The Bold and Beautiful Return of Kathy Griffin
metroweekly.comMy Life on the PTSD List, a mordant title tweaking the name of her Emmy-winning Bravo reality show. The show hits Washington, D.C.’s Warner Theatre on February 1.“I feel confident about this show and this material,” Griffin says, ecstatic to have stepped out of showbiz jail and back into sold-out evenings at venues like Carnegie Hall and the Chicago Theatre. “I wouldn’t say that if I didn’t.
I’d be like, ‘Well, I’m trying stuff out.’ I feel like, okay, I’m talking about the PTSD stuff. I talk about my drug addiction.”Four and a half years sober, she also talks in the show about trying to take her own life. ” I tell it in a way that’s funny,” she says. “Because I feel like now is the time for all of us to have hard conversations, and I feel it’s the job of a comedian.
I’m so old-fashioned, I actually believe comedians have a job to start conversations and make people uncomfortable and be inappropriate and say wrong things.”For Griffin, that includes the celebrity takedowns that have been her bread and butter. “Don’t worry,” she insists. “I still have a lot of the old Kathy Griffin razzle-dazzle, but…I feel like our country actually has a bit of a collective PTSD.
Yeah, some of it’s from COVID, but honestly, I think more of it is from Trumpism.”METRO WEEKLY: First, happy MLK Day.KATHY GRIFFIN: Happy MLK Day, because that’s what it is, which at least that part has to kill him.
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