Does she even need an introduction? Kathy Griffin will be on Bravo and you know she won’t hold back! Her standup special, Gurrl Down, is on June 22 @ 9P ET/PT, here are some sneak peeks to whet your appetite:
Kathy Griffin Stand up Special on BRAVO
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Jun 192011
Mar 072011
The public clash between conservative political superstar Sarah Palin and self-described “D-List” comedian Kathy Griffin gained momentum in recent days, with each taking verbal jabs at the other.
After Palin, a former Alaska governor and one-time Republican vice presidential candidate, called Griffin a “bully” over the weekend, the comedian’s publicist made a dig at Palin by highlighting her starring role on last year’s TV show “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” rather than her political resume.
“As a fellow reality star, Kathy would like to extend free tickets to her upcoming Broadway show to reality star Sarah Palin and her reality TV crew,” the publicist told ABC News in an article posted online on Monday.
“Kathy supports all reality stars regardless of what they say about her,” the spokeswoman said.
Griffin’s reality show airs on cable TV network Bravo and is called “Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List,” a joke about her life on the fringes of fame.
Griffin’s publicist did not return calls about Palin.
The feud between the two women goes back months.
Aside from joking about Palin, Griffin has also made fun of the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate’s daughter Bristol, 20, for gaining weight on TV show “Dancing with the Stars,” and she slammed Palin’s other daughter Willow, 16, for anti-gay slurs the teen made on the website Facebook.
The feud picked up again this past Saturday when Palin, a politician-turned-pundit, appeared on Fox News and, in response to an anchor’s question, blasted Griffin.
“She’s a 50 year-old, adult bully, really, is what she is, kind of a has been comedienne, and she can (make jokes about) me, I would just ask for respect to my children,” Palin said.
Palin has broadly hinted she could run for president in 2012. Her feud with Griffin gives no sign of letting up, because the comedian is slated to appear on the hit Fox musical comedy show “Glee,” as a Palin-like Tea Party character.
Kathy Griffin Vows There Will Be More Cursing Again On This Year’s NYE Appearance
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Dec 312010
Kathy Griffin is refusing to tone down her bad language for an upcoming New Year’s Eve TV appearance, insisting she is prepared to be pulled off air and fired rather than compromise her act.
The funnywoman ended 2009 on a low after she was forced to hand back her paycheck for swearing on air while presenting CNN’s New Year’s Eve Special with Anderson Cooper.
She has been given a chance to redeem herself on the 2010 show on Friday night, but Griffin is adamant she can’t be tamed by the TV network’s long list of rules and regulations.
She tells the Hollywood Reporter, “There’s no regret (about last year’s show) I only want to go further. This year in my contract, in addition to the stipulation that I have to give my money back if I swear, they also say they are just going to literally pull me (off air). I have a list of words I should have looked at in my contract, but I didn’t. I don’t think it’s changed much since the George Carlin routine. I haven’t technically read it. I don’t consider it to be binding, I’m an artist.
“If CNN dares to pull me live, I’ll be walking right over to New Year’s Rockin’ Eve to give Dick Clark a lap dance. It’s up to you America.”
And Griffin jokes that if she gets too cold during the outdoor broadcast in New York, she might just utter a curse so she can go inside and warm up, adding: “It’s really cold on the riser… Sometimes in commercial breaks I just cry and Anderson rocks me. I might get fired just to keep myself warm this year.”
Dec 062010
Bristol Palin is taking on her third celebrity feud of the week, lashing out at Kathy Griffin after previously battling Keith Olbermann and Margaret Cho.
In a statement released Monday, Palin blasted Griffin for a joke the comedian made on Sunday night while hosting the “VH1 Divas Sault the Troops” broadcast in honor of the U.S. military.
Griffin, known for her crass humor, turned the show into a raunch-fest, spending the bulk of the evening in a camouflage bikini cracking lewd jokes.
Though her routine drew some laughs, she was roundly booed for a crack she mad about Palin’s body.
Calling her “the white Precious,” Griffin said Palin was “the only contestant in the history of ‘Dancing with the Stars’ to gain weight on the show.
The analogy was clearly deemed offensive by many in the crowd. Precious, a character played in the 2009 Oscar-nominated film by Gabourey Sidibe, was an obese teenager who was repeatedly sexually abused by her father.
In response, Palin issued a statement on Monday slamming Griffin for the comment.
“The audience’s reaction to this ‘comedian’ spoke volumes, and the decent people I know would probably have booed her, too,” Palin told Fox News. “I hope people didn’t have to pay money to hear her negativity and criticisms.”
According to PopEater’s Rob Shuter, VH1 producers considered removing Griffin’s joke from the broadcast, which was taped on Friday night.
“There was talk at VH1 about editing out the joke and the reaction to it but in the end we decided to leave it in,” a network source told Shuter. “It made the event feel live and Kathy is a big girl. It’s not the first time one of her jokes have failed.”
