They say forgiveness is for the forgiver, but apparently Kathy Griffin either doesn’t see it that way, or she simply isn’t ready to free herself from past hurts.
The 61-year-old funny lady was just profiled by The New York Times and she’s once again taking digs at Andy Cohen and talking about being canceled.
In case you need a refresher: Cohen replaced Griffin on CNN’s New Year’s Eve show after she was fired by the network in 2017 for taking a picture of herself holding the severed head of Donald Trump.
Speaking to the Times about that now-infamous photo, Griffin says, “I wasn’t just canceled. I was erased.”
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This was absolutely one of the funniest things Kathy Griffin has done pic.twitter.com/BkWKPAKuhE
— hunky dory (@hotwetangry) January 19, 2022
“When you’re an artist known for being ‘difficult’ and you’re a man, they write New Yorker profiles about you and then Aaron Sorkin writes an open letter in support,” she explains. “But when you’re ‘difficult’ and you’re a woman, they call you a pain in the (expletive).”
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In the interview, Griffin also admits to “hate watching” CNN’s most recent New Year’s Eve broadcast featuring her ex-BFF Anderson Cooper and Cohen.
As you may recall, during the show, Cohen went viral for trashing outgoing New York Mayor Bill De Blasio, saying he did the “crappiest job” before adding a “sayonara, sucka.”
Andy Cohen rants about former New York City mayor Bill de Blasio during CNN’s New Year’s Eve coverage. https://t.co/IzDNA3CFlv
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) January 1, 2022
CNN acknowledged Cohen went a little too far with the remarks, but ultimately said it would have him back next year. Griffin feels the network’s response was unfair and suggests Cohen should have been fired.
“Apples to apples,” she says, noting that he made a political statement just like she did.
(Side note: Griffin makes some fair points in the interview, but we’d argue that there’s a difference between saying a politician did a crappy job and posing for a photo with their severed head.)
Griffin is also still upset over remarks Cohen made several years ago when he was asked by TMZ if he had spoken to her about taking over her CNN job and he replied, “Who?”
“This is a guy that I think kind of wanted to be me,” she tells the Times. “And now he’s halfway there.”
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One of the more touching moments in the interview came when Griffin talked about how she wishes she could get back on stage and entertain large audiences like she did in her heyday.
“I just want to get back to making people laugh,” she said. “More than anything else, that’s what has been robbed from me.”
We love Griffin, but holding onto this grudge with Cohen and “hate watching” the show she was fired from half a decade ago probably isn’t great for her mental wellbeing and certainly isn’t helping her to move on. Here’s hoping she eventually can. When she does, she’ll have an audience waiting.
Jim
I love comedians who call themselves “artists”. One of the biggest jokes they tell.
Get over yourselves.
Fname Optional Lname
Comedy is an art form. Writing comedy is extremely difficult especially if you have no training. Most study improve for years and do open mic nights for free to practice their routine. In comedy timing is crucial and you also have to know your audience which can be difficult after 10 pm when half of the crowd have more alcohol in them than a senior at a frat party. Of course it’s an art form- and most are starving artists who do the work for the love of the art form.
Bosch
@Jim Yikes. I guess people told you you’re not funny too many times.
SamB
She loves being bitter. She ruined her own career and not by taking that photo, but how she handled the backlash. Now she’s making herself out to be a victim, too bad I remember going to her show almost 15 years ago when she was still funny.
Cam
LOL! The right wing, anti-LGBTQ troll account always comes i to attack women and allies.
Sweetie, ya boring.
Fname Optional Lname
She more than paid the price. I personally don’t relate to her later comedy and have issues with her referring to her employees as her “hair and make-up gays”. She has always been an ally and supports LGBTQ causes. She is now getting over lung cancer and had part of her lung removed. This woman is a fighter and has proven she will not let the mighty orange one keep her down and you have to respect that.
Cam
When LGBTQ people were boycotting Dolce and Gabbana after the owner said that Queer people shouldn’t be allowed to adopt, Andy Cohen showed up to the Met Gala dressed head to toe in D & G.
When the owner of Soul Cycle and Crunch gym raised money for Homophobic Trump, Andy Cohen attacked the idea of boycotting.
Cohen has always supported homophobes and promotes the real Housewives who use the queer people in their lives as stereotypical accessories. Definitely Team Kathy.
garyinla
Agreed!
Ronbo
Thank you. I had not realized how much Graham Gremore and Andy have in common. Establishment gays usually go Log Cabin; but, some stick around trying to convert us to appease their boss, their paycheck.
One of the two actually wrote multiple false stories attacking progressive gay Alex Morse to help a conservative win an election.
Dijonaise
It’s A-OK by the MAGA traitors to publish photos of Hillary and Family in a gas chamber. It’s perfectly fine to publish a graphic with a shooting target over Gabby Giffords. It’s OK to sh@t all over veterans who died in the service of our country. People like Andy Cohen are basically the same as Jewish Nazi sympathizers.
Kangol2
Don’t forget all the hateful stuff they posted about Barack and Michelle Obama and their children! Our first Black president made these loons completely lose their minds and any sense of propriety or restraint!
