For some still unexplained reason, Kathy Griffin did not make it on her good friend, Jimmy Kimmel’s show last night. She had been promoting it all week and suddenly there is no evidence she was ever going to go there on her social media. Someone from her camp said that Kathy just happened to forget she had a scheduling conflict. That is complete bullshit. She was peeing herself all week that she finally got booked on two US talk shows this week for the first time since she was blackballed. It appears to me that someone in Kimmel’s camp forced him to pull her.
She also published the above on Instagram today which is apparently the new Gucci runway look. Really? Why do people buy this shit again? Where she claims she was ahead of her time with the whole beheading thing.
So tonight, Kathy appeared on Real Time With Bill Maher. There are quite a few political pundits appearing tonight as usual but Kathy will not be invited to that table, but is instead being interviewed solo. She says Bill Maher was one of the few people who supported her publicly while other people would share their support of her and tell her to please not mention it. Oddly Bill Maher was trashing Trump for the whole Stormy Daniels situation. I am sick to death of every time I check CNN to see if the nukes are coming our way to see instead crap about Trump and the porn star. Didn’t he have a relationship with a black woman in the porn industry? This is a slippery slope for him to cover since she brought some sort of nefarious lawsuit against him. Pot. Kettle.
So here comes Kathy. He introduces her as an Grammy winner, a two time Emmy winner, an actress and comedian who hold the record for most comedy specials ever and more importantly a good American who loves her country and should be able to work in it. Wow. I agree with all of that, except maybe the good part.
Kathy thanks Bill for publicly saying what happened to her was bullshit. He says, “It was bullshit.” Bill talks about how Kathy is a hard worker. She says one dick joke at a time. She’s never had a writer and she has done it all herself. He talks about her “really bad selfie.” She says imagine if you took a really distasteful photo and woke up the next day and the president was tweeting about it and you were getting death threats. She says it is not illegal. It’s covered by the first amendment. She was investigated by two separate government agencies for two months. Bill said he went through a similar scandal but she had it far worse because she literally had her livelihood taken away from her. He says his show kept going and he didn’t lose any ratings. Kathy said she was in the middle of a fifty venue tour and TMZ was posting her show cancellations in real time. She says this scared the theaters because now they are getting robocalls from troll farms saying “If I see that bitch onstage I’m going to cut her in the cunt, chop her head off and put her head up her cunt!” She says she doesn’t blame them because they weren’t used to this sort of attention either.
Kathy talks about being on the Interpol list for international criminals. That is just so fucking ridiculous, but true. She says when she was blackballed in the US she went to work overseas and she was detained in every single city. She said it was frightening because they scan your passport and then the guy at the Singapore airport gets these huge eyes and then she gets sent to a detention room She says that in LAX and London they took her phone.
Bill says, so I assume if you had to do it all over again, she would not have agreed to the photo. She shoots back, “I’d do Mike Pence!” and then reassures us all she is kidding. Kathy Griffin is back y’all. She says “Ten months I’ve waited to do that joke! Ten months!” I have to admire her moxie.
She talks about her current show and how when she talks about the interrogation procedures she went through you can hear a pin drop. Everyone is shocked. She says the Department of Justice threatened her every day for two days with a no knock warrant. She was like, “Do they want my Backstreet Boys CDS?” Seriously what smoking gun would they be looking for? I feel bad for her. So she had to negotiate an interrogation in her attorney’s office at great expense to avoid the paparazzi on some sort of a perp walk. They told her repeatedly she could leave in handcuffs. She says that is the administration we are living under and she really believes it could happen to any of us. Bill agrees that nothing was off the table.
He moves on to discuss her lost friendships. She says she is down to three gay guys and Bill but she hears he is fluid. She says she got canned from CNN and Don Junior went on to say that he didn’t just want to ruin her career, they want to decimate her. She says that was months after the photo. She says she is not decimated and shoots the double bird. Bill says that we need comedians. Kathy says we need political humor and people want to be mean to Donald Trump.
Kathy says she does have a small announcement of victory. She says she is dipping her toes into touring again. She’s booked a show at Carnegie Hall and The Kennedy Center.
