# Kathy Griffin gets sanded & botoxed **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 22, 2006, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kathy-griffin-gets-sanded-botoxed/345591 "2006-02-22T05:00:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kathy-griffin-gets-sanded-botoxed/345591/1 "2006-02-22T05:00:16Z")
[Kathy Griffin then](http://www.ienhance.com/article/detail.asp?ArtID=399) [Kathy Griffin now](http://www.oprah.com/health/beauty/slide/slide_beauty_fake_07.jhtml) [Apparently the Lasik didn’t work out - :eek:](http://www.kathygriffin.net/lasik.php) ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kathy-griffin-gets-sanded-botoxed/345591/2 "2006-02-22T05:13:43Z")
Two questions. 1. Who’s Kathy Griffin? Serious question, I’ve never heard of this person. Is she a TV host in the States? 2. Does she frequently talk about herself in the third person? ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kathy-griffin-gets-sanded-botoxed/345591/3 "2006-02-22T05:19:35Z")
1. Kathy Griffin used to be on a TV show called Suddenly Susan with Brooke Shields and Judd Nelson. Now she’s a TV personality, hosting specials and reality shows. She was/is also a comic too, I believe. 2. No clue. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kathy-griffin-gets-sanded-botoxed/345591/4 "2006-02-22T05:27:58Z")
As long as she’s getting turned into a freakish cyborg, I wish they’d do something about that horrible voice. ---
**Author:** ![Palooka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/palooka/32/2902_2.png) [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kathy-griffin-gets-sanded-botoxed/345591/5 "2006-02-22T05:29:46Z")
Remember that last time you watched some “…with celebrities” show and you had this conversation: Sublight: Who’s that? I saw her somewhere. FTL: She’s that person from that other with-celebrities show. Sublight: Oh yeah. That was Kathy Griffin. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kathy-griffin-gets-sanded-botoxed/345591/6 "2006-02-22T05:30:29Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > 1. Does she frequently talk about herself in the third person? No. My guess is that her lawyer wrote the text, and she didn’t change it to reflect first person. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kathy-griffin-gets-sanded-botoxed/345591/7 "2006-02-22T07:19:59Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > Two questions. > > 1. Who’s Kathy Griffin? Serious question, I’ve never heard of this person. Is she a TV host in the States? Kathy Griffin is well known in the Gay community in LA and has performed at a lot of clubs. She has (had?) a reality show on Bravo that is (was?) pretty funny. She has also pissed off a lot of big-name-celebrities by being a tad blunt in her comedy routines - and they have put Kathy on the red carpet at several LA events and it is really quite funny to see certain celebrities pretending not to hear her screaming for their attention. They just duck her and scamper off to the soft interviews further up the carpet. Some people really hate her, but I have always found her blunt commentaries very funny. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kathy-griffin-gets-sanded-botoxed/345591/8 "2006-02-22T07:46:23Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > Two questions. > > 1. Who’s Kathy Griffin? Serious question, I’ve never heard of this person. Is she a TV host in the States? I have never heard of her either, and I live in California where apparently hangs out. Somehow I get the feeling that I’m passe, so 20th century. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kathy-griffin-gets-sanded-botoxed/345591/9 "2006-02-22T09:41:23Z")
Since this is about a celebrity and, possibly, her body of work (heh), I’ll move this over to Cafe Society for you. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kathy-griffin-gets-sanded-botoxed/345591/10 "2006-02-22T10:09:21Z")
Kathy Griffin is freakin hilarious. She’s the one who popularized the term “Clay Gaykin.” She was also in _Pulp Fiction_, and in an Eminem video or two. A lot of celebs probly hate her, because her standup consists of . . . trashing celebs. Very funnily. You should hear her rip Ryan Seacrest to shreds. Hi. Larry. Us. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kathy-griffin-gets-sanded-botoxed/345591/11 "2006-02-22T13:40:49Z")
She has a stand-up special that Bravo shows a lot. Very funny standup, centered on the fact that she’s a minor celebrity, so gets invites to award shows and such, where her very lack of fame confuses people. ---
**Author:** ![AmericanMaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@AmericanMaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmericanMaid)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kathy-griffin-gets-sanded-botoxed/345591/12 "2006-02-22T14:16:55Z")
Her Bravo show is called “On the D-List.” An example of her humor: She has called Renee Zellwegger a puffy faced coke whore - allegedly. At some awards ceremony, she started he rumor that Dakota Fanning was in rehab and asked a couple celebrities to wish her luck. Steven Spielberg was extremely pissed off and issued a press release. I highly recommend her “Allegedly” stand-up show. It’s available through Netflix. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kathy-griffin-gets-sanded-botoxed/345591/13 "2006-02-22T14:48:26Z")
She was on the US version of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” a couple of times - that’s probably what got her the cable special. Couldn’t have been her material or delivery. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kathy-griffin-gets-sanded-botoxed/345591/14 "2006-02-22T15:04:16Z")
nobody’s talked about that jewel surgery they can perform? it’s the last picture on the kathy griffin lawsuit page they take a freaking stone…and put it in your eye…to make it pretty and sparkly… that’s in-freaking credible in a couple ways… first, that medicine has some amazing advances and that many thigns are possible… the second… that’s absolutely crazy talk. to put a freaking shiny, sparkly stone in your eye? how stupid are you??? okay, i think i’m done for now. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kathy-griffin-gets-sanded-botoxed/345591/15 "2006-02-22T15:20:25Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > She was also in _Pulp Fiction_, . She was? Which part? ---
**Author:** ![archmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@archmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/archmichael)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kathy-griffin-gets-sanded-botoxed/345591/16 "2006-02-22T15:30:37Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > She was? Which part? She was the witness to the car accident ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kathy-griffin-gets-sanded-botoxed/345591/17 "2006-02-22T15:39:02Z")
> [@astro](#): > > [Apparently the Lasik didn’t work out - :eek:](http://www.kathygriffin.net/lasik.php) Yow. I feel badly for anyone in that situation. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kathy-griffin-gets-sanded-botoxed/345591/18 "2006-02-22T16:09:54Z")
> [@Nonsuch](#): > > Yow. I feel badly for anyone in that situation. This is exactly why I’d never do LASIK myself. It doesn’t always work out, and you are inevitably worse off than you ever were before you had it. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kathy-griffin-gets-sanded-botoxed/345591/19 "2006-02-22T17:02:11Z")
Kathy now makes more money than she knows what to do with. Even I would consider surgery… ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kathy-griffin-gets-sanded-botoxed/345591/20 "2006-02-22T17:04:56Z")
Is it just me or is the difference between before and after not worth the effort? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kathy-griffin-gets-sanded-botoxed/345591.md?page=2)