Kathy Griffin | Club Random with Bill Maher

love random oh they always hide where is she oh my God bill it's here Hello darling come here how are you how have you been I've been okay yeah I know you've had your ups and downs and I have um but yeah I never ever think they get you down no really you're you're not the type to go down you're just a fighter or your whole thing is I mean not your whole thing you're hysterically funny but you're a fighter so I never really worried about you the bad thing is I'm a street fighter so along the way I've made some enemies but I'm trying to turn into more of a strategic fighter that would be great and it's 62 years young I'm Really Gonna Change this time I really am that's a great that's a great thing to say because you first of all you could never get to any age where you go oh I've stopped especially when it's about making mistakes yeah it's God do the same thing I I look back even five ten years and go I want a dumbass thing I did the stuff I would say by the way I thought I was doing it for like the work but like the stuff I thought I I thought everything was a battle I thought whether it's a piece of the set dressing that I feel strongly about or you know whatever my own writing and looking back not everything was the same level battle that I kind of treated it like that that's funny that you that's great also great that you recognize that because that is exactly how I saw you as why does this girl make everything a battle she she I thought you must like it because you were always doing really you know who fights with the left and the right very few I do but you know I guess I'm crazy too but I mean to the point of getting canceled by both yeah you know and by the way canceled is sort of an adorable way of putting it remember it was under investigation by the Department of Justice the U.S attorney attorney's office the Secret Service you know no-fly list but also look as you know it's not that hard to scare off buyers and the buyers really I think until maybe just very recently have been scared off buyers of what yeah like the buyers like the networks the streamers um people who might buy the Kathy Griffin front yeah buy the categories but also even to feel safe having Kathy Griffin at their theater you know what I mean of course so no I know I know you when you did the Trump uh picture yes I mean which God you know when you look back on it when you look back at I look back at my 911 thing and it all just seems surreal and so I mean I thought it was stupid at the time and I thought what they did to you was stupid at the time and I remember I had you on yeah to say that um but when you look back it's even stupider yeah and compared to the other stuff that we should have been focusing on it was the classic the paranoia of just also what's so annoying about that is it's what I hate about our culture robotic things you know TSA things were like oh you know if you handle this like a human like the Israelis handle security I remember being in Israel and going through security and I had a thermos that looked just like the bottom of a bomb now if this was the TSA just like are you kidding they just go by the rules yeah we only know this Rule and the rule is if you take a picture with Trump's head you're a teacher whereas like in Israel when they found the thing this very intelligent and they and in Israel they are ex-military intelligence who do this at the airport interrogated interrogated asked me like eight questions and was like okay I'm an intelligent person I say this is an American comedian he's making a movie over here this is really is a thermos for cereal yeah they could just tell because they're using their mind yeah as opposed to what happened to you as more examples of that no we're robots this is the rule and this is going to cause beheadings in an innumerable fashion more than you can ever imagine and she is just as she is no different than a bride of Isis she's Kathy Griffin bride devices I'm only eating baby Parts with you Hillary Clinton and Tom Hanks and by the way Seth Green did you know the cues have been going for poor Seth Green no why they think that for some reason Seth Green they think he was like one of the original people at Comet Pizza in the basement with Hillary harvesting baby parts and I've had talked to Seth about like what it's like to have the whole Q world not just come at you Seth Green voice of Chris Griffin yes from like the teen movies with red hairs sure yeah but then they're convinced Tom Hanks is harvesting the baby parts yeah and that's that [ __ ] didn't happen seven years ago I'm just telling you my whole career for the crap I got in trouble with I went this too far with a celebrity whatever nothing like the stuff I think the biggest thing when historians look back on this period and they write about it um from many years later they won't be where we are where we're in the pits of it so we everything is is binary and we see the left and the right they will just look from their vantage point and see America went crazy and that everything that the left did or the whoever started it um and the rights reaction and the less reaction to that was sort of a a cause and effect whereas if you're this crazy we're gonna get this crazy about our [ __ ] yeah you know I mean God willing people see that because I am terrified in what do we do with this world that is void of opinions it's just deciding this fact is a fact and this fact isn't a fact right but I mean this kind of thing what you're talking about like the okay they're gonna the historians are gonna go like yes at a certain point so many percentage of the Republicans thought Republic Democrats were eating babies and the Democratic responses uh we're going to insist that it's possible for every man to be pregnant it's going to go oh I see I see what happened back in 20 in the 2020s in America now can we please talk about because you and I share this we both are childless therefore Heretics right and What would how would a young Bill Maher deal with all the new laws if boys could get pregnant too oh I mean Bill Maher like how old would you have been would you when you were knocked up if you were a chick what's that like how old would you have been when you got knocked up when you were a chick like do you think you would have gotten knocked up if I was a woman yeah if I was born a woman yeah like would you get not have kids till you're married it's it oh God Kathy to ask me what would be in my head if I was a woman I mean I'm not usually stuck for an answer about a lot of things but I'm stuck for him because I I'm you know I guess I'm very much unlike the so many of the young people today where gender is fluid and it's just always a jump ball when you're born and you can switch back and forth sometimes in the middle of a conversation really you identify and then you identify in a different way on mood I feel like I came from an hour I was just created like I mean I'm not going to say I'm a marine or anything but I