By ANDREA HIGBIE
Sorry, Kathy. No self-respecting gay guy, let alone most anybody else, is going to watch your new talk show.
In its premiere last night on Bravo, Kathy Griffin's hourlong show called, appropriately enough, "Kathy," lacked the usual pop and sizzle of her specials, her "Life on the D-List," her "Tired Hooker." The skewer she uses to slice up her celebrity targets was missing, and what she did say was curiously blunted.
Worse, she brings in three "civilians" -- two white women and a gay black man (hitting a few demographics) -- to hear what they have to say on current events.
On the topic of nuptials, Greg, the gay black man, gives Brangelina a pass on deciding not to wait to marry after all, until all people are allowed the right to marry -- "I just feel like they changed their mind, like couples do" -- and allows that he'd have a three-way with them.
On the Secret Service-prostitute pay discrepancy scandal, one of the women says it makes the President's men hotter.
Kathy contributing that he's a "douche" didn't add much to the discussion, nor did her statement that "Real Housewives"'s NeNe Leakes is a "big scary dude."
I came to the show to hear Kathy, and Kathy is who I want to hear. I do not need my Griffin diluted.
On the promos for the show, Thursday nights at 10 ET/9CT, Kathy's 91-year-old mother, Maggie Griffin, advises her daughter to stop making fun of celebrities, to lay off the Catholic Church and "for God's sake, no swearing, Kathleen."
Kathy, you have to stop listening to your mother.
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I love her mom! She reminds me of my own (vodka included).
I know!
Almost makes me want to hit the boxed wine -- hard.
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As a talk show host she baited a gay guy into admitting his crush for a straight, but insecure, co-worker. When the straight killed the gay guy, Jones played dumb on trial (a testimony I saw on Court TV as it happened) and she disappeared from television due to the grace of God.
As long as Griffin doesn't do that, I can at least give her a modicum of respect. (And yes, I had to rehash the Jenny Jones thing. Never forget and never forgive.)