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Does Anyone Here LOVE Kathy Griffin Like I Do?
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I am watching Kathy Griffin is not Nicole Kidman and I am crying and screaming with laughter. She is the FUNNIEST commedienne I have seen or heard since...well, since I don't know when!
If you don't like her tell me why.
Or if you do, why not give us one of her jokes or lines?
In talking about Clay Aiken she calls him Gayken.
She says Clay's 7 lb., pink ribboned dog Rowley, isn't a DOG, he's a FOG!
She calls her own gay friends, "my gays" as in, 'I was sitting around with my gays watching the awards show on TV one night...'
She is HILARIOUS!
She rips on EVERYONE and she's the first person I can say is really, mean fun!
Check out her Bravo show, but it isn't as funny as her stand up.
Who is your favorite funny man/woman?
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Originally Posted by mojo2
She calls her own gay friends, "my gays" as in, 'I was sitting around with my gays watching the awards show on TV one night...'
Every fag hag does.
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Originally Posted by Scandalous Ion Cannon
Every fag hag does.
Ahhhh! My old gf (disco era) was a fag hag and the term hadn't been invented then.
I guess I'm running behind the times.
Thanks, SIC!
UPDATE: Later in the show she claimed credit for COINING the phrase, "my Gays." She's been doing comedy for some time. Gays DO like her, alot. Maybe she mentioned it in a stand-up routine and they adopted the phrase and used it around you without attributing it to her?
Could be.
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Who is Kathy Griffin?
(So far I only know she's NOT Nicole Kidman!)
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She is ok. I just hate when she does that self loathing thing.
She reminds me of a young joan rivers.
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I call my youth group kids my kids or my youth... guess it's not the same thing... we call our youth pastor PG since his name is Gary... I like it... uhh... where was I going with this?
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Originally Posted by Salty
I call my youth group kids my kids or my youth... guess it's not the same thing... we call our youth pastor PG since his name is Gary... I like it... uhh... where was I going with this?

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No. I don't find Kathy Griffin funny.
But I did like News Radio!
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Originally Posted by Salty
we call our youth pastor PG

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Where ya been?!? Long time no see stranger!
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Originally Posted by Railroader
No. I don't find Kathy Griffin funny.
But I did like News Radio!
Vicki Lewis was on NEWSRADIO at about the same time that...
...Kathy Griffin was on SUDDENLY SUSAN
Kathy Griffin says people mistake her for Vicki Lewis alot and she ALSO gets people who hear her name and mistake her for Kathy Lee Gifford.
On Hollywood `D-List': Kathy Griffin invites viewers into her wacky world
By Amy Amatangelo
Wednesday, August 3, 2005 - Updated: 08:53 AM EST
Kathy Griffin can pinpoint the moment she realized she was on the D list.
``When I did `Celebrity Mole,' that's when I knew there was no turning back,'' Griffin said during a recent telephone interview. ``I was like, `OK, I'm going to do this, but once I do this, I jump down to D and I stay there.' And yet I had a blast doing that show, and I won and it was great, but I was like, `I'm not going to recover from this.' ''
The comedian best known for playing Brooke Shields' sassy sidekick on ``Suddenly Susan'' celebrates her unique form of fame in Bravo's six-episode series ``Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List,'' premiering tonight at 10. The debut is preceded by the special ``Kathy Griffin is . . . not Nicole Kidman'' at 9.
The cameras trailed Griffin as she walked the red carpets, hosted shows for E! Entertainment Television, redecorated her home, hung out with her parents and hobnobbed with other celebs. That meant the cameras also followed her husband, Matt Moline, a computer technician, who lost considerable pounds during the course of the filming.
``He got really sick of the cameras,'' she said. ``Around the end, he wanted to kill the crew.
``Certain friends were like, `I'm not coming over for cameras no way,' '' Griffin said. When she invited actress Shannon Elizabeth (``American Pie'') over for game night at her home, Elizabeth wouldn't attend because she was in the process of pitching her own reality show. ``That's a very Hollywood reason to not come to game night,'' Griffin said.
She insists you shouldn't believe reality-show participants who say they forget the cameras are there.