am all man you know I I just do not think like a woman I do not act like one or or even a gay man you know right so I I mean and I don't and I've talked you'd be like me you'd just simply be a female who chose not to have kids perhaps right no I I mean I could have been your doppelganger in many ways or in an altered Universe we could have been married Let's Pretend we're married we're in our chairs but I waited 10 years to marry the dude so we've been together with 13 we only got married and I have to tell you about our wedding day our wedding date was New Year's Eve because I thought you know after getting canned from CNN right let me have some more positive to like celebrate around New Year's so that part was great and the best part is we did it New Year's Eve 2020 convinced 2020 was gonna be the greatest year in a shitstorm right and then how did that affect you as newlyweds but you I guess again you knew each other living together we're a second house together all that stuff right yeah oh well look I I know you've been through all this [ __ ] with cancer yeah I feel like it no uh what I've always thought cancer was bad and I don't care who's gonna argue with me that's my position yeah but I swear to God I feel like it's made you a better person well I do think first of all I think people can see me as a human being for the first time in a while and I've just noticed a lot of people reaching out to me on social media just saying I didn't like this about you I don't like that but I'm wishing you well or whatever or like well regardless you're a Survivor or something like that so there's that and also of course it changes you because first of all as you can tell I actually sustained some injuries during my surgery sure they had to take out half my left lung they damaged my vocal cord permanently I also have like an aperture up here so my voice may never come back to full speed I kind of like it this way really yeah I'm so afraid though I can't do Impressions you don't get a car you get a car I mean you know it's over right you were never an impressionist I'm working on it I'm a work in progress I might audition next year that's not why your fans love you it's like oh I want to see Catholic ribbender Impressions they want to see you do your thing and which is you know great and you know you carved out a place you know you like you know you just did it you had a there was a niche there in show business and you were like I'm going for it and succeeded and then yes you did um fight with too many people for for two I mean like every exactly like you're still not friends with Anderson Cooper no but that was like a little more of a friendship like that was like kind of a personal thing you know because that was like a tough but like will you ever get over that with him or sure of course oh you will yes he knows that too or is that just what you know I mean that made I don't know that he's interested right but I mean you know I also don't have like a need to like hang out with people that maybe weren't so were you really friends with Anderson Cooper like I thought so yeah like the kind of I mean like I didn't think we were Hollywood friends I thought we were legit friends right okay because they do throw the word friend around a lot in Show Business and I always say there's a difference between friend and friendly right like a lot there's a lot of leaves out there I got a lot of leaves yeah but friend is like somebody who you have their phone number you bear yourself to each other you're there for each other when this one's having a tough day yeah yeah so you had that with Addison Cooper yeah so I missed that you know what I mean so it's hard but I'll tell you it's just like he is on the air um asking probing questions and your day yes let's let's get some background information he does have like a newscaster voice I mean that is it but I'll tell you I was also really probably closer with is I loved his mom Clary Vanderbilt I mean those were evenings right like um I actually stole one of her ideas and I know you're a big fan of these too but I've been having these salons in my house and they've been one of the ways that during my quote cancellation I've been kind of staying sure just 10 people phones down real conversation Smarties like people that you kind of cast like Sue mengers was a friend of mine a lot of people don't know Bette Midler The Great Bette Midler did a played Sue mengers and Broadway I don't think it was it out here I don't know but it was definitely what was it called I forgot the name of the show about lunch or something yeah but anyway it was about she played this super agent Sue mengers who was a real person I certainly knew her quite well she was the first powerful woman agent and she wrapped Ryan O'Neal at the house Barbara Streisand Jack Nicholson Barbra Streisand yes Steve McQueen yes and I remember the first time I went to her house she showed me the 60 Minutes piece they did on her it was very Norma Desmond and Sunset Boulevard like come in and she must have shown this to a thousand people and it was from the 70s so much I understand but like it was like Sue I know who you are you don't have to show me the 60 Minutes piece but of course she looks better in that Cafe than the one she was wearing but remember how she would talk to the staff oh grass she would just scream grass I used to bring her grass well good for you yeah that's what a good I was an enabler but those evenings were special because so special there was it was always like the most A-list crowd suit could sue had the kind of clout that she could summon anybody yeah I remember being so it was like a mix of old Hollywood like her old cronies who were of course iconic Nicholson Jack Nicholson yeah Neil Diamond Julia but then there would be Julia Roberts I remember right meeting there Daniel Craig Daniel Craig I remember like he she would just say I want this person I saw that's how I was there she saw me on TV and said get me Bill Maher and I was thrilled to go she invited me by facts my age she called and said you have a fax I said fantastic and she invited me after I won my first Emmy and I got up there and I said you know a lot of celebrities Think Jesus for their Emmys suck at Jesus this award is my God now my first cancellation but she called me and said you've earned a seat at the table oh that's awesome and yeah I got to meet such Fascinating People and I learned and this is how I try to do my dinners my my guests no I want nothing from them I don't care how famous they are I'm not going to ask anything of them I'm not hitting them up for part their movie right like it's literally just like I just want your company and I'm telling you I do lunches and dinners and I just live for them you know but didn't didn't somebody get mad at you because they thought you were like sharing too much about their personal life didn't you have one of those few I don't know but like some woman like so much look some of these folks remember they were like 80 85 years