Then Bill moves over to the table with the political grownups. It seems it has been made clear to them they are not to discuss Kathy Griffin. I think she did as well as could be expected.
I’m still waiting for the shoe to drop about what happened with Jimmy Kimmel.
UPDATED! I totally resized and watermarked this photo of Kathy’s recent Instagram last night and had some sort of brain fart and forgot to include it! I kept wondering why no one was discussing it!
Thoughts?
Maher may have had a relationship with a woman in the porn industry, but he is not the president.
He is not the president with religious supporters touting morality.
He is not the hypocrite who spend 8 years insulting Obama who haven’t done a centimetre of the daily things Trump is accused of.
I take it that you did not watch the show. Or know of his racist behaviors, But apparently you think that only the president can be held accountable for such things and people with TV shows and very similar behaviors should not be held to a similar standard.
Brava, TT.
Agree. people need to be held accountable too. Regarding women, there seems to be a mystery there and his opposition to religion or God seems almost hysterical not to mention arrogant (everyone who believes in God is low IQ dumb-*ss and to be contemned (according to Bill)) and he seems filled with rage. And one wonders what happens with that rage off camera. Also, he looked paralyzed and *issed when Kathy called him “fluid”. He literally could not respond for several seconds, instead of just laughing right away. Imho, it was noticeable. He really did not like the comment. Regarding Kathy, I was set to watch her on Kimmel on Thursday night and when she did not show up I was like “Whaaaaa?” A big mystery there. The loudest thing she said, for me, on Maher was what she did not say — no mention of Anderson Cooper her former “bestie” or Andy Cohen or her New Year’s Eve special, and seeming to blame others for her not being on CNN.
I’m really not sure why you think a private citizen having a relationship with someone is the same as the president who ran as a family values republican having an affair on his pregnant wife with a porn star are at the same level.
Is there proof of Trump and stripper or is it still all allegations?
Haaaaahaaa! Yes, only allegations! Fake news! No collusion!
She admitted to the relationship. His lawyer admitted to the payment to her for her silence. He didn’t get his money’s worth. Haha
No proof. His lawyer gave her $130,000 out of the goodness of his heart!
At the time of the magazine interview where she admitted the affair happened they had her and her husband take a lie detector test to prove they were telling the honest truth before they ran the story, they both passed the test…not lying, also she told friends what was going on at the time at the golf course, and they didn’t get paid to keep quiet and they are speaking out. So again not lying, people just don’t care what their president did/does or Will do.
I was being sarcastic Dear. Of course it’s the truth.
Ok, so TT said his “racial behaviorS” – so not just the porn star thing but his use of the N word and then a black woman being fired after bringing up his use of that word at a start-up where Bill was an investor. So… pot… kettle. And whatever Trump did (not excusing it) was pre-public office – just like Bill.
Omg..the ignorance.
Pot meet kettle… more like pot meet banana. Trump’s and Maher’s behavior are not remotely similar nor are their jobs.
Bill Maher is an entertainer and political commentater who made a bad, unscripted joke with the N word in it. He referred to himself as a “house n-word”. He didn’t call anyone else an N word. And he apologized. Bill has never been married and his relationships have been public knowledge. I’m not sure if he has dated an adult performer. But you know what? Even if he has, there’s nothing wrong with that.
Trump Is the President of the United States of America. His past affair (2006-07, he was married and his wife had just given birth) wouldn’t be relevant today if he had remained a private citizen and didn’t have the full support of the religious right as our president. And this is the definition of hypocrisy! His attorney has admitted to paying Ms. Clifford $130,000 shortly before the 2016 election to buy her silence. This is significant because a public revelation by Ms. Clifford may have changed the results of the election. And it may also be an illegal campaign contribution.
So pot, meet banana.
Jim: ❤️❤️❤️
yes.
Yes mama!
Well, Bill Maher is not married though. He’s a smarmy arsehole but I think that’s more the issue than her being a porn star (although that’s clearly said with such distaste by such “sex positive” liberals – it’s a woman’s choice rah rah rah until we want to use it as an insult).
Your President is an incompetent blowhard crook. Television shows are for entertainment. The damage this Nazi and his appointments will & are doing will destroy generations long after these old racists (Northern redness too) are dead & gone.
