{"id":94255,"date":"2025-09-21T23:13:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T06:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=94255"},"modified":"2025-09-21T23:13:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T06:13:52","slug":"funny-ladies-and-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/09\/21\/funny-ladies-and-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny Ladies and Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While <em>The View<\/em> did not tackle the Kimmel kerfuffle, they still made headlines with the return of <strong><em>Joy\u2019s Comedy Corner<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 a segment which was abandoned some 15 years ago.&nbsp; The inaugural guest was comedian <strong>Andy Huggins<\/strong>.&nbsp; The 73-year-old Texan referred to the 82-year-old Behar as \u201cyoung lady\u201d.&nbsp; The last person who was able to pull that off with a straight face was <strong>Methuselah <\/strong>who, I believe, accompanied Joy to her senior prom!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile on <em>CBS<\/em>, the <strong><em>Emmy Awards <\/em><\/strong>attained the highest viewership in four years.&nbsp; Coincidence or not, four years ago the <em>Emmys <\/em>were also on <em>CBS<\/em>.&nbsp; This all may be a dubious thing to crow about, but this ain\u2019t your parents&#8217; production of <strong><em>Peter Pan<\/em><\/strong>&#8230;or perhaps it is.&nbsp; Studies show that <em>CBS <\/em>is the most popular network with seniors.&nbsp; Many of them are still looking for <strong>Angela Lansbury <\/strong>on Sunday nights after <strong><em>60 Minutes<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; And some of them find her!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the most beloved oldsters from television is <strong>Joan Rivers <\/strong>\u2013 who continues to make news 11 years after her death.&nbsp; Suddenly, a cache of her bric-a-brac is hitting the auction block via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juliensauctions.com\/en\/auctions\/the-joan-rivers-auction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Julien\u2019s Auctions<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;on October 9<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; While I certainly don\u2019t begrudge anyone from making a buck off a perished parent, one must question the optics of selling the remains of a beloved family pet.&nbsp; Yes, an urn containing the ashes of Auntie Joan\u2019s dead Yorkie <strong>Spike <\/strong>was among the items for sale.&nbsp; While many people say you can\u2019t put a price on things, the bidding was starting at $800.&nbsp; Days after posting this particular \u201clot\u201d, it was discreetly removed from the auction.&nbsp; However, fear not \u2013 if you want a memento of Spike, his X-rays are still up for sale.&nbsp; Be forewarned \u2013 when Christie\u2019s sold Spike\u2019s silver water bowl, it went for over $14K.&nbsp; I guess you can put a price on this stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While The View did not tackle the Kimmel kerfuffle, they still made headlines with the return of Joy\u2019s Comedy Corner \u2013 a segment which was abandoned some 15 years ago.&nbsp; The inaugural guest was comedian Andy Huggins.&nbsp; The 73-year-old Texan referred to the 82-year-old Behar as \u201cyoung lady\u201d.&nbsp; The last person who was able to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94256,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94255\/revisions\/94256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}