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Joan Rivers: 10 of her most memorable zingers

Joan Rivers, considered a pioneering comedian, has died at the age of 81, according to her daughter Melissa Rivers
Comedian Joan Rivers dies at 81 03:47

When it came to insults, Joan Rivers spared no one.

She took aim Elizabeth Taylor and Justin Bieber, Michelle Obama, Michael Jackson and even the baby daughter of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.

And sometimes the target was Rivers herself.

"The trouble with me is, I make jokes too often," she told The Associated Press in 2013. "That's how I get through life. Life is SO difficult -- everybody's been through something! But you laugh at it, it becomes smaller."

Here are 10 memorable zingers by the comedian, who died Thursday at age 81:

- "Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds."

- "I've never seen a six-month-old so desperately in need of a waxing," on North West, daughter of West and Kardashian.

- "I've had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware."

- "Boy George is all England needs -- another queen who can't dress."

- "Madonna is so hairy. When she lifted her arm, I thought it was Tina Turner in her armpit."

- "If Kate Winslet had dropped a few pounds, the Titanic would never have sunk."

- "I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds."

- "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio."

- "I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery."

- "My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on."

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