He is an ignorant ineffectual leader with minimal oratorical skills and limited Intelligence.
Look at all the rats jumping ship!!
Exactly Mimi. Maher can be a creep but Trump is a Nazi birther who is obviously not able to lead and has no control of himself. To compare your President to a talk show comedian makes absolutely no sense at all. Of course his porn star was Black…he Loves chocolate! Lol
HRC started birther.
Totally untrue. This has been written about by many reputable news outlets. There were rumors circulating about Obama’s birth during the primaries for the 2008 election that were likely started by Clinton supporters. However, Hillary and her campaign never gave those rumors any validation.
Thank you Jim.
I can’t believe they’re treating her like this for that POS. He has done and said worse about others, including President Obama and his wife. He’s disrepectful and doesn’t deserve respect.
Bill Maher has never been married and if he had a relationship with a porn actress he cannot be held to the same standard as a married man.
Yes I agree.
Not sorry she’s had a bad time and that it cost her a lot of money. Actions have consequences. Too bad she’s getting bookings again. Bet her new material will be all about her hard times and pandering for sympathy.
I used to sort of like her, in small doses.
Totally agree with this opinion.
I used to love KG, and watched her show on E!. Especially loved her Mom, RIP.
With that said, she knew there would be a backlash for the planned severed head stunt and still did it No sympathy for her loss of work, it was calculated stunt that backfired. Can you imagine if a ‘guardian’s that did not she wuth Obama had done that stunt?? No one would bat an eye that THAT person was ostracized–and rightfully do. Can’t have it both ways.
Comedian not guardian.
Her mom isn’t dead.
Her mom Is still alive …it was her sister that passed.
Aa far as I know, Kathy’s mom, Maggie is still alive and putting down boxes of wine.
Tip it!
Are you thinking of Melissa Rivers?
That’s right! Fuck Freedom of Speech! Hell, fuck the whole Constitution and Bill of Rights while you’re at it!
Sliceo’Shit, i made you mad, hunh? Too bad.
Cunt.
She’s not getting any pity party from me. Deserves everything she got.
You’re absolutely right, of course. While we’re at it, we should string her up-let her twist and hang.That’d probably be more satisfying for you.
Bloody Idiot.
Not really a fan of her comedy, but i didn’t care about the photo. It was in poor taste, but you think the consequences for a photo like that should be this? Should be the secret service turning your life upside down and putting you on INTERPOL? Losing all your work and being blackballed and having that neanderthal, don jr. say they want to “annihilate” you?
A tad bit out of balance, no?
I love how trump says outrageous, vicious, vile, disgusting, UNTRUE things 24.7 on twitter, attacking anyone he pleases with NO consequences, but the minute someone does something back they need to be raked over the coals.
I don’t think she should’ve done it, but the irony of his inability to take what he dishes out is typical.
Why would Kathy post that godawful photo of her in the blue dress. – she looks like the bride of Nosferatu. I think she’s a really pretty lady and that doesn’t do her any justice at all.
I’m glad she’s going back on tour and think she was treated horribly for what she did. She’s absolutely right that the First Amendment gives her the right to free expression of speech, but the beheading photo wasn’t well thought out, especially given the backlash this government is capable of and the reactions of Trump’s most rabid fans. There are a lot of us who were horrified, and still are, that Trump became our President, but a picture showing the President of the United States being beheaded was, to say the least, unwise. Still, it was in no way deserving of what she ended up going through.
I hope her comeback concerts are a success, but that she reins herself in just a little bit. She doesn’t need to be caustic or strident as she goes forward – she’s a naturally funny lady and she has nothing to prove.
I honestly want people like her to be out there without reigning herself in. Women have to be caustic and strident. If they have to be blacklisted so be it. If they end up blacklisted so be it. If people like her weren’t pushing the boundaries, we wouldn’t even have this site to comment on.
Totally agree with you both English rose & pagan chick!
