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Continuing to point out the major backlash surrounding her photoshoot with President Donald Trump's fake, decapitated head last year, Kathy Griffin is now insisting she's on a “kill list.” Having taken heat for the offensive photoshoot, the comedian took to Twitter on Monday to let everyone know “things have not gotten better for me.” “In fact, I just found out I’m on a brand new 'Kill List,'” she continued. “Constant death threats and threats of violence toward me in very specific ways. None of the social media platforms I need to make a living and sell my tour tickets will...

Comedian Kathy Griffin said Monday that she was taking back her apology for the photo published last year in which she is holding a bloody severed head that resembles President Trump. “By the way, I take the apology back,” Griffin said on "The View." “Look, I’m not holding back on this family, this president is different and I have been through the mill.” May marks a year since the photo with Griffin was released, and “what a year it’s been,” the comedian said on the day time talk show. Griffin was insulted that she got publicly shamed for a “$5...

President Trump's absence for the second year in a row from the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner may end up being the least controversial thing about Saturday night's gathering of the White House press corps. Chatter online among journalists and some in the administration's orbit after the event was full of criticism for comedian Michelle Wolf, who was the evening's headliner; criticism and soul-searching about the annual event itself; and an effort by former White House press secretary Sean Spicer to pressure the leadership of the White House Correspondents' Association into answering for Wolf's vulgar, personal jabs leveled primarily at...

This is the White House Correspondents’ Dinner: The Reds,Roaster Red Comedian Michelle Wolf and would-be-presidential assassin, Kathy Griffinwhite and blue:Sarah Sanders and Kellyanne ConwayAnd this is the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Drugs: Griffin spoke with reporters just moments after the annual "nerd prom" wrapped on Saturday night. “I loved it. I thought she really did what she needed to do,” Griffin told reporters of Michelle Wolf’s set. “As a female, you’ve got to work harder, you’ve got to jump higher. And she did it. She went there - fearlessly.” If by “work harder” you mean trash talkin’ and by...

On ABC’s “Start Here,” podcast, comedian Kathy Griffin said President Donald Trump ordered federal agents to make her life miserable during the investigation resulting from a photo of Griffin holding a bloody head representing Trump. When asked about Trump not attending the White House Correspondents Dinner, Griffin said, “Of course I wish Trump was going. I’ve known this fool off and on for like 20 years. I mean, he’s actually hired me to roast him.” She continued, “I’ll tell you something, there’s something funny to me about Sarah Huckabee Sanders sitting in. Trump is so twisted I have not ruled...

Hillary Clinton blames misogyny, FBI, sexism, NRA, Russia for 2016 loss by Pete Kasperowicz | April 04, 2018 07:49 AM Hillary Clinton on Tuesday recited a list of several factors that contributed to her 2016 loss against Donald Trump, and said America is in a "really bad spot" with President Trump in the White House. "[E]very day that goes by there’s more evidence and more proof of Russia and fake news and Cambridge Analytica and misogyny and sexism," she said, according to Newsweek. "I mean it’s hard, it’s very hard." She said the "lock her up" chants that Trump led...

Kathy Griffin will portray Kellyanne Conway on Comedy Central’s Make America Great-A-Thon: A President Show Special, airing next Tuesday, April 3rd at 11 p.m. The appearance, alongside Anthony Atamanuik’s President Trump, will mark the comedian’s first television role since she became engulfed in controversy last May after posing for a photoshoot with a fake severed head made to look like the president. Trump condemned her by name and Griffin subsequently apologized, but the incident took a major toll on her career, with CNN dropping her from its annual New Year’s Eve special. Last month, she made a defiant return to...

There are about 20 seats left in all of Carnegie Hall that haven’t been sold for Kathy Griffin’s comeback concert on June 26th. Most of those seats have obstructed views, or are so high up that you’d need binoculars to see the comedian whose career was almost kiboshed for good last year. What happened? In May 2017, famed photographer Tyler Shields shot her holding the bloody, decapitated head of Donald Trump. The right wing went crazy, she was criticized and ostracized. How dare she do that a sitting president? Well, thankfully, people have calmed down. The decapitating (let’s not get...

Kathy Griffin Is Back: Controversial Comedian Is “So Grateful” Her Carnegie Hall Show Sells Out in A Day There are about 20 seats left in all of Carnegie Hall that haven’t been sold for Kathy Griffin’s comeback concert on June 26th. Most of those seats have obstructed views, or are so high up that you’d need binoculars to see the comedian whose career was almost kiboshed for good last year. What happened? In May 2017, famed photographer Tyler Shields shot her holding the bloody, decapitated head of Donald Trump. The right wing went crazy, she was criticized and ostracized. How...

