Laughing All The Way to the Bank
As much as I love comedy, I have often been amazed at how few female comediennes there are out there. Out of those few there are even less that are actually funny. If you don't believe me, just Google the words "great female comediennes" and you will see that two, count 'em two links come up.
In my book there's Janeane Garofalo and Ellen DeGeneres at the top of the heap and to prove it, I'm not including a hyperlink for either one of them. Kerri Kenney and Amy Poehler can hold their own, at least in a sketch show sense, while Tina Fey is an extremely talented comedic writer and performer who I'd like, totally love to be. After that there's Rosie who used to be funny, that is before I realized she was actually, infact, evil.
The point is I'm always on the lookout for other funny females. On the radar for years now has been another favorite of mine, Kathy Griffin. Kathy Griffin is great because she constantly teeters between being annoying and keeping it real. She's obnoxious, but refreshingly honest about being obnoxious. She's an attention whore, but she owns it. But perhaps most importantly, she knows her celebrity dirt. Recently a whole format has been created just to prove this fact. It's Kathy's new reality show called Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List.
Kathy's show is all about the hilarity that ensues from being not a B or even a C lister, but a D-lister. Watch how Kathy has to beg for free stuff. See very few celebrities know who she is and even less of those celebrites actually liking her. This and more are just a few of the monkey wrenchs thrown into Kathy's everyday life.
But I'm here to tell you that after watching the show one thing is for sure, being on the "D-List" isn't so bad after all. For one thing, there's her house. In a word it's HUGE. Kathy tries to play this off by setting up premises where she thinks of schemes to get free things done for the house cause apparently after the purchase, she's house poor. But just like Argentina, don't go crying for Kathy Griffin anytime soon. Something tells me that if she can afford her lovely "little" house on the hill that she could also splurge and order a sectional or two, even if they are from the sweet, sweet IKEA.
The other big gimmick Kathy uses is her anonymity. Kathy acts like no one in Hollywood knows who she is. Yet she's asked to emcee random charity events and attend nightly semi-studded galas. And how does she keep current on her supposed "lack" of celebrity related options? Well via her ASSISTANT, of course. Cause every wannabe celebrity who has no money to their name and has yet to arrive has an assistant on the payroll. Hell most people don't have anyone on payroll, period. Yet just check out some of those houses on MTV's Cribs. All it takes is a winning combination of "baby" and "roll out" and you too could have the house of your dreams.
But perhaps the biggest confirmation that Kathy isn't as low rent as she'd like us to believe?
She has a show in the first place.
I know, I know, anyone and their mother can get on TV these days, but not everybody can get a show in their name all about their struggle to make it. Not unless of course, they have already made it, but it's still funny to say otherwise. Just ask Rodney "I Get No Respect" Dangerfield. He called that number a long time before Ms. Griffin...and with a rotary phone. No doubt.
In my book there's Janeane Garofalo and Ellen DeGeneres at the top of the heap and to prove it, I'm not including a hyperlink for either one of them. Kerri Kenney and Amy Poehler can hold their own, at least in a sketch show sense, while Tina Fey is an extremely talented comedic writer and performer who I'd like, totally love to be. After that there's Rosie who used to be funny, that is before I realized she was actually, infact, evil.
The point is I'm always on the lookout for other funny females. On the radar for years now has been another favorite of mine, Kathy Griffin. Kathy Griffin is great because she constantly teeters between being annoying and keeping it real. She's obnoxious, but refreshingly honest about being obnoxious. She's an attention whore, but she owns it. But perhaps most importantly, she knows her celebrity dirt. Recently a whole format has been created just to prove this fact. It's Kathy's new reality show called Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List.
Kathy's show is all about the hilarity that ensues from being not a B or even a C lister, but a D-lister. Watch how Kathy has to beg for free stuff. See very few celebrities know who she is and even less of those celebrites actually liking her. This and more are just a few of the monkey wrenchs thrown into Kathy's everyday life.
But I'm here to tell you that after watching the show one thing is for sure, being on the "D-List" isn't so bad after all. For one thing, there's her house. In a word it's HUGE. Kathy tries to play this off by setting up premises where she thinks of schemes to get free things done for the house cause apparently after the purchase, she's house poor. But just like Argentina, don't go crying for Kathy Griffin anytime soon. Something tells me that if she can afford her lovely "little" house on the hill that she could also splurge and order a sectional or two, even if they are from the sweet, sweet IKEA.
The other big gimmick Kathy uses is her anonymity. Kathy acts like no one in Hollywood knows who she is. Yet she's asked to emcee random charity events and attend nightly semi-studded galas. And how does she keep current on her supposed "lack" of celebrity related options? Well via her ASSISTANT, of course. Cause every wannabe celebrity who has no money to their name and has yet to arrive has an assistant on the payroll. Hell most people don't have anyone on payroll, period. Yet just check out some of those houses on MTV's Cribs. All it takes is a winning combination of "baby" and "roll out" and you too could have the house of your dreams.
But perhaps the biggest confirmation that Kathy isn't as low rent as she'd like us to believe?
She has a show in the first place.
I know, I know, anyone and their mother can get on TV these days, but not everybody can get a show in their name all about their struggle to make it. Not unless of course, they have already made it, but it's still funny to say otherwise. Just ask Rodney "I Get No Respect" Dangerfield. He called that number a long time before Ms. Griffin...and with a rotary phone. No doubt.
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