Comedienne Kathy Griffin may be off the D-List (sorta), but she sure hasn’t lost her edge. At her New York performance Thursday night at Wamu Theater (formerly the Theater at Madison Square Garden), Griffin lobbed a juicy chunk of red meat into the media dogfight over Jessica Simpson’s weight gain. “If she doesn’t get the gastric bypass she could die,” Griffin quipped. “And Jessica Simpson is twice the size of Ruby from The Style Network.” Among famous folks in attendance at the show was TV financial guru Suze Orman, who was seated sixth row center. Check this space later for a full report of the night.
Feb 20
2009
02:14 AM ET
Kathy Griffin takes on Jessica Simpson
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Love Kathy. Thanks for any Kathy update
She wasn’t taking on Jessica Simpson as the headline implies. She was taking on the attacks on Jessica Simpson’s weight. Though I’m sure Kathy has attacked Jessica’s intellect in the past.
I love when she takes on how stupid the media is.
Please, EW, don’t devote space to this plastic surgery freak. Surely there’s something you can write about, rather than giving attention to the most annoying, juvenile brat that ever stepped up to a mike.
I was there and this quote, taken out of context, makes it sound much more mean-spirited than was the case. Kathy was clearly being fecicious and it was part of a long joking rant on how she loves any and all celebrity weight gain (what’s in the Wynonna diet pills…pancakes?). Clearly she was saying it all in good fun, not swiping at Simpson, and it was 15 seconds of a two hour show (which, I might add, was absolutely hysterical, start to finish).
Hi Kathy! Hi Jessica!
Kathy’s the greatest! However, I wouldn’t mind if she were to take on Simpson’s hypocrisy a little more. She was fine with the Barbie Doll image when she had it, but now that she’s starting to look a little more like a real woman (still beautiful, but not that physical ideal), she expects everyone to climb on board her newfound religion against what she used to be.
If she’s a role model at all, it should be to all the other nymphets who are coming up who won’t be able to keep up that facade forever. Try to develop a little intelligence, or else you’ll be doomed to be known as the once-famous sex symbol who faded into obscurity after eating too much Chicken Of The Sea.
Kathy is hilarious. She’s being completely sarcastic about the whole thing which unfortunately people without a sense of humor fail to realize.
Kathy is such a one-trick pony–that one episode of Seinfeld over and over again. I don’t understand her appeal.