Kathy Griffin: Life On The D-List

Last night my TV viewing was again on Bravo TV. The always amusing, Kathy Griffin in her My Life on the D-List show.

I made it through 2 episodes, bailing by the time I got to the new episode.

In the first hour Kathy and her entourage went to Sidney, Australia on something called the Pink Flight, which consisted of a plane full of drag queens on their way to the Aussie Mardis Gras.

On the plane Kathy passed out her D-List Condoms and encouraged the fliers to join the mile high club. I'd never seen so much boisterous activity on an airplane. At one point there was a "Who has the Best Chest" contest, where bare-chested drag queens paraded down the aisle. Kathy then took her top off and did the same. I suspect she won the contest, but we did not see the result.

When they got to Sidney, Kathy and entourage met up with Lance Bass. Much double-entendre humor ensued. They all went to a zoo where they got to pet a kaola bear, which was very cute, and play with kangaroos and a giant snake. Kathy made a number of giant snake jokes, mostly directed at Lance Bass.

Then Kathy met up with Margaret Cho and Cindy Lauper to pick out a Mardis Gras costume. Kathy was offput to learn that Margaret was the Grand Marshall of the parade. Margaret invited Kathy to ride on her float. Kathy said she would. But when Kathy and entourage got to the parade they could not find Margaret's float. So Kathy and group just hopped on other floats or just walked along hoping someone would recognize her. Eventually, due to her own camera crew following her, Aussie news crews started interviewing Kathy as she marched along.

And so her goal of getting some more Aussie publicity had been reached. She was in Australia to promote her D-List show which was about to premiere on Australia's biggest network.

In the second hour it was all about being banned, again, from ABC's The View. And going to New York City to perform at Madison Square Garden. Before going to New York City, Kathy and entourage dropped in on Rosie O'Donnel, who is oddly obsessed with arts and craftsing.

Kathy told Rosie about her sad banning from The View. Rosie, having experienced similar bannings, asked what happened. Apparently, off camera Kathy had mentioned, to Barbara, something about KY Jelly, to which Barbara Walters replied that she preferred Astroglide. Kathy then worked that into her Bravo Special Straight to Hell, which aired right before she was to re-appear on The View. When Barbara learned Kathy had shared Barbara's Astroglide secret with the world, she ordered Kathy banned. Kathy is quite proud of being banned twice from the same show. She believes it is a show business first.

Of course, Kathy has now worked the banning, not only into her comedy routine, like at Madison Square Garden, it's also mentioned over and over again on the show. If they'd just gone ahead and had Kathy back on The View, I would never have had the unfortunate mental image of Barbara Walters and Astroglide etched into my memory.

To get publicity in New York City, Kathy was ordained as a minister and officiated at the wedding of an amusing pair, who told her she could say anything, nothing was off limits, but the word titties. So, of course, Kathy told the wedding crowd that she'd been told she could "say anything but titties, so I won't be mentioning titties during the wedding service, because for some reason the bride and groom do not like titties."

When the ring bearer brought the ring, Kathy stopped the proceeedings and asked why this was a grown man, instead of the usual little kid ring bearer. The groom told Kathy that because she was the minister no kids were allowed at the wedding.

Two hours of Kathy Griffin and her Life on the D-List show goes by real fast. I find her very amusing. Though I do grow a bit tired of so many word bleepings on Bravo TV. It ain't like you don't know exactly what they are saying.

I forgot to mention an amusing thing. While they were at Rosie's, Rosie asked Kathy for a favor. Knowing that Kathy was dating Apple Billionaire Steve Wozniak, Rosie wondered if Kathy could ask The Woz if he could get her into some online hi-tech seminar, that is very exclusive and to which she'd had no luck getting in. Rosie said she give Kathy anything she wants.

Anything? Yes, Anything. Well, Kathy said. Wait, Rosie said, I know what it is you will want. You want to meet Cher. Is that it? Yes, Kathy said. So, Rosie promised front row seats at Cher's show in Vegas, an overnight state in a penthouse suite and a backstage visit with Cher. Deal. Kathy then called Wozniak and he instantly said no problem. Rosie was elated. As was Kathy.

How can you not like a girl who can call Steve Wozniak on a whim and get what she wants?

Here's a video from a show from a couple weeks ago.......