The remark did not go down well with a lot of people. If their husbands ever returned, Rivers said, the women would be disappointed. Widows of fire-fighters dead or presumed dead on 9/11 had received $5 million each as compensation.
But Rivers also made a very public 9/11 joke during a show in the UK. This was at least a personal conversation, revealed by van Meters only after Rivers’s death in 2014, in an obituary. Just days later, the defiantly inappropriate Rivers called her writer friend Jonathan van Meter and asked if he wanted to meet her for lunch at ‘Windows on the Ground’. Towers North and South both crashed after the attacks. The North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York had a restaurant on the top floor. But the late Joan Rivers had no such qualms. Jokes on the subject are still taboo for the bravest of comedians.
It is 18 years since the September 11 attacks.
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