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As is only traditional, tributes to the late comedienne Joan Rivers have flooded in thick and fast by everyone from Kelly Osbourne to the Wu-Tang Clan .
But it isn’t Lena Dunham ’s quip about plastic surgery, nor Ricky Gervais ’ touching words about the entertainer that has become the most shared homage.
Step up Transport For London, who delighted commuters at Hackney Wick Overground with the above message – originally tweeted by @byronhamburgers .
Rivers passed away on Thursday 4 September after being on life support for five days.
She suffered a cardiac and respiratory arrest during a routine operation on her vocal chords last week, and was placed in intensive care in a medically induced coma.
In pictures: Nine of Joan Rivers' most controversial statementsShow all 20 1 /20In pictures: Nine of Joan Rivers' most controversial statements In pictures: Nine of Joan Rivers' most controversial statements On Israel-Palestine When she was told how many Palestinians had been killed in the Israel-Gaza conflict, Joan said: “They were told to get out. They didn’t get out. You don’t get out, you are an idiot. At least the ones that were killed were the ones with low IQs.”
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In pictures: Nine of Joan Rivers' most controversial statements On Barack and Michelle Obama Asked whether the United States would ever see the first gay or female president, she responded: "We already have it with Obama, so let's just calm down... You know Michelle (Obama) is a trans."
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In pictures: Nine of Joan Rivers' most controversial statements On living arrangements with her daughter "Those women in the basement in Cleveland had more space."
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In pictures: Nine of Joan Rivers' most controversial statements On Heidi Klum's dress for the Academy Awards "The last time a German looked this hot was when they were pushing Jews into the ovens."
In pictures: Nine of Joan Rivers' most controversial statements On singer Adele's weight "She's a chubby lady who's very, very rich, and she should just calm down -- or lose weight!"
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In pictures: Nine of Joan Rivers' most controversial statements On Jennifer Lawrence's comments about body image "I love that she’s telling everyone how wrong it is to worry about retouching and body image, and meanwhile, she has been touched up more than a choir boy at the Vatican."
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In pictures: Nine of Joan Rivers' most controversial statements On Lindsay Lohan's miscarriage "I hope she kept it." [To her daughter] "Excuse me, what do you think I am? I was born with a coat hanger in my ear."
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In pictures: Nine of Joan Rivers' most controversial statements On Lena Dunham's nudity in 'Girls' “Lena Dunham, who again I think is terrific, how could she wear dresses above the knee? … You are sending a message out to people saying, ‘It’s okay! Stay fat! Get diabetes. Everybody die! Lose your fingers.’"
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In pictures: Nine of Joan Rivers' most controversial statements On Kim Kardashian's baby (According to RadarOnline.com): "That baby is ugly... I've never seen a six-month-old so desperately in need of a waxing."
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In pictures: Nine of Joan Rivers' most controversial statements
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In pictures: Nine of Joan Rivers' most controversial statements
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In pictures: Nine of Joan Rivers' most controversial statements
In pictures: Nine of Joan Rivers' most controversial statements
In pictures: Nine of Joan Rivers' most controversial statements
In pictures: Nine of Joan Rivers' most controversial statements
In pictures: Nine of Joan Rivers' most controversial statements
In pictures: Nine of Joan Rivers' most controversial statements
In pictures: Nine of Joan Rivers' most controversial statements
In pictures: Nine of Joan Rivers' most controversial statements
In pictures: Nine of Joan Rivers' most controversial statements
Not, however, before she’d laid out some fairly spectacular plans for her "huge showbiz funeral" for her daughter Melissa Rivers to follow.
"When I die (and, yes, Melissa, that day will come; and, yes, Melissa, everything's in your name), I want my funeral to be a huge showbiz affair with lights, cameras, action," she wrote in a chapter called "Death Be Not Proud" in her 2012 book I Hate Everyone… Starting With Me .
"I want Craft services, I want paparazzi and I want publicists making a scene! I want it to be Hollywood all the way. I don't want some rabbi rambling on; I want Meryl Streep crying, in five different accents.
"I don't want a eulogy; I want Bobby Vinton to pick up my head and sing "Mr. Lonely." I want to look gorgeous, better dead than I do alive. I want to be buried in a Valentino gown and I want Harry Winston to make me a toe tag.
"And I want a wind machine so that even in the casket my hair is blowing just like Beyonce's."
Her actual funeral is set to take place on Sunday 7 September at the Temple Emanu-El in New York.
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