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Kathy Griffin is a divisive figure. Her 2017 photo with a decapitated Trump was not particularly funny and it was definitely ill-conceived. At the same time, I think the backlash was of the variety and vehemence that gets applied to women exponentially more than to men. Kathy has definitely felt the consequences from that photoshoot seven years ago and was banned from many major talk shows. Jimmy Kimmel has always welcomed Kathy on his show though. Kathy was on Kimmel last week and spoke about attending a party hosted by Paris Hilton — that she was legitimately invited to by Paris herself — and Kathy painting the (pink) picture of the scene had me in stitches. She also randomly shared that every time Sharon Stone cancels on her, she adds Sharon to a large group text. Jimmy ate it up:
Here’s hoping Sharon Stone is familiar with the concept of muting.
On Tuesday’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Kathy Griffin shared her petty tactic for getting even with friends who have wronged her in relatively small ways — and the stunt is so deliciously petty that even Kimmel said he wanted to steal it.
“My new favorite hobby is that every time Sharon Stone blows me off for a dinner date, I add her to a random text chain,” the comedian revealed, causing Kimmel to crack up. “And Jimmy, she, like, wants to kill me.”
“How many times has this happened?” Kimmel asked.
“Around four,” Griffin responded. “And they’re like 17-person text chains.”
“And it’ll say, ‘Sharon Stone has been added to the conversation?’” Kimmel asked.
“And it’s her real number,” Griffin added. “It’s not her office number.”
“I like that,” Kimmel said giggling. “I’m going to use that, I like that idea.”
I’m Team Kathy on this one! I mean, Sharon Stone had to have had an inkling of the risks she was taking on by giving her direct number to Kathy Griffin. To assume Kathy wouldn’t do something like this, well, I think that would be Sharon’s error in judgment and not Kathy’s. Also, that really is a top notch way to irk someone. Or at the very least, I can attest that it bugged the crap out of me over Thanksgiving when a family member sent a “Happy Holiday” text to everyone in their family, not realizing (or just not caring) that not everyone in that chain was family to each other. Days later I was still getting pinged with responses from unknown numbers. Ok, I know I sound very Grinchy with this story, but I still stand by my stance!
Kathy was officially on Jimmy’s show to show Princess Kate how to cosplay a Christmas present promote her latest stand up tour, including an upcoming stop in her hometown Chicago on New Year’s Eve — her first NYE gig since CNN fired her:
“I’m calling it ‘My Life on the PTSD-List’ because I really do have freakin’ PTSD,” Griffin explained to Kimmel Tuesday night. “I mean, the Trump thing, and then I got lung cancer, and I have a vocal cord implant, and I’m going through a divorce, and I was addicted to prescription pills and now I’m 4 ½ years sober,” Griffin said.
Griffin said she’s thrilled her life is finally turning around thanks to her new tour.
“And I want to tell you something — this is really corny,” Griffin said to Kimmel. “Every single live show, and I’ve done about 50 shows so far, I always make a point to say, ‘And the one late night host who never ditched me was Jimmy Kimmel.’”
“And not only would I not ditch you, I look forward to us spending time in prison together in January,” Kimmel joked, referencing his own long-running feud with Trump.
I miss the days when Jimmy was joking about Trump’s potential jail time, sigh…
I loved the photoshoot.
What happened to Kathy Griffin over something that is clearly under the umbrella of freedom of expression shows just how vicious Trump could be. She was harassed by Secret Service and other federal agencies over a parody cover that clearly wasn’t an Actual security threat. So if they can do that to her, a well known comedian, just how bad will they be with people who are critical and have less power.
Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen in particular were cowards and dumped her. I have never looked at those two the same again.
I never cared for Andy but was a really big fan of Anderson. I still like him dumpling her like that definitely changed my view on him. They had a very good friendship. And he just deaded her like that. Yuck. 🤮
We cut Kathy some slack because we hate Trump, but if it was Biden’s head we’d have the FBI terrorist squad crawling all over her and we’d be saying that freedom of speech doesn’t cover incitement to violence.
She made a stupid mistake, it wasn’t funny and she took her lumps for it. I’m glad to hear that her life is turning around and I wish her the best.
That’s not how freedom of speech works. There was zero need to investigate her the way they did. And there have been far worse images of Obama and Biden and they didn’t get harassed the way she was. Elon musk has posted stuff far worse too.
Secret service investigate actual threats to the president, not when he has hurt feelings.
But glad you are cool with creeping authoritarianism.
@eurydice I think it’s also how I view both sides. I never once thought that someone would actually try to harm trump bc of that photo (for other reasons, sure). However if it was Biden’s head, I do think magats would try to do it.
Once, my mother and I ended up on my sister’s husband’s family’s Thanksgiving text chain. They are all 4 hours ahead of us. So I was getting beeped at freaking 4am by 15 people. Distant family is so fun.
@Bumblebee, there is a *very* easy fix for this:
First: Set up “Do Not Disturb” for your sleep hours on your phone (say, 9pm-8am).
Second: Put your IMMEDIATE family (the ones that you want to get ahold of you no matter of time, etc) on a VIP list. This will allow ONLY THOSE NUMBERS to get through your DND. For example, only my sister, BIL, and two nephews are on my list. These are the *only* calls that will ring through the DND for me.
THIS will block ALL sounds from calls/emails/texts from EVERYONE *EXCEPT* on your VIP list.
I do this and blissfully sleep undisturbed every night 😊
This is diabolical and I love it so much! It reminds me of an old Gawker article about a replyallapocalypse email thread at a college and the madness that ensued. People were losing their shit over it because it just wouldn’t end lol
It still bugs me that Kathy Griffin was nailed to the cross. But Tyler Shields. Who made the final decision to go with that idea. And has freely admitted it in interviews. Never received any blowback or loss of work. The misogyny of it all.
And knowing Kathy has been trolling Sharon Stone just made my day. She seems she can be prickly at times.
This is why people who think it was fine that she was harassed by the secret service are being idiots. She clearly was doing a parody and she wasn’t the only one involved. Poor taste isn’t the same as security risk.
I guess a lot of Americans are going to learn just how bad it can be when the president is a malignant narcissist seeking vengeance. And it won’t be fairly applied.
Just stopping by to honk for Kathy Griffin. Love her.
It was a MASK. Not a head, a mask. Big difference.
One word, Kathy: moisturize, moisturize.
I’m going to the NYE show at the Chicago Theatre… alone! Can’t wait. Have an orchestra seat on the aisle and I plan on wearing something BIG!!!