
During the finale, Joan went after the owner of the design firm who was planning her event. She got on the guys case to the point where he told her to screw off and quit. That’s where this clip kicks in.
Obviously he quit because of how Joan had gotten on his case. In the segment before that, David, the owenr, hung up on her, saying “we can’t do a complete transformation in that amount of time,” and shortly thereafter refused to take phone calls from Annie, putting both teams in peril. The funny thing about reality shows is that they’re taped, right?
When they first go back to the boardroom, Annie brings up the fact that the designer quit because of Joan’s antics. That sets the yenta into even more of a frothing rage. Remember, this is the same Joan who said that Annie:
1. Was the equivalent of Adolf Hitler, someone who killed 6 million of Joan’s own people.
2. Would spit on the floor and drown her mother in it if it furthered her own interests.
3. Was white trash just like “all poker players.”
4. Was the lowest of the low “like all poker players.”
5. That her friends were all “mafia” and that’s how they earned their money.
6. That poker players, her included, made a living lying and being deceitful and dishonest.
Joan shan’t be maligned, however, truth be damned. Despite hauling out the nasty invectives time and time again, here’s the melodramatic reaction from Joan when Annie brings up the fact that Joan’s overbearing and obnoxious behavior caused the design firm to quit…
Note Melissa chiming in, despite the fact that she wasn’t there?
I used to have a lot of respect for Joan as an entertainer and as a person. It takes a pretty strong woman to raise a child after her husband commits suicide. In at least that way, Joan is a good person, but when it comes to the hypocritical backstabbing and nastiness, it’s just out of control. Joan sat there and professed how she lived her life with honor and yet, for the past six to eight weeks, has done nothing but insult Annie and Brandi to the point where it became a comic side show to the actual show. Every week turned into “What’s the crazy old yenta gonna say this week?”
That wasn’t Joan’s last outburst, but at least this time Annie took it to her…
In the end, this is Joan Rivers’ honor on display for all of you to see.
I fail to see how she represents anything anyone would want to hire in their organization, but Donald Trump saw differently and picked her. Big effing deal. At the end of the day she’s still a 75 year old yenta with a scary amount of plastic surgery and a daughter who changed her last name so she could ride mommy’s coattails and who’s probably one of few women in the country to have as much work done as her mother.
At least, despite her protesting to the contrary, we got to see the character of the real Joan Rivers, and it’s ugly, dark, and bitter.