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Kathy Griffin Announces New World Tour Called 'Laugh Your Head Off' Following Trump Controversy
Entertainment Tonight ^ | August 27, 2017 | Elizabeth Stanton‍

Posted on 08/27/2017 3:35:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Nothing is stopping Kathy Griffin.

After what appears to be a fake hacking announcement on her Twitter on Saturday, the 56-year-old comedian released a video on Sunday announcing her "Laugh Your Head Off" world tour, with a video showing her smiling and ready to take the microphone.

"Are you ready for me to say some things that are so horrible I can never take them back?" she asks.

The video and her Twitter page also features a photo of the comedian holding a globe in a shot similar to her controversial one, where she held a bloodied replica of President Donald Trump's severed head. Even her shirt and hair look the same, but in the new image, she has a big grin on her face.

"Nothing if off limits. Not even him," she says at the end of the video, obviously referring to her ongoing feud with the President, and the investigation she was under by the Secret Service for the questionable photo shoot.

Griffin suffered intense backlash for the photo, losing her job as CNN's New Year's Eve co-host with Anderson Cooper, and facing canceled tour dates from multiple venues.

At a press conference in June, the My Life on the D-List star broke down in tears while discussing the backlash she received. "I don't think I'll have a career after this. I'm going to be honest, he broke me," she said while crying. "I'm broken."

"I'm 56 years old, I'm 110 pounds wet. I've had everybody turn on me and I just wanna make people laugh," she added. "That's all I wanna do. So, I screwed up."

After laying relatively low since the controversy, apart from making headlines for shaving her head in solidarity with her sister going through chemotherapy, Griffin seems ready to get back to her old self.

In the video, there's a quick shot acknowledging the head-shaving, showing her grab a redheaded wig and popping it on.

"They tried to warn me, they said I shouldn't come here, and I said, 'No you're wrong, they can handle it!'" she states in the tour announcement.

Griffin is sure to make headlines once the tour kicks off in Auckland, New Zealand this October.

For more on her controversial photo shoot, watch the video below.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: assassination; beheading; comedy; griffin; kathygriffin; looneyleft; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Quote: "I'm 56 years old, I'm 110 pounds wet. I've had everybody turn on me and I just wanna make people laugh,"

I'm 56, I'm a great deal more than "110 pounds wet". "I just wanna" play golf professionally.

Here's the problem, Ms. Griffin. Both earning a living playing golf, and earning a living 'making people laugh', requires talent in those endeavours. Unfortunately, I do not have the talent to play golf professionally, nor do you have the talent to make 'people laugh', neither professionally, nor as an amateur. Perhaps you might try employment as a garbage collector. Your 'audience', the trash cans, don't concern themselves with whether you are funny or not.

21 posted on 08/27/2017 3:56:54 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: Michael.SF.
Hope she pays her makeup people good money. To cover that mess, they must sling the Maybelline on with a bricklayer's trowel.
22 posted on 08/27/2017 3:58:11 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Stupid publicity whore, I thought here career was so “broken”....???

Oh, right, it’s all just more propaganda b.s.

F.O.A.D., Kathy Griffin.


23 posted on 08/27/2017 4:00:18 PM PDT by Enchante
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“He broke me” (sniff sniff) should be played and replayed until the day that bag kicks the bucket. And then it should be played at her funeral.


24 posted on 08/27/2017 4:03:02 PM PDT by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: allendale

Very doubtful. Most A-List stars only have bodyguards when they think there might be a need. Bodyguards are expensive. I know, I’ve been one. Corporate executives, diamond merchants and billionaires are the typical clients.


25 posted on 08/27/2017 4:06:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

World Tour? This ugly comedian could not fill a large bathroom.


26 posted on 08/27/2017 4:07:58 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: Luircin

She might do really well overseas. Here, though, she might stay ‘broken’.


27 posted on 08/27/2017 4:13:36 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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To: Michael.SF.

Isn’t she starring as Pennywise in the new version of “It” ?


28 posted on 08/27/2017 4:18:33 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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29 posted on 08/27/2017 4:34:04 PM PDT by gaijin
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Griffin suffered intense backlash, losing her job as CNN's New Year's Eve co-host with Anderson Cooper, and facing canceled tour dates from multiple venues.

Later, at her self-serving press conference, she tried to turn herself into a victim....the usual sap-happy liberal ploy. She broke down in tears. "I don't think I'll have a career after this. I'm going to be honest, he broke me," she whined. "I'm broken."

But nobody bought her fake act.

30 posted on 08/27/2017 4:36:53 PM PDT by Liz (Four boxes to defend liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo; used in that order.)
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31 posted on 08/27/2017 4:44:27 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wouldn’t be surprised if CNN hires her back. They hesitated to respond when it happened and she represents them very well.


32 posted on 08/27/2017 4:50:04 PM PDT by Dragonspirit (President Trump do not give CNN a debate in 2020)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why is she called a comedian? Says who? She’s unfunny, ugly, nasty, and a complete jerk.


33 posted on 08/27/2017 4:57:28 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Appropriate title for a muzzie lover.


34 posted on 08/27/2017 4:59:53 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (TETELESTI Read em and weep Lucy! Yer times almost up.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And yet she’s not funny...


35 posted on 08/27/2017 5:24:45 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It would not surprise me if Kathy sold out several performances, at least for the first couple of months.
There are still numerous PussyHat wearing Antifas and Republican #NeverTrump desperate to be ‘liked’ by Bernie’s Boys and the other Swamp Creatures. Michael Moore has a one man play out now in New York, and he is banking on this Sore Loser group to come and see him rant.

This mission, should Kathy decide to accept it, may result in
her being typecast in that Hater’s Role for good, if she wants to keep her popularity numbers up. She won’t be the first aging entertainer to latch onto a thin script of dialog best suited for a minstrel or talking doll.
Steven Colbert almost lost his current talk show, before he realized he’d better switch back into that shallow Hater role and stay there if he wanted more viewers.


36 posted on 08/27/2017 5:50:26 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: allendale

I guess no one is stupid enough to book her in the USA.


37 posted on 08/27/2017 5:53:06 PM PDT by dandiegirl (BO)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She has fans in Portland, Seattle, Hollywood and Austin.
Not so much elsewhere.


38 posted on 08/27/2017 6:47:35 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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I've had everybody turn on me and I just wanna make people laugh," she added.

When has she ever done that?!

39 posted on 08/27/2017 7:00:03 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She should hang herself alone deep in the outba k of Australia...that would be “funny”...no?


40 posted on 08/27/2017 7:53:57 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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