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Bravo has greenlighted a second season of Kathy, which features a panel of civilians and celebrities commenting on the week’s most-talked-about moments. The deal extends the network’s relationship with Griffin, who has won two Emmys for Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D List and has had 14 original comedy specials air since 2005. Her most recent, Kathy Griffin: Tired Hooker, just earned an Emmy nom for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special. Kathy is produced by Donut Run and Embassy Row for Bravo with Griffin and Michael Davies the executive producers.
Bravo Renews Kathy Griffin Talk Show
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Sorry, the show is horrible. It got a little better once she started adding guests, but the panel of her “normal” friends needs to go. I delete the show at that point.
I love Kathy Griffin, but the civilian panel really needs to go. It just does not work. We want to watch people who are going to be funny and the civilians just never are. On the other hand, the show where she had Jane Fonda and Chelsea Handler on was terrific. Jane sitting there with a “what the hell is going on here” look on her face was priceless. The show with Anderson Cooper was great as well. Kathy needs to get her buddy Cher on there next. And she needs to stop pimping all of the other Bravo “reality” shows on her show. No one tunes in for that.
She was funny once. Once.
You GO, gurl!!!!!!!
It’s been on for eleven weeks. A talk show needs hundreds of episodes before it can find its true voice. Just give her some more time.
I’m surprised. The ratings were NOT good and I’m not clear on the concept of the show. It’s a little vague and she initially said she wouldn’t have celebrities but then she did…and it was better.
The format needs to be defined/tweaked. I like Kathy but I don’t get the point of the show. The random guests are complete nobodies and aren’t interesting and the filmed segments fall flat.
Kathy is funny no matter what panel she has.
Glad to hear her show was renewed!
Watch her stand up special tonight on Bravo. Can’t wait.
Woohoo!! Best news of the day!
I’m sorry but the civilians were the best parts. You guys are idiots. Yay for season 2!!!! I love the show.
Clearly they were experimenting in their first set of 11 (or whatever it was). (Call me old school, but 11 episodes, especially for a talk show, isn’t a “season.”) I can’t blame them for that. I am in the camp that finds almost everything Kathy does or says to be funny (or at a very minimum interesting), if not hilarious. I didn’t mind the inconsistency as such; but some segments worked much better than others.
At least one of the so-called “civilians” was a professional, or wannabe professional, comedian. As such it seemed like that person was trying very intentionally at every moment to be funny and “on.” That’s a different dynamic from the non-comedians, and most memorably Kathy’s neighbor dude Ryan. Ryan was by far my favorite non-Kathy/Maggie person on the show (and I watched every episode of the “season”). By far. He was just so real, and himself. He wasn’t trying to be funny. But the bits with him were very, very entertaining thanks to his interplay with Kathy.
I am hardly a prude, but at times I wished Kathy would not take the sometimes cheap route of saying something sexual as a supposed failsafe path to “funny.” I mean, it just got too much at times. Kathy is an extraordinarily skillful comedian; she doesn’t need to pull that stuff.
My recommendations for future episodes are (1) make sure that guests are *interesting*, whether they are famous or not (I’m sorry, Jimmy Kimmel, while a nice guy, just wasn’t interesting as a guest) and (2) don’t book other comedians — it just doesn’t work. Let the guests be the “straight man” (so to speak), and let Kathy be the cut-up (of which she is second to none). I also personally think one-on-one (vs. Kathy-on-three) would work better. For example, I would have greatly preferred to see Kathy interview Jane Fonda one-on-one (and let Jane talk).
Also, finally, I wish Kathy were nicer, and never rude, to Maggie. I just don’t think intentionally embarrassing a 90-something-old is cool.
I love Kathy Griffin, I really do and I would watch her read the white pages, because I know even that would make me laugh…but here’s what I want: I don’t want another Chelsea Lately. Most of the time the show felt like Chuy was replaced by Maggie and Chelsea’s panel was replaced by Kathy’s.
I love Kathy and I want her to be given a show that IS her own and not a once-a-week replica of something else on the air. I’m not proclaiming to know what would work (I’m not a TV producer!) but she needs a different kind of talk show. A 22 min two/three times a week would be tighter, faster paced and more enjoyable. I would also probably opt for a 7-10 min Kathy’s view on all things, 7 min interview and a couple of taped segments. I would also keep Maggie and Tiffany in some capacity.
Kathy is one of the very best comedians working today, and with the new show, has the potential of a long, long Johnny Carson-like career. However, she hasn’t yet found her pace, and her staff just isn’t up to Tonight Show quality.
Kathy needs to find writers with that kind of outstanding comedy talent. With her best weapon of biting satire, she should open each show with a stand-up of hard-hitting comments on the news, a la Carson/