``I was edited completely fairly. If anything, they made me look nicer. I think they did an awesome job of editing the show because I thought, `What if I'm Omarosa in my own show?' ''
One thing she did keep from the cameras was the complications she suffered following LASIK eye surgery. She lost 30 percent of her sight in her right eye and is on a one-woman campaign to warn people about the dangers of the procedure (for more information, go to her Web site, www.kathygriffin.net). Since there's nothing really funny about that, Griffin decided to leave it out of the show and delay her follow-up surgery until the cameras were gone.
The comedian is known for her brutal honesty about the rich and famous. ``There is never going to stop being crazy celebrities. There's like a bottomless well of celebrity crazy behavior. I'm not mean. I'm commenting on people's behavior. I don't say someone is ugly and I don't say someone is fat. But I'm going to comment on Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown clearly being on crack during every single second of that show. I mean they are practically sweating through the television.''
She's proud of her pal Shields, who recently responded (via an editorial in The New York Times) to Tom Cruise's criticisms of her decision to use prescription medication to combat her postpartum depression.
``I'm so thrilled that she responded the way she did. It's the coolest thing she's ever done. . . . First of all, she couldn't be more right. We are all really witnessing somebody (Cruise) having a meltdown in a way that it is aggressive, with him saying, `I've studied psychiatry,' which you know is through the crazy lens of Scientology. I'd really like to see the textbooks that he's been reading. I think it's good that she came out fighting. . . . What the hell does he know about it anyway?'

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Originally Posted by mojo2
Vicki Lewis was on NEWSRADIO at about the same time that...
...Kathy Griffin was on SUDDENLY SUSAN
Oh my word, I thought they were the same woman. I watched both shows and I thought wow she's going places  Now I find out they two woman DOH
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Originally Posted by Maflynn
Oh my word, I thought they were the same woman. I watched both shows and I thought wow she's going places  Now I find out they two woman DOH
OMG! No, Suddenly Susan completely ripped off NewsRadio, right down to casting Kathy Griffin in virtually the same role Vicki Lewis had (as well as the set). Stupid Suddenly Snoozin'...
As much as I detest anything involved with that crappy NR clone (that NBC treated better than the original), I liked Kathy on Celebrity Mole.
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But I did like News Radio!
You should get the DVDs!
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I only watched a portion of the show, but she was rather funny. Finally something redeeming on that channel. I've noticed Kathy Griffin is much less annoying than she was when she was on whichever sitcom that was.
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Originally Posted by badidea
Who is Kathy Griffin?
(So far I only know she's NOT Nicole Kidman!)
Kathy Griffin
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Kathy Griffin (born November 4, 1966 in Oak Park, Illinois) is a stand-up comedienne whose career took off in the early 1990s amongst counterparts like Janeane Garofalo and David Cross.
At a time when comedy was turning from punch-line oriented joke-telling to humorous social-commentary and satire, Griffin's wry observations about celebrity culture and fame quickly propelled her into stardom (she even made a cameo in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 smash Pulp Fiction). In the late 1990s she became a household name playing the quirky best friend of the title character on the long running American sitcom Suddenly Susan. Griffin voiced the character of Alice in the animated television series Dilbert. In 2003 she was the grand prize winner on Celebrity Mole, and she continues to tour with her stand-up routine. In 2005, she returned to television in a reality show on the cable network Bravo! based on her everday adventures, titled "Kathy Griffin: Life on the D-List."
Her most notable controversy occured when she made a joke during an interminable "E!" televised event that eight-year-old Dakota Fanning was just out of rehab.