of age so I mean well this was somebody younger who I feel like you were chummy with some woman and then is it Brooke Shields are you gonna bring it Brooke Shields I don't know Rosenberg Shields but Brooke Shields I was on a TV show with for four years yeah I remember that I love her and she's maybe not a giant fan of mine really because I talked about I know it's a shock but you know going to our wedding in one of my specials which she had come to see live and thought it was great but then had a change of heart like seeing it you know because you talked about her yeah yeah you know what you have to do you have to do like uh remember that show uh something Earl where he went around it was kind of like taken from the AAA thing where you go around and make amends to all the people yeah and uh you should do that with the shitlist it's like a scroll so that's where my fans the problem is my fans want to hear the that's what they want that could be a show one week one week you go to Anderson Cooper and you make up with him and then the next one I don't know but you have to make up with it okay okay right okay he's not talking to you then you go to Brooke Shields and you just go down this list I mean you would have a whole season okay then you have to do the same thing to Congress you have to go down the list well and the last one would be Trump for you oh okay really right and how what do I get out of that scenario I don't know bring him somebody else's head a suggestion bring another head I have so many choices or at least cut off an ear you know something like that start small yeah I know but um so who else is on on this [ __ ] list I forget but I um I don't know who's on the [ __ ] list once you're on their shirt once you've been canceled to the degree that I have or like you said Hollywood turned on me you know I haven't like I haven't been able to make money meaning be in the red four wait in the black which one is it which is the good one the black okay I've been in the black for six years now I'm not crying poor I've done well all this other stuff I'm thrilled but that sucks like if somebody had just turned off your phone if you went from this life that you lived today and look you got a million gigs but I'm just saying I was busy and to have no one call for six years that's that is a per that is uh that's a Purgatory you know six but now now it's over you're out of trouble in jail here's what I think I think that if the Mirage called after six years I feel like if the Mirage is having me back yes and as you know Vegas is not edgy Vegas is Middle America people go to Vegas well and I think if I'm safe for Vegas I think it's a big sign Vegas no that's not true anymore when I first played Vegas um opening for Diana Ross uh it was exactly that it was uh just really square but now Vegas is so big first of all the town itself is a town you could play even if it didn't have the tourists because it's a big town I get a lot of townies I bet you you do too okay uh do you mean gay show boys you're damn right I do honey every last one of them right and then beyond that I mean if you have I don't know how many people are in town from out of town but there is enough I mean to fill a I mean I play The Comedy I played The Mirage for years yeah and that theater was like 150 12.50 yeah okay so out of the yes even if it's one out of a hundred there's plenty of hip people in town because people like to go and have fun in Vegas too right you're right they're far outnumbered remember this is also the town that when Linda Ronstadt dedicated you know Desperado to Michael Moore not only did she get booed off the stage at Cedar Caesar's she was walked out by security Linda ronstad right an icon a legend yes you know that wasn't not in our lifetime you're right so there's still that I think the buyers in Vegas they got to please a lot of Masters and I'm just saying for me I think it's a significant thing that it's my first gig I've had in six years where they actually offered me the money they did six years ago meaning in a good way meaning it wasn't come to this for free right we're doing you a favor if you come host my charity for free again right like it's been six years of I'm helping you by you coming and suiting up you know so it just feels good to have like a gig it's time to reclaim your weekend Sunday lawn care can take one thing off your to-do list instead of spending time working on your yard with Sunday you can spend time enjoying it Sunday is everything you need to get the lawn you've dreamed of this spring go to sketsonday.com random and enter your address to get a customized plan created just for your lawn no trips to the store or hauling heavy bags since they ship straight to your home you just need a hose to apply Sunday you can fertilize your whole lawn in less than a time than it takes to enjoy an 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guilty stream White House plumbers on HBO Max and check out HBO's White House plumbers podcast hosted by Olivia nuzzy wherever you get your podcasts now I mean what America does so well is do stupid things and then like a few years later usually I remember this happened with oh God everybody from Don Imus and some people get canceled permanently but there's a lot of oh yeah maybe we did overreact I hope so you've been banking on it absolutely Because by the way the the reverse is horrifying like that people are still walking around be like that [ __ ] kind of deserves it well but if you say to somebody if someone you know like like the way I describe it to you if you were just woke up and you had no job the next day by the way almost no friends and also you've paid the price I mean this look I'm going to say something now I hope it doesn't bother you or people in the audience and I'm admitting before I say it it's pure conjecture but from everything I know uh about medicine and health I'm a Believer in the Mind Body Connection and um we don't know exactly what causes cancer for sure or else we could go and have it diagnosed but yeah stress extreme stress um yes I think is very very involved in you know I'm just saying I got lung cancer it's not my family I never smoked right it's a tumor ironically that had been there since 2009 and not grown then all of a sudden it's double in size and then it's like we got to get out in three weeks and we're taking half the long right you know so I I know I agree I'm with you so I'm just saying for the folks who want to punish you forever for your non-crimes um just think about that you know the you got your price of your pound of Flesh yeah or however much that tumor weighed right and almost literally yeah and besides not making the money and also just the just that the days of of wondering about your future and your past you couldn't make people laugh anymore come on you know that what that does to us it's not just a daily routine right you no longer can even like make people laugh on social media without you know what I mean like it's taking that away has been