Kathy Griffin to Co-host CNN's New Year's Eve Show

Newsbusters blog ^ | 12/19/11 | Noel Sheppard

[Baynative]

“Get ready, America. Pull up a chair and a box of your finest wine, because you’ve never seen a New Year’s Eve show like this,” said Griffin. “Kathy Griffin scares me. I’ve said this often to CNN management directly and through my attorneys,” joked Cooper.

[Baynative]

CNN - Cable's Nasty Network

Griffin is infamously remembered for dropping an F-bomb during the 2009 show and directing a vulgar oral sex reference to a heckler the year before.

As a result, she was excused from the 2010 event.

Yet despite joking in March 2010 that Sarah Palin had performed a sexual act with John McCain, saying days later she'd like to push Palin down the stairs, claiming in June that "strong conservative" means "idiot," calling Sen. Scott Brown's (R-Mass.) daughters "prostitutes" the following month and later saying it was a "fantastic career move," and blaming conservatives for gay teen suicides the following month, Griffin was invited back to co-host the 2011 show.

[Army Air Corps]

She’ll fit right in. She has the warmth of a Stasi interrogator and a brain like a chickpea.

[RetroSexual]

TV is for tools.

[capt. norm]

She is the most self-absorbed woman alive today.

Her ego and self-aggrandizement is second only to Obama's.

[Bitsy]

There is a duo I won’t be ushering in the New Year with.

[Apparatchik]

Look on the bright side - if she’s working New Year’s Eve, then nobody has to kiss that disgusting old slag at midnight.

[US Navy Vet]

OOOOOHHHH Goody, ANOTHER reason NOT to watch...!

[Chickensoup]

Drink that box wine, peons!

[shelterguy]

“””Griffin is infamously remembered for dropping an F-bomb during the 2009 show and directing a vulgar oral sex reference to a heckler the year before.

As a result, she was excused from the 2010 event.

Yet despite joking in March 2010 that Sarah Palin had performed a sexual act with John McCain, saying days later she’d like to push Palin down the stairs, claiming in June that “strong conservative” means “idiot,” calling Sen. Scott Brown’s (R-Mass.) daughters “prostitutes” the following month and later saying it was a “fantastic career move,” and blaming conservatives for gay teen suicides the following month, Griffin was invited back to co-host the 2011 show. “””

300 million people in the USA and this is the best person they could find to do the show?

I hope their nine viewers enjoy the show.

[And2TheRepublic]

She’s a ginger with no soul.

[Recovering_Democrat]

I’ll be sure to miss it.

[isthisnickcool]

They might as well have hired Kim Kardashian. They have the same level of talent. None.

[RichInOC]

Let us pray for Anderson Cooper. That’s cruel and unusual punishment.

[Leep]

Pooper gets to live through what’s her face. He has enough sense to know he can’t say the things she does. Although, he would love to.
To bad I will miss the politics disguised as fun.

[ErnBatavia]

[Army Air Corps]

300 million people in the USA and this is the best person they could find to do the show?

Indeed. They pick a vapid harpy with all the charm and grace of a Chekist. It would be refreshing if the producers of these shows picked an "average Joe or Joanne" to co-host the show and have the perspective of a non-celebrity American.

[Sans-Culotte]

I’ll be sure to miss it.

Me to. I'll make a point of not watching it.

[Ditter]

WAAAAAA! You scared me! LOL!

[Leep]

Oh, wanted to add...Now, if they would have say Don Rickles on I might actually tune in.
He was a equal opportunity offender who was actually funny.

[Army Air Corps]

It is Bill Maher in drag!