Correcting Big Daddy & Griffin
“I’m not sure who you are, but you look like Jack Palance.”
– As Big Daddy Masters declines, he mistakes me for the famed actor.
I do hope if I look like Jack Palance, it is pre-City Slickers!
This week, I’m calling “Bullshit” on a number of people and stories – like a slightly more feminine Natasha Lyonne. We start with another of our favorite redheads, Kathy Griffin. I know Kathy, I like Kathy, I’ve been to several of her houses. But, as I learned with my beloved Joan Rivers, recounting of her history tends to change with the passage of time. In Kathy’s case, she dropped a video a couple of months ago chastising Stephen Colbert about her sole appearance on his show on December 6, 2018. She didn’t want to talk about the Trump photo (which was a year and a half earlier) and was there to promote an appearance at Carnegie Hall. Bullshit. She was there to announce that she’d bought back the rights to all of her specials and series, and they’d drop that night on iTunes. Of course, there’s no way a political animal like Colbert wouldn’t want to talk about the big story – regardless of what promises Griffin got from a producer. She also claims Colbert made her cry. Bullshit again. She may have welled up, but she held her own and actually retained control of the interview – albeit in a slightly manic way. You can watch the actual footage along with her revisionist reflections on BillyMasters.com.
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