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WASHINGTON, April 4, 2008 – It was all a big joke for servicemembers and their families at Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s Fisher House yesterday when comedian Kathy Griffin came to visit. Comedian Kathy Griffin, star of “My Life on the D List,” greets Susan Badia at Walter Reed Army Medical Center's Fisher House III on April 3, 2008. Badia, her daughter, Kylee Ray, and her husband, Army Sgt. Jace Badia, currently are living next door at Fisher House II. Sergeant Badia is recuperating from wounds he suffered in Iraq when he was hit by a homemade bomb. Griffin...

Exclusive: Tristan Emmanuel whomps Kathy Griffin for 'blasphemous outburst' Before Kathy Griffin won a creative arts Emmy last week for her reality show, "My Life on the D-List," she was a relative nobody in Tinseltown. Oh sure, she had some credentials – a role as Brooke Shield's sour-grapes colleague in "Suddenly Susan," a cameo on "Seinfeld," an appearance on "Ellen" and a stint on "The View" in Rosie O'Donnell's chair. But like the title of her Bravo reality show inferred, Griffin was a D-list comedian – at least until this award came her way. Griffin once mused that it would...

Kathy Griffin, the star of the Bravo show "My Life on the D-List," used her appearance on the Emmy awards program to tell Jesus to "suck it" and to claim full credit for the honor for herself. Griffin, at the 59th annual Creative Arts Emmy Awards held recently, was honored for having the Outstanding Reality Program, overtaking ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" after several attempts. "I guess hell froze over," Griffin announced. "A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this. He had nothing to do with this. ... Suck it, Jesus! This award is my god...

Paris Hilton's mother Kathy took to the airwaves -- speaking through the oracle that is Barbara Walters on this morning's "The View" -- urging "young people who look up" to Paris to "learn" from her DUI arrest and impending imprisonment. Babwa, friends with Kathy and husband "Ricky" for years, said she spoke to Mama Hilton yesterday, and read a brief statement from the convicted socialite's mom. "We can only hope that something positive will come out of this," said Walters for Kathy. "Hopefully the young people who look up to people like Paris can learn from this." Not to mention...

Appearing on Tuesday’s "Larry King Live," comedienne Kathy Griffin claimed to be so liberal that she refers to herself as a Sandinista and not a Democrat. On the same program, Griffin took delight in the downfall of Christian evangelical leader Ted Haggard, telling CNN’s Larry King that she "love[s] it." It’s unclear why King asked the D-list star about the scandal, perhaps he hoped to bate her into another hateful rant. Later in the program, Griffin offered a clue as to why she would be so effusive over a reverend’s fall from grace. Regarding religion, she claimed to not "believe...

In a December 23 USA Today front page story, “USO cheers troops, but Iraq gigs tough to book; Safety concerns, disagreement with war keeping many celebrities from volunteering,” reporters Martin Kasindorf and Steven Komarow related how actor/comedian Robin Williams, “who like [Al] Franken has been an outspoken critic of Bush's management of the war -- and [Wayne] Newton, a Republican who backs Bush, say some stars have turned down the USO because they thought such performances would amount to endorsing the war.” But in a Friday evening Nightline story, Terry Moran, through his use of soundbites from two left-wingers, portrayed...

TelevisionDorothy SnarkerComedian Kathy Griffin either loves to hate Hollywood or hates to love it. Just so long as she’s part of the show. By Adam Sternbergh (Photo credit: Catherine Ledner) So I’m doing this event later this month, and I’m fucking dreading it,” says Kathy Griffin, the celebrity-mocking comedian. “It’s some tennis event at UCLA for MusiCares, like I know what that is. [Tennis star Andre] Agassi is going to play [tennis star Andy] Roddick, and then they’re going to play doubles with [hectoring TV pop psychologist] Dr. Phil and [former lead singer of grunge-lite band Bush and pretty-boy husband...