Kathy Griffin: My Life as a Douche
There’s something funny about titling your show “My Life on the ‘D’-List,” isn’t there? Not really. Fitting for a show that really has nothing funny or original about it. I needed a break from some papers I was writing tonight and I turned on the television. I had heard about the show (and by heard about the show I mean not heard about the show) so I thought that I’d watch it (and by so I thought that I’d watch it I mean check and see if the “Bobby Brown – Make an Ass out of Myself While Furthering Negative Black Stereotypes Show” was on).
I got into it about half way through, but within the first minute of viewing I knew what my new goal was. No longer was I going to be watching TV in order to relax, no, this time it was personal. I didn’t mind her on Suddenly Susan, or the other thing she was on with the person and the stuff (wtf else WAS she on?). I decided that if she was going to waste fifteen minutes of my life, I would make sure no one else made the same mistake.
After being on the Jay Leno Show (I guess?…This is when I began watching): “I’m not the ugly girl at the bar that you have to be drunk to go home with.” She then began crying and jibba-jabbin’ about how she’s been blacklisted from Letterman, Regis & Kelly, Ellen and now The Tonight Show. I guess Jay Leno got jealous of her talent and refused to play second fiddle any more! As a side-note, then began ranting: I’m holding a mirror to myself going “you’re a freak.” Absolutely.
Tonight Show Experience: Kathy Griffin is a Douche (she left crying from jokes Jay Leno apparently made at her expense when her “act” is entirely composed of making fun of celebrities that people could probably actually identify)
It was at this point in time that the theme of this show was “Kathy just bein’ Kathy on a promotional tour for her wacky new DVD.” In a following scene Kathy begins bickering with her own parents because they’re not buying her new DVD. They tell her they’ve already got her act on other tapes and she continues to give them shit. As the show follows her to her celebrity signing session at Virgin Records it also shows her selling a miserable few DVDs (including a few which her parents ended up buying). And when her dad did buy one she bitched him out because he broke the case and wouldn’t buy another. “I’m deeply in love with you, but for $15.99…no.” Fitting. Then they pan to this creepy, balding “but I’m still hip so I’ll try and style my hair so you can’t notice” dude (who is eventually mentioned as her husband, which only makes him a little less creepy) who mentions “She sold more copies than by sitting at home, so I guess it’s a success.”
Virgin Autograph Signing: Kathy Griffin is a Douche! (She wouldn’t give her own parents free DVDs, instead she makes them pay after verbally belittling them. Also, this dude who I originally thought was a stalker turns out to be her husband. Wicked Douchey)
The final stop on the tour celebrating the release of her new DVD bring us to an actual performance of thee Kathy Griffin. Her husband mentioned something that I think is quite fitting, to paraphrase “…her act is her life and her life is her act…” She’s a bitter self centered, self-important bitch. That IS her “act,” or at least what I’ve made of the 20 seconds of it that I saw on the show. Before and after the show she makes fun of her husband regarding how he intends on selling/pushing her DVD in the lobby. In the end, he ends up selling more in the one night than she does on the entire tour – 33 to 24 (it’s noted on a scoreboard type picture near the end of the show).
The Gig Result: Kathy Griffin is a Douche! (Her husband outsells her, at $20 a pop, in one night compared to her entire tour…both selling embarrassing figures. Also, she turns out to not actually be funny live.)
As a final note, the show gave 25 seconds or so to explaining how someone who said they’d buy the DVD online probably wouldn’t. They wouldn’t, but by dedicating this time to them, it might make them guilty enough to actually buy it. Are you kidding me?
On air, 25 second sales pitch: Bravo is douchey. (Just play a rerun of that Poker show or some artsy movie and save us all some time from now on. Oh, and fire the person who thought this show would be a good idea. At least give them a strong talking to.)
But it makes for some great T.V.!
I think the show is great fun to watch, lighten up!
It takes intelligence and wit to “get” her humor…those lacking in either &/or both wouldn’t enjoy the show, as they wouldn’t understand or catch the style. No harm, no foul…but revealing of the author’s intellectual shortcomings.
wit? your joking right.. please give an example of one witty thing she has ever said. this should be interesting… throw around some comments about how people are stupid because they dont like your fav show. jesus your probably kathy “my life fucking sucks” griffen with nothing better to do than google yourself. i found this site because i was checking a list of the 25 most ugly women, and i had to google kathy griffen just to know who the fuck she was. now that i remember, i can honestly say she has a very predictable sense of humor to any human who has attended public school for more than a week.
she is a little hard to look at, sure, not the prettiest girl, but please, her critique of celebs on the a-ist are no different than your critique of her here except she isn’t hateful, she’s actually clever about her act. you don’t have to like her, of course not, but she is funny, dude. chill the fuck out.
hahaha! She is funny and whether you like it or not, her show has been picked up for another season. Probably JUST to torture you!
What a bitter author, seriously he has no life. If he has to rant about somebody doing way better than him and whose got thousands of people going to her shows, laughing their heads off, than he sounds envious and pitiful. C’mon, comedy is about making fun of life and is full of contradictions. She may be a walking contradiction, but I love her. She Is hilarious and can tell a good story. Maybe the author should get some tips from her on how to entertainingly diss a celeb.
