Kathy Griffin on Trump, Don Jr., SNL, CNN, TMZ and More

The Last Laugh

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4.6 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Kathy Griffin opens up about the infamous photoshoot that changed her life and sounds off on President Trump, Donald Trump Jr., TMZ’s Harvey Levin, CNN’s Jeff Zucker, Anderson Cooper, Andy Cohen, Alec Baldwin, Lorne Michaels, Jerry Seinfeld and a hell of a lot more.

This episode was originally published on July 2nd, 2019.

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0:00.0	I'm always up before the birds and the kids.
0:02.9	Good thing Costa Express is always up too.
0:07.0	Early starts are easier with great coffee.
0:09.7	And if I grab one for Bob, I might even get some decent company.
0:14.5	Large cappuccino for the bloc who's half asleep.
0:17.2	Oh, you legend.
0:19.6	Now that's a proper coffee.
0:21.3	Should kick in Justin Samfut to remember which end of the screwdriver to use.
0:25.1	Hmm.
0:26.3	Costa Express.
0:27.8	Quality coffee every time.
0:36.4	This is the Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and today we are revisiting this truly mind-blowing interview with the hilarious and resilient Kathy Griffin.
0:48.9	You may have heard that Kathy is back in the news this month after revealing her recent lung cancer diagnosis
0:54.6	and opening up about her attempted suicide in June of 2020.
0:59.7	I was really glad to hear from her pretty recently that she is home recovering from surgery
1:04.1	and starting to feel a bit better.
1:06.6	I spoke to Kathy in our studio in the summer of 2019, when she was on a comeback tour of sorts
1:12.5	promoting her documentary, Kathy Griffin, a hell of a story,
1:16.2	about the aftermath of the infamous Trump photo
1:19.0	that totally upended her life as she knew it.
1:23.5	It was a freaking mask with ketchup on it.
1:25.9	Let's be very clear.
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