Comedian Joan Rivers is known for dishing out vicious commentary on red carpet fashion, but her platform on AOL evaporated under her high heels this week when she made caustic remarks about what several stars were wearing at this past weekend’s Emmy Awards. 
    
After hiring Rivers and her daughter Melissa to offer up some post-Emmy commentary on what the stars were wearing, AOL declined to post their work on its fashion Web site, Stylelist.com, said Alysia Lew, a spokeswoman for the company.
    
“We just didn’t find that it was going to be interesting to our consumers, so we chose not too use any of it,” Lew said. 
     
But video of Rivers’ Emmy commentary was put on MyHollywood.com, and among her remarks Joan didn’t pull any punches when describing the hair styles of of Tom Hanks, Ricky Gervais and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as something from the “Third Reich.” 

On Thursday, Rivers was not holding her tongue about AOL, either. “This is a free country and AOL can do anything they want to on their Web site. It is a shame they felt that our wicked and witty post-Emmy fashion commentary was too outrageous … but thank God, MyHollywood.com didn’t.”
    
But one does wonder when celebrity snarkiness goes too far, and when Joan has crossed the line.

Joan Rivers is not quite eating crow, but profanities she let fly about actor Russell Crowe got the comedienne kicked off a British talk show.

Rivers, 75, was making a guest appearance on “Loose Women” when the Hollywood interviewer was asked if she likes meeting celebrities on the red carpet. She responded that she likes “nice” celebrities, but that Crowe is not one of those.

She then said “get ready to bleep this,” and let loose with two expletives in reference to the Oscar-winning movie star whose films include “Gladiator” and “American Gangster.” The comedienne, who is famous for the catch phrase “can we talk?”, was asked to leave the chat show at the commercial break.

But it’s not like Joan was overly contrite. In a statement released through her spokeswoman, Rivers joked about the incident. “In England you can’t swear on TV before 9 p.m.,” Rivers said. “Like it’s my fault — I’m still on New York time.”

Another zinger: “The whole incident reminded me of my wedding night because I was to asked to leave in the middle.”

Rivers did not know that the show was live with no capability of bleeping her choice words about Crowe, said her spokeswoman.

(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis)