Joan Rivers, the funniest and most successful female comedian of all time, clearly knows best. Or used to.
On WE’s new upsetting reality show, Joan, who recently said of her NYC apartment, “This is how Marie Antoinette would have lived if she had had money,” suddenly moves in with her daughter in Los Angeles, like a down-and-out senior living on a pension.
She says she wants to be closer to Melissa and her grandson, handsome 9-year-old Cooper. Why one of the richest people in showbiz can’t afford to rent a giant house until she buys one is never stated although, of course, then there wouldn’t be a reality show.
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To add fuel to the feud that you just know will boil over when a mom and daughter share a space is the fact that supposedly Joan doesn’t know that Melissa’s boyfriend Jason has moved in, as have two other pals, which means that Joan must take the tiniest bedroom. Right.
Worse, there’s a new nanny, a blonde Swede. She goes around topless at the pool and wears shorts so short she looks as if she’s at the gynecologist’s office and tops so small they could double as a belt. Perfect babysitter for a 9-year-old boy.
Added to these uncomfortable, setup situations are some others that simply defy explanation. For example, Joan doesn’t like Melissa’s taste and so gives away all of her living room furniture while she’s out and has a decorator bring in all new stuff. Oh.
Then comes something that, as a mother of a daughter, defies not just explanation but comprehension. Joan wants Melissa to pose nude for sleazoid Joe Francis (who in 2008 pleaded no contest to child abuse and prostitution charges) in his new video, “Hollywood Moms Gone Wild.” It’s like turning your daughter over to the Taliban.
Joan says, “I would be so proud to say, ‘See that slut on the cover? That’s my daughter.'”
It’s all so wrong that as much as I love her, I have to say, in this case, “Joan Knows Worst.”