I Hate Everyone--Starting With Me

by Rivers, Joan

• ISBN13: 9780425248300
• ISBN10: 0425248305
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-06-05
• Publisher: Berkley Pub Group

Summary

Joan Rivers the groundbreaking, award-winning, internationally renowned entertainment goddess, is opinionated especially when it comes to things she hates. With her vast experiences it makes sense that she has come across a lot of people, places and things she can't stand. Fortunately she took notes and is now ready to share them. Here she really lays into ugly children, dating rituals, funerals, bad food, First Ladies, hypocrites, Hollywood, overrated historical figures and much more. Joan lets everyone, including herself, have it in this honest and hilarious rant.

Excerpts

Love may be a many-splendored thing, but hate makes the world go round. If you think I’m kidding, just watch the six o’clock news. The first twenty-nine minutes are all about dictators and murderers and terrorists and maniacs and, worst of all,real housewives. And then, at the very end of the show, there’s a thirty second human-interest story about some schmuck who married his cat. I rest my case.

Some things I’ve hated forever, some are new acquisitions, and some are just passing fancies. Today I hate happy TV weathermen, feminists who believe Gloria Steinem’s great looks hurt her, Gloria Steinem herself, people who mispronounce the wordask, studio apartments, guidance counselors, first ladies, old people. So if any of this offends you, or you happen to love puppies and kittens and the infirm . . . well . . . I’m impressed. I hate you, but I’m impressed . . .

I know what you’re thinking: “Joan, hate is a very strong word.” You’re right, it is, but I use it as an umbrella term, the way mental-health professionals use the wordschizophreniaas a catchall for any particular brand of crazy they can’t identify. So when I sayhate, I don’t necessarily meanhate. I could also mean loathe, detest, abhor, dislike, despise or resent. See, isn’t that kinder and gentler? If you think this makes you a better person than I am, good. You’re the idiot that actually paid for this book.

For those of you thinking,Geez, Joan seems a little angry, you’re half right. I am angry. I’m also fed up. I’m fed up with the morons and losers and cretins who are cluttering up the planet. Emma Lazarus wrote, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” I didn’t know she meant on my block. But being fed up and angry is better than being depressed. Psychologists tell us that depression is just anger turned inward, but I say, why waste your time? It is what it is and quite frankly I’d rather be angry than depressed. Why? Because antidepressants like Prozac, Wellbutrin and Zoloft can cause bloating—and I hate bloating!!! (I need to go back and addbloatingto the list of things I hate. Is there anything worse than not being able to fit into a size two Valentino? I think not. Talk about depressing.)