Joan Rivers: What happened was, for me, I was talking about myself, but I wanted to talk about other things that the whole culture exploded of celebrity.  And all these wonderful people that had absolutely feet of clay.  And it was wrong, and it was stupid to worship a fat lady like Elizabeth Taylor when she was fat.  Say she’s fat!  It’s ok. I was the first one to come out with the Elizabeth Taylor’s fat jokes.  If I heard one more person say, “She’s the most beautiful woman in the world,” she’s the most beautiful three women in the world at this point.

Joan Benny: My father was a very good friend of Harry Truman, when Harry Truman was in the White House.  And my father went to visit him.  And they used to play duets, cause Truman played the piano.  And they loved to play duets together.  So my father goes to the White House, and he’s carrying his violin case, and he gets there, and the guard – security, of course, says, “Mr. Benny, I hate to ask you this but I have to.  What are you carrying in that case?  And my father to be funny said, “a machine gun.”  And the guard said, “Oh thank God, I thought it might be your violin.”