Joan Rivers Refuses To Apologize For The Time She Said Living In A Malibu Mansion With Her Daughter Was Like Living In Ariel Castro's Rape House

Joan Rivers isn’t backing down from her latest controversial comments. The 80-year-old comedienne says she will not apologize over an appearance on the “Today” show Tuesday in which she compared living arrangements with her daughter to the ordeal of three women held captive for a decade by Ariel Castro.

While promoting their WEtv reality series “Joan and Melissa: Joan Knows Best,” the mother and daughter duo were asked what it was like living together. The elder Rivers has been residing at Melissa’s home in Malibu, Calif., during the taping of the series. “Those women in the basement in Cleveland had more space,” Rivers said. Following outrage on social media and calls from two of the victims’ attorneys to apologize, Rivers remains defiant. “I’m a comedienne,” she told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “I know what those girls went through. It was a little, stupid joke. There is nothing to apologize for. I made a joke. That’s what I do. Calm down. Calm f—— down. I’m a comedienne. They’re free, so let’s move on.” Tell us: Do you think Joan went too far with the joke? Should she apologize?

Hold on. Did I just become a Joan Rivers fan? I think I did. This is the opposite of Pussification of America. I mean yeah, Joan Rivers comparing living in a house in Malibu to a 20 year rape and torture dungeon in Cleveland is a bit of a stretch (it’s a huuuuge stretch) but the point remains, it was a joke, she’s a comedienne, that’s what comedians do. Was it a good joke? Not really, but that’s not the point, the point is it’s well established that she’s kidding. If you think what she says is her actual feelings then you’re a psycho. If she apologizes for this joke then I guess we have to apologize for every joke ever made because some housewife out there was offended. Never thought an 80 year old woman would be the one to set America straight but that’s what just happened. So Team Rivers here, calm the fuck down people, calm the fuck down.