Her shows are very funny. Some people just weren’t lucky enough to be born with a sense of humor. Poor them
Yes, we enjoy freedom of speech in this country but there are limits too. One of the limits is that one cannot make a threat on the life of the President without receiving a visit from the Secret Service. And even then, she was investiated by the SS and DOJ and let go – She was not “disappeared” for doing so, (If anyone if not sure that she “got off easy”, they should try a similar stunt in North Korea and see how long they enjoy their freedom after that).
Regardless of whether it’s a comedian, it is important to investigate all threats against the President as deterrent to others doing so. Whether you like the guy or not, he does et a bit of “special treatment” in this regard.
As for Kathy’s livelihood, every business has to protect their brand to a certain extent. If entities cancelled her shows or chose not to hire her, it was because they decided that the potential damage to their brands through association with her was a greater cost than the benefit of hiring her. Again, these kinds of decisions are made every day by businesses. She made a choice and she received the consequences of that choice. Was the treatment she received fair? Perhaps not, but entertainers serve at the pleasure of the public, which has nothing to do with free speech.
When did she make a threat on his life? Get a grip, it was an art piece. Literally nobody ever believed she wanted to harm Trump.
Oddly enough, the Secret Service has a pretty low threshold for what they consider a threat against a president. Apparently, even an art piece of someone holding a president’s severed head crosses that threshold. Perhaps you should tell them to get a grip, as I’m sure they would be ever so grateful for your input.
The Secret Service wasn’t acting with autonomy.
Trump, and the rest of his unqualified family who are personally and financially benefiting from their unethical positions in office, egged them on to “destroy” her.
That’s hilarious to me you’re comparing the US to North Korea – of course we come out looking bright and shiny compared to a dictatorship with a starved and malnourished population – a dictatorship that Trump admires and will emulate any chance he gets.
I’m glad someone else caught that ridiculous comparison. Wtf?
Threat on a President’s life? Seriously? Was her message that she was going to come over to the white house and cut his head off? Please!
Just because it isn’t as bad as North Korea doesn’t mean that there wasn’t an inappropriate level of investigation done by the Trump administration/Secret Service. (I’m not saying there WAS, but I’m willing to entertain the possibility).
Seriously, North Korea should NOT be the litmus test for whether or not our government is behaving inappropriately.
I honestly just wish she would ease on into oblivion. I don’t really care one way or the other about her, but honestly, she has little to no talent. Sensationalizing life to the point of abject grossness is not clever humor, it is just as she put it, complete bullshit. She is a cheap comic, going for the baseline, cheapest laugh. Not a talent, not someone even wasting time over. Besides the crap move she made in regard to Trump, she has had many more low end, cheap shots at society at large. Just melt away, you honestly have not added to society in any positive way. And, I do love bawdy humor, just not hers.
DAYUM!
That’s an awful lot of feelings about someone that you “really don’t care one way or the other about”.
What Kathy did was shocking but i dont believe that she ever deserved all the hate that’s being spewed at her.
Have you ever watched her show? All she does is spew hate and contempt at A-list celebrities….
Spews hate? You get that from her comedy? She roasts and jabs deserving ridiculous celebrities with humor. I don’t believe she hates any of them. She does, however, hate trump. And I don’t blame her for that AT ALL.
I’ve seen her several times in concert. She was fantastic. Topical but also irrelevant-most of her stabs were at people who take themselves/ life too seriously.
You would probably relate to the later.
Bwaahahahaha! Slice, you’re awesome. That was a Kathy worthy comeback. In her prime.
I think she was great! I didn’t expect her to be there for the entire show since she’s testing the waters here. I could give pages about why what happened to her was horrific. I’m so happy she’s well on her way back. Thank you for covering this, TT!
Im with you NancyPants.
On Real Time they don’t usually have entertainers on the regular panel. They reserve those seats for politicians, activists, reporters and commentators. If they do have an entertainer on the panel, that person is usually very politically active. Comedians and actors usually sit with Bill for the last 20 minutes or so after a short one-on-one interview.
I’m just glad that someone is giving her another chance, even if it is Bill Maher (douche bag extraordinaire). If you’ve seen even a quarter of the crap that racists posted about Obama, nothing she did should have caused people to clutch their pearls.
She definitely didn’t deserve to be left out there with no friends. I don’t think I will ever look at Anderson Cooper again. It was bad enough that he was an Andy friend.
