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Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

Joan Rivers kept them laughing - 5 Sep 14

Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

Global

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.3808 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2014

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Just for the podcasters - a little bit extra from the acerbic wit of London's longest-serving talkshow host!

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0:00.0

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0:30.4

This is a download from LBC. Steve Allen's Little Bit Extra.

0:36.0

Morning, everybody. Welcome along to your free podcast for today.

0:38.3

I've got to be quick, actually.

0:39.4

The reason I've got to be quick is I've got people waiting to be spoken to.

0:43.6

Okay, so Joan Rivers, you know about, 81.

0:46.6

We did think that that was going to be the case.

0:49.5

Now, I'm not sure whether or not the family turned off the life support machine. She passed away at

0:55.1

117 p.m. with her family there. And I think they must have, I think they probably turned off

1:02.2

the life. I mean, I'm only guessing, but you know, you can't libel somebody because she's dead now.

1:06.1

But I think probably what they do is decide to, they said, right, let's take a family decision.

1:10.3

Let's turn off the life support machine. They turn it off and then you just wait and you see what happens. So it

1:16.4

could have gone either way. I think though that she needed the life support machine to keep going.

1:21.5

And I think really that that was, that was probably the best way. I mean, she went into a cardiac

1:27.1

arrest. You remember when she had this vocal called surgery? I mean, she'd been ill for quite a while. She'd had lots of surgical procedures, but she passed peacefully and her little body just gave up in the end. Kelly Osborne has led the tributes. Linaham has honoured the comic with a plastic surgery joke. You've never heard of half

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