Howard Stern offered a moving eulogy for Joan Rivers and her vagina
Sunday’s funeral for Joan Rivers was attended by friends and fellow comedians, like Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Griffin, and Rosie O’Donnell; actors Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker; TV journalists such as Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters; and punchlines like Donald Trump. Bagpipers played “New York, New York;” the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus sang a Broadway medley; and Hugh Jackman closed with a rendition of “Quiet Please, There’s A Lady On Stage.” And Howard Stern delivered a eulogy that paid tribute to her legendary sense of humor, as well as her vagina.
As Stern explained during his show yesterday, he’d been asked to deliver the sendoff for Rivers, a longtime favorite guest, by her daughter Melissa. And while he balked at the enormous pressure at first, Stern says a conversation with Louis C.K. helped put him in the right state of mind: “He said, ‘Joan was like an aunt or a best friend who could make everything better.’ Even in times after say 9/11 or the country just seems to be going down or things just seem to be bad, when she would crack a joke … you didn’t feel so alone.”