I completely agree. I used to LOVE Anderson and I was given VIP tickets to his show when it was on. He chose Andy, who is ickier every day, over Kathy. Although it was Kathy who formally ended their friendship, he wasn’t there for her.
Kathy initially apologised for the joke and now wants us to feel bad for her ?
I think if Kathy was consistent in her stance on the joke, people would have moved on a while ago.
The fact she is on an INTERPOL list is outrageous, Kathy was never formally charged or convicted of any criminal offences. Why doesn’t she sue the US government if that is true ? Can they do that ?
Threatening a US President puts you on the FBI watch list. Being on the FBI watch lists puts you on the Interpol list. I doubt these databases have comment fields that say, never mind, it was just a joke. If you’re on the list, you’re on the list, and this is the treatment you get.
I know of a case where someone thought it would be funny to say that a school travel group was bringing drugs into the country. Thought the travelers would get a little bit hassled, a little strip search. Both Scotland Yard and the FBI got involved. The person was prosecuted in Federal court. There are some jokes you just aren’t allowed to tell.
Kimmel prob was concerned about losing advertisers so they dropped her.
Off Topic- TT did you see that Tori Spellingand fam had a police escort out of a diner ? 3rd time police called within 2 weeks -your take on this?
TT, I’m interested in your opinion on this too. Any additional tea?
Dean is gaslighting her. He’s setting himself up for sole child custody and monthly checks.
Interesting point I never thought of. Makes sense. Get the kids, lose Tori and have the kid’s Grandma write him a monthly check for the next several years until the last kid turns 18. Deviously effective plan.
He’s playing a long game. Just like Yolanda did on David foster.
Like Kevin Federline (that his name?) and Britney Spears. 20,000 grand a month, on which he is supporting several other children besides his and Britney’s.
Kathy’s “ban’ probably had more to do with her crazy rant against Seacrest and Anderson Cooper after she was replaced on New Year’s. Good strategy to rail against all things Trump to get back in good graces. I remember seeing her go after Seacrest and think she is done now. She was never popular with the right, so biting the hand that feeds Hollywood was suicide.
Seacrest is getting his comeuppance right now. He’s getting a little taste of what it feels like to be ostracized.
Well, if I can’t say anything nice about Kathy ,I won’t say anything .
Anna, “actions have consequences”? Oh, please. Rich and powerful people, especially if they are men have gotten away with their “actions” with no “consequences” since the beginning of time.
The irony in some of these opinions is palpable.
On the bright side, she didn’t write a novel about it.
Yes her show will be about all she has experienced!! Why shouldn’t it be? We NEED comedians to hold a mirror up to people in the public eye and our constitution protects her as it should. What’s the saying? “I don’t agree with your opinion but I will fight to the death for your right to express it”. The photo didn’t bother me at all-but I cannot stomach Prez Cheeto. Both my parents are WWII veterans and my father taught me that quote-he was at liberation of Dauchua (sp). and saw first hand where the suppression of free speech can take you. In ancient court days the comics could insult the royalty because it was couched in humor. Shakespeare. I would totally pay to see her new show!
Wonder what Daniel Pearl’s family thinks of her stunt? It was two-fold. Disrespecting our president and making a joke of beheadings. Funny – NOT!
I’ll consider showing a modicum of respect to this “president” when he begins showing one iota of respect for the office itself and for anyone else.
When I saw that picture I immediately thought of Daniel Pearl’s family and any other person who were murdered by ISIL in that fashion. The dispect of their memory in using that kind of picture took my breath away. Did it never cross Kathy’s mind how those families would feel????
Maybe in the moment, it did not, but I’m sure her intent was not to hurt a grieving family. Who of us has never done something they realized afterwards was insensitive or offensive to a party we hadn’t even though of? You apologize, but you shouldn’t lose your career and livelihood because of it.
She was probably just thinking of trump’s reaction and clearly underestimated what a huge deal would be made of it.
while I am not a comedian on the international stage, I have definitely made errors in judgment before and hurt feelings in the process, but nobody tried to destroy me over it.
