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Mention It All

Kathy Griffin on Being “The Most Canceled Celebrity Ever” Ft. Kathy Griffin

Mention It All

Betches

After Shows, Tv & Film, Tv Reviews

4.31.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s video episode, Dylan is joined by the one and only iconic Kathy Griffin for a truly unfiltered conversation about her career, comedy, and comeback. Kathy opens up about rising from the ashes after her most controversial moments, her deep love for the gay community, and why she proudly calls herself “the most canceled celebrity ever.” She looks back on her Bravo beginnings with ‘Life on the D-List’, finding the funny in absolutely everything, and why she’s now the self-proclaimed captain of all gay cruises. Go to the BravoByBetches YouTube page to watch full length episodes every Tuesday: Youtube.com/@BravoByBetches Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.9

Hey everyone. Welcome back to the Mention at All podcast. I am thrilled to be joined today by an iconic

0:41.0

comedian, an Emmy and Grammy winner. She has done it all. And now she's here to talk to us today.

0:47.9

Kathy Griffin, how are you doing? I'm so excited to be here. Look, I have never missed an episode of this

0:53.6

pod. And I love the name, Betches, because it's a play on Bitches. Yes. Is this not Betches? Yeah. No, I'm kidding. I, you called it something else when you did your intro. Well, the name of the, I mean, Betches is like the, the brand, the company. Do people know you guys have a building? This is a big money-making thing here. What kind of scam is this? This is a front for the mafia or something. I think there's some shadiness going on here. I'd like to see your books. I would like to call Susie Ormond, who's the lesbian. So don't say no. And I would like Susie and I have a couple of weeks to just open the books at this place and see how the money is really made. I have not seen the books either. Well, you could be part of a crime ring. Well, I'm so excited to have you here today. Personally, I have seen all of your stand-up specials. Oh, my God. That's 21. I've done 21. You have a Guinness World Record. I'm in the

1:46.0

Guinness Book of World Records for having done the most stand-up comedy specials of any

1:51.1

comedian male or female living or dead. How about that is a fuck you? That's like a big fuck

1:56.6

you to. It is crazy though because I was looking back. Everybody says chicks aren't funny.

1:59.8

I remember watching a lot of those they would come to me, you know, growing up, I grew up in the Midwest, they would come to me. It was like YouTube clips or, you know, whatever, like broken up into segments, sped up, slowed down. You were cranking out. I mean, I think one of those years, you had four different specials in the same year.

2:37.6

Because they came to me and they go, what if you did seasonal specials? And I was like, all right. And I was already doing two a year at the time. So I'm like, what's two more? And on top of that, that was, you know, you had. And by the way, I write my own shit, not like Ellen. Allegedly. Sorry. Allegedly. Well, you were one of the first kind of on the ellen you know asking questions

2:37.7

i was right like let's let's just let's just say i'm kathy griffin i was right about a lot of shit okay

2:42.9

i was right about the trump head i was right about a lot of people and you know i still get shit

2:47.9

for it and i'm not actually trying to kill the president but you know that picture is going to hold up in time people are going to be like you know, I still get shit for it. And I'm not actually trying to kill the president, but you know that picture is going to hold up. In time, people are going to be like, you know, it's not so bad. So as somebody who's been a fan of you for a long time, I'm so glad that now it's 20, 25, and that everything comes back around. I'm sort of, I don't want to say uncanceled because I'm still canceled to a degree and it will always be. Right.

3:07.8

But I'm kind of like coming back a little bit, I think. You know, oh, here's how I know.

3:12.3

Yes. People magazine, which is a magazine that people my age live by. Yeah. Like we think it's like

3:18.1

the Bible. It's at the dentist's office. It's very important. So they wrote an article about me and it was a two page picture. So the crease was down my face, which is one of my faces.

3:29.4

It's not very D-List. No, very A-list. And it was called Risen from the Ashes. How about that shit? By the way, does it get more people magazine risen from the ashes? And there's a picture of me

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