So I happen to really love Kathy Griffin.
Look, it’s not just a redhead solidarity thing, okay? There’s a good reason why I find her, her plastic surgery, her bad haircut and eight pounds of extensions, and her crass non-humorous humor delightful, and it’s a good reason. And that reason? Is because I’m a girl.
I don’t know what it is, exactly, about Kathy Griffin that makes her so unappealing to men (well, the stereotypically straight ones, anyways). Maybe it’s the gossip-mongering. Maybe it’s the campy in-jokes. But whatever it is, I can watch her stand-up for hours, but my brother takes one look at her face on-screen and runs up to his room like a bat out of hell.
I personally don’t know what there is not to love. She’s crass, bold, and totally crazy. She tells Jesus to suck it on national television after winning an Emmy! She hits on Anderson Cooper on-air! Who doesn’t want to hit shamelessly on Anderson Cooper on-air?
Wait, I may have touched on something there.
I guess the truth is, guys really don’t really share the yearning I have always have for the gossip-mongering friend they never had in high school because they were too nerdy for that. But man, I always wanted one. I did. I yearned. Instead, I had to do the hard work of watching people’s facebooks and utilizing the fact that people forget that just because you’re not cool, doesn’t mean you can’t hear them when they talk. I had to do the hard work, people, so is it so crazy that now I want someone to do all that eavesdropping for me? Is it really?
So I was pretty excited when I heard she’d have a new special on Bravo, “She’ll Cut A Bitch.” I needed my Kathy fix, you guys, because without her, using the phrase “holy fuckballs” just isn’t as much fun. And this special certainly delivered the Kathy I’d been missing.
In her hour-long special, Kathy more than delivered, be it in the form of partying on her birthday with Cher (because she, like me, has been a gay man her entire life), or life with her mother Maggie and her ubiquitous box of wine. I spent the entire hour laughing and learning about James Gandolfini, hair and makeup gays, and adding new phrases like “totally queening out” to my lexicon.
Was she frivolous? Yes. I probably should have spent that hour watching the Discovery Channel and learning about, I don’t know, the hanging coffins in China. But I didn’t, alright? Instead I listened to her imitation of Tracy Morgan and you know what? I feel spiritually richer for it. And if you’ve got a problem with it, you can suck it. After all, if anything, Kathy taught me I should strive to be more like Cher and Oprah, and they aren’t afraid to cut a bitch.
Clacked by Julia Hass
on Apr 22, 2009 @ 16:00 EST5EDT
I watched it too and loved it! I am totally with you on the reasons behind my love of her. (Can you be more nerdy than the Drama Club president and Honor Society VP?)
She says what everybody else is thinking and too afraid to say out loud or on tour/TV. She was right though – her Cher impersonation is not that great, but I still loved it. “Re-gift? I’m Cher!”
BTW – My new motto is TIP IT!
I watched all episodes of “My life on the D-List” and my problem started when Woz entered the stage.
Sorry but from a certain point on you simply notice that it’s all show, that too much is staged and that you should really focus on Kathy’s stand-up routines, a couple of guest appearances and leave the reality show alone. Otherwise you’ll get fed up with her pretty quickly. She’s as fake as her extensions and while I understand that this is her way to make a living, I simply don’t like it. Anymore.
Just like American Chopper but that’s mostly due to Codie and Winnie leaving. But that’s another story :-)
Oh and happy first posting Julia :-)
She makes me laugh uncontrollably when she does stand-up but I can’t stand her when she does anything else. Hosting something, interviewing someone, “My Life on the D-List,” any of it. Makes me want to rip her stupid hair out. But her stand-up is side-splitting humor, and for that fact, I forgive the other things.