Joan Rivers interviews Carrie Fisher

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[@Ruylopez778]

As with most of her interviews, Carrie is at least two steps ahead of everyone, so her wit just seems effortless.

[@happybergner9832]

Yes the first word she spoke, she outdid joan

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

I always admired Carrie Fisher as a fabulous actress, but NEVER ever knew she had such a clever, quick wit or tremendous sense of humor!!

[@MrDavfit]

Did these two people ever realize how many millions adored them..

[@BlueSpirit3743]

so awesome hearing Rivers (quite possibly one of the funniest women ever) telling Fisher she's so funny at the end. as it happens, I had the privilege of meeting Carrie two weeks before she died and told her the same thing. I'll never be sure, of course, but I'm pretty sure she beamed with happiness when I said this.

[@wonderwoman5528]

This comment made me beam with happiness too. I’m so glad she knew how much she was appreciated :) x

[@ontologicallysteve7765]

I'd be curious to know how you went about meeting her.

[@BlueSpirit3743]

@@ontologicallysteve7765 Carrie did a book signing at Waterstones Piccadilly. It was the reason for her being in London.

[@carolecarr5210]

Enjoyed this interview immensely. Carrie was really calm, cool & collected. Great sense of humor.

[@marymagdalene3004]

We can figure out the reason for the "calmness, sadly.

[@Phil_Williamson]

I met Joan Rivers once, she was awesome. And Carrie was the best. Rest in peace.

[@as-bz5hn]

At the end of the clip where Joan says, “You’re so funny,” Jesus. That’s a huge compliment coming from Joan. Would’ve been cool to see these two ladies interact more.

[@horaciocapanelli-soto4710]

Carrie was a super attractive woman; besides her looks, that calmness in her personality and “her not caring so much to impress anyone” persona.

[@NuntiusLegis]

Effortlessly impressive.

[@myronmadey3040]

What a great interview! Carrie was so beautiful like her mother and very very quick and very bright.I hope they r in heaven together talking and cracking jokes! love Joan Rivers and her talk shows!

[@spacenoodled]

I really love the head tilt/smile that Carrie does

[@wonderwoman5528]

Two legends, breaking the way for women with personality and humour on tv. RIP both, you will always be remembered xxx

[@BillBixbyHulk]

She should have done more comedy. She’s so hilarious

[@crusmonster1397]

I loved both Joan & Carrie before they passed. Their deaths have been the only celebrity ones that hit me hard, with Carrie’s hitting me the hardest (even harder than the few family deaths I’ve had). The amount of wit between these two women is outstanding. May their souls Rest In Peace ✨💜✨ #CarrieOn

[@meirwise1107]

Wonderful to see Carrie Fisher looking well, beautiful, witty, in control. RIP.

[@robertk4898]

It's weird to hear Carrie talk about having a heart attack since that's what she ultimately died of. 😢 There has never been anyone like her. She was one of a kind. I miss all the jokes she won't be able to tell now. She was funny in a way that no one else has ever been. I would have loved to party with her in my 20s.

[@dennisboatright1291]

LOVE LOVE LOVE. What a sharp but low-key combination! Wow!

[@justynjonn]

What a great reaction Carrie had when asked " how close?" So perfectly describe relationships with parents.

[@Rawbherb]

God, Carrie sounded so sad :( Her entire life seemed like it was hard. May she rest in peace

[@Ruylopez778]

"If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable."

[@rjames908]

It was but she knew how to handle it with sarcasm

[@TheresaPowers]

Why do you people tell dead people to rest in peace?

[@jakevendrotti1496]

@@TheresaPowers because telling them to wake up hasn't worked in years

[@marymagdalene3004]

Inherited the dna from her father who was a major user of various and sundry drugs. That addictive personality that is in their blood. Sad.

[@lucasmollet3267]

If Joan Rivers said you’re funny, you’re funny and she is in this. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this.

[@ytchannel613]

She is sooo smart. Her penchance for clever word play and deadpan is out of this world. That failed anorexic punchline would on go on to be her go-to joke whenever somebody asks her about her weight, and it never fails to make me laugh. So smart, so sexy and so sure of herself (or at least seemed to be). Love you, Carrie.

[@nonenoneonenonenone]

She was the Dorothy Parker of our times.

[@85doc]

Her daughter is excellent at deadpan.

[@as-nm7qj]

Carrie Fisher is fantastically funny and witty. WOW. anyone who can keep up with J R's wit is a genius of sorts.

[@mgalore]

Carrie Fisher was a beautiful Woman unique personality Rest In Paradise

[@NiGHTSaturn]

So many jokes that audience missed. She was so ahead of her time.

[@MaleOrderBride]

Yes! She was very droll !

[@m.e.d.7997]

Carrie looks really attractive here.

