Kathy Griffin discusses her emotional reaction to being excluded from Rosie O'Donnell's week-long guest hosting stint on Jimmy Kimmel Live, citing a recent podcast where Rosie expressed disapproval of Griffin's 2017 Trump photo controversy. Griffin highlights the pain of this exclusion given her history of supporting Rosie and their close friendship, while also addressing broader industry misogyny and the challenges female comedians face.
“I don't think she was ready for the kind of uh torment that he put her through for so many years and I think she did suffer a lot and uh went through some very dark times. So when I heard about that, I was just surprised and I didn't call her because I didn't want to call her when I was flustered and I wanted to get my thoughts together. The conclusion that I came to and that I still have was I don't know why she did that. I would never have done that to her in a million years.”
“In my own community of Hollywood of standup comedy where you're supposed to be edgy, you're supposed to make political statements as well as be funny. In my opinion, that's what the greats do. It did not go that way for me initially.”
“I offered her a ride on my jet... Rosie said, 'You know, my kid Clay has a hard time in airports and so I said, well, I have two seats left on the jet. do you want to fly back to LA, you know, with me? And so we did that and then I got to talk to her the whole flight... And she told me about being asked by the Kimmel Show to do a whole week... one of the first things I said was, 'Well, I this doesn't need to be said, but I would love to be a guest.'”
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