Joan Rivers’ Outrageous Joke About Whitney Houston

Of all the incendiary things in Joan Rivers‘ new book, I Hate Everyone…Starting With Me, probably the most scorching, outlandish, macabre, tasteless, sick, twisted, and funny one of all is the following wisecrack, in Joan’s section about travel:

“I hate Houston. It’s crawling with bugs.

“Oh, wait, that’s Whitney Houston; I’m sorry, my bad.

“(Can I just mention that Whitney looked fabulous at the Grammys?

“She was in mahogany from head to toe.)”

Discuss.

This article from the Village Voice Archive was posted on May 18, 2012

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