Because the Sunday Washington Post especially loves tweaking the God-fearing Americans on the Lord’s Day, not only does the Post magazine carry an atheist mom’s car talk with a nine-year old, but they picked Sunday to promote Kathy Griffin and her upcoming Kennedy Center show.
“The Kennedy Center audience is notoriously smart and open-minded and diverse,” Griffin oozed. “I’m going to have my vets there, and I’m going to have my soccer moms, and I’m going to have my LGBTQIA2s — I keep up with all the letters and numbers.” And as expected, she ripped into the Duggars:
I was going to ask how you can come up with new material each year. Is it because there’s no end to the celebrities doing things like that?
Yes. Because the Duggars aren’t going away, not comedically. As long as the Duggars continue being very pious and very religious, I will be making fun of them. And they’re multiplying. As a comedian, you have to look for funny in everything. There is a certain delicious irony that when you read interviews with the Duggars, they’re quite homophobic and bigoted, and yet the show is predicated on how incredibly religious they are and how much they love the Lord.
The Post interviewed Griffin on the unveiling day of the “Call Me Caitlyn” cover of Vanity Fair, which she predictably adored:
You can’t keep Caitlyn out of it. The transes will come after you, guns a-blazin’. First of all, I call her Caitie. I call her Caitie because we’re destined to become besties. I actually love that Caitlyn is doing what she’s doing at the age of 65. I love that Cher is the face of Marc Jacobs at 68. All that stuff is great. Think about it: I could actually be onstage at the Kennedy Center when the decision comes down about the legalization of gay marriage. It could not be a better time to be in D.C. at the Kennedy Center.
Sadly, the Post finished by honoring Kathy Griffin as a New Year’s Eve icon:
Your New Year’s Eve gig with Anderson Cooper on CNN: Did you think when you’d started it that it would become the annual event that it’s become? You’re like the Guy Lombardo now of New Year’s Eve.
Well, I hope that makes him the Lennon Sisters. Never in my wildest dreams could I imagine how much fun that was going to be. I always say it’s one of my favorite jobs of the year because as much as I love to make everyone laugh, there’s something special about making Anderson absolutely lose it year after year. I have not achieved my bucket list of actually getting him fired yet, but a girl can dream. And we will be doing it again this New Year’s Eve. So I look forward to that. I don’t know if he does, but I don’t care. I was born to it, and that’s enough for both of us.