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Medusa: Dare to Be Truthful (1992)
Big News (1995)
The Barefoot Executive (1995)
Saturday Night Special (1996) (canceled after 2 months)
Suddenly Susan (1996-2000)
Premium Blend (host in 1997)
Kathy Griffin: Hot Cup of Talk (1998)
Instant Comedy with the Groundlings (1998-2000)
Dilbert (1999-2000) (voice)
Jackie's Back! (1999) (Cameo)
A Diva's Christmas Carol (2000)
Kathy's So-Called Reality (2001) (canceled after a few months)
Celebrity Mole: Hawaii (2003) (miniseries)
Average Joe (2003-2004)
Kathy Griffin: Life on The D-List (2005)
The Simpsons (1989) (voice)
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The Unborn (1991)
Shakes the Clown (1992)
It's Pat (1994)
Pulp Fiction (1994) (Cameo)
Four Rooms (1995)
The Cable Guy (1996)
Who's the Caboose? (1997)
Trojan War (1997)
Courting Courtney (1997)
Can't Stop Dancing (1999)
Dill Scallion (1999)
Muppets from Space (1999) (Cameo)
Lion of Oz (2000) (voice)
The Intern (2000)
Enemies of Laughter (2000)
On Edge (2001)
Run Ronnie Run (2002) (Cameo)
Lovewrecked (2005)
Dirty Love (2005)
Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone (2005) (voice)
Her Minor Thing (2005)
Vegas Baby (2005) (currently in post-production)
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
I only watched a portion of the show, but she was rather funny. Finally something redeeming on that channel. I've noticed Kathy Griffin is much less annoying than she was when she was on whichever sitcom that was.
I'm glad you caught some of it and liked it.
I SCREAMED with laughter. I CRIED with laughter. THINKING about it makes me laugh.
She tells stories about the American Idol kids, Streisand, Oprah, Dick Clark and a bunch of other people. But she starts with a SLAM on American Idol's, Ryan Seacrest with her FIRST words on the Orpheum Theater stage.
"Alright. Are you ready for me to say some things that are so horrible that I can NEVER take them back? (Audience wildly cheers approval) Good. I can't stand that asshole Ryan Seacrest and here's why." (Audience cheers and roars with laughter)
She is hilarious. Catch it if you can.
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Oh, I forgot to mention how good she was as Alice on Dilbert.
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Kathy Griffin is not Nicole Kidman
You can definitely say that again...

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I'm not a big fan. She had some good bits when she was a standup, but those days are gone. Now she is a cheap "I'll do anything for money" shark... The last few interviews I've seen her on have been nothing but ads for products she is pushing.
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Actually, no. I find her incredibly annoying.
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I don't like her. I hate her face, I hate her voice and that rambling she does.
Heck i've seen 60 year old trannys that look and sound more fem than she does.
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Frick... I thought they were the same woman!
By the way when I first saw this post... I thought they were talking about Kathy Lee...
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Her reality show is going to send her beyond the D list, straight down to the F list like everyone else who has tried to capture (or recapture) their 15 minutes of fame on reality tv:
Andy Dick
Gary Busey
Bobby Brown
Ana Nichole
Every Road Rules contestant
Every Real World housemember
Every Big Brother housememeber
Venus & Serena
Boy Meets Boy contestants
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Can't get past the voice.
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Originally Posted by lavar78
Oh, I forgot to mention how good she was as Alice on Dilbert.

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Originally Posted by mitchell_pgh
I'm not a big fan. She had some good bits when she was a standup, but those days are gone. Now she is a cheap "I'll do anything for money" shark... The last few interviews I've seen her on have been nothing but ads for products she is pushing.
On one end of the spectrum a performer is judged by what they have done in the past.
On the other end of that scale is the question, "what have you done for me LATELY?"
If you watch, "Kathy Griffin Is... Not Nicole Kidman" you'll have Griffin at her latest and her best.
If you don't like that, you can safely say, you don't like Kathy Griffin.
EDIT: She also coined the term, "D-List." Of course there was already "A" & "B" Lists but no one was proud enough or "I-don't-care" enough to make popular the lower echelons of celebrity, until Kathy Griffin.
And she also says she resigned herself to forever being at the D level when she won the Celebrity Mole reality show/contest. But, she is due to move up the ladder because of the expected popularity of her new show and the new video, "...not Nicole Kidman."
The reviews are saying 
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She and Andy Dick are on my most annoying list. In fact, there are rumors that they are the same person.
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So Kathy Griffin was not Nicole Kidman until something happened?
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Originally Posted by mitchell_pgh
I'm not a big fan. She had some good bits when she was a standup, but those days are gone. Now she is a cheap "I'll do anything for money" shark... The last few interviews I've seen her on have been nothing but ads for products she is pushing.
Yeah, and that's one of the appeals of her new show. We all imagine the lives of all celebs on TV or in movies is about the same. Big house, big car, designer wardrobe, personal assistant, instant recognition wherever they go.
