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There was a time, and it wasn’t all that long ago, when to be a successful comedian, you had to be, you know, funny. Only rubes and right-wing yahoos, however, are so naïve as to think such a thing today. Nowadays, all the most sophisticated comedians know that to gain enthusiastic applause and acclaim, all they have to do is say something about how evil and stupid Donald Trump is, and the world will be their oyster. Kathy Griffin was way out in front on this, and like all the brave innovators who have blazed trails for lesser talents, she is paying the price.
The Hill reported Saturday that Griffin says she has suffered tremendously for standing valiantly against Bad Orange Man: “One thing that breaks my heart,” the sensitive little shrinking violet and budding professional victim lamented, “is why I would say I’ve lost, probably permanently, about a third of my audience because of the Trump thing.”
The heart breaks. Will the MAGA persecution never end? Here is this engagingly impish humorist, who has dedicated her life to bringing joy into the lives of similarly selfless leftists who look to her for a bit of sunlight after dark days battling Trumpian insurrectionists and domestic terrorists. And what does she get for her tireless efforts to brighten the days of the heroes who are giving their lives to the fundamental transformation of America that our dear leader Barack Obama initiated and that still remains so sadly incomplete? Rank ingratitude, that’s what she gets. But what can you expect from the followers of the focus of evil in the modern world, one Donald J. Trump of Mar-a-Lago?
“The Trump thing,” in case you’ve forgotten Griffin’s service to humanity, involved her publishing a photo of herself back in 2017, in which she was holding a lifelike representation of Trump’s bloody severed head. She was simply expressing the not-very-well-concealed desire of a massive number of leftists, then and now, and so she has found the largely ungenerous response she has received to be bewildering.
The news hasn’t been all bad for Griffin: “I think I’ve gained some audiences that are maybe a little bit more political, maybe a little bit more liberal, but I used to play the South like crazy because they knew me as somebody that would make fun of Hollywood and the Kardashians and celebrities.” No more. Not only have audiences in the South turned against her, but, The Hill adds, Griffin was even “investigated for conspiracy to murder the commander-in-chief and put on a no-fly list. The same month, she was fired from CNN where she co-hosted New Year’s Eve coverage.” Yes, even CNN! Et tu, Brute?
The jokeless and laughless comedian still can’t believe how harshly she was treated over a harmless little severed head. “I was interrogated under oath,” she recounts with amazement. “They were seriously considering charging me with conspiracy to assassinate the president of the United States. That has never happened in the history of comedy, never.” Well, yeah. That’s because Bob Hope didn’t parade around with the severed head of FDR. Charlie Chaplin didn’t make a knee-slapping short about offing Woodrow Wilson. So yeah, Griffin is an innovator, and while she is stunned at the response she has received, she is also proud.
“People come up to me now,” she says, “they’re much nicer and they go, ‘good for you, you were ahead of your time. I get the pun.’ But, man, I was afraid to walk down the street.” Poor victim! Imagine illustrating what leftists all over the country would like to do, and not being laden with awards and honors for doing so! But victimhood is the left’s most coveted status, and Griffin is working hard to secure it. Maybe at the next Oscars ceremony, she can be given the Lee Harvey Oswald Lifetime Achievement Award for Unfunny Politicized Comedians. It would be the honor of her life, and the crowning achievement after an overlong career full of hatred, vitriol, and sanctimonious scolding, which is what the left presents as comedy these days.
One of the signs that sanity is returning to American public life, if it ever does, will be that comedians will be funny again, which will mean that the likes of Kathy Griffin will have entered a much-deserved long retirement.
She shouldn’t be surprised.
The lackluster bitch was never anything to write home about anyway.
The comic possibilities would be with Obama’s head……which would have to be hoisted with Velcro ~
Het Chickens have come home to roost
I’d always thought she was a comedic hack, and then I read comedian Fred Stoller’s memoir “Maybe We’ll Have You Back,” in which he both worked with her and dated her, which made for reading that made my opinion of her plummet off a cliff.
He dated her? What—did he lose a bet or something?