RosemarysBaby
So sanctimonious. Not a good look for you there, Graham. To tell anyone, let alone a woman, to get over something just because you happen to think it’s time she do so, is the height of privilege. Maybe you should take your own advice and get over yourself, Graham. People are allowed to deal with their feelings anyway they wish, as long as they aren’t harming others. I’m quite sure the way she chooses to live her life has no effect whatsoever on you. Andy Cohen is a disgusting cretin, and personally, I hope Kathy treats him as such for the rest of her days.
dario717
I would prefer Kathy to Andy. Any. Time.
Creamsicle
The only misstep that Kathy Griffin made was releasing the Trump head photo before Charlottesville, back when corporate media was in “give the fascist a chance,” mode.
Everyone in media is just mad that a woman had the nuts to do what they wouldn’t and take a position to stick to.
Media LOVES to claim progressive accolades for supporting movements AFTER they have become unstoppable, but ultimately it’s a business run by cowards with fragile egos and inherited wealth that they got through exploiting artists with more talent than them.
dhmonarch89
Cohen started the whole thing with his petty childish behavior- he’s never apologized or tried to make amends, so why should Kathy forgive and forget? He was drunk on a TV broadcast- he SHOULD have been fired. And FYI- it was a mask with ketchup- not a head.
Terrycloth
First drop the words “Funny Lady ” when referring to kathy..Kathy.. wanted to be Joan Rivers..there was only one..and Joan was the best. I can’t stand Andy Cohen with a passion even worse a drunk one..he like Kathy never shuts the F up..just cancel the new years thing Anderson Cooper has had enough…let it go
Kangol2
Team Kathy Griffin over Andy “Making Millions of Misogynistic Minstrel Shows” Cohen any day!
cuteguy
Why wasn’t Cohen fired?
Fahd
What an a**hole the author of this article is!
There’s no taking Andy Cohen’s side on anything, especially with regard to how he and that poor little rich boy at CNN did not support Kathy Griffin in her difficult moments. They will go to their graves shameful losers. If Cooper were to apologize publicly to Kathy for being such a bad friend, I might watch his show again. And if Cohen were fired and Kathy came back, I’d watch CNN at NYE again. Otherwise, forget it! (BTW, she’s entirely correct about the double-standard.)
This website is going to continue losing reasonable readers if it keeps promoting this kind of absurd analysis.
The writer of this stupid post should be fired. Get a f*ing clue!
MickeyMoose
Whoever “wrote” this vacuous, sanctimonious, lecturing piece of shit post is a brain cell deficient asshole.
Mr. Stadnick
This is one of the VERY few “articles” on this that isn’t primarily made up of cut and paste quotes and twitter posts. There is a bitchy and utterly laughable style to this site. Read it for what it is a bad teenager’s school paper gossip column.
winemaker
Who gives a rats ass much cares about andy cohen? What has this buffoon done for anyone else other than himself? He’s under the impression he’s relevant, NOT and like his buddy anderson cooper keeps playing the ‘I’m gay look at me and kiss my rich white ass card’. ‘Nuff said, move on to more important things
Fname Optional Lname
This!!
krg77
We were all hate watching Andy… he’s horrible as the NYE co-host. This whole opinion piece is pathetic. Team Kathy!
Fname Optional Lname
Andy Cohen is just mad because he wants to be Kathy Griffin
Terrycloth
I’d like to see Andy Cohen as a guest on Kelly Clarksons show..neither one would shut up long enough to listen to each other..Andy would think it’s his show and Kelly makes everything about her…Kelly can Sing. What does Andy do ?
Luxury
How far does one have to have their head up their own behind to actually suggest that holding a replica head of a sitting President decapitated and bloody is the same thing as saying Mayor De Blasio is trash Mayor, or equate them as “political statements”? Andy Cohen didn’t make her do that nor is he the reason she got “cancelled”.
Agree with writer here. Move on!
Ronbo
To save face, Andy usually trots out his daughter, Publicity. I’ve not seen her, I hope she is OK.
Caine
Kathy Griffin is an American hero and Andy Cohen is a talentless hack. Graham Gremore keep Kathy’s name out yo mouth could you don’t have a damned clue what you talking about.
Luxury
It also baffles me how you all place so much value in and give the benefit of the doubt to (and make excuses for) these “straight allies” but are so quick to toss aside people who actually have the lived experience as irredeemable. What exactly has Kathy Griffin done for Gays besides exploit, mock for her comedy routines and take ownership of by calling gay men “her gays”?
Cam
Andy Cohen argued against boycotting businesses whose owners had attacked LGBTQ people or were raising money for dangerous homophoes while Griffin didn’t.
So there’s that.
Bosch
@Luxury So you’re saying we should discriminate based on sexual orientation?
rover4x
You go Kathy! Trump’s head is an art form. Please, then why people make all those horror/suspense films and get Oscar and box office with it. Andy and Anderson are such traitors as friends anyways.
alexbarbour91
She has an audience now whether she lets go of the grudge or not. He’s gross and I’m glad she used that footage in her documentary so we can all see what a weasel he is!
johncp56
all here trashing her did not look closer when the Trumps administration went after her hard, for something we do every day, and those two who were good buddies turned on her are wimpy little gurls, the pic like many have done and do over the years hanging a mock, of who every is in office, who can say the last time you heard of them being put on no fly, and their worked being destroyed ??!!!
CNY1983
no thank you to anything cohen.