Ooh, I almost forgot to post these clips … we know Joan Rivers is willing to do what it takes to make something look better than it really is, and perhaps in an attempt to unoffend poker players and recharge her fan base, she and her daughter appeared on Ellen. The show started with a poker skit:
OK, hmm, interesting. At least this tells all those YouTube commenters that Melissa wasn\’t acting in the original outburst.
Here\’s their appearance/interview with Ellen (love the Lady Gaga intro — woot!), where Joan doesn\’t exactly rescind her disgust for all things poker, but she does downgrade and de-Semitize her Annie hatred by calling her not Hitler, but The Bernie Madoff of Poker. She apparently doesn\’t realize that title is already taken by Russ Hamilton — or maybe she does! — but whatever:
