Kathy Griffin has some selection phrases for fellow comic Stephen Colbert.
Griffin argued Tuesday on her present “Speak Your Head Off” that the 2018 “Late Show” interview she had with Colbert was a “bullshit ambush” over the notorious photograph she took a 12 months earlier with a bloodied prop of President Donald Trump’s head.
“I didn’t need them to pay attention to what was actually occurring,” she said about Colbert’s audience. “As a result of what was actually occurring was a bullshit ambush. However I assumed that was such a low blow. And there’s a factor in comedy known as punching up or punching down.”
“I’m very a lot on the D-list. Everyone is aware of that,” Griffin defined, including: “And Stephen Colbert is an A-list comedian. He has achieved nearly every little thing you’ll be able to as a comic and he’s wildly gifted and he’s clearly very shiny, however man — what a dick.”
Griffin confronted widespread criticism after posing for photographer Tyler Shields with the pretend Trump head. She was not solely fired as co-host of CNN’s New 12 months’s Eve programming but additionally questioned by the Secret Service — and faced potential criminal charges.
Griffin stated Tuesday that she was informed solely shortly earlier than the interview that Colbert would elevate the topic, regardless of her prior request that he not. When she defended the photograph by pointing to free speech legal guidelines enshrined by the First Modification, Colbert pushed again.
“There are limits to, although, what you’ll be able to say in regards to the president of the USA,” the CBS host argued during the December 2018 broadcast, “having particularly to do with hurt towards the president of the USA.”
When Griffin famous that she didn’t trigger any, Colbert replied, “Properly, you have been holding up a severed head” — main her to state “it was a masks” lined in ketchup. Griffin stated Tuesday the confrontation was “laced with misogyny” and that she held again tears through the interview.
She recalled totally bursting into tears after the phase and stated a producer rushed over to clarify Colbert “simply couldn’t recover from the image” as a result of he’s “actually Catholic.” Whereas her emotional misery flew underneath the radar on the time, Griffin believes Colbert was conscious of it.
Representatives for Colbert didn’t instantly reply to a HuffPost request for remark.
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“I don’t suppose the viewers may inform that my eyes crammed up,” she stated Tuesday. “I do suppose Stephen may inform. It didn’t cease him. I didn’t really feel he had any empathy, however I did really feel he had an understanding of what was occurring. And that’s what made it worse.”
The comedian went on to notice that she was an enormous fan of his “subversive” earlier work on “The Colbert Report,” which excoriated hypocritical politicians on a nightly foundation from 2005 to 2014, however that, in regard to his “Late Night time” gig, she is going to “by no means be on the present once more.”
“I’ve such a low opinion of Stephen Colbert now,” she defined. “He’s not going to listen to about this, but when he does, he’ll most likely problem a type of statements saying I made the entire thing up and that I’m irrelevant and that he didn’t know I used to be crying, blah, blah, blah.”
Griffin previously revealed that the dying threats she obtained because of the photograph have been so relentless that she obtained hooked on painkillers — and secretly tried to take her life. In 2023, Griffin disclosed she had an “extreme case” of post-traumatic stress disorder.
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