the hardest thing it would be like cutting off the last 10 inches of my penis when we don't have those to spare because we got the first three feet and then we roll it back up for the next curl now what's going on in your love life I'm afraid to ask oh my God Mom don't be shy mom come on first of all I don't know first of all I was there for classy honey don't act like we don't go back I don't we [ __ ] I don't talk about my personal life you're so full of [ __ ] I don't know not not why don't you brag about it first of all because can you get a date bill no there you go that's it that's what it is and also I'm just I'm just focused on helping and healing America I wish I had time for social life but my complete dedication is to Healing the rift in our nation so that's where I am wow you're just uh like um Saint and also or also or duct tape all right now this is you know as as you talk about a lot I talk about you know knowing what you can talk about on stage because I sort of think this is funny but I don't know if the audience would but I am being sort of humorous but not kidding when I say I now give the plan at seven years I used to be like 30 right then how do you see us keeping up this pace and for how long it's so interesting you put it that way because it sounds to me like what they've always said since I've lived out here about earthquakes right which is like oh the big one is coming the fault the fault and it I mean the big one is coming yeah there's no doubt about that well climate change is not the big one down an earthquake yeah I'm just making analogy because I thought it was interesting the way you put it and I have had that feeling since I moved here about the earthquakes which is okay you keep saying we're due and then we're really do and in the last 10 years going back almost 10 years I remember people saying um maybe not in so many words but letting the people who will kind of could read between the lines know this is going to come in the next 10 years and now we're almost up to that 10-year point when I before when I heard that yeah so like it's the same thing with global warming and the destruction of the planet environmentally is it going to happen yes I believe it is too seven years probably not but possibly like we're spinning the wheel on it it could be seven or it could be 70 or it could be never because they figure out how to [ __ ] foil it yeah or maybe they were I mean look they're they're not always right about I wish they would stop predicting uh environmental repercussions because they've done it a lot and it hasn't happened like in 2003 James Hansen the NASA guy was like if we don't completely reverse what we're doing in 10 years it's too late well it's like 13 years past that deadline and they're still saying it's not too late because you can't ever say it's too late yeah it possibly is too late we possibly already cast the dice but we don't know so seven years um I wouldn't take that bet but it's it should be on the table yeah that's so now as you travel the country you are like I I'm remember it's been so long since I toured America seven six years I'm sorry five years but I remember like I think it was an Indiana gig I would play once a year and I'd pass the one barn with the Confederate flag on the roof that was one place and I could always open with that story oh you guys still let that guy live here I've been ready you know so what do you make of the magas that live in the areas maybe most impacted by climate change and they are still in their denial and why when it's when you're a farmer when your job depends on the weather well first of all they're not all in denial I mean there is plenty of farmers who are on that page I mean they're not idiots necessarily they're but the other reasons why I think people are uh sort of in the dark about global warming sometimes it just if they're in their own news silos it doesn't get on their radar they don't report it on Fox News yeah it's just not an issue it's not like an issue they disagree with it just really doesn't exist except it sometimes have debunkers on and there are reasonable people like Bjorn lornberg who is you know somebody I think maybe MSNBC won't have him on and he's not a crazy person but he has a different view of what's going on with the climate he doesn't deny that this is happening he's being just more measured about it I don't agree with everything he says but I listen to him and he's not crazy that kind of person they don't you know we don't we don't allow that kind of person anymore you have to be all in on what your team is doing yeah so on Fox news they don't hear about global yeah and then they also are religious I remember the Oklahoma senator Jim imhoff once said he's the guy who brought a snowball yeah into Congress wants to prove that global warming was false that you can't write this [ __ ] yeah and he said his his idea about global warming was yeah God's still up there okay you can't argue with God still up there yeah it's just not on it we're just we're just you're playing tennis and I'm playing soccer on a different field right you know and so it's just stuck and it's you know that's what I wonder how I don't mean any farmers in those regions I mean if you're a mega person and jury farmer how do you reconcile what your eyes and ears see in front of you and what you're okay but what do your eyes and ears see in front of you they see the same world as it's always been yes sometimes more floods water is rising but you know what floods do come and go and floods have been here forever it's in the Bible so like how much of that is global warming my view would be some there are souped-up conditions that create more or blah blah blah but like we were going apoplectic here in California for a very long time because it never rained and then what happened this year it [ __ ] rained until the people here were saying good God would it stop raining right and in one like month-long period we kind of got out of the drought emergency because we don't have we don't have the ability to capture it no that would make it better but we still I read we like the reservoirs have water in them then the Ohio river is actually a river again I mean what I'm saying is it's partly cyclical and this [ __ ] has always gone on and that's what a farmer sees and there is an element of global warming changing things but since it's basically the same [ __ ] the Sun comes out it's not like the seasons have ended uh it rains it doesn't rain there's good there's bad this is the farmer's life is like oh I hope it uh rains this year oh I hope that's a good harvest this is why one reason they started religion so you could pray to somebody and say for [ __ ] sake would you make the corn grow yeah because we got to make soda right oh wait we don't make soda yet we're ancient people but still that's a reason to have a deity to pray for crops exactly and by the way I was even I was shocked well I shouldn't say even I am a chicagoan I didn't know how much of the hate that