[@AndrewJohnClive]

Two great women.❤🙏🏼

[@LisaSpringfield]

Carrie was beginning to remind me of Joan in her final years, with her roast humour and wittiness. I thought she would've lived on and continued this Joan Rivers style of humour, but she passes suddenly. 😭

[@jxt1661]

the quality of the interview is like just two girl friends chatting over lunch.

[@fearandloathing75]

Damn they are both gone. I miss Joan and Carrie. But my favorite is My magnificent and Unsinkable Molly Brown. My child hood dream to become Debbie Reynolds version of Molly. Ill NEVER EVER forget her. Belly Up to the Bar Boys.

[@mirrenfan2]

"A failed anorexic." - Lol! Me too. You have uploaded some great clips. I can't wait to see what else you have to share! :)

[@glenngatlen8179]

The book written about her and her mom after they died is fantastic!

[@marias7599]

She was a very intelectual person

[@AmericanPatriot-1776]

Carry was never a really happy person. But she brought us so much fun with her work. That's say's a lot. We'll miss her.

[@marcoparada6652]

It's like you know her. 🙄

[@sharronpettis1486]

Just how can you know that, really?

[@Ma_Ba]

Splendid! Carrie is perfectly witty and Joan enjoys her so much. I could guess the year by mention of "Hannah and Her Sisters" film and Joan hosting. I have watched everything on You Tube with Carrie Fisher multiple times. I appreciate these precious 8 minutes for Carrie's fresh take on things. Maybe less of her routine replies.

[@martinpatrick1746]

Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher rest in peace. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@ClarenceFisher]

R.I.P. to them both.

[@DelightLovesMovies]

Thanks MOR Comedy Clips.

[@noluthando6757]

She’s smart too

[@kevcatnip7589]

Think her and HARRISON kept the STARWARS Thing at arms length

[@totisantiago1]

two of the funniest women - Carrie and Joan - She is a great writer - got all her books - Love Carrie -

[@trollolou]

Beautiful woman, great actress

[@JohnJames_Wpg]

Joan is beautiful here....definitely very glamorous!

[@TheHavanaluv]

Holy crap, these questions are so personal for late night! Was this common back then? The only modern interviews where we see questions these personal are on those serious "tell-all" episodes with Oprah or something.

[@m.e.d.7997]

Actually, back then it was. People were much more of an open book. Of course Joan was able to ask anything like Barbara Walters. Guests did not have to answer but surpisingly many did open up.

[@kimbuck6680]

She was brilliant

[@m.e.d.7997]

"Hannah" was a great movie.

[@laurencewhite4809]

Margaret Is!

[@m.e.d.7997]

@@laurencewhite4809 Right, I should know I bought the movie.

[@lynnbegley9174]

Love her wit ! Miss her & wish she had lived longer ! I

[@pauljamieson4210]

❤Carrie❤

[@Android-vk8yh]

Great footage of Great women those that have done a thumbs down hope the force crushes your finger

[@BethLewis-yx4qz]

She was a classy smart person.

[@sigmundgrizli2896]

Carrie Fisher so charismatic ❤

[@johnwalters978]

my two favorite comedians.

[@colinmaharaj]

I remember Elizabeth Taylor giving marriage advice in the non cartoon version of The Flintstones

[@jl3322]

She did large amounts of drugs and did drugs her entire life. Very sad for her mom-Debbie Reynolds. Loved the movie (Postcards from the Edge) based on Carries book.

[@Buckaroo_Baldwin]

Yeah, a lot of people with mental illness self medicate with drugs and alcohol because it takes so long to get them the correct diagnosis and then proper treatment.

[@sharronpettis1486]

Hahaha "let's NOT jog together"!

[@thomasofarabia]

Wow. Carrie was so sharp and funny. It's such a shame the drugs and alcohol got her. She could have done so many more amazing things.

[@Ruylopez778]

I suppose one might say that the percodan etc was part of her coping mechanism for being in the spotlight and being bipolar, and being so open and an advocate for mental health and addiction is an amazing thing. YMMV.

[@m.e.d.7997]

Even her mother, Debbie said she should have sung more. She had a beautiful voice like her father, Eddie Fisher.

[@phealy02]

What utter bollocks! She was doing coke on Star Wars... still got the films done. Her brilliant book 'Postcards from the Edge' only exists because of her drug use. Most of her adult life was spent post-drugs - they never held her back.

[@sharronpettis1486]

It was bipolar first, then drug use

[@sharronpettis1486]

@@m.e.d.7997 She SHOULD have done ONLY WHAT SHE WANTED TO DO, as she has done. Maybe she had no desire to go that route which I think was one of her dilemmas!

[@cavalierdecoupe]

She is so smart...

[@daisymay9203]

2 legend RIP

[@douglasmcginity3327]

What date was this? Who is the guest that came out before Carrie Fisher, screen left during her walk out on stage.

[@Ma_Ba]

One point of reference was movie release of Hannah and Her Sisters, Feb 1986.