VH1 and a rep for Griffin have stayed mum on the topic so far, declining to comment on the incident when asked to respond by Fox.
On Friday, Palin wrote a lengthy Facebook post aimed at MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, criticizing him for naming her the “worst person in the world” for advocating abstinence.
Palin also lashed out at ex-DWTS competitor Cho in a post on Saturday, complaining the comedian’s suggestion that she was forced on the ABC show by her mother was a lie.
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Apr 162010
Outrageous comedienne Kathy Griffin is set to test the limits of decency on TV again by televising a pap smear.
The redhead is making the intimate cancer check a public viewing event at the Palomar Hotel in Los Angeles on Friday – and she’ll be filming it for her My Life On The D-List reality TV series.
She tells Eonline.com, “We tried to do it in a somewhat classy fashion… but no legitimate news place would let us do it in an even somewhat serious way. So I said, ‘Screw it! They can’t stop me from doing a pap smear on my own show.’
“You will not be seeing the actual part of the hoo-ha (vagina) where the speculum will be going, because I don’t want to have people vomiting… and I don’t want to turn off my gays, so that’s why I went and got ‘vajazzled’, so now I have a row of crystals between my navel and my hoo-ha.”
Griffin hopes the televised exam will prompt other women to take better care of their health: “I started talking to girlfriends of mine, my age and younger, and I just can’t believe how many women are afraid to get a pap smear or they forget or they’ve gone 10 years without doing one.
“The message is, if you see me doing something so outrageous – some may say repulsive – that should make it easier for you to pick up the phone and call your doctor and go get one in the privacy of your own doctor’s office.”
Kathy Griffin takes aim at Sarah Palin
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Mar 062010
Comedian Kathy Griffin has brought her “Life on the D-List” show to Sarah Palin’s home state, skewering the former Alaska governor at a raucous show in Anchorage.
Griffin was escorted on stage on Friday by Playgirl model Levi Johnston, who fathered a child with Palin’s oldest daughter and is involved in a child support battle with Bristol Palin.
Griffin said she spent a day ice fishing with Johnston in Wasilla, and was surprised when 19-year-old Levi’s friend brought along a camera – but only to photograph the fish they caught.
Griffin helped Johnston’s celebrity star to rise, taking the aspiring actor to an awards show last year as her date. While in Wasilla, Griffin said she also went to Palin’s home. There she left a note, inviting Palin to Friday’s performance.
She asked the crowd to look around and see if anyone was doing a pageant wave.
Griffin said John McCain picked Palin to be his running mate on the Republican ticket after “talking to her for 10 minutes.”
Of Palin’s monologue this week on “The Tonight Show,” Griffin only promised the audience she would never try to be a mayor.
Griffin also claimed Palin is a “gift that keeps on giving.”
Griffin welcomed news that Palin is trying to shop a reality show or docudrama about Alaska. She called that a “gift from God.”
Griffin is in Anchorage to coincide with Saturday’s start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. She was to have attended several events leading up to the race, including the musher’s banquet and made many jokes about the annual Trappers and Miners Ball.
Jan 022010
For the second straight year, comedian Kathy Griffin ushered in the new year by saying something vulgar on CNN.
During the network’s live New Year’s Eve broadcast from Times Square, Griffin was joking with co-host Anderson Cooper about how to pronounce the first name of “balloon boy” Falcon Heene when she mumbled something that sounded a little like “Falcon” and a lot like the F-word.
Cooper hung his head, shook it and said “You’re terrible,” before resuming his banter.
The network said in a statement Friday that it “regrets that profanity was used during our New Year’s Eve coverage.”
During the same show a year ago, Griffin gleefully shouted at a heckler in the crowd and made a joke implying that the man performed gay sex acts for a living.
In a statement released by her publicist Friday, Griffin made light of the “balloon boy” joke: “Like every other serious reporter covering the now infamous balloon boy hoax, I struggled to pronounce his name ‘Falcon’ correctly and have gotten a kick out of how many ways I’ve heard it pronounced by other serious reporters. Just add me to that list and happy new year!”
Asked whether Griffin would be invited back next year, CNN spokeswoman Shimrit Sheetrit said planning for the 2011 celebration hadn’t yet begun.
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Exclusive: Kathy Griffin “Rob Pattinson looks like he has about three weeks to live”
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Sep 222009
In an exclusive chat with Celebuzz on the Emmy Awards red carpet, Kathy Griffin revealed that she’d rather hook up with Robert Pattinson sooner than later, she says, because “he looks like he has about three weeks to live.”
Griffin, a fave fiery-tressed comedienne, assessed the New Moon star’s health. Asked to choose between Pattinson and fellow New Moon hunk Taylor Lautner, she said she’d prefer Rpattz because “he looks like he’s about to die anyway so I’ve got to grab him and f*** him while I can.”
See the full interview with Kathy talking about Pattinson here:
http://www.celebuzz.com/video-kathy-griffin-crushes-rpattz-s136411/