was coming toward me was also um made lots of Jesus tie-ins like people would go religious very quickly is that right yeah very quickly so I I learned that that marriage is more than I was even aware of like I would say 90 of the folks that have a problem with me at some point they'll bring in Jesus and usually they are ex what I would call extremely religious I mean I was raised Catholic yeah it didn't take well I haven't they tried haters I mean wait were you did you go to Catholic School ever yeah well I went to catechism that's where you learn every Sunday yes that's where you learn to be a Catholic it's like you know it was two hours you're not getting in heaven with just catechism once a week Bill all right you're not even close yeah you got to go to church every day God I was gonna say the rosary you got to be molofted you got to do a lot it's pretty proactive when I think about this stress that I worry about now it was it's nothing compared to the uh not in my stomach that involved going to the catechism school because school made me very nervous also regular school you know I was easily bullied and shy and um but catechism with these were kids I didn't know from like other towns and the classroom was way bigger and there seemed to me there was a thousand desks and kids in that school and the nuns were very strict and mean and they were not iron Brimstone yeah they were not like the nice teacher I had who you know wore sweaters and I could look at her tits and this was a nut it's called a lay teacher they don't count they're not Divine no they don't even know God so to go from that normal school and then to see these these mean seemed like a thousand-year-old creatures in the black shroud you know it's scary just that outfit is [ __ ] scary yeah of course you know supposed to be I mean you don't know what the [ __ ] in there right but you know something's in there some kind of trouble who's in there some mini someone was making me in there yeah yeah so but you know what I guess that's the kind of thing that people bleed about in therapy for the rest of their lives I just I don't get that I'm just like yeah it was it traumatic yeah the last thing I want to do is remember it yeah you know isn't that don't we have a mechanism don't you think as humans to purposely forget honestly not have to remember every minute of catechism and just kind of remember a couple lightning bolts in a few seconds we're trying to forget all the trauma yes oh my gosh absolutely you know you've walked through fires I mean the cancer [ __ ] is gnarly and just you know plus just people have like confronted me physically so many times like I can't tell you not so much anymore but you know it was confronted physical oh everything I've had people strike me on the street strike you strike me yeah strike you as what as a very talented young lady um no and and people might feel very entitled to come up and there's something about my face that says come up to me right now and tell me exactly what you think it says well there is why well that you accused that's sort of a backhanded compliment to your skill as a as a communicator and to how much people you know relate to you and see you as a real person and so they want to you know like movie stars are the opposite a lot of times people they say you know some big stars can walk down the street and like people don't stop them even though they might gawk because it's like oh they're bigger than life I can't know them but with you especially TV is that kind of medium um and live performance of course they feel like they know you they feel like if they got to talk to you you'd be the same person who you are on stage and you pretty much are kind of I'm pretty the same bro I am I'm talking about the maggots that want to come back and tell them give me a piece of their mind they don't even know my work from before they just know me as the main picture where do you encounter them I'm walking down the street what street is this I remember one time well not us it's not in the Los Angeles I might walk down the street a little more often what street is this it's not in Los Feliz it's not in uh San Francisco I have San Francisco San Francisco right in the Embarcadero like four people were very upset I was in a restaurant a really fancy kind of fancy restaurant in Santa Monica and a woman um and a woman was like at the front at the hostess station yelling and pointing and asking me to be removed from the restaurant but what do you know what their specific beef was you with you was was it the trumpet oh yeah it's the Trump head oh it's always different it's always the trumpet yeah and by the way even the Q anons a couple of licks in they're like because of the trumpet I see so all the Q anons it all goes you you tried to kill President it's very it's very cartoon of Muhammad yeah it really you know like some things just hit people humans right like in a certain way and they it gives them license to then just say to themselves well that was so beyond the pale that I could personally deserves anything to this person I can go into the Charlie edbo offices yeah and shoot these cartoons and feel very good about myself but they also don't and you see that nerve so it's like thank you America you're welcome America I took the one for the team it is quite a you know I mean there is some pride in knitting in going deep yes you went you went deep I'm a thinker you know I'm a thinker I mean people think damn it and that thing really wasn't even your idea was it it was the photographer no I kind of I collaborated with him I said look you know I'd like to do something about you know and then one of us thought of the head one of us thought of the blood coming out of his wherever and that was about as deep as it went although Hillary Clinton thought it was Medusa and Perseus so let's just go with that really doesn't that sound smart she goes I just assumed she was doing Medusa and Perseus I was like me too well Hillary Clinton excuse me was a presidential candidate the valedictorian at Wesleyan and the first woman on the moon so just like Trump just like Trump same disc do you remember the time my old friend Bill do you remember the time that we were at a Larry King party at Larry's house and who's the producer that sent us to a restaurant on his tab a really good Italian place Jerry Weintraub he's no longer with us you're right I do remember I remember the restaurant it's on Robertson yes it's a really good Italian place or something like that okay I do remember and I was with actually a guy that I knew I'm from New York and he was in town and we went and we had the best time but was it Jerry wine travel I think it was I think it was but wow somebody like that yes it's a shame is he not with us I believe he's no longer with us but I remember that night I was gonna do a quick technology I hope you don't mind I don't mind dying well I do I shouldn't start that with a lie but let's pretend I don't mind dying okay but what I really would mind is