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We cannot overemphasize how comical this woman was –a woman who even made fun of her own death. In her two books ‘I Hate Everyone…Starting With Me’ & Diary Of a Mad Diva, the comedy icon talked about her funeral plans.
Read below from her book, I Hate Everyone…Starting With Me;
“When I die (and yes, Melissa, that day will come; and yes, Melissa, everything’s in your name), I want my funeral to be a huge showbiz affair with lights, cameras, action…I want Craft services, I want paparazzi and I want publicists making a scene! I want it to be Hollywood all the way. I don’t want some rabbi rambling on; I want Meryl Streep crying, in five different accents. […] I want to be buried in a Valentino gown and I want Harry Winston to make me a toe tag. And I want a wind machine so that even in the casket my hair is blowing just like Beyoncé’s.”
In her most recent book, Diary of a Mad Diva, Rivers gave her daughter, Melissa, some ground rules about her last wishes:
- Make sure the guy who cuts the tombstone is a good speller.
- Don’t break the news to my friends by singing “A-Tisket, A-Tasket, Joan’s Finally in a Casket.
- “Even though we spent winters in Mexico, do not list my next of kin as Poncho the Donkey.
- Please make sure no one knows Melissa’s last words to me were, “Just sign this.
- “To make my cold-as-ice WASP friends cry like the rest of the mourners, Melissa and Cooper should just tell them they’ve “run out of Wonder Bread.”
Rivers is truely a comedy legend of her time.