Well, Griffin's "My Life on The D List" show on Bravo let's us peel back the facade and see that although Griffin DOES live in a big house with her husband who owns a successful computer IT company for small businesses and she DOES have an assistant, the instant recognition and the big car and all the other trappings and perks aren't what you'd imagine. So, YES, there ARE things she does just for the money, and unabashedly so. In fact, one of the scenes from the next episode shows how someone on the D-level manages to parlay what celebrity assets she has in order to 'wrangle' a new living room sectional sofa.
Could she afford to pay for it by shopping for a good deal or a different quality piece or even (GASP) consider getting a smaller sectional?
That's the implicit question asked by the show. How would you live on the edge of celebrity? What choices would you have to make that a Brad Pitt or a Julia Roberts doesn't even have to consider? Like an automatic transmisson in a car going up a long gradual incline that constantly shifts back and forth between the higher and the lower gears trying to find the right one, Griffin's life appears to always shift (or think about shifting) between living as a "normal" person, like you and I, or living it up as a TV STAR! Both have their appeals and both seem the right choice, but not all the time and not at the same time.
Playing partly for the camera and playing up the laugh factor and partly taking advantage of the cameras and going that extra mile for a smile or laugh we get a close up look at what life is like for a celeb who ISN'T on the A or B lists and she makes it look like a fun and interesting place I'll visit at least once a week.
But, then again, I'm mojo2.
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A thought comes to me prompted by thoughts of Griffin being on the D-List.
An elevator door is designed not to open if the car is even an inch above or below the proper level.
Kathy Griffin may have been an inch or two below the C or higher rings of Hollywood stardom before.
I think a new set of doors may be ready to open for her, now.
Think of the things or positions to which you and I aspire.
When we are really ready, I believe the door will simply open.
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Originally Posted by mojo2
.Think of the things or positions to which you and I aspire.
When we are really ready, I believe the door will simply open.
About time, 'cause I have to pee like a sonofabitch.
I saw the show last night, very funny. Pulled out some belly laughs from way down deep. 
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that chick annoys me, i remember that seinfeld episode with her when she had her own making fun of jerry seinfeld show - jerry pretty much hated her too
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How are you, aberdeenwriter?
I remember when you told me how much you love Kathy Griffin.
That was a dead giveaway.
Now that I've been looking at your posts, and comparing them to aberdeenwriters, now I know where you went!

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Originally Posted by Zenbone
About time, 'cause I have to pee like a sonofabitch.
I saw the show last night, very funny. Pulled out some belly laughs from way down deep.
I'm glad you liked it.
The thing is she made me laugh out loud - uproarious laughter - as much at the beginning as she did at the end and all the way through!
And with her new boobs and dark red hair, she's better looking than before.
By the way, she underwent LASIK surgery and lost 30% of her vision in one eye but she doesn't much get into that when she's performing because that's not funny and believe me, she works to be funny. But there IS info on the eye thing on her website kathygriffin.net.
Comedian Kathy Griffin either loves to hate Hollywood or hates to love it. Just so long as she’s part of the show.
By Adam Sternbergh
So I’m doing this event later this month, and I’m ****ing dreading it,” says Kathy Griffin, the celebrity-mocking comedian. “It’s some tennis event at UCLA for MusiCares, like I know what that is. [Tennis star Andre] Agassi is going to play [tennis star Andy] Roddick, and then they’re going to play doubles with [hectoring TV pop psychologist] Dr. Phil and [former lead singer of grunge-lite band Bush and pretty-boy husband to Gwen Stefani] Gavin Rossdale. I hate that fat-ass Dr. Phil, by the way. That ****ing fascist.” Griffin speaks with the habitual uptick of a teenage girl, and her slightly nasal, slightly screechy voice is thinned out even further by the crackle of her cell phone as she talks from a car in L.A. “And I’m supposed to be a funny line judge. But I’m pretty sure I’m going to bite it really hard. Because it’s going to be me on the microphone making fun of Andre Agassi’s old hair extensions and then the audience booing me.”