ever entering a period in my life where people were always wondering whether I was dead or not right you know you wanted to be definitive I do yeah I don't want people to be going Bill bars he's still alive or did I read something or was that Greg Kinnear who died you know I just don't want to I did that I cannot take that I get it I get it you got a boundary you're setting a boundary with Destiny I am yeah either no I'm alive or dead or how do you want to go in your dream world I don't want to go okay well all right let's start over how do you want to go again in your dream world uh uh well Larry King was wanted to be frozen I don't know if he did that but he talked about that a lot like he didn't want to die I don't blame him he he loved the Dodgers and I feel like Larry and I were a lot like that you know uh in the same way we really liked the different parts of our Lives of course his life was very different he had that uh you know I was always married to someone who was causing him emotional distress I don't know why that worked for him but he did it eight times it must have right um but he was always you know every morning was Nate now yeah with the same crew yeah that's pretty great things like I don't do that because I'm not up in the morning that you know I wouldn't do that exactly but I have things like that and I'm I'm like when you talk about death I'm like no because I kind of I want to see the playoffs next year like if I die I'll miss the playoffs and and I like the playoffs so like can we talk about some just epic moments that admit it there isn't there isn't a show anything like Larry King anymore I'm actually surprised I thought they should have given that hour to Anderson Cooper I thought he could have carried on that Legacy beautifully if you wanted that six o'clock hour but like well I would argue that Joe Rogan is not like Larry King but it's it's every generation has its own iteration of that and certainly there are differences but huge audience yeah bigger than Larry King everywhere but Larry also had the thing where you kind of would go there for the softballs too like Paris Hilton went there after jail and I feel like Joe Rogan does that not softball necessarily but he's not looking for a fight any he's willing to open the mic to people and let the person talk right even the ones that the establishment of some kind or another says how dare you let that person speak I'm sorry how is Joe not establishment doesn't show everyone 11 million yes he does and but that's like how dare you have you know doctor I forget the doctor he had on and yeah there's some shady things about that doctor he's a doctor and could I just hear him speak he's you know he has credentials and uh let's keep an open mind on this versus oh no medicine it's always set it's never set it's the one science that is especially never set I just glad you're picking up the ball for Joe Rogan that guy needs all the help in this industry now he he deserves it no I know he did a great thing but I would say he is Our Generations Larry King in the same way that there was Carson and then Letterman yeah uh you know Leno uh and then it moved to Fallon I mean it was the CH that show has evolved quite a bit Johnny Carson it was really a talk show yeah now it the talk is Johnny it was 90 minutes remember at the beginning yeah it's actually 1 45 at one point wow yeah 145. that's the Epic stuff that would happen on that show I mean that's the one thing you wouldn't get with a Rogan the weird interactions you'd get with like oh drunk Joey Heatherton and like right and John Lennon or like just you know no of course I mean a podcast is only the Talking part there's no production value and there's no band and there's no monologue but just for what what Joe does he kind of opens that mic Like Larry did yeah and you know Elon Musk will do that show and like you know the biggest people in the world because they know of the reach and I just think also Joe earned that he it's like hey this is just a a regular guy smarter than the average bear but it's not going to be intimidated first of all by you saying don't platform this guy or don't listen to this and we'll let anybody speak and usually has a common sense view of it of his own you know he's a little to the right of where I am on things I think yeah I think he didn't he recently say he was would vote for Trump or something I mean to me that's beyond the well but then he also said he actually thought Obama was like the gold standard for like the best president in his lifetime you know like he you know I don't get the people who like just hate Joe Biden some or or even Hillary I to me these people are so Bland which is really when a Democrat is is is good you know we want a a nerd who knows how government works I mean yes it's also a great I also don't want to know the religions like I remember as a kid not knowing the religion the president ever was you know we knew Kennedy yes because that was because yes because it was such a big thing but also our house being Irish that was like such a big deal same with mine oh God they could do no wrong in their house real that's so funny I'm so glad you said that because that has exactly been my line my whole life when people ask about the candidates that's exactly what I've said a million times they could do no wrong because it was so hard for a freaking Catholic to finally get there also we were not gonna [ __ ] it up but also Irish Catholic the Irish yeah part of it was you know because when the Irish year we were not welcomed and right you know um you know my parents my parents no my parents were here my grandparents came over steerage on the boat my mom was the youngest of 16 kids is that right 16. they're [ __ ] Irish they just they don't [ __ ] around they don't believe in that I know that demonic birth control the Rhythm method she bragged about it you know you know Biden is in Ireland right now he's yeah yeah and I was reading his a great great grandparents whatever came over in 1849 and you know there's just this group of us we kind of look alike yeah yeah yeah we're just shared experience but we don't become like an Irish mafia right we're not we're we're not uh we're not Clubby that way just like hey right okay one of us is doing okay right on but no for my parents it was a way bigger deal I mean the Irish Catholic thing was just huge so um although I had one Uncle who was a cop a Bag Man by the way I kept her family of cops some some relatives and he hated Kennedy because of Bobby mostly and he famously because Bobby was like you know wanted to Bobby was a little bit not necessarily on the side of the police all the time and more on the side of the Civil War oh I see yeah Civil Rights Movement right and so um and my uncle was not down with the subway he's also ahead of the justice department yeah so right right um he was the top cop and so my uncle sent us a picture of him pissing on the Eternal Flame oh God yeah for real yeah see it's in your history remember they didn't