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Five of Joan Rivers’ top zingers

When it came to insults, Joan Rivers aimed everywhere: Elizabeth Taylor and Justin Bieber, Michelle Obama and Michael Jackson. Even celebrity babies weren't safe.

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When it came to insults, Joan Rivers aimed everywhere: Elizabeth Taylor and Justin Bieber, Michelle Obama and Michael Jackson. Even celebrity babies weren't safe.

And sometimes the target was Joan Rivers herself.

Here are five memorable Joan Rivers zingers:

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"Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favourite food is seconds."

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

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

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