Kathy Griffin | Club Random with Bill Maher
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Why does Kathy Griffin say she treats everything like a battle?
Oh, they always hide Where is she? Oh my god Bill,
it's here,
your hair. The redhead in the corner. Hello. Hello,
sweetheart. Come here. How are you? How have you been?
I've been okay. Yeah. I know you've had your ups and downs and I have. Um but you I never ever think they get you down. No really. You're you're not the type to go down. You're just a fighter. Or it's your whole thing is I mean not your whole thing, you're hysterically funny, but you're a fighter, so I never really worried about you. The
bad thing is I'm a street fighter. So along the way I've made some enemies, but I'm trying to turn into more of a strategic fighter.
That would be great.
And at sixty two years young, I'm really gonna change this time. I really am.
That's a great that's a great thing to say because you first of all, you can never get to any age where you go, Oh, I've stopped, especially when it's about making mistakes. Yeah. It's g I do the same thing. I I c I look back even five, ten years and go, Oh, what a dumbass thing I did.
The stuff I would by the way, I thought I was doing it for like the work, but like the stuff I thought I I thought everything was a battle. I thought it whether it's a piece of the set dressing that I feel strongly about, or, you know, whatever, my own writing. And looking back, not everything was the same level battle that I kind of treated it like.
That that's funny that you that's gre also great that you recognize that because that is exactly how I saw you. As why does this girl make everything a battle? She she I thought you must like it because you were always doing really. You know, who fights with the left and the right? Very few. I I do. But you know, I guess I'm crazy too. But I mean to the point of getting cancelled by both. You know, uh
by the way, canceled is sort of an adorable way of putting it. Remember, it was under investigation by the Department of Justice, the US Attorney's Office, the Secret Service.
Well that's a good thing. You know, no fly
list.
That's so insane.
But also, look, as you know, it's not that hard to scare off buyers. And the buyers really, I think until maybe just very recently have been scared off.
Buyers of what
Yeah, like the buyers, like the networks, the streamers.
People who might buy the Kathy Griffin product
but also even to feel safe having Kathy Griffin at their theater. You
know
what
I mean? Of course.
So
No, I know I know you when you did the Trump uh picture. Yes. I mean, which God, you know, when you look back on it when you look back on I look back at my nine eleven thing and it all just seems surreal and so st I mean I thought it was stupid at the time and I thought what they did to you was stupid at the time and I remember I had you on to say that. Um but when you look back it's even stupider. Yeah. And compared to
the other stuff that we should have been focusing on. It was the classic. It was the classic.
The paranoia of just also what's so annoying about that is it's what I hate about our culture, robotic things, you know, TSA. Things were like, oh, you know, if you handle this like a human, like the Israelis handle security. I remember being in Israel and going through security and I had a thermos that looked just like the bottom of a bomb. Now if this was the TSA, just like are you kidding? They just go by the rules. Yeah. We only know this rule, and the rule is if you take a picture with Trump's head, you're a dangerous Whereas like in Israel when they found the thing This very intelligent and they and in Israel they are ex-military intelligence who do this at the airport, interrogated me, interrogated, asked me like eight questions and was like, Okay, I'm an intelligent person.
I see this is an American comedian, he's making a movie over here. This is really is a thermos for cereal.
Yeah. I
i they could just tell because they're using their mind.
Yeah.
As opposed to what happened to you is more examples of that. No, we're robots.
Mm-hmm.
This is the rule and we we're She is
going to cause beheadings in an innumerable fashion. Well more than you can ever imagine.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why does Kathy Griffin say she treats everything like a battle?
0:01–9:16
2
How does Kathy describe her shift from a street fighter to a strategic fighter?
9:16–16:11
3
What was the fallout from the Trump photo and how did it affect her career?
16:11–25:17
4
How does Kathy explain being ‘canceled’ by both the left and the right?
25:17–33:14
5
What does Bill Maher think about Joe Rogan’s role in today’s media landscape?
33:14–40:25
6
Why does the Marilyn Monroe movie scene upset Kathy and Bill?
40:25–47:34
7
Which lawsuits and lawsuits‑related incidents has Kathy faced in recent years?
47:34–53:32
8
What is Bill’s pitch for a new TV show starring Kathy Griffin?
53:32–1:00:42