8. Joan Rivers Walks Out on CNN
In July of 2014, the late comedienne Joan Rivers sat down to discuss her new book with CNN’s Fredricka Whitfield. The interviewer made her first misstep when calling Joan’s fashion critiquing “very mean in some ways.” Joan responded by saying that she’s commenting on dresses, not characters, and that either way the women in the photos are so rich that they couldn’t care any less what some jesters have to say. Then the interviewer said, “Do you feel like there are boundaries ever?” Referring to Rivers’ legendary fearlessness, “You have some shock value to you. On the cover of your book, you’re wearing a fur!” Rivers, upset that was becoming a defensive interview, delivered an invigorated diatribe on comedy, then tore out her earpiece and walked off.
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