Kathy Griffin

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1,433 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 14 Apr

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We Need To Talk with Paul C. Brunson · Kathy Griffin: This Joke Made Me The Most Hated Woman in America · 14 Apr 2026 podcast

Yeah.

I thought it was crazy.

The whole wearing uniforms and the hierarchy.

You know, I call my show My Life on the D-List because I've always been very aware of I want to make fun of hierarchies because they are ever present.

And whether it's A-List to D-List or the cool kids and the jocks and the nerds and the theater kids, I was kind of aware early on, oh, there's groups and you have to levitate toward one of them.

and i tried to be a floater and i couldn't pull it off as a floater so i had to go with the bad kids okay you went with the bad kids yeah so you were but you're naturally probably a theater kid yeah but the theater kids weren't the bad ones but they wanted to take off classes to rehearse so there was like we were so into the theater that we thought that was our purpose for school okay so

So we'd be ditching like math and science.

Then we'd go and rehearse or try to crack more jokes or go into the city for a day, like take the L and go into downtown Chicago.

That was a big deal.

I was trying to be comedic because I was obsessed with all the sidekicks on the shows that I grew up loving, like the Mary Tyler Moore show.

But I never wanted to be Mary because I was like, well, the pretty girl gets to star on the show,

But the funny girl, like Rhoda or Phyllis, they come in, they kill, they get a joke, and then they get out.

And I thought, that's what I should do.

Because I'm too much to be the star.

I should be the sidekick where I just come in, boom, get my daggers out, and then leave the room.

Oh, it's one of my first memories.

Like, I've known that I wanted to do this since I can remember.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, I did the Kathy Griffin show at the family dinners, which was never a hit.

So my mom who didn't cook, she would make something called hamburger helper, which is a dish predicated on the notion that a hamburger needs help.

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