Kathy Griffin Is Sorry (And Struggling to Fill Theaters)
Comedian's ghastly Trump stunt, and its aftermath, haunt 'D-list' talent
Celebrities have done everything possible to attack Donald Trump over the past eight years.
They’ve called him a racist, a Nazi and/or Hitler and wished death upon him in too many ways to count. None have suffered professional blowback for those actions, save one “D-List” celebrity.
Kathy Griffin.
The “My Life on the D-List” star shared an image of her holding Trump’s bloody head aloft at the dawn of the real estate mogul’s presidency. All heck broke loose.
CNN fired her from its New Year’s Eve coverage. Comedy clubs stopped booking her. She tearfully apologized for her actions and watched her idiosyncratic career crumble.
She claimed at the time to be temporarily put on a governmental no-fly list. She told her side of those events in the 2019 documentary “Kathy Griffin: A Hell of a Story.”
That was then.
Today, celebrities are still allowed to say anything about Trump sans repercussions. Griffin later rescinded her apology for the photograph and even re-shared it on social media without a fraction of the outrage the original posting inspired.
Except now her career is flailing all on its own.
Griffin begged fans via social media to buy tickets to her upcoming shows which, apparently, are struggling to fill up venues.
Living by the wise words of my dear friend Joan Rivers during these times!! “When you’re heartbroken you’re your funniest” right now I must be a riot!! This tour means everything to me so don’t miss out and please buy your tickets!!https://t.co/mGMpKJ9Ywd pic.twitter.com/xq1Iu8CxIM
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) January 25, 2024
“I need comedy fans to come out and see me in Kansas City. Come on! I need sell-outs. I’ve been through hell. I’ve been through so much crap since my last tour. I actually just have to laugh at it. I just have to laugh.”
Axios Des Moines reported Griffin’s upcoming Iowa appearance still has a “significant” number of unsold seats.
She told the outlet, again, that she shouldn’t have apologized for the bloody Trump image. She also noted that her current act focuses more on her personal woes and lacks a single, structured bit tied to Trump.
“As of now, I don’t even mention Trump in my new show … He just kind of doesn’t come up,” she told the Omaha World-Herald.
Griffin, 63, has suffered some personal blows in recent years, including a divorce, addiction and a battle with lung cancer.
Divorce? You mean someone actually married her?
Aren’t comedians supposed to be funny?
Isn’t comedy in the eyes of the audience. Her fans love her.
Did like her before the Trump issue. Nothing’s changed since.
seems like a typical buzz-brain leftist, arrogant and ignorant, self-absorbed and pushy.
is she funny? doubt it. is she attractive? barf. does she deserve sell-outs? she’s whimpering hard enough…
What she did was shocking. No one forgave her. Reposting the image only reminded us of her personal destruction. No one cares to listen to another weirdo celebrity that wants to assassinate the political opposition. What a hypocrite.
Trump broke her.
Trump did nothing. The media ran with the story and almost ruined her.
HaHaHaHaHaHaHa.
Wow, she’s Chelsea Ugly!
Who cares? She waded into politics and made an affirmative choice to take a side. Now, she’s learning that many of her paying customers disagreed with her stance. Zero sympathy for people who commit career suicide to virtue signal.
She’s gross and not funny, so why would people spend their money to watch her show? Especially when she’ll most likely insult half her audience of two people?
Who is Cathy Griffith?
kathy griffin? I wouldnt urinate on her if she were on fire.
She can always go back to giving Vanderbilt Poofter a hummer on TV as the ball drops. Not his, the one in Times Square.
Always play to your strengths, Kathy.
She should try being funnier.
A Correction: CNN fired her from the NYE gig because she got sloppy drunk and offered Anderson Cooper BLEEP live, on air.
That.. and because of Trump.
She went out to the very edge of extreme, with a cringe-inducing image of violence, then wept oceans of tears when it invoked a reaction. Her mind needs healing.
Her soul needs healing, and that will calm both her spirit and her mind. She hates everything, loves nothing, and lives in vain glory. A heart of stone; she needs to pray for a heart of flesh.