Comedian whose trademarks were her cutting wit and her cosmetic surgeryJoan Rivers: a life in picturesThe quintessential acerbic Noo Yawker, the comedian Joan Rivers, who has died aged 81, was identified by the rasping, fingernails-on-the-blackboard voice, which added a frisson to her signature phrase, "Can we talk?" As she aged, her face and her countless cosmetic operations became another trademark, but her cutting…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM on December 2, 2017