”he both worked with her and dated her” 🤔
I’d sooner f8ck a fist full of broken glass personally! 😏
Robert Spencer, I have never read a more accurate account of Ms. Griffin!! Delightful piece. Maybe we’ve all learned a little something here today Lefties.
Remember, you can only push people so far. And then……this is your fate! Keep waking up , America!!! (Nice going, Kathy.).
Couldn’t happen to anyone more deserving
Robert was being very polite in this article
She didn’t have fans per se, but she did have friends and always had work. Her foolish public tantrum put her friends on the spot……so it was goodbye Seinfeld, so long Dennis Miller, and Do I know you? – Larry David.
She had fans? Who knew?
I think just the simple fact that she held up a severed head of the President of the US demonstrates that she is a psychopath.
I do not find it even a little surprising that she is dumbfounded that people got so upset. She’s a psychopath. Of course she doesn’t understand!
cant see what she is whinging about . the audience she lost were only the deplorables that crone hillary moaned about . if she had left america like all the leftist snivelling TDS hollywood crowd promised they would do if trump was elected we wouldnt be having this conversation . but alas we have to count our blessings that eventually they will fade into oblivion and end up washed up .
There used to be things that were “off-limits” (G-d, mothers, Americans, family). Not only because you might carry your teeth home in a wheelbarrow for attacking those things, but because we had moral guideposts we voluntarily upheld. Progs devoid of a soul decided those things, were to be torn down.
It is good to see there are still good people purging themselves of the Prog virus.
As Billy Preston once sang, nothing from nothing leaves nothing. She should cheer up, her number of fans hasn’t changed. It’s still none.
How much have I never cared about D-List Kathy………
Cathy Griffith? Griffin? Who the heck is that? Until this article, I had completely forgot she ever existed.
Stupidity has consequences..
That this vulgar, moronic woman had any fans 7 years ago was already a nonsense. And if today some clueless people are interested in her, they are as dumb as the LGBT groups marching for those who’d like nothing better than hanging them all.
so that means (doing the math in my head) this no talent ginger cvnt has 2 fans left?
She is down to the Z-list now. Probably won’t improve.
Ohh, the poor thing.
Did she ever have much of an audience?
Stupid idiot – I’m with Robert – it would be so sweet if comedians were to be funny again. You know Ms Griffen would ask Natalie Maines how the audience of the Dixie Chicks did over a couple of careless remarks in England. They were are the top of the world, and man, did they take a dive!
Griffen was never the status of the Dixie Chicks – I mean, not even close-by. She thought that she’d get some of the better gigs, and here we go – it was one of great blunders of showbiz. No pity no how. And in her case, she’d would be wise, as she said, good idea to keep the back when she’s on the streets.
Perhaps Kathy’s agent can get her an interview slot on “The View” since she’d fit right right in with the rest of those Liberal Red Neck loaded hairpin hags. Every time I see Whoopi Goldberg I’m still amazed that Omar The Tent Maker is back in business!
She didn’t lose me. She never, ever had me. I couldn’t stand her from the very beginning.
She’s an idiot, always was.
If she lost her fans, it’s her own fault, and I say GOOD. She’s not that funny.
I never found her funny at all.
Now, she’s just irrelevant.
Although I thoroughly enjoyed this article, the one line from Griffin that is disturbing to me that Mr. Spencer did not address is when she says she is afraid to walk down the street. Why is she afraid? In my mind, she is implying that, not only will Trump supporters physically attack her but that Trump supporters are prone to be violent people like her liberal, leftists fans!
She lost a third of her fans? So now her fan base is in the negative.
It’s not this Rabid Animals fault, she was WHELPED from a SWINE (pig).
Kathy who?
I never heard of her before her very boorish behavior.
I don’t care about her since.
I’d turn on a Petticoat Junction rerun before EVER considering any broadcast she was on.
Good. She’s a vile individual. Acts have consequences.
So she lost a third of her fans huh? That means she has two left.
So she lost a third of her fans huh. That means she has two left