Barbara Lippert's Critique

“Your allegiance is to your audience,” Joan Rivers told a journalist when asked whether her Oscar-night commentary on the stars’ outfits for the E! network was perhaps a tad too mean. “You’ve got to tell them the truth or they won’t come back.”

In that spirit, I say, Joan, what the hell are you doing in a kitchen? Sure, Rivers is tireless in this Glad OvenWare commercial, giving us every ounce of angst she’s got. But, really—having the cosmetically enhanced, intensely coiffed and designer-suited QVC queen scream and cry in front of a sink full of dirty pots and pans (“They love me when I cook, and then leave me to clean up!”) is so odd and offputting, it could in duce a case of cognitive dissonance.