have cameras that like he just did it and but that's like so carrying a trump head it's like it's real our family bragged about this photo because like isn't Uncle Moore a riot like we thought it was like the greatest thing hilarious don't you see a connection yeah but of course and by the way we like JFK but even still we're like well I'm Uncle Morris you can't stop him now there was drinking involved Bill did you see and by the way in every single member of the family um the Marilyn Monroe movie with Anna D Harmon no I didn't watch it I kept hearing it was like you have to watch her go through all that stuff again well it is unremittingly sad it's like this oh god this chick never had a one good day in your life but yeah I know but no she did they did her terribly but there's a scene at the end that is so hard to watch if you're a Kennedy lover because she's Kennedy is here's the scene with Kennedy she they bring her in she's very excited in the you know in the car in Washington you see the Capitol in the background it's like she's going on a prom date you know yeah oh finally a man who loves me yeah whatever and she they bring her upstairs um it's like I guess his bedroom they leave the door open I guess Jackie's out of town the Secret Service guy leaves the door but sits right outside the door so he can hear everything that's going on and Kennedy's in bed he seems appears to be naked but the sheet is up to like you know halfway over the chest and he's on the phone and he never gets off the phone as he just indicates to her to blow him yeah and she blows him while he's on the phone and that's a it's a graphic close-up of not a fun cake for her for Maryland or the actor and the armies I mean it's I mean it's I found it so disturbing yeah remember that was always the joke about Warren Beatty he can make love to a woman while making a deal on the phone oh it just painted Kennedy as the most selfish awful prick so I just want to say it's made up is it no is it possible it's like the seven years thing is it possible that Kennedy was exactly like that it is possible but let's not forget you just made it up you weren't in the room right and I prefer to think that John F Kennedy was a little nicer and wouldn't have just pushed her head down oh God is she gagging that's the worst yeah that's the that's the graphic scene where she's just oh she's just kind of like she's like surprised that it's happening which given the rest of the movie and all the guys it's like a kind of a stretch that you'd be surprised that's happening but I mean it's just it's just you do feel look here's what I have to say about Maryland and I don't care who disagrees with me I think she's a Candle in the Wind slow clap the home team finally got a touchdown with the little guy slow clap I I trashed Marilyn Monroe enough in interviews I'm not gonna you certainly have I mean I don't know why I get it stop beating that dead horse I know all right I'm sorry you're gonna look at Kardashian lip liner I get it you can put it out over and over again all right so do you have anything to plug yes I'm just I'm saying I'm very glad to be at the Mirage on Saturday June 17th I work for at the Mirage for years we just moved over to the MGM Grand it's the same people I knew it oh I'll find it don't don't I'm not gonna rush you I have I know I'm not going to say warm summer warmest okay this is this is do you have people Bill no no no no no no no no oh here it is here I saw it should be you okay so what are you plugging the Mirage Mirage June 17th June 17th how many people could fit in that theater 12.50 oh that's the 1250 consider I thought they tore it down no oh okay that I know of no I thought that's why we had moved over to the MGM Grand um with the MGM Grand in in June I hope it's not the same weekend um we'd probably play a lot of the things I think we have over the years and you know what else is always in the same Ringo oh that's funny it plays a lot of the same time uh June 3rd the Met Philadelphia June 4th the Wind Creek Events Center in Bethlehem Pennsylvania don't you love the fact that America is like our college campus and we just like oh what's our schedule today I got to go over to this uh you know Lindsay hall right and for my for and then I go over to this and we we do that with the country I know you know it's amazing we're just gonna go over to Bethlehem Pennsylvania sometimes it's a casino sometimes it's a theater sometimes it's a Super PAC yeah it's awesome well yeah I guess a super I mean wait uh like a Pac sorry not a Silverback Performing Arts Center Pac oh not a super piece you're more a detail-oriented I guess than I am I just think of always the same thing it's just the you're probably right I probably it's the same thing but to me it's just the audience yeah and it's also awesome that unlike bands who have to go through so much [ __ ] before they actually get to go on stage and sing We just show up oh it's Heaven you know no sound check do you have a mic yeah have you ever talked into it before right okay make sure that that is working yeah and we should be good yeah you know yeah sound sometimes sound check you must be Daft I'm not even I'm not even in your city yet right when you're doing the sound check yeah I know and I okay what happened no nothing just ranting okay um so and then what about after that more gigs after that we'll see I mean I'm probably gonna actually write a prop per show about just how the last six years have been just exceptional or something that's another thing you have so much great there is cancer can be funny of course it can AAA which I meant can be hilarious what can be funny in the hands of a great comic like you um it can't be funny in the hands of lots of people tried to make cancer funny and boy it just really just really bombs like oh man your cancer hunk at that dinner party sucked I mean I want to say that I don't right I have cancer well I'm not above playing a cancer card so I will call a restaurant and say I have cancer I want a better table pain is something you should always use otherwise you get nothing back for it art is a receipt for pain yes uh you know painters musicians I mean would Eric Clapton have written Layla if Patty Harrison hadn't left him no we all packed it when's her when's her parade where's her alcohol you kids I don't know what I'm talking about uh looking up in your book with uh when Eric Clapton and Matt Patty well it was George Harrison's wife so it was pretty pretty uh interesting though yeah that that little they should make a movie about that I know that would be a good one [ __ ] yeah Hollywood you lame-o they'd all be fighting to play him absolutely and her what a great story what are they waiting for I bet they do it now and they'll give me nothing nothing they're not a goddamn thing for thinking of it nothing but a screenshot so what are your days like now my days are tricky because I am in this weird position of having to fill my days which is very odd because my whole life was film