Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D List is A List Dee-lightful!
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D List is A List Dee-lightful! by Roxanne McDonald
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Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D List is a double delight. It is reality TV, taking viewers into the home and work life of a celebrity (though as her premise holds, that of a D-lister). |
And Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D List is stand-up comedy by one of the mouthiest and most sarcastic of comediennes. Kathy Griffin rocks, especially as she modifies her act depending upon who she is playing to.
Griffin goes from the makeshift stages in Baghdad, where she cheers up the soldiers and experiences the landing of a couple of actual bombs outside the hotel, to doing Republican convention gigs wherein the audience DOES get her and appreciate her but wherein a kid at the event comes up and challenges her – asking why she “hates” kids.
An especially delightful time in most episodes is when Kathy includes her parents.
They love the booze, which Kathy rarely fails to point out, be bummed about, or joke about, and as parents who seem to have adapted to Kathy’s iconoclastic persona they are fairly open-minded.
This makes for great TV when you have generations of Jewish family members sitting around playing what if games such as who would you bang, who would you marry, and who would you kill and the options are brought up to include Princess Di, Bill O’Reilley, and Larry King. (I’ll leave it to you to watch that particular episode and find out who Kathy’s Pop is into and who her Mom is crazy about.)
Word goes around as it does when concerning celebrities of ANY status level that Kathy resuscitated her marriage to Matt so the show would hold more substance, etc.. But they look truly caring for one another … if not at least tolerant.
Again, many characteristics
or elements make the show, such as the cameras following her all over the world as she makes her living doing charity, paid, and promotional gigs, but Kathy Griffin’s humor propels it.
As she suggests to a comedy student who is questioning her at a Learning Annex class she has been invited to lead, the comedy comes when the comic does not hold back, does not censor him- or herself. And since Griffith surely has booted her own internal censors out, the comedy is ongoing.
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