When Kathy Griffin released her now-infamous decapitated Donald Trump photo, even her own mother renounced the publicity stunt. “She said, ‘I am not with you on this one, Kathy. You’ve gone too far,'” Griffin recalled to The Hollywood Reporter of her 97-year-old mother’s reaction to the notorious snapshot. “It’s been really hard,” said Griffin’s boyfriend, Randy Bick, adding that his own brother, a former Marine, unfriended him on Facebook after the incident. “It seems like everybody turned.” Despite the reaction from her own loved ones, Griffin, 57, wasn’t convinced the photoshoot was a mistake until pal Rosie O’Donnell reportedly asked,...

Eight months after torching her career (and friendship with Anderson Cooper) via a not-so-funny photograph of a decapitated Donald Trump, the comedienne is holed up in her Bel Air mansion, talking to the FBI, trying to figure out what happened and pondering if it's possible to return to the spotlight: "When you're a woman, you get one f—up and it's over."

During the relatively dead news cycle between Christmas and New Years, most media outlets choose to burn up some space with retrospectives on the year that’s ending. Politico is no exception, and one of their features this week was dedicated to people who had found themselves engaged in Twitter feuds with the President, with an eye toward how well they had “survived” the encounter. They chose to highlight Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski, Kathy Griffin, Alan Dershowitz, John Podesta and New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. Rather than a series of survivor stories, most of these (with one notable exception) seem...

Kathy Griffin can't stop whining. In a new YouTube video, the comedian complained about not being able to find work after she says she was blacklisted by Hollywood for posing with a severed, bloodied head of President Trump. "I’m getting a lot of online hate from trolls who think I’ve lost my mind. And I am admitting I lost my mind because it’s what made me a star in the first place," she said in the video titled "Kathy Griffin's State of the Union." "I'm fully in the middle of a blacklist, a Hollywood blacklist. It is real. I'm not...

Kathy Griffin was booed by the crowd at her Dublin performance on Wednesday, November 8 after she mistakenly included Ireland as part of the United Kingdom. She stated it was nice “being in the United Kingdom,” and seemed genuinely shocked when the friendly crowd suddenly turned to her booing and catcalling. Griffin became so startled she had difficulty continuing with her routine, The New York Times reported. Most of the Irish people at the show in Vicar Street clearly believed Griffin, an Irish American, should have known better. She has been a frequent visitor there and visited her grandmother’s hometown...

Kathy Griffin is back, again reminding the population about her time in the limelight a few months ago when she posed with fake, bloodied head of President Trump. Rather than rolling with her apology and moving on with her life, Kathy has decided to again revert to this angry spectacle by taking back her apology for the photo. In an interview with the BBC World News program HardTalk, Griffin took back her previous apology for the photo “1,000 percent.” During the interview, Griffin made excuses for the photo by comparing it to her past vulgarity: I’ve done many shocking things....

Kathy Griffin attacked TMZ founder Harvey Levin and leaked his personal phone number in a video posted online Saturday, accusing the media personality of being “in bed” both with Hollywood figures and President Donald Trump. In the 17-minute video, titled “A Hell of a Story,” Griffin played a voicemail from Levin — long considered one of the most influential media personalities in Hollywood — in which his personal phone number could be heard. “So, that’s his number. I don’t have a minute to call him. Maybe you do,” Griffin says in the clip. TMZ was instrumental in breaking the news...

Kathy Griffin is back in the news. Following her gruesome anti-Trump video earlier this year, Griffin stood at a podium for perhaps the most bizarre press conference in recent memory. Now, Griffin is speaking out on what occurred -- and she's not pleased with her former attorney Lisa Bloom.From RedState: Kathy Griffin, the gravel-voiced comedian whose tasteless “Headless Trump” photo caused controversy earlier this year, publicly excoriated her former attorney -- and daughter of Gloria Allred -- Lisa Bloom Sunday. It started with a tweet: Dear @LisaBloom pls stop calling me. If you’d like to refund me the tens...

New York Times reporter Dan Bilefsky devoted a long review-interview in Saturday Arts to left-wing British journalist Jonathan Freedland’s "trenchant satire" novel about the assassinating of a president, “Trump Is Stranger Than Fiction.” He dutifully passed along the suggestion that such assassination porn was inevitable “when the top guy in the White House appears to be recklessly lurching toward global destruction....” Bilefsky, a foreign reporter for the paper, has previously blamed Brexit for hate crimes, but betrays no concern that this novel may provoke in similar fashion, and registers nothing objectionable about the epidemic of imagined presidential assassinations among liberal...

Embattled comedian Kathy Griffin is featured in this week’s UK Guardian magazine cover story, in which she defends her decision to share a photo of herself holding up a blood-soaked head of President Donald Trump. Griffin tweeted the Guardian cover photo which shows her dressed in the likeness of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara, a communist dictator who murdered thousands of political dissidents. In the interview, Griffin explains how “anyone” would have taken the Trump photo and argues that she is the victim of “sexism and ageism” at the hands of Trump. “I took a picture that you or anyone of...