I kept wondering why you guys weren’t mentioning the GUCCI RUNWAY SHOW PHOTO AT ALL.
Then I realized I forgot to include it last night!
I’ve added it now.
Wow. Just wow. Did anyone mention the Gucci runway photo or fashion show? Interesting. TT, thanks for updating the post with the picture.
REally bizarre and kind of tasteless. I don’t get the symbolism of it at all. But for Kathy to imply that it is the same as her pictures is a big disengenious. The heads are not bloody, and they are not someone else. The models are clearly carrying their own heads. (Did they just pull them out of their own asses?)
Kathy Griffin is not my taste but she got an unfair deal. She didn’t even create the art, she starred in it. Did anyone think she was threatening the President? That picture of s a very harsh viewpoint. It was inappropriate (in the same way any murder is inappropriate) but I never thought she would be stalking Trump with an ax.
Ithink Snoop Dog did threaten to kill the president but he wasnt the subject of an investigation. He’s not having his feet held to the fire, he didn’t look se his career. He was written off as an old, weed smoking hip hop star. He didn’t lose his Livelihood.
The Dixie Chicks suffered a similar fate when they said they were ashamed that George Bush is from TX. Does that seem like trason? I find Dennis Rodman going to meet Kim Jong Un to make me think treason yet he is still free to run around.
It’s time we move on. She can perform, can ignore her as I have in the past. She has her audience let hergo forward.
I am reminded that Sinead O’Conner was completely ostracized when she took scissors to a photo of the Pope. It was her statement about birth control and abortion for the poorest Catholics who felt trapped. She had no plan to hurt the Pope.
Can we stop going after women and destroying their lives?
I think Sinead ripped up the picture of the pope because of the scandal within the church and priests were being protected. “Fight the real enemy” if I’m not mistaken, is what she said. It had less to do with abortion and more to do with sexual abuse and the cover up.
COUld be, she was very abused as a child and sensitive to that. I saw an interview with her recently when she mentioned the a use of women by the Catholic church, mentioned ripping the picture and noted that he had the power to stop women having to give birth over and over giving momentum to the cycle of piverty an cycle she f abuse. She is an intelligent and very Christan woman with a wonderful voice. I hate that her demons take over from time to time.
Kathy holds a special place in my heart because her marathon was on the night of 17 March 2011 & my husband had died that morning. My daughter, granddaughter & I watched all her shows while eating English muffin pizzas & we got through that night together deliberating laughing instead of crying. That said, my two beefs with Kathy are (1) hanging out with that walking disaster Tyler Shields, who does good for no woman, & (2) misuse of that beautifully precise & so often misused word “decimate,”. which means to decrease by 10%. (Yes, I understand word meanings change, & this word has now been misused so many times that it has now probably come to mean destroyed, at least in the vernacular, but it still irks the daylights out of me when I hear it used that way.) BTW, Maher did lose his network show right after 9/11 for his remark about the hijackers not being cowards.
Isn’t it funny how those type of grieving and shock situations can influence your thinking about a person or a moment if time, or an object? Peace and blessings to you!
I went through something similar and watched a RHBH marathon the day my husband passed. I had never watched one before. Thus started my addiction to these reality shows which I now watch with guilty shame sometimes but can’t quite give up yet because it reminds me of that terrible day when that stupid marathon of women fighting got me through the first 24 hours.
Oh Miz, I TOTALLY understand.
My grandmother lived with us (along with my grandfather) when she got cancer. I’m an only child, and my folks were the only “kids” who were in the same town as their parents so a lot of the caretaking got put on their shoulders.
It was my 8th and 9th grade years when she got the diagnosis and went through chemo – this was the mid 80s when the Cosby Show was so hot that NBC stood for Network of Bill Cosby. Someone got my folks and I tickets to his comedy show when he came to our area – a moment of pure laughter for us when we weren’t laughing a lot. The fact that his comedy made both my parents and I laugh at the same time was proof of his brilliance.
I also know that my grandmother died on a Thursday because of Bill Cosby. We got the call from the hospital (she was there for a week b/c she got the flu during chemo) that she had passed. I remember crying with my grandfather, and then the two of us sitting on the couch crying and laughing, holding hands and watching The Cosby Show (I even remember that it was the episode where Theo and Cockroach were studying Shakespeare and rapped about it).
