Kathy Griffin Returns: ‘My Life on the PTSD-List’
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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“I’m glad to be here. We have a lot to laugh about,” Kathy Griffin says at the top of her triumphant return to the podcast after a very eventful five years since her last appearance. In this episode, Griffin breaks down how she turned some of the most traumatic experiences of her life into jokes for her new “My Life on the PTSD-List” tour, which hits Carnegie Hall this week. The legendary comedian, who finally has her voice back after a botched lung cancer surgery, is still climbing out the “cancellation” that followed her infamous 2017 photo in which she posed holding up a Trump mask covered in fake blood. And since Hollywood may have left her behind—for now—she has no qualms sharing her unfiltered thoughts on everyone from Elon Musk and Donald Trump to Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld to Cheryl Hines and Ellen DeGeneres.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and we have got a big one for you today. |
| 0:11.5 | More than five years after she first appeared on this podcast, the one and only Kathy Griffin is back. |
| 0:18.6 | Kathy had already been through a lot when we talked in the summer of 2019, |
| 0:22.9 | following the intense backlash, death threats, and even a Secret Service investigation |
| 0:28.8 | that followed her infamous photo holding up a Trump mask covered in fake blood. |
| 0:33.6 | But as she talks about in this conversation, as well as on stage in her nationwide, My Life on the PTSD list stand-up tour, which hits Carnegie Hall this week, |
| 0:43.9 | Kathy has been through even more since then, including drug addiction, suicide attempt, cancer, and most recently divorce. |
| 0:52.4 | We had so much ground to cover about her own life, |
| 0:56.0 | but because it's Kathy Griffin, |
| 0:58.5 | she also shared her very unfiltered thoughts |
| 1:01.5 | about Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Cheryl Hines, |
| 1:04.5 | Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Ellen DeGeneres, and more. |
| 1:08.3 | So we are going to get into our conversation |
| 1:10.4 | in just a moment. But first, |
| 1:12.2 | let's listen to a clip of Kathy sharing a bit about how she got canceled and came back to fight |
| 1:17.9 | another day in her excellent documentary special, a hell of a story. This whole process, |
| 1:25.1 | this whole thing that I'm going to tell you about tonight is what I now |
| 1:27.7 | call the Trump woodchipper. And D-List, as I am, I was kind of the first, like, celebrity to be |
| 1:34.4 | thrown into the Trump wood chipper because my photo, the infamous photo, which, by the way, |
| 1:39.3 | was a mask with ketchup on it. Can we be clear? It was a mask with ketchup, I promise. |
| 1:46.0 | So I've had to travel the world. |
| 1:48.0 | I started in Auckland, New Zealand. |
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