your day Phil that was my old gig filming every goddamn day right um so I will say this I have been in a lot of legal battles for the last six years so I still have two active suits I've been sued by Mega folks everything from other uh families from remember Maga hat kid that kid Nick Sandman he went to a school called Covington high school with the Indian yeah that's right and so um I know I was going to stop you and say indigenous person but I get it anyway Nathan Phillips is his name and so 12 other families from that school sued me for defamation about tweeting about that incident in federal court in Kentucky eastern district of Kentucky and State Court so I had to send my very happy attorneys because they work a lot to Covington Kentucky to fight that one and one of those is um those are still gone there's another guy in Franklin Tennessee very newsworthy this week um and he's a guy who was harassing a trans kid at a prom it was on video a day after it was all over Tick Tock I commented on it that guy is suing me saying he got fired because of my comments on as opposed to his behavior um and there's a guy next door to me who lived next door to me we had to move he was a big Maga guy and would go in his yard and I there was you know my ring camera would would catch it my nest camera and he'd be like you [ __ ] [ __ ] Donald Trump put the heat on you now it's War you [ __ ] and that was my next door neighbor wow yeah and so that guy sued me for three years Andy sued my husband just to be a dick because I sent that tape to the Huffington Post and I said if I show up dead who's gonna expect the CEO of KB Homes like it's a random like no it wasn't Brooke Shields right it wasn't Anderson Cooper it turns out it was the CEO of KP homes and that guy sued us for a year after we even moved like so I found these folks that are like very litigious obviously they appeal everything and each one of these cases that I've had five they tied me up for about three years God I don't know I I can't even that just the the place this a country has descended to the the pettiness the hatred it just and it's really unfair that you are at the moment the object of so much of this scorn but all I can tell you is man you're a warrior I'm telling you and that stage is going to be huge I just know it it will end and it will serve as a kind of a trampoline to I think boost you into higher stratosphere is you know well I'd be grateful just to work honestly I just want to work you know what I mean it's like and you should yeah I just want to work and and like to get the to-do list I'm on a very nice comfortable list I've had carved out for myself exactly with a very loyal fan base yeah of loyal sizable event yeah um so what are you doing to prepare for the what you're saying June you're at the Mirage yeah are you working out I mean you must I'm working out this time which I've never done in my whole career I'm working with a writer I have never worked with a writer so I've been bouncing stuff off her but I actually You're gonna laugh my um agent used to be at ICM so I'm now at CAA if I have made too many you know enemies over there but um any anyway so I feel like I'm back with my stand-up agent that I was with until six years ago and we always had a really great relationship and he just always kept me gigging and stuff and so he actually said I think you should actually write a show with somebody helping you I mean do you go to the clubs and work it I would believe it or not I'd rather do like really small theaters like theater spaces so instead of doing a club like a Largo or like uh there's some little spaces sometimes it is new you got it oh yeah sometimes the school will let you do it so I can go yeah like John Cleese did that he went and did a bunch of his stuff at University of Santa Barbara So now that I live in Malibu that's like an easy drive for me and they might be willing to let me like work out my stuff with their students right which would be awesome because that's a great it doesn't burn the LA Market trying to do that before June no Vegas is not going to be the Kathy Griffin show the last six years have been difficult Vegas is just going to be Harry and Megan Kardashians right my you know I had a dinner party for stormy stormy came over at Daniels so like that's my gays want to hear about storms they want to make sure she's okay they want to check in with her yeah you know like living you know never not do that yeah I mean you could mix in I think it's a great mix for a show yeah to have some of it be about your personal life and the but yeah we yeah you got to play the hits you still want to hear about what had happened because it was just funny but I will laugh about cancer because I have to acknowledge my voice sounding different boom boom three quick fire cancer jokes um I also like uh you know uh trying to take my life so I went to like a 5150 psych hold so that was like intense and not I can I should say not normal for comedians I'm not the first comedian that's for sure but that was something that has to be finessed so I might have like three jokes for that in Vegas but I could get into that stuff more with like the more written show so for now it's like let's get 90 minutes of just trying to make these people laugh about all the Vegas craziness about all the pop culture craziness yeah there's so much now yeah okay yeah all right well I hope I get to see it soon I hope so you know you call me all right all right great to see you come here I have such a good chunk about Malibu Mel Gibson's in the neighborhood Gary Busey got caught whacking off again like two months ago in the park what Gary Busey yes I did DC cab with him what Nick Nolte go he goes to the market looking like that mug shot I'm not even kidding

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Length: 59min 16sec (3556 seconds)

Published: Sun May 21 2023

Reddit Comments

[u/casino_r0yale]

I didn’t have opinions on Kathy before this, hadn’t seen any of her work, but this was a great interview and I felt deep sympathy for what she went through. Now I want to watch her comedy show

[u/xman747x]

what a stupid and tragic story; she went six years without any work for that stunt

[u/banditk77]

I wonder if there’s a conflict of principle working with a writer during the writers strike.

[u/PPKDude]

Ah, the one comedian that actually had her career cancelled for a joke. And lo and behold, it was a cancellation by the right.

Funny how that works.

[u/Dirigo859]

Couldn't watch the whole thing.

After hearing an interviewer delve into a guest's deepest health issue-in this case Kathy's lung cancer-he responds to her question with "I don't talk about my personal life".

-bounce

[u/FutileHurling]

Funny how Bill tries to both sides her cancellation but she can't stop talking about the magas that are continually suing her and the hell she went through after the trump head picture.

[u/Anotherbadsalmon]

Bill Maher, Dr. Cringe.

[u/CBRPrincess]

I can't wait to hear this in the morning