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IT didn’t take long for Apple billionaire Steve Wozniak to get over our favorite comic, Kathy Griffin. “His secretary called me to say he was dating someone else. And then three weeks after he met this woman, he married her!” Griffin told us at Ben Silverman and NBC’s Upfront party the other night at the Empire Hotel. Griffin isn’t too broken up, though – “We were really just friends anyway.” Meanwhile, Silverman’s mom, Mary, held court at the St. Tropez Tan-sponsored party with Brooke Shields, Minka Kelly, Christian Slater and a pregnant Amy Poehler.

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She has been a sitcom character, a sometime talk show host and the centerpiece of her own reality show. Now Kathy Griffin has appeared in an unlikely new role – minister.

The often provocative comedian – who raised some Christian groups’ hackles by joking about Jesus while accepting an Emmy Award last September – became ordained through an online church to officiate Saturday at the New York wedding of two fans, Brian Anstey and Elka Shapiro.

“The request came in, and how could I say no?” Griffin, 47, told the Daily News. “I love that this couple just want to have fun. They’re my kind of people.”

Anstey, 31, is a fifth-grade teacher; Shapiro, 29, is a marketing director. Neither is affiliated with a religion, and “the major factor in our relationship is laughter,” Shapiro said.

Griffin flew in from Los Angeles for the wedding at the Queens County Farm Museum. She performed a 10-minute service that ranged from telling raunchy jokes to having the bride recite the reception menu, according to the Daily News.

“It’s so unusual and something we’ll always remember,” Shapiro said.

Viewers of Griffin’s reality show, “My Life on the D-List,” will be able to see the ceremony for themselves in June, when an episode involving the wedding is to air on Bravo.

Griffin said she was ordained online by the Universal Life Church and completed additional paperwork to meet New York State requirements. But she insisted her role in the wedding was a one-night-only performance.

Besides “D-List,” Griffin has appeared as an acerbic columnist on the NBC sitcom “Suddenly Susan” and as a guest host of the ABC talk show “The View.”

Before Kathy Griffin won a creative arts Emmy last weekend for her reality show, “My Life on the D-List,” she joked that an award would move her to the C-list.

She was right: “C” as in censored. The TV academy said her raucous acceptance speech will be edited when the event, which was taped, is shown Saturday on the E! channel. The main prime-time Emmy Awards air the next night on Fox.

“Kathy Griffin’s offensive remarks will not be part of the E! telecast on Saturday night,” the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said in a statement Monday.

In her speech, Griffin said that “a lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus.”

She went on to hold up her Emmy, make an off-color remark about Christ and proclaim, “This award is my god now!”

The comedian’s remarks were condemned Monday by Catholic League President Bill Donohue, who called them a “vulgar, in-your-face brand of hate speech.”

According to the TV academy and E!, when the four hour-plus ceremony is edited into a two-hour program, Griffin’s remarks will be shown in “an abbreviated version” in which some language may be bleeped.

The program was in production and unfinished, an E! spokeswoman said Monday.

Requests for comment were left Monday evening by phone and e-mail with Griffin’s publicist. They were not immediately returned.

The Catholic League, an anti-defamation group, called on the TV academy to “denounce Griffin’s obscene and blasphemous comment” at Sunday’s ceremony.

The academy said Monday it had no plans to address the issue in the prime-time broadcast.

The organization may have another delicate issue to consider, this one involving an off-color fake music video that aired last December on “Saturday Night Live” and won a creative arts Emmy for best song.

Andy Samberg of “SNL” said Saturday that he had yet to be asked by the TV academy to perform the tune with Timberlake on the Fox broadcast, but he was willing. Timberlake, on a concert tour, is scheduled to be in Los Angeles next weekend.

The subject of their “(Blank) in a Box” video: wrapping a certain part of the male anatomy and presenting it to a loved one as a holiday present.

The academy has said that “show elements are in the process of being worked out.”

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OUR condolences to Kathy Griffin. Our favorite comic lost her father, John Griffin, last Friday, but she has an amazing work ethic and is forging on and will still host the raucous GAYVN Awards – the Oscars of gay porn – in San Francisco Saturday night. Luckily, she’ll have plenty to work with, thanks to nominees with titles like “Big Rig,” “Booty Thief” and “Harassment at the Work Site.” John and Kathy’s mother, Maggie, were an integral part of Griffin’s act and appeared regularly on her Bravo show, “My Life on the D List.”

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