Full disclosure: I am not a fan of Joan
Rivers. I find her crude, rude, crass, vulgar but most of all NOT FUNNY!
She has no class as her home furnishings, outfits, jewelry  and most of
her monologues on stage show.

A piece of work can refer to all the plastic
surgery she has had and yet the only time I felt sorry for her, watching
this documentary, was when she says that no man, including her husband,
ever told her that she was beautiful. Her life from the time she was 6
has been herself. While she is a complete egotist--she makes me look
like an amateur --her whole world is "ME! ME! ME!"--she sees herself as
an actress not a comedienne but at the same defines herself as  'a
comedy icon'.

She is not happy
unless she is constantly working, almost as if she is afraid to be by
herself. She talks about all her friends dying, feeling alone and yet
she fires the person who knows her better than anyone else, her manager
Billy Sammeth.

She thrives on having an audience, the
attention of others and will play anywhere, do anything, even, as she
says, having all her teeth pulled if it will get her a denture
commercial. Everything and anything she does is to draw attention to
herself.

There is not much
insight to who Joan Rivers is unless what you see is what you get. She
has paved the way for Kathy Griffin and Sarah Silverman which I don't think is a
good thing. As a caricature of a woman many drag queens impersonate her
and she has a big gay following, just as Kathy does, which I don't
understand how/why.

Yes, she sees
herself as a survivor and shows the many aspects of show business that
would defeat someone who doesn't/didn't have her drive but that doesn't
make her a good or better person, someone you would want to know.

The bottom line is that I don't find Joan
Rivers funny and this film only makes me have pity for her which, from
what I saw, is fine with her as long as she has/gets my attention.