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The Last Laugh

Kathy Griffin Stands Up

The Last Laugh

The Daily Beast

Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Interviews, Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Tv, Movies, Film

4.6661 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 65 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.

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0:00.0

It was a freaking mask with ketchup on it.

0:03.5

Let's be very clear.

0:04.5

This morning, I was woken up by the FBI.

0:06.7

Guess who was on the MAGA Bombers target list?

0:09.8

When I say I'm glad to be here, like, seriously, I was afraid.

0:12.7

My First Amendment attorney, he said,

0:15.0

they're considering charging you with conspiracy

0:17.8

to assassinate the president of the United States,

0:23.0

which holds a lifetime sentence.

0:24.4

You didn't know that part, did you?

0:27.6

The First Amendment is under attack, truly.

0:29.8

If you don't stand up, you get run over.

0:32.5

I was detained at every single airport that I went to.

0:34.1

I was held for six hours.

0:36.1

And obviously it's getting to me.

0:38.1

Now I'm on this mission to make sure that they never, ever are allowed to do to anyone else what they did to me. Hello and welcome to the

0:45.0

Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast. We have a special Fourth of July show for

0:50.2

you this week and really who better to have on this very patriotic episode than Kathy Griffin.

0:55.9

It has now been more than two years since Kathy posed for the photo that she had no idea would

1:00.9

change her life, and that is exactly what happened after TMZ first published the image of her

1:06.3

holding up a Trump mask covered in fake blood. What followed was not only an angry tweet from the president of the United States,

1:13.0

but also a full-on secret service investigation that landed her on the no-fly list

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