Joan Rivers as Elizabeth Taylor on "Saturday Night Live" (1983)

Joan Rivers as Elizabeth Taylor on "Saturday Night Live" (1983). This may seem a little catty, but Elizabeth Taylor later commented that she laughed as loud as everyone else at the "Elizabeth Taylor fat jokes", and she never would have lost the weight if Joan Rivers had not made fun of her.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Joan
• Rivers
• Elizabeth
• Taylor
• fat
• Saturday
• Night
• Live

[dinasztie]

Molly Shannon was better, I think.

[jklein9823]

@dinasztie I think you are confused. On "Saturday Night Live", Molly Shannon did Ann Miller. Is that the character you are thinking of? Or did Molly Shannon also do Elizabeth Taylor, and I missed it??? Thanks.

[AGpixar2000]

i love how joan rivers thinks shes funny

[jklein9823]

@AGpixar2000 I think you are confused. On "Saturday Night Live", Molly Shannon did Ann Miller. Is that what you are thinking of?

[toddmastria1]

get over it people---it is a comedian`s job to make fun of public figures. take a joke people

[Lindyworld]

I never understood the joke about Crushed Velvet because in the movie National Velvet, the girl's name was Velvet and the horse's name was The Piebald or for short, The Pie. I guess they didn't do much research back then. Anyway, I loved Elizabeth Taylor. She was beautiful, feisty and completely fearless. RIP

[thedrewlloyd]

She is fucking hilarious

[peeco19]

she looks liker daugther

[rajinirulez]

@WarriorOfWriters hahaha yeah..was she a man ?..tats how she looks in this video.gosh!

[lorileeky]

What is she eating on a stick?

[kimblers]

That first horse joke was hysterical

[WarriorOfWriters]

Joan looks prettier now :P

[rr7firefly]

@edwardjames50 You tell it like it is. If Liz Taylor was velvet, Joan is a used up ratty dish rag.

[edwardjames50]

Rivers, for years, built her act around making Ms. Taylor the butt of her jokes. Rivers, bitter and ugly, obviously has some issues with her own face, so she lashed out at the most beautiful woman in the world. After 1,037 plastic surgeries, Rivers is still ugly. As far as the cracks about Taylor's husbands, at least that legend didn't have a husband who committed suicide over his wife's career failure. How can Joan, who married the ugly Edgar Rosenberg FOUR DAYS after she met him, throw stones?

[1983CUEVAS]

Joan Rivers played a really ugly ET