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Published Friday, July 3, 2009 | 10 p.m.
Updated Thursday, July 9, 2009 | 1:27 p.m.
OK, here's the thing:
Say you're Emmy-winning, Grammy-nominated comedian Kathy Griffin, and you've just unveiled your own wax figure at Madame Tussauds the night before doing two back-to-back standup shows at Mandalay Bay. How do you make your entrance? Hmmm...
You got it: Griffin announced herself from the wings and had her wax doppleganger (remarkably lifelike, much like the omni-surgeried Griffin herself) wheeled onstage on a dolly.
"Who wants to f--- it?" Griffin challenged the cheering crowd. "Yeah, me too," Griffin said. "I'm gonna get a strap-on and... "
You get the picture. And that's about all I can legally print of the rest of Griffin's 90-minute plus first show Friday night, which was heavy on f-bombs, celebrity tattle-telling and rehashing of such Bravo reality shows as her own reality show "My Life on the D-List" and "The Real Housewives of Orange County through New Jersey," plus other tawdry tangents and dishy digressions.
When Griffin announced she was about to tell the tale of meeting Oprah's best friend Gayle King at an awards show, there was such a sudden, audible, simultaneous inhalation of breath by the crowd that the Mandalay Theatre momentarily became a vacuum. (Griffin has notoriously speculated about the nature of that relationship, just one reason she is "banned for life" from many talk shows.
"It's Vegas," Griffin said. "I feel like I can say anything... I hope I'm not wrong." But it turns out that even the fearlessly tasteless Griffin recognizes boundaries. After her replicant was wheeled offstage, Griffin noted that she had sat next to comic Wayne Brady on the flight to Vegas.
"He told me it was too soon to make Michael Jackson jokes," Griffin said. (She didn't.) It was that kind of night.
Wow...that is to bad :(
"He told me it was to soon to make Michael Jackson jokes," Griffin said. (She didn't.) It was that kind of night.
Mr. Brown, that should be "too" instead of "to." Same to you, utnstudio...
thanks to whichever online editor fixed my typo!
There is a particular reason why Kathy Griffin is on the D-List: total lack of talent! Did people have to pay for tickets to see her, or was the audience made up of inmates from our local prisons who were subjected to cruel and unusual punishment?
Like her protege, Sarah what's her name, obscenity is the basis of their act. Anybody can do vulgar comedy. It's those that can utilize the inuendo that stand out from this crowd. I don't need to pay someone $100 to listen to jokes that I hear all day from the uncouth, classless pigs that is Las Vegas.
i would rather have a cheese grater ran over my nether regions than listen to this woman.
just like nascar...i don't get it.
Everyone in the business knows that Oprah (and Tom Cruise) is gay, why is the subject taboo?
Can you imagine the act if she teamed up with Ann Coulter.
LOVE HER!!!! No..it's NOT too soon..it much needed.
Please..make jokes.. make people see how ridiculous it is to cry over a celebrity.
Even if they paid ME $100 to sit there and listen to Kathy's noisy pissflaps babblin on and on....
I STILL PAID TOO MUCH !!!!
I'm going to forward this information to Bill O'Really of FOX news so he can do a "culture vulture warrior" segment on this occurrence. Shocking, now were is my luffa sponge?
L-O-S-E-R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EXACTLY KENO DAVE...ITS WHY BILL COSBY IS THE GREATEST COMIC EVER HE CAN DO AN HOUR WITHOUT CURSING 1x
1) If you don't like her, dont go see her.
2) It is never to early for Michael Jackson jokes.
I'm okay with Michael Jackson jokes. I was in the 6th grade when Kennedy was assassinated, and even that event didn't get this much hype. At least network television shows haven't been preempted because of Michael Jackson, the way they were for days with news about the death of JFK.
I'm also okay with insults against Oprah. She's just as responsible for the current recession as AIG or Countrywide. She told everybody to go to college and get an education. As a result we have a whole generation of student loan debtors who don't have any money to spend.
So, Oprah had a lesbian affair? First I've heard about it, not that I care.
the ONLY reason oprah hasn't "come out" publicly is that all those stay at home soccer moms would stop watching her show and reading her magazine.
she makes a living off stupid people.
I liked Michael Jackson. I grew up listening to his music. Being just 6 years younger and born in Detroit, how could I not be? I also don't care about jokes people make about him. But as any fool can see, the man impacted millions of lives. His fans are worldwide and his talent was undeniable. So hate if you must, it matters not to those loved him.
kathy, who cares M.J. don't care, oprah careless.
too much talk about these dam celebrity. they have too much money anyway. we need too give them any more, don;t support their product.