Kathy Griffin: Too Fake For Me

I don’t like Kathy Griffin. After reading her latest interview in The Advocate I find her even less desirable than before. I agree that she is funny and her show is quite fabulous, but I don’t like that this woman is clearly an act. In review after review, even in this latest article, it is made clear that what you see on TV is what you get in person. For most people this would be great, but since everything we see on TV of Kathy is so comedic it makes her look very troubled that she is that way in her actual life.

I want to know Kathy’s motivation. I think it was Rosie O’Donnell or someone else in a very similar genre who once said Kathy seemed a bit hungry for money and perpetually in the state of feeling financially insecure. She works and works, it’s all she does. In all her interviews she acts no different than her stage act. She even faked falling out of a car in London to get featured in the papers. She has made statements that as long as these things draw her shows more attention then she is happy. Her Emmy acceptance speech actually sounds like her honest truth after reviewing the rest of her actions.

I’d like to believe this means she’s a totally different person behind closed doors. If so, then this makes her a total fake and I don’t think people like that. It’s one thing to play a certain role or character, but to hide every bit of who you are is kind of unattractive. If she really is in her private life as we see her in the spot light, then I think that is a very disturbed individual who can not face facts of reality.

I always hate getting into discussions about how much a person really needs to acknowledge reality. I haven’t a clue how much acknowledgment makes a person true to themselves. I certainly am one to talk as most think I live on a different planet.  I suppose the line is drawn when to every serious question comes a response in the form of a joke. When I read Kathy’s interviews I see that is status quo with her.

The article in The Advocate actually dwells quite a bit about how the interviewer can not seem to dig beneath the surface. In fact while they feature Kathy Griffin as their centerfold story and photo spread, I felt the article painted her horribly instead of as an honored hard working comedienne.