Now, she only says what we are all thinking. And if you don’t think so, then you just lied. She just spices it up and makes for hilarious televison. Everybody who doesn’t like her, lighten up and just don’t watch it. It’s a choice you make. I think she’s fricken hilarious!
I think she is just hilarious and she comes across as a good hearted person.
I really did not expect to like Kathy. I always thought she was somewhat annoying, but when I say her show on Bravo I had no choice but to retract my previous opinions. I loved her! She was hilarious and although I kept flipping the channel – I always came back to her show and eventually gave up. I had to watch the rest! I admit I have been converted to a Kathy fan.
I think she is hilarious! You need to get a sense of humor to understand her. I thought and think she is fantastic!
I have seen kathy live many times and she is hilarious!! you say that she is mean and shit because she talks shit about clebs .. well what exactly are you doing. atleast she is funny about it. You can write what you want but when you talk about things that happen in the show like the things she says you leave out the sarcasim of how she says it. When she is selling her dad a DVD she is joking the whole time. I dont know if you are fucked up and retarted and just dont understand or if ur just trying to be a douche yourself. Well i think shes great and atleast she has a show ..
What the crap ya’ll talking about. I think she is hilarious, and to me see is so pretty, every time I ee her she gives me that old zing. I would love to take her out to dinner. I love her red hair and beautiful eyes. Hope to see her in person sometime.
This article was incoherent and boring. The chick who wrote this obviously has some personal issues she needs to work out. The irony of it all, however, is that on a Google search this blog is the 6th result to come up if you search Kathy’s name…and that’s only if you spell her name wrong(Griffen)! If I came across THIS piece of shit searching her name on Google(misspelling and all), then she MUST be doing something right. Now, THAT…is funny.
dude your an idiot, she knows shes on the D-LIST and thats what maker her kathy griffin shes fucking hilarious and shes a bitch which makes her who she is your a FUCKING DOUCHEBAG.
and yes im talking to the idiot who wrote this wasteless article,just wasted my time reading this crap
Kathy is awesome. Hilarious in an entertaining way. You should watch her, maybe you’ll learn…and make money cause she does, that’s how she got to where she is now. You’re article was horrible, can’t believe I spent time reading it, gave up near the end. Talk about bitter….well at least she’s a somebody. I wonder who you are?
I have never made any comment about anyone before. But I had to find somewhere on the site just to let people know how much I hate Kathy Griffen. She needs to give it up. In no way is she funny. She Sucks!!!!! I cannot stand to hear her talk or try to perform. Poor Anderson Cooper having to put up with her New Year’s Eve. Maybe he will do us all a favor and push her over the balcony…….
you are the Douche
Be nice? Keep it clean? I don’t think anyone that has responded has done that. How could anyone keep it clean and respond to Kathy’s potty mouth.I am going to try. I will turn the channel if she is ever on, wouldn’t think of going to see her anywhere, and I don’t know anyone who is worth their salt that would. Does she even know where the air she breathes comes from, or care? Some day she will and what a rude awaking that will be to stand before the true and living God and give an account of all the things that have come out of her mouth. When I think of her I think how sad to waste your life like that and I wonder what kind of life has she had that would make her throw away her talent like that and influnce others in a bad way.I use to believe that everyone had a conscious but after hearing her I am reconsidering that notion. I’m praying that people will turn to the real comedians and laugh at the funny things in life and not support the people that are proud to be a douche mouth.
She is such a useless douchebag….and that’s an insult to douchebags everywhere.
I ended up going to a Kathy Griffin show with my wife about a year ago. I really didn’t know much about her, except that she was a comedian…. OK, let’s go laugh.
Oh my god. It was brutal! The worst excuse for entertainment I could imagine. I would rather sit in traffic without anesthesia having a root canal while my circumcision gets reversed. Just the worst show I will ever have to endure, I’m quite sure. I stuck it out expecting something funny would be said eventually……Nope, just a tortuous show. The military should replace water boarding with Kathy Griffin shows. That would be an effective deterrent to the terrorism.
I usually find that people who find Kathy G., funny are either people who live in the midwest and find her humor “ballsy”, or people who are in fact themselves bitter about those who have what they wish they had (note OMG on yahoo). There’s all kinds of funny. Early Bill Cosby funny, Phillis Diller funny, Lenny Bruce funny, Paul Mooney funny…etc. She isn’t funny, she’s mean…really mean and its the kind of mean that isn’t funny at all. Kathy’s mean/funny routine comes off as bitter, jealous, petty, and vile. Kathy hates it when others joke about her/have a laugh at her expense. Yet she’s more than willing to tear through someone else for what she and her fans call a “laugh”.
She was the only person from “Suddenly Susan” that I remember….she looked different and it was refreshing. Then she opened her mouth, carved up her face….and granted Phyllis Diller had a unique face and surgery over the years MS. DILLER IS HYSTERICAL!!! Kathy is just sad. I can over look her face…her personality, humor, and delivery however is whats very noticeable.