A Zinger From Joan Rivers

By Anne Cohen July 12, 2013

Paula Deen jokes have been all over the Internet since the Southern food maven’s use of the N-word and other racial slurs became public knowledge.

But none of the aforementioned gags tops Joan Rivers’ tweet, posted on Friday after it was announced that Barry Weiss, Deen’s longtime agent, had gotten the sack:

Paula Deen fired her agent. I guess he came back from summer vacation a shade too tan for her.

ampmdash; Joan Rivers (@Joan_Rivers) July 12, 2013

Touche, Joan. Touche.

Anne Cohen was the Forward’s deputy digital media editor. When she’s not looking for the secret Jewish history of Voodoo in New Orleans, or making lists about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she writes for The Assimilator. She graduated from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism with an M.S. magazine concentration in 2012.

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