Browsing clips from Kathy Griffin’s newest Bravo stand-up special Kathy Griffin Does the Bible Belt , I kept having to remind myself the material was new. The anecdotes about an erratically behaved Sharon Stone ? The clip about cable-TV indulgence Hoarders ? It all felt like gags from five years ago, when Griffin could get away with insider-as-outsider observations without it feeling like an obligatory part of her self-appointed D-List stature. Now, on the eve of her new special and sixth season of My Life on the D-List , it becomes painfully clear what we’ve lost since Griffin’s star — and original appeal — exploded into a cycle of dishonest repetition.
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An Ode to When Kathy Griffin Was Actually D-List