Love & Passion Quote by Joan Rivers

Rivers takes the old American catechism of aspiration ("the sky's the limit") and yanks it down the aisle of a department store. The line works because it stages a fake prayer of gratitude, then reveals what we actually worship: convenience. She starts with the language of immigrant optimism and civic myth, then punctures it with the cheery banality of late hours and retail-from-the-couch. The joke is less "ha-ha, TV shopping" than "look what our highest ideals have been quietly replaced with."

Her intent is classic Rivers: flatter the audience just long enough to get them to recognize themselves, then twist the knife. "Thank God" frames consumer infrastructure as a kind of moral achievement, implying that the sacred has been outsourced to capitalism's customer service department. "Shop in bed" is doing extra work: it's intimate, a little indecent, and it signals passivity. You're not conquering the world; you're scrolling it, half-awake, in pajamas, mistaking purchasing power for agency.

Context matters. Rivers came up in a postwar America that sold prosperity as virtue and television as domestic furniture - a glowing altar in the living room. By the time home shopping was mainstream, the culture had already merged entertainment with commerce; the punchline just names the merger out loud. It's a Rivers trademark: glamour and critique in the same breath, a celebration that sounds like satire because it is.