Kathy Griffin

[NovaKart]

I'm just now getting to the responses rather late. I think it's a bit silly of Kathy Griffin to talk about "her gays" as if gay people are her pets or something. I appreciate that people are more accepting of us gays now but it doesn't mean that we owe the something or that Anderson Cooper should have some loyalty just because she's accepting of gay people. And yeah, he's a rich man but why does she call him an "heiress." He's a woman because he's gay? I like Kathy Griffin and appreciate her support of the gay community but it does seem like some people talk about gays as if we're their pets or something or they just side with us because maybe it makes them look edgy or progressive.

 

[OldBoomer]

it does seem like some people talk about gays as if we're their pets or something or they just side with us because maybe it makes them look edgy or progressive.

It's virtue signaling/attention whoring. She did a professional photo shoot with the president's bloody severed head for the same reason. I wouldn't worry about it too much.

 

[BvBPL]

I'm just now getting to the responses rather late. I think it's a bit silly of Kathy Griffin to talk about "her gays" as if gay people are her pets or something. I appreciate that people are more accepting of us gays now but it doesn't mean that we owe the something or that Anderson Cooper should have some loyalty just because she's accepting of gay people. And yeah, he's a rich man but why does she call him an "heiress." He's a woman because he's gay? I like Kathy Griffin and appreciate her support of the gay community but it does seem like some people talk about gays as if we're their pets or something or they just side with us because maybe it makes them look edgy or progressive.

Griffin has, throughout her career, sold herself as an ally of gay rights and gays generally. She’s also written quite a lot of humor intended to appeal to the gay audience. “Her gays” refers to gays as the consumers of her comedy and activism, much as BMW might refer to M3 owners as its drivers.

Cooper himself is gay. There’s a long history of referring to gay men in the feminine, sometimes endearingly and sometimes less so. Cooper also happens to a Vanderbilt heir by way his mother, Gloria.

 

[Lexicus]

Does anyone else think it would be a lot funnier if the thing griffin joked about actually happened?

 

[BvBPL]

Would it be funny if a two-bit comedian attacked a head of state with a knife, managed to severe his head after a struggle, and then posed with it for the camera with a blank, emotionless stare and a matronly top?

Yes, Lexicus, that would be hilarious. You should book a class at DC Improv to workshop that. I’m sure Capitol Steps will want to sign you before the ichor cools.

 

[Lexicus]

Would it be funny if a two-bit comedian attacked a head of state with a knife, managed to severe his head after a struggle, and then posed with it for the camera with a blank, emotionless stare and a matronly top?

Yes, Lexicus, that would be hilarious. You should book a class at DC Improv to workshop that. I’m sure Capitol Steps will want to sign you before the ichor cools.

I would laugh out loud for sheer joy if I heard Trump had been decapitated.

 

[BvBPL]

Gross.

 

[Lexicus]

Gross.

Sic semper tyrannis right?

 

[Manfred Belheim]

That's actually a really weird reaction. Even if you genuinely believe he's the second coming of Hitler, I could understand joy/happiness/relief etc as a reaction. But to actually find it funny suggests a not particularly well-balanced personality.

 

[Traitorfish]

The humour isn't in the execution. It's the method of the execution.

The man imagines himself to be some sort of Bourbon monarch, with his golden furniture and contempt for constitutional government. So, let him play the fantasy to its proper conclusion. Let him have an end fit for a king.

Dramatic irony, like.

 

[BvBPL]

Sic semper tyrannis right?

The humour isn't in the execution. It's the method of the execution.

The man imagines himself to be some sort of Bourbon monarch, with his golden furniture and contempt for constitutional government. So, let him play the fantasy to its proper conclusion. Let him have an end fit for a king.

Dramatic irony, like.

The lessons of Julius Caesar are timeless.

 

[Traitorfish]

Well, it would have been funnier if they'd treated Caesar like a king and had him strangled by a eunuch, if that's what you're getting at.

But I guess they were looking for more of a grand statement.