{"id":95516,"date":"2026-09-27T23:02:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T06:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=95516"},"modified":"2026-09-27T23:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T06:02:31","slug":"kathy-griffins-hiatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2026\/09\/27\/kathy-griffins-hiatus\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Griffin’s Hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our Ask Billy<\/em><\/strong> question comes from Tony <\/strong>in Las Vegas: \u201cI read you were at Kathy Griffin\u2019s show last week.  I was also there and had a question.  She mentioned being out of work for eight years after the Trump <\/strong>head photo, but I was sure I saw her at <\/em>Carnegie Hall shortly after that.  Am I right?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

First, let me say something that has nothing to do with Tony\u2019s question \u2013 could someone please turn off the AC during shows in Las Vegas?  I went from the balmy Vegas Strip <\/em>to the arctic Criss Angel Theater<\/em>.  If anyone saw me with my arms crossed, I wasn\u2019t being judgmental \u2013 I was suffering from hypothermia!  That said, the Trump head photo was posted on May 30, 2017.  And once that photo went viral, it is true \u2013 her tour gigs were canceled.  However, Tony is also right \u2013 Kathy did indeed perform to a sold-out crowd at Carnegie Hall <\/em>on June 26, 2018 \u2013 about a year later.  That was historic for another reason.  The night before, Griffin played to a sold-out crowd at Radio City Music Hall<\/em>.  Selling out two legendary venues on consecutive nights in NYC is something not many can boast.  So how does that explain Griffin\u2019s claims of \u201cno paid work\u201d for 8 years?  There is a potential loophole.  Very often, performers rent out a venue themselves and sell the tickets.  So, these may not have technically been \u201cpaid gigs\u201d, although she certainly made money on them.  These New York dates followed the international portion of her Laugh Your Head Off<\/em><\/strong> tour, which took place in October and November of 2017 \u2013 roughly 5 months after the photo.  She did shows in Singapore, Australia, Germany, Sweden, Iceland, the UK and Ireland.  After that, the tour moved to North America by way of Ottawa, Ontario on May 23, 2018.  Then there were the aforementioned NYC dates, followed by Los Angeles, Chicago, Skokie, Miami, San Diego and St. Louis.  This was all covered in her film, Kathy Griffin: A Hell of a Story<\/em><\/strong>, which is a terrific documentary and can be seen on YouTube.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u00adWhen I\u2019m telling tales about two comics, it\u2019s time to end yet another column.  By the by, Kathy Griffin is still on tour (dates can be found on KathyGriffin.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>).  In fact, she\u2019ll be in Boston at The Wilbur <\/em>on October 3rd<\/sup>.  And since I know someone out there is wondering, Carrot Top has never said he is gay.  While none of us want to claim that face as our own, his body certainly deserves some attention.  That attention may be coming from a woman named Amanda Hogan<\/strong>, who has been romantically linked with him since 2009.  For more about this and other non-vegetable-related subjects, check out BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 the site that always delivers the meat.  If you need me to do some deep digging into a story, drop a note to Billy@BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong> and I promise to get back to you before I put on a mask and go to a lesbian bar!  Until next time, remember, one man\u2019s filth is another man\u2019s bible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our Ask Billy question comes from Tony in Las Vegas: \u201cI read you were at Kathy Griffin\u2019s show last week.  I was also there and had a question.  She mentioned being out of work for eight years after the Trump head photo, but I was sure I saw her at Carnegie Hall shortly after that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95517,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95516\/revisions\/95517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}