Hundreds of fans lined the streets of New York Cityas Joan Rivers, who passed away at the age of 81, was laid to rest on September 7th. The private ceremony at Temple Emanu-El was a star-studded event as Howard Stern, David Letterman, Donald Trump, Clive Davis, Paul Shaffer, Kelly Osbourne and many more came to pay their respects to the comedian. People writes that Stern delivered the eulogy and called Rivers the best friend in the world a big sister a crazy aunt at a bar mitzvah. Stern added, She fought the stereotype that women couldnt be funny.She was responsible for putting the red carpet into prime time.
The service beganwith the New York City Gay Mens Chorus performing the Broadway standard Hey, Big Spender. The New York Times reports that bagpipers and drummers from the New York Police Department also performed New York, New York and Give My Regards to Broadway at the memorial, and that the funeral program also featured that memorable passage from Rivers autobiography I Hate Everyone Starting With Me where the comedienne described her own wishes for her funeral. I dont want a rabbi rambling on; I want Meryl Streep crying, in five different languages Rivers wrote. And I want a wind machine so that even in the casket my hair is blowing just like Beyoncs. No word whether there was actually a wind machine at the funeral.
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Audra McDonald and Hugh Jackman both delivered musical interludes at the service, while Rivers was reminisced by columnist Cindy Adams, Inside Edition host Deborah Norville, and her daughter Melissa Rivers. While the funeral was closed to the public, crowdsgathered outside the synagogue to pay their respects tothe Morrissey of her generation.Across the Hudson River at New Jerseys Met Life Stadium, where the New York Jets were taking on the Oakland Raiders, the video screens also paid tribute to Rivers.