{"id":18,"date":"2008-11-26T14:04:46","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T19:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/video\/interviews\/best-of-the-best-joan-rivers-on-the-hypocrisy-of-celebrity\/18\/"},"modified":"2018-09-10T16:09:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T20:09:31","slug":"best-of-the-best-joan-rivers-on-the-hypocrisy-of-celebrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/featured\/best-of-the-best-joan-rivers-on-the-hypocrisy-of-celebrity\/18\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan Rivers on the Hypocrisy of Celebrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-18-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/mel-joanrivers.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/mel-joanrivers.mp4\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/mel-joanrivers.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><strong>Joan Rivers<\/strong>: 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.\u00a0 And all these wonderful people that had absolutely feet of clay.\u00a0 And it was wrong, and it was stupid to worship a fat lady like Elizabeth Taylor when she was fat.\u00a0 Say she\u2019s fat!\u00a0 It\u2019s ok. 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