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Kathy Griffin.


When gay America needs a spokesperson for the really important stuff--our obsession with reality TV or the latest crazy thing said or done by Whitney Houston--Kathy Griffin is there. The no-holds-barred comedian garnered legions of new fans with her Bravo special, The D-List, which featured true-life stories of shenanigans shenanigans
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Informal

1. mischief or nonsense

2. trickery or deception [origin unknown]
 by Houston, Sharon Stone, and Anna Nicole Smith, among others. Now she returns with a new DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc.
DVD
 in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc

Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology.
, Kathy Griffin--Allegedly (Anchor Bay Anchor Bay may refer to:
  • Anchor Bay, California, a small coastal community in northern California
  • Anchor Bay, is a bay in Malta, also known as Prajjiet or Popeye Village Bay.
 Entertainment), in which she eviscerates celebrity misbehavior everywhere from the Middle East to the VH1 Fashion Awards. Griffin loves "her gays," and we very much love her back.

For fans of your D-List special, what's new and different about this DVD?

It's 100% different material. This is my Too Hot for TV--Jerry Springer material, the stuff that I could not even do on HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO)
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 or Bravo. It's not for the red states, let me tell you. The highlights are, I think, my fight with Barbara Walters Barbara Jill Walters[1] (born September 25, 1929[2]) is an American journalist, writer and media personality who has been a regular fixture on morning television shows (Today and The View), an evening news magazine (20/20  on The Vicar, and a really awesome story about Brooke Shields's wedding and her infamously--how shall I say--colorful mother, perhaps having a few too many--allegedly.

After the Bravo special aired, did you hear from any of the people you talked about?

I ran into Sharon Stone, who was very, very gracious, but the great thing is that I busted her, because she acted like she had never heard of the special. Then her sister leaned in and said, "I loved your special. Sharon and I saw it last night," after a five-minute conversation of Sharon saying, "Oh, what is that you were doing?" and "Oh, that sounds like fun."

You're in a unique position in that you're a celebrity but one who's most famous for trashing her fallow fallow

a pale cream, light fawn, or pale yellow coat color in dogs.
 celebrates.

Well, I love my gays; can't live without them. But the other night I had a gay guy telling me how much he loves me axed how I'm so funny, and I'm like, "Thank you, thank you." And he goes, "You know, I'm friends with Kevin Huvane, the head of CAA Caa

See CCC.
, and Kevin Huvane said, 'Everyone in this town hates that bitch, but I think she's fabulous.'" Uh ... thank you? So I'm sticking with it. If everyone hates me and I can still be a little fabulous, it's worth it.
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Title Annotation:Big Gay Following; interview
Author:Duralde, Alonso
Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Article Type:Interview
Date:Dec 7, 2004
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