This may sound strange to anyone else but I am guessing you would understand – part of my anger and disgust about what Cosby did is because of how he is intertwined in my heart and mind around my grandmother’s illness and death, and was part of the “sweet” of bittersweetness of her passing and the end of her suffering. It made the comfort we got from him somehow dirty and ugly, and I hate him a little extra for that.
SO NO ONE IS GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE PICTURE I ADDED TODAY AT THE END?
REALLY?
SERIOUSLY?
I just saw the Gucci Photo posting here and it actually came across my FB stream the other day. And I thought, after viewing it, how much lower and more decadent and depraved are fashion shows going to go? Of course the difference (from Kathy’s photo) is that the models are holding their own heads (not a designer’s or a designer’s patron’s head), so maybe it is a parody on our corrupt materialist society where many people are exploited and are forced to go to their exploiter-masters “with their heads in their hands”? To the societal one percenters who attend these fashion shows and buy this crap? Because almost everything on the runway lately looks like mismatched rags that the dog chewed.
I guess there was no backlash about the Gucci show? I ‘m glad you posted the photo. So I bet Gucci won’t have problems going through security at the airport.
Gucci won’t have problems at the airport because there are no Guccis at Gucci, lol. And the models aren’t holding the heads of world leaders so I don’t see how this can be seen as a threat to anyone. It’s provocative but mostly it’s just silly.
Thanks Jim, I didn’t know there were no Gucci’s at Gucci! You learn something new everyday!
It’s creepy and disgusting but I get her point
I will talk about the Gucci photo, I think it’s about as much of a stretch as you can get without snapping to say that she was the muse for the show, but this is typical KG humor and I’m glad to see she hasn’t stopped seeing the funny side.
I was sad to see she wasn’t on Kimmel, I pulled it up on Hulu yesterday morning and wondered what happened.
Jen,
You are my favorite poster of the day. I didn’t expect nearly this many comments on a post I thought was much ado about nothing.
But when I saw that INSTAGRAM post, I thought to myself, “Well NOW I have a controversial thing to discuss!” THIS POST WILL HAVE PEOPLE TALKING FOR DAYS.
I very rarely view my actual site, which I know sounds weird but I see all the comments and respond without watching most of the time. Part of that is because my weird insertion of homophones and just flat out wrong words irks me and makes me afraid my brain is rotting. But after all the comments I started to realize MAYBE I FORGOT TO POST THE PHOTO.
Le sigh. And if like me you read all the comments, you know that most people do not which is why I get 973 comment that say you said read when you meant red or whatever… LE SIGH.
About the Gucci runway pics, if you hadn’t included them with the Kathy Griffin recap and Kathy’s tweet, my first thoughts at seeing them would have had nothing to do with Kathy Griffin.
Each model carried a replica of his/her own head, not each other’s head.
The heads weren’t covered with (fake) blood.
The heads were cradled, not dangled by a clump of hair.
I’m in awe at how close each replica matches the model. Very cool.
I’ve always been a Kathy fan despite our difference in politics. She is funny. She is raw. And she is honest. Honestly crazy, but endearing too.
I like Kathy. I am so glad she is coming back, if only in baby steps. She should thank her lucky stars that she is getting what she’s getting. It could have been worse like the Dixie chicks. I still saw them in concert several years later and the radios and Tv said no one was showing up to their concerts. Our arena was full, but radio was to scared to piss people off. Any way I’m glad Kathy is back.
TT, you like Project Runway so I know you like fashion. This Gucci Show was incredible. It was art. Have you seen the slide show from the whole thing? I’ll send you a link if you like.
When you initially wrote a post a week or so ago about Kathy, I wrote a response – then the cat walked across the keyboard and I lost it all. So some of this is a part of that.
I also want to thank you for the recap of her appearance on Bill Maher. I refuse to watch that piece of shit and contribute to his ratings. Oh, I also think that her appearance on Jimmy Kimmel was simply preempted by the fact that they had the opportunity to get an Oscar winner to appear – and Kobe to boot. I thought it strange timing (her appearance that is) anyway, considering JK just hosted the Oscars and it seemed like his show should be chock full of winners and beloved nominees.