[@w1o2l3f4i5e]

5:30 this statement is still true in all Western worlds.

[@DannyTVoriginal]

To be called funny by joan rivers. What an honor.

[@sierrabinion7112]

Carrie is so funny!!!

[@lexyswope]

Was she close to her mother. Whan Carrie passed her mother died of a broken 💔. That's pretty close.

[@paulineg20024]

"Short people short marriage" ow, I'm even shorter than Carrie was so.. ;'D

[@hollystiener16]

she meant Paul Simon.

[@shirleyfrost9909]

Sad, all are gone 🥱

[@Red_Rebel]

She looked so glad here with that hair style

[@andreabezdan]

Let's not jog together!

[@m.e.d.7997]

She was a brilliant mind, funny too. Very gifted.

[@lauralunaazul]

We need a woman interwieving again, like Joan, or Rosie.

[@lrc4263]

Luli Sissy absolutely not Rosie. She kinda went off the deep end.

[@rnw2739]

Rosie? A woman?!!!

[@creativewriter3887]

OMG. "an ASCAP divorce".. lol. That was a good one.. that's the thing with marrying musicians/songwriters.

[@ronaldrodriguez9601]

They were smart.

[@newtonduck1]

She always did love her Coca Cola. Love her so much.

[@m.e.d.7997]

And her father Eddie Fisher was a sponsor for Coca Cola with his show in the fifties.

[@BruceCarmel]

The audience didn't get her, did they?

[@larav4793]

Sadly they are both gone.

[@blason56]

She looks sober.

[@dayzemae9015]

It was in Carrie’s movie contract that she not have Coke a cola. She use to sneak. So much sugar in coke. She died of a heart attack probably because she drank it by the case. China owns Coke.

[@oliviamartini9700]

She died from her love for the OTHER kind of coke.

[@douglasmcginity3327]

Oh please it’s a soft drink people used to drink it by the case it’s fine america is becoming such weirdo neurotic wussies can’t even drink Coca Cola.

[@neilo333]

Her and her bird both died of the same thing, except she thought his was hers.

[@martinpatrick1746]

Rip Princess Leia.

[@peacefrog9306]

both so beautiful and glam here. gay heaven

[@Gemini530]

When she came out, she did not greet Joan but went to the other guests and shook their hands. I thought that was rude.

[@jeffdawson2786]

In her heyday she was my ideal girl.

[@paulineg20024]

Oh my, they're so funny ;D or they were..

[@MG8181.]

Why was Joan so nervous?

[@joelmogensen579]

Most memorable quote of Carrie Fisher while 19 filming Star Wars. "The coke in London is the worst". Also benefitted from Hollywood nepotism and had affair with married Harrison Ford.

[@Historian212]

So what? She was a brilliant writer who was hired as a script doctor for many movies she wasn’t credited for. It was said that if a comedy script needed help, she was the go-to person. You don’t get those gigs from nepotism. You get them because you’re quick, smart, and funny. As for her affair with Ford, she was 19 or 20; he was in his 30s. If anything, he took advantage of her. Debbie Reynolds was a terrible mother, dragged her out of school as a young kid to take her on tour, forcing her to perform at 13, when she should have been in school with friends her own age. Reynolds used her as a support when she should have been her daughter’s support. Carrie had no proper upbringing. How was she supposed to resist temptations older and more experienced people don’t?

[@mikedeason3906]

To Historian212 - I think you're 100% right on in your post. I had the great pleasure of (VERY) briefly meeting Joan Rivers in the Summer of 1981, when I was working a summer job as a musician at a club on the strip in Vegas called The Country Club. It has always upset me that so many people (I don't call them fans) have picked on Carrie WRT her drug use. The working atmosphere of the entertainment world in those days was filled with cocaine use. To say thar Carrie was disabled because of drugs is belied by the lightning swiftness of her free form wit and repartee here with Joan Rivers. The charm and calmness of her personal vibe is a pleasant bulldozer against her detractors and a delightful flash of lightning to entertain her many admirers. I was working opposite a hypnotist at a club in Seattle for a week or two in the summer of 1977 and our 2-hour breaks coincided perfectly with one of the showings of the original Star Wars at a theater just a couple of blocks down the street. It was a great experience getting immersed in the genius acting, writing and technical production so amazingly presented by the teriffic talent displayed by George Lucas and company. To those who question Carrie Fischer's beauty and star power on the screen then and later in this awesome interview with Joan Rivers I can only say "I find your lack of faith DISTURBING" .....

[@robertk4898]

How sweet! Her & her bird died of the same thing!😃😂😂

[@ashtree336]

Let's not jog together

[@courtneyacoleman]

Joan Rivers was so emotionally tone deaf. If she wasn’t tearing someone down she had no way to relate to them.

[@missstarlin6184]

Rivers was a bad host.