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"  Joan Rivers is back for more after making a joke on the Today show about the three women who were held captive in a Cleveland house for over a decade until they escaped last year. On Tuesday, talking to the hosts about living in her daughter&amp;#039;s Malibu guestroom (for a new reality TV show, of course), Rivers said, &amp;quot;Those women in the basement in Cleveland had more space.&amp;quot;  But, she didn&amp;#039;t leave it at that. Yesterday, in response to the calls for an apology from two of the women&amp;#039;s lawyers, Rivers told TMZ, &amp;quot;They got to live rent free for more than a decade.&amp;quot; And it&amp;#039;s okay for her to joke about it, because they&amp;#039;re just fine now: &amp;quot;One of them has a book deal. Neither are in a psych ward. They&amp;#039;re ok. I bet you within three years one of them will be on &amp;#039;Dancing with the Stars.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m a comedienne,&amp;quot; she also told Cleveland&amp;#039;s The Plain Dealer in a phone interview. &amp;quot;I know what those girls went through. It was a little, stupid joke. There is nothing to apologize for. I made a joke. That&amp;#039;s what I do. Calm down. Calm fucking down. I&amp;#039;m a comedienne. They&amp;#039;re free, so let&amp;#039;s move on.&amp;quot; Sigh. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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