Background – I have been a serious Kathy follower and fan for a LONG time. I was part of her message boards back when her website had such a thing. I STILL have online friends from there, and some of us have even met in person. Some of us were even message board monitor volunteers. This was probably a bit before Life on the D-LIst premiered on Bravo if I recall correctly. On my old iTunes account I have all of her comedy specials on audio, and went by myself to see her live in Vegas when she was suddenly filling in for someone at the Mirage when I was there on vacation. A real highlight for me, and one of my favorite Vegas experiences.
I also remember first watching Anderson Cooper on Channel One, when I was a teacher and he still had some dark hair (Lisa Ling was his partner!). His dedication to his career was obviously important to him, and he was amazing even then on some of his stories.
So here is the thing…. the image she helped create and participated in was disgusting and disrespectful to the OFFICE of the Presidency. I would be a complete and total hypocrite if I didn’t call her out on that, as I did when the fucking racist assholes created images of hanging President Obama in effigy, etc. A comic’s job is the dance along the edge, to walk a line, to show us where we are going wrong – and Kathy made a serious mistake in completely crossing that line. Hell, she jumped over it. The “it is art” excuse doesn’t wash with me any more than the “Hey I was joking” coming from a white dude getting caught using the N word and suggesting we lynch a person of color, or suggesting a woman deserved a beating because she was unladylike. Some of the asshats are right – if we objected to the Obama pictures depicting his torture and death, we should object to the depiction of Trump’s torture and death.
For as long as I’ve followed her, Kathy has proclaimed pride in being an outlier in Hollywood, and in making them uncomfortable at times. So, having said that – she can’t really be upset when they didn’t rise to her defense.
I mention watching Anderson at the beginning of his career b/c if he HADN’T released a statement against that image – he would be putting his career as a journalist at risk. He also could have been and probably was legitimately disgusted by the image. Again, I certainly was considering it IS a method of torture and death from ISIS, etc.
Jeff Lewis spoke about her on his radio show (on Radio Andy) when she was going on YouTube with her rants. I was STUNNED… Jeff is not the most sympathetic person as we all know, and he expressed great concern about her. He did not blame Andy or Anderson (totally got what Andy was trying to do to deflect the paparazzi, etc.).
He said that FO and D-List were on at the same time, and that he had met Kathy years ago because they both were hard workers who would show up to events to promote the network and their shows. He thought she was funny and lovely and kind. But he also had watched her YouTube meltdowns and was VERY concerned. He was upset that no one in her household could or would take the microphone and computer away from her, and tell her enough… that clearly she was having some sort of emotional episode tied with the death of her sister and the Trump situation and needed to take a time out for her own well being. He said Jenny and Gage would never let him get away with making it so public. He was genuinely upset/concerned for her at that moment.
So, I guess ultimately I’m Team Jeff in this. Don’t hate Kathy, don’t blame Anderson and Andy. I feel like Kathy might have resolved some of her issues and, hopefully, is ready to be funny again. I wish she hadn’t rescinded her apology, but don’t think that deserves death threats or the loss of her livelihood.
Men looooove to punish women. Did the photographer get the hate that Kathy did? No. Anyone who thinks that Kathy deserved what she got should go rot. You really want to be in a country that totally fucks with your life because you insulted some idiot snowflake?
I probably need to go sit in the window licking section for a bit.
“Probably?” You are a ranting, crazy, venomous twat. Make it permanent.
Eeeeewwww! Nasty, Anna!
Silly me, I didn’t think there would be such a fight about this. Didn’t we just have a whole #MeToo thing, and national women’s day, and a whole bunch of other kumbyah hand holding crap about women supporting women? And yet there are women here who think that Kathy’s punishment fits the crime? It’s insane to me that she can’t get work because idiots call in death threats to the venues. It’s insane to me that she is on the Interpol list. It’s like using an AR-17 to kill a fly rather than swatting it with a fly swatter or opening a window and letting it fly out.
It’s amazingly batshit, isn’t it? Also, I smell kitty litter.