Kathy Griffin to play the Mark Taper Forum

[DAME]

Posted: 8/11/15 at 2:50pm

Whenever I have seen her in small venues I have enjoyed her the most.  Should be fun.  Pre sale code is SOCIAL.  It would have been fun to see her broadway run.

 

http://variety.com/2015/legit/news/kathy-griffin-brings-like-a-boss-tour-to-l-a-s-taper-forum-1201566879/

Updated On: 8/11/15 at 02:50 PM

[haterobics]

Posted: 8/11/15 at 3:12pm

I like her, but I can't see her live anymore. Last time I did, 30 minutes of the show was discussing the intricacies of reality shows I don't watch, and if you didn't know the shows, it was hard to get anything out of it. Not sure if that is normal or whether that was when she was doing 5 specials in one year or somesuch...

She is also doing a Carnegie Hall date as part of the NY Comedy Festival, which went on sale this morning. Presale code is FNYCF.

[JoseLee_]

Posted: 8/11/15 at 4:01pm

I don't know anything about her, but I'm going to go for the sake of it being live theatre.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/11/15 at 4:11pm

It's not live theatre.  She's a comedian.  

[Alessio2]

Posted: 8/11/15 at 5:18pm

This is a stand up comedy show. Not a theatrical event.

[Wildcard]

Posted: 8/11/15 at 5:24pm

To enjoy her show, you have to be interested in pop culture and celebrities. If not, you're not going to enjoy yourself. If you are, then it's a lot of fun. 

[haterobics]

Posted: 8/11/15 at 5:30pm

"To enjoy her show, you have to be interested in pop culture and celebrities. If not, you're not going to enjoy yourself. If you are, then it's a lot of fun."

10-minute chunks on the specific characters and their interactions on Housewives/Kardassian shows are pretty granular and specific. I wouldn't say you have to know that to consider yourself interested in pop culture. But I do like her... but with $90 tickets, I just watch her specials and buy her CDs, etc., since the live shows are a bit too dice roll-y because of that element for me.

[DAME]

Posted: 8/11/15 at 5:59pm

There are tickets for $59.00 and I also would call the morning general sale starts to see about $25.00 hot tix.  

[JoseLee_]

Posted: 8/11/15 at 7:16pm

I mean, it's LIVE and it's in a THEATRE. That's it. I messaged Center Theatre Group on Facebook, and there will not be Hot Tix for this. 

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 8/11/15 at 11:36pm

I love Kathy Griffin and I have never seen an episode of REAL HOUSEWIVES or a KARDASHIAN anything. Or JERSEY SHORE or DUCK DYNASTY or HOARDERS or even THE VIEW. (I have a vague idea of those shows from watching THE SOUP.)

I get enormous pleasure from Griffin's obvious glee in discussing low pop culture and her delight in knowing the shows are garbage while loving them anyway. (If you haven't seen her, she is very bright and knows exactly what she is doing.)

But haterobics is right about her content, so be warned. She makes a few jokes about her mother (the latter being well known and much beloved by viewers of Griffin's own reality show of a few years ago). But otherwise hers is not what is usually called observational humor (a la Seinfeld) or jokes about her dysfunctional family (a la Roseanne Barr). She is a cultural critic and she does not pretend to aim high.

Thanks to Grifin and Joel McHale (host of THE SOUP), however, I can understand pop culture references without actually sitting through all the white trash shows that are currently the rage.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/11/15 at 11:44pm

She has been known to do interludes of the Women of Will; short little interstitials directed by noted Shakespearean Tina Packer.  Her Beatrice is FLAWLESS.

 

"To enjoy her show, you have to be interested in pop culture and celebrities."  Years and years ago, before the D-List and the divorce, I picked one of her small club shows at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal as the wild card show (we had tickets for other well-established stars that week) for my boyfriend, who knows nothing about popular culture.  I had no idea if he could possibly enjoy the show, and even though he had no idea who Mariah Carey was or what MTV Cribs was, he laughed uproariously.  She used to have ways of telling the stories that were funny in themselves.  Don't know if she still does that, but back then, that was a real strength of hers.

 

Updated On: 8/11/15 at 11:44 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/12/15 at 11:43am

I mean, it's LIVE and it's in a THEATRE. 

So is going to the restroom in a theatre. 

[JoseLee_]

Posted: 8/12/15 at 12:11pm

Obviously, dumbass. I'm talking about a show, a performance. What do you get out of pointing out the obvious?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/12/15 at 1:11pm

I like watching people double down on their stupid comments. 

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/12/15 at 1:48pm

I've given my best performances in theater rest rooms. 

[Wildcard]

Posted: 8/12/15 at 1:52pm

Do you sell tickets? Are there hot tix?

[DAME]

Posted: 8/12/15 at 1:57pm

"I've given my best performances in theater rest rooms. 

 

 

That was you?  BRAVO!  ( I have been the best audience at rest rooms) 

 

Updated On: 8/12/15 at 01:57 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/12/15 at 2:00pm

I usually give shi+ty performances in restrooms

[haterobics]

Posted: 8/12/15 at 2:01pm

"I've given my best performances in theater rest rooms. "

 

Do you always get a standing O?

[SmokeyLady]

Posted: 8/12/15 at 2:21pm

"I've given my best performances in theater rest rooms. 

 

That was the last time I walked out on something. 

 

 

 

[SweetLips]

Posted: 8/12/15 at 2:38pm

It's very difficult these days getting a drill into the theatre to make a bigger g hole.

[Tom5]

Posted: 8/12/15 at 3:04pm

Saw her live one time and, of course, many times on the tube, but fewer and fewer times now.  I give her delivery a nine, but her material generally three-four. I don't understand why she is performing at the Mark Taper Forum.

[DAME]

Posted: 8/12/15 at 3:40pm

"Saw her live one time and, of course, many times on the tube, but fewer and fewer times now.  I give her delivery a nine, but her material generally three-four. I don't understand why she is performing at the Mark Taper Forum.

 

She said she wanted a small club like venue.  My guess is it is also being taped.  And also.. WHY NOT?

 

[haterobics]

Posted: 8/12/15 at 4:09pm

"Saw her live one time and, of course, many times on the tube, but fewer and fewer times now.  I give her delivery a nine, but her material generally three-four."

 

Kathy Griffin or Finding Namo?

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 8/13/15 at 12:22am

"She has been known to do interludes of the Women of Will; short little interstitials directed by noted Shakespearean Tina Packer.  Her Beatrice is FLAWLESS.

 

 

 

"To enjoy her show, you have to be interested in pop culture and celebrities."  Years and years ago, before the D-List and the divorce, I picked one of her small club shows at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal as the wild card show (we had tickets for other well-established stars that week) for my boyfriend, who knows nothing about popular culture.  I had no idea if he could possibly enjoy the show, and even though he had no idea who Mariah Carey was or what MTV Cribs was, he laughed uproariously.  She used to have ways of telling the stories that were funny in themselves.  Don't know if she still does that, but back then, that was a real strength of hers.

 

 

 

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Yes, she does, Namo. I've never been tempted to actually watch a show because she talked about it. I don't care about REAL HOUSEWIVES. But I care very much and laugh very hard at what Miss Griffin has to say about the franchise. I also like the knowing way she mocks celebrity while demonstrating that she is a devoted celebriphile. (I hope that's a word.) There's a touching sort of honesty in that.