From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

The tour is going to gross about $4.4 million.

Really? So you're making a living?

I'm making a living, but I've also had to spend hundreds of thousands myself.

When comedian Kathy Griffin posed for a photo holding what appeared to be the blood-covered head of Donald Trump,

she became a pariah

overnight. So she did the only thing she could do to keep her career alive, turned her story

into an act, and took it around the world. Fifteen countries and 23 cities later, she's now at

the tail end of her, Laugh Your Head Off tour. Griffin tells us about figuring out how to book her own

gigs and about trying, without luck

so far, to find a buyer for her

planned comedy special.

But first on the news banter,

blaming the media for an attack

on the media.

Stay tuned. It's the business

from KCRW.

I am joined by my ally in banter. Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter. Hello, Matt.

Oh, I'm an ally. Sometimes. I'm writing that down.

Okay. So we've had quite a week in terms of the news, as so often we do these days. It's just been the news cycle that doesn't stop being very, very overheated. This week's some really dark stuff. You know, package bombs mailed or delivered to a number of people who have been called out by President Trump and Fox News personalities as well.

Jeff Zucker responded. Of course, CNN very dramatically evacuated their offices. And Jeff Zucker

issued a statement. Am I going to take a little bit of issue? He said there's a total and complete

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