Joan Rivers and her daughter, Melissa, were due to critique Emmy fashions on AOL.com’s fashion site, StyleList, immediately following the Sept. 21 awards show. But the mother-daughter team’s comments never saw the light of day.

What happened?

Rivers says she was “censored.” She told Page Six that her quips, which included several references to Nazi Germany, (among them: “Julia Louis-Dreyfus — luckily she waxed her mustache. I know one of her neighbors, and if she leaves it for two or three weeks she looks just like Hitler.”) were too offensive for AOL, and that’s why the plug was pulled.

“AOL is like Holocaust deniers,” Rivers told Page Six. “They want us to believe 6 million Jews spent World War II in Boca and Anne Frank was in an attic for two years looking for Christmas ornaments.”

AOL is speaking out with a different version of events, however. Rivers’ comments apparently came to editors at AOL hours later than what was agreed upon, and when they finally arrived in the wee hours of the morning, they were found to be too unfunny to be included.

“It’s hard to imagine why Joan Rivers believes that AOL denies that the Holocaust ever happened, but it’s also hard to imagine that Joan really believes anyone would think her Emmy coverage was funny,” says Colleen Curtis, editorial director of women’s and lifestyle programming at AOL. “I didn’t, and I didn’t think our audience would either, and so I chose not to use it on our fashion site.”

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