Celebrity Apprentice: Joan Rivers on Poker Players

I almost missed Celebrity Apprentice last night until I got a text from a poker pro friend:

I\’m watching the bitch on the apprentice

… to which I responded:

you mean the woman who would be impressive to you if she were a man?

I didn\’t really like her response to the Hitler jokes last week, nor her gratuitous blowjob promotion. (Strong means weak.) But now I think I understand why she\’s not just brushing off comedic comparisons to the historical model for evil tyrants. After all, whether you like her or not, she is poker\’s biggest ambassador right now … and when Joan Rivers let her have it this week, it wasn\’t just an assault on her, it was an attack on all the poker people she represents:

Hmm, interesting … though one might refute the blood-money comment by looking at Joan Rivers\’ love for African diamonds vs. Annie\’s work for Darfur, the question it really raises: So what poker player did Joan Rivers sleep with in Las Vegas in the \’70s? Because that\’s what she\’s really saying here, right? She thought she was falling for a sexy badboy — it was so much fun while he was winning! — but then he explained the concept of a bad beat, she fronted his next couple buy-in, and poof! … he suddenly disappeared. I think I recognize the storyline from 2+2.

For the a little more context around Joan Rivers\’ anti-poker tirade — and to hear Annie get called, essentially, a \”Nazi pit viper piece of shit whore scum\” — check out the extended clip here.

(And be sure to check out the non-pokery YouTubers\’ comments as a reminder of how many still see her/us.)