284 - Kathy Griffin, Live at SXSW, Austin Texas.
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2019
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Grammy and double-Emmy winner Kathy Griffin holds the Guinness world record for most comedy specials: 23 shows packed with her trademark scathing wit and merciless celebrity takedowns. But in May 2017 a provocative promo image of her holding the severed "head" of President Donald Trump changed her life forever.
We talk about how she survived having the machinery of state directed towards bullying her, when a Department of Justice investigation into "conspiracy to assassinate the President" led to her entire working life being cancelled. As you'll hear, the President's admitted attempt to "decimate her life" has only strengthened the resolve of this astonishingly powerful woman...
We also talk about sexism, marketing, seizing the means of production, and banging Tarantino!
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| 0:00.0 | Are there any words more guaranteed to strike terror into people's hearts than climate comedy? |
| 0:04.6 | Well, I thought so, and then I took my show Spoilers to the Edinburgh Festival and everyone bloody loved it, |
| 0:09.7 | including Brian Eno, if you can believe that. You can see it at the Soho Theatre from the 29th of November for four nights get your tickets at Stuart Goldsmith.com. So, Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith and it's a pretty |
| 0:39.2 | unusual show this week in that it is audio of an interview with a legendary American |
| 0:45.0 | comedian that I was asked to interview at South by Southwest. |
| 0:50.0 | Fabulous comedy, tech, music and Gaming and Film Festival in Austin, Texas. |
| 0:56.0 | Now this isn't technically an episode of the Comedians comedian podcast, but we, I mean, |
| 1:01.5 | you'll listen to it, you'll find it very much along the sorts of themes that interest us. |
| 1:05.0 | So I'm going to let this one straight through. There'll be no middle blurb. There might be an ad in the middle, but no chat from me. |
| 1:12.0 | We're going to bash straight through this it's an hour |
| 1:14.0 | and something and then I'll talk to you again at the end this is Kathy Griffin who |
| 1:19.5 | will be familiar to every single American listener maybe less familiar to people in the UK, |
| 1:24.7 | unless you're specifically within her fan base, but she is a multiple award-winning |
| 1:30.2 | comedian. She is a Guinness world record holder for most comedy specials. She has 23 |
| 1:35.6 | comedy specials to her name. I believe she has two Emmys in a Grammy and in May |
| 1:42.0 | 2017 Kathy Griffin achieved a new level of fame, notoriety, scandal |
| 1:49.4 | when she released a promotional photograph of her holding aloft the not real, the fake |
| 1:56.9 | severed head of President Donald Trump. |
| 1:59.6 | This set in motion a chain of events for which she was quite unprepared and she is going to |
| 2:05.2 | talk to us now at some length about the ramifications, about the immediate aftermath, the effect on her emotionally, about what it felt like to be bullied by the machinery of government to be |
| 2:17.8 | placed on the no-fly list to have Donald Trump and his cohorts invoke the Department of Justice, the Secret Service, |
| 2:28.0 | and to see her charged, or to see her investigated for, not charged, investigated for conspiracy to assassinate the president. |
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