In a world of free-radical stardom, in which celebrities of disparate fame-levels routinely collide, Kathy Griffin’s self-appointed job is to point at these collisions and laugh. Ideally, you will laugh, too. But she doesn’t just mock from the sidelines. She enjoys a pseudo-celebrity of her own. If some stars are famous for being famous (Paris Hilton, the Gen-Y Zsa Zsa Gabor), then Griffin does Paris one better. Kathy Griffin is famous for not being all that famous, and knowing it.
She calls herself the queen of “the D-list,” a phrase she claims to have coined, presumably to create a circle of celebrity hell even lower than those previously charted. Griffin was once a member of the influential alternative comedy scene in nineties L.A., which turned out Ben Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, and Andy Dick. She became well known for a time as the sassy redheaded sidekick to Brooke Shields on the sitcom Suddenly Susan. She later learned, though, that there are few strains of celebrity less resilient than the ex–sitcom sidekick. (For every Lenny that thrives, a Squiggy dies.)
So after watching her fortunes slide, she decided to actively embrace her has-been status. She appeared on the reality show Celebrity Mole Hawaii, along with Stephen Baldwin and L.A. Law’s Corbin Bernsen. (She won, earning $233,000.) She hosted the reality show Average Joe. She pitched a sitcom to NBC called The D-List, about the life of a semi-famous comedian (they passed). This month, the sitcom is reborn as a reality show on Bravo, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, which will air along with her new one-hour stand-up special, Kathy Griffin Is . . . Not Nicole Kidman.
"I idolize Suzanne Somers. I idolize Jerry Springer. I like working stiffs."
She’s long since tilted her act away from jokes about ex-boyfriends and toward jokes about celebrity—hers and everyone else’s. She now pitches herself as the woman who will say anything and burn anyone. While hosting the red-carpet coverage of the Golden Globes for E!, she claimed that the cherubic 10-year-old Dakota Fanning was just out of rehab, a joke that prompted a long written apology from the channel and almost cost Griffin her gig. In the course of our conversation, she describes Angelina Jolie’s mouth as “an inflamed anus,” quips Sylvester Stallone’s face-lifts make him look like “a drag queen,” and, apropos Farrah Fawcett’s reality show, libelously says, “The thing with Chasing Farrah is that once you catch her, you find out she’s just a dumb drug addict.” Like most routines that rely on takedowns, Griffin’s comedy, while often funny, can sometimes turn unpleasantly sour. She recalls a scene from her reality show in which, after bombing during a performance, she appears backstage and says of the audience to her husband, “I hope they all get cancer.”
“The producers just said, ‘We’re going to go ahead and cut that. We don’t think anyone thinks that’s funny but you,’ ” says Griffin. “And I’m like, ‘That’s typical.’ ” During her best moments, though—as when she professes her love for Oprah, then turns to the camera and says, “But you know she thinks she’s . . . ,” then mouths the word Jesus—Griffin is hard not to like. It’s as though your bitchiest friend became a sleeper agent in Hollywood, slowly built a marginal career for ten years, then decided to blow the whistle. Loudly.
“My dirty little secret is that I’m actually really good with money,” says Griffin, in answer to the one question her reality show doesn’t address: How is it that a self-described D-list star can afford what she proudly calls an “A-list house”—an enormous, multi-million-dollar spread overlooking Hollywood. “I actually own three homes,” she says. “My stock portfolio is simple. I’m not like a day-trader. I have a lot of Berkshire Hathaway. And I work constantly. I’m extremely driven by money. I’m really interested in money. I’m impressed by people who are good with money.” For someone who makes her living mocking the most ridiculous of stars, her list of inspirations is surprising. “I idolize Suzanne Somers. I idolize Jerry Springer. I like working stiffs.” She reserves a special awe for, of all people, Baywatch tycoon and perennial punch line David Hasselhoff. “I asked Whoopi Goldberg once how much money she has, and she said, ‘Girl, I do all right. But I don’t have Hasselhoff money. Nobody in this town has Hasselhoff money, except for Hasselhoff.’ ”
Much of Griffin’s public persona seems, at first glance, contradictory. She mocks celebrity, yet she strives to be famous. She ridicules shamelessness, yet she is shameless. She belittles Hollywood’s obsession with plastic surgery, yet has had enough work done herself—which she’s proudly and publicly admitted—to put her somewhere between Teri Hatcher and Orlan, the self-sculpting performance artist. And, significantly, although she’ll scratch and claw at Clay Aiken and Oprah and Celine Dion, she admits to loving them all. “One thing that bums me out is when celebrities don’t get that part of it,” she says. “I can understand that if you read something I say, and you’re Celine Dion, you might be kind of pissed. But I just went to see Celine Dion’s show in Vegas a month ago. Again!”
