Kathy Griffin

[Jane2]

Posted: 9/21/09 at 4:03pm

I used to like her, but I think it may now be over.

She's on literally EVERY SINGLE tv show. I can't help but see her on every show I watch. She's now turned into the type of celeb she used to make fun of. She has the exact same script for each interview, and the part about her late brother, where she describes him by reciting all his crimes, including pedophilia, sounds like she's reading her grocery list. I know she has her shtick but this is turning me off.

[Perfectly Marvelous]

Posted: 9/21/09 at 4:09pm

I'm starting to notice that too, Jane. The thing is with Kathy, is that I can handle her doses. Too much is a bad thing.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/21/09 at 4:40pm

Mission accomplished.

On Sunday she debuts at #1 on the NY Times bestseller list. Now she'll go back to D-list obscurity.

Except she's "#1 New York Times Bestselling Author Kathy Griffin" now...and forever.

[Jane2]

Posted: 9/21/09 at 4:44pm

good for her.

p.s. no one's interested in her- they want to read the dirt she dishes. Like buying a large tome of Page Six.

Updated On: 9/21/09 at 04:44 PM

Posted: 9/21/09 at 4:50pm

Joining the august company of Jean Auel, David Eddings, James Finn Garner and all those other Immortals? Wow!

[Jane2]

Posted: 9/21/09 at 4:53pm

Don't forget Jacqueline Susanne!

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 9/21/09 at 5:41pm

She's promoting a major book. Maybe you watch too many talk shows and entertainment shows.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 9/21/09 at 7:26pm

Kathy Griffin is capable of writing a major book?

I don't watch tv and I'm sick about reading about her. She's a nasty, shrewish woman and her 15 minutes of fame are well past expiration time.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/21/09 at 7:32pm

She is Joan Rivers daughter but Rivers won't admit it.

Posted: 9/21/09 at 7:33pm

Ewwww someone had sex with Joan Rivers?

[StageManager2]

Posted: 9/21/09 at 7:34pm

^^^
HATERZ!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/21/09 at 7:44pm

[Jane2]

Posted: 9/21/09 at 10:19pm

"She's promoting a major book."

Haha, major book - something like The Sorrow and the Pity maybe?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/21/09 at 10:21pm

A Number One New York Times Bestselling book.

[Jane2]

Posted: 9/21/09 at 10:24pm

Woo-Woo! Dish that dirt!

And while you're at it, be sure to include graphic photos of your black and blue body after your liposuction.

this is MAJOR!

Updated On: 9/21/09 at 10:24 PM

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 9/21/09 at 10:26pm

You know what is sad? Chelsea Handler managed to get her book to be a #1 NY Times Best Seller (& is a little smaller of a name than Griffin) & she didn't force herself down everyone's throat to do it either...

[Jane2]

Posted: 9/21/09 at 10:29pm

Exactly. Griffin's playing the same game everyone else does.

When a book sells enough copies, it gets on the Times best seller list. It does NOT mean it's any good.

I'm sure if you like the dirt she wrote and want to see liposuction bruises, you'll buy the book.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 9/21/09 at 10:30pm

Well Chelsea's book has staying power too. I think Kathy's will be like a movie that opens big and then falls out of the top 10. I enjoyed Kathy's book, but it definitely tanked at the end when it decompensated into rehashed bits she has already done.

Lisa Lampanelli's book so far is a total suprise. A real 360 from her public persona.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 9/21/09 at 10:32pm

Lisa has a book? I NEED to get the audiobook.

Not to mention Chelsea is a good writer who doesn't resort to shock value, gossip, & name dropping.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 9/21/09 at 10:34pm

Yes, Chelsea has elements of David Sedaris and is a good storyteller.

Yes, Lisa has a memoir call "Chocolate Please: My Life with Food, Fat, and Freaks". I have the audiobook and it is unabridged. I am enjoying it, but Lisa is subdued so far and I like the contrast.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/21/09 at 10:36pm

I love Chelsea Handler--and her books--but her Vodka book didn't sell so well by divine accident: She's on television every night.

It's called "having a platform."

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 9/21/09 at 10:37pm

Good point, PJ. She doesn't need a press junket where she gets 5 minutes like Kathy to hit all the points. Chelsea has a nightly promotional tool for the book. Not fair to bash Kathy for doing the press circuit.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 9/21/09 at 10:41pm

But if you watched the show she rarely mentioned the book before it was released. The only time it was really mentioned much is when it hit #1.

[Jane2]

Posted: 9/21/09 at 10:52pm

Not fair to bash Kathy for doing the press circuit.

I understand the need to do the press circuit.

I may not be able to articulate why I'm bashing her but I'll try - to me, she was always unique because of her honesty and the speaking of her mind no matter how un PC it was. She made fun of almost the entire show biz population because they were A or B list but she was "D."

Now she seems to me to be acting like all those others. When she saw a chance to make money, she sold out her persona.

I don't even know if I made this clear, so never mind, it isn't that important!

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 9/21/09 at 10:56pm

I got it Jane.

What she once made fun of she has become.