BREAKING NEWS: Joan Rivers was set to perform tonight at Melbourne’s Hamer Hall as part of her Australian Tour, but things have gone VERY wrong.

Apparantly, Joan Rivers is NOT getting along with her Promoter (NOT the New Mardi Gras, the ‘one in the middle’, not that we know what that means). At show time, Joan came on the PA system and annouced that there were some ‘problems back stage’ and that she would be 5 mins late. When she did eventually come on, she really let loose.

It appears her Australian Promoter has not impressed her at all. In fact, she asked everyone to obtain a full refund before she would go ahead with her show at 9:30 FOR FREE! We’re not sure what happenend between the two, but we do know that Joan has a very impressive vocabulary and knows how to let loose when she needs to. We can’t repeat it here, but it was brilliant.

At the moment it is CHAOS at the Arts Centre as patrons try to obtain a refund, but the Arts Centre seem to have been caught off guard, and no refunds are forth-coming. We’ll see what happens as this eventful night unfolds.

UPDATE: Well it seems that the show did eventually go ahead at 9:30, but no refunds were issued. Apparently the size of the venue was mis-represented.

Joan, if you need us to bitch-slap someone for you, just let us know!

ANOTHER UPDATE: Official Response From NEW MARDI GRAS