David Steinberg sat down to talk with Kathy Griffin on "Inside Comedy" (Thu., 11 p.m. ET on Showtime) about her comedic influences and the evolution of her career, but he discovered that it's not easy to keep her on task. Especially when celebrity names come up. In more recent years, Griffin has made quite a career out of skewering those in the pop culture spotlight.
As Steinberg pointed out, though, when she started doing this she was doing it from a point below them. In the intervening years, though, Griffin has come up quite a ways from the D-List. Steinberg said she's now more powerful than some of the people she pokes fun at.
"Not Oprah," Griffin exclaimed, before going into a monologue about how Oprah really runs this country and even selected our most recent President. "I don't know how you do it in Canada," she said to Steinberg, "But here we let Oprah pick."
Griffin talked about how her rise as a gay icon came organically from her life. She was the girl who always thought she had a chance with the gay guy, and she's just always been surrounded by gay people. Through that, though, she's also learned that they can be a much harder audience to shock.
"Inside Comedy" features David Steinberg talking with different comedians every Thursday at 11 p.m. ET on Showtime.
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David Steinberg sat down to talk with Kathy Griffin on "Inside Comedy" (Thu., 11 p.m. ET on Showtime) about her comedic influences and the evolution of her career, but he discovered that it's not easy...
David Steinberg sat down to talk with Kathy Griffin on "Inside Comedy" (Thu., 11 p.m. ET on Showtime) about her comedic influences and the evolution of her career, but he discovered that it's not easy...
Move over, Cher and get ready to share the spotlight, Madonna. There's a new mononymous diva in Hollywood: Kathy. "We don't need the Griffin anymore,...
Why isn't the gay community being more demanding of this president? And why isn't he more understanding of our position? It's time for us to lose our patience. It's his job to be our leader.
There is so little agreement in America right now, but this playlist is dedicated to the thought that we should all agree to be respectful and thankful to our service people. I wholeheartedly salute our troops tonight. Thank you for your extraordinary service.
Yesterday afternoon I participated in a Blog Talk Radio interview with authors J.A. Konrath and Boyd Morrison on ebooks, traditional vs. self-publishing and the future of the digital landscape.
Joan Rivers: "The networks are still very much an old boys club. They think women at night just want to watch men. I'd love to have my own late-night talk show and I think I could take them all."
What gives, Mr. President? You can commend yourself for nominating a Latina to the Supreme Court while you totally ignore another minority group that desperately needs leadership?
Of course what they fail to point out is that most of Kathy's ribbing of Oprah or Celine or even Lindsay Lohan is actually pretty nice and complimentary. She makes Oprah jokes but they're always wrapped with a reverence and a bit of fan worship. The story about how she met Celine makes Kathy look awkward and silly but makes Celine look nice and wonderful and funny. That's the difference. Kathy jokes about people but she's not a bully.
CheapTrick: Of course what they fail to point out is that
Sorry to disappoint but that was her choice last time and it hasn't worked out to well..new blood comming to the white house in 2012 and its not a rerun of Obama ...
Waytoomuchdebt: Sorry to disappoint but that was her choice last time
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