It’s not surprising that Griffin has a large gay following, since gay culture essentially invented the idea of simultaneously mocking something (Liza!) while earnestly adoring it (Liza!). These entwined strands of derision and affection make up Griffin’s comic DNA. Riffing in her stand-up act, she’s the personification of the celebrity-directed snark that fuels a thousand Websites, on which fans dissect and deride the most obscure citizens of the celebri-sphere, sounding both dismissively superior and hopelessly smitten. Then again, in order to dish, as Griffin does in her show, that Clay Aiken is so obviously a homo, or Oprah so totally has a God complex, or Brad and Angelina are so totally and obviously doing it, you have to spend quite a lot of time thinking about, and caring about, Clay Aiken, Oprah, or Brangelina. Whatever drives that obsessiveness, it’s certainly not hatred.
“I’ve found that life is just high school,” Griffin says. “And I read this criticism of me somewhere that went ‘When Kathy Griffin rants, she sounds like the kid who was picked on in high school and now she’s mad at the cheerleaders.’ Of course! I am! Most of us were! Because there weren’t that many cheerleaders.” Here she doesn’t sound quite so snarky and her contradictions don’t seem quite so contradictory. For if every high-school cafeteria needs a popular clique, with its attendant posse of starstruck wannabes, there’s also got to be a wisecracking girl in the corner, camped out at the misfits’ table. She cracks up her friends by mocking the stupid cool kids, even as she can’t bring herself to look away.
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Originally Posted by Cody Dawg
How are you, aberdeenwriter?
I remember when you told me how much you love Kathy Griffin.
That was a dead giveaway.
Now that I've been looking at your posts, and comparing them to aberdeenwriters, now I know where you went!
You have got the wrong guy.
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That's something aberdeenwriter would have said.
PM me your telephone number or I'll PM you mine and you call me. Whatcha say? Then I'll issue a public acknowledgement that I was wrong.

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Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker
I don't like her. I hate her face, I hate her voice and that rambling she does.
Heck i've seen 60 year old trannys that look and sound more fem than she does.
Who cares what she looks like? She's funny even if she is a tad annoying .
Most comics are annoying.
I actually find her less than annoying than say Seinfeld.
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Or Bobcat Goldthwaite. (sp?)
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Originally Posted by Cody Dawg
Or Bobcat Goldthwaite. (sp?)
I've seen him be funny, and I have seen him be all out annoying.
He was on love-line one night and wouldn't cooperate and kept making rude jokes to the participants. I about peed my pants.
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Originally Posted by Kevin
I've seen him be funny, and I have seen him be all out annoying.
He was on love-line one night and wouldn't cooperate and kept making rude jokes to the participants. I about peed my pants.
I'm looking forward to Adam Corolla's new half hour show on Comedy Central. I think it was supposed to have debuted by now but I haven't seen it yet and the promos have disappeared from sight.
BTW, I just watched KGINNK for the fourth time and it is STILL funny.
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TOO LATE with Adam Corolla debuted tonite at 11:30pm. Adam is really bright and very sharp. I was looking forward to his show. It has the potential to be great. But he needs a straight man like Dr. Drew, otherwise it's just too much of Adam griping and bitching. That is funny for a while but it isn't what makes him shine.
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Originally Posted by Ozmodiar
I'm really sorry to hear that. He is a successful computer guy, he'll be alright without spousal support, it's not like he quit his waiter job to be her boy toy.
She ALWAYS struck me as being VERY supportive of him. He had gained quite a bit of weight, though. I wonder if that played a part.
I somehow saw myself in him (even though he's a big, white guy). I wonder if she's thinking of maybe hooking up with a more glitzy Hollywood kind of guy.
Damn, this bothers me. Unduly, so.
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Give petty people just a little bit of power and watch how they misuse it! You can't silence the self doubt, can you?
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Yeah it bothered me too. I want to know what the irreconcilable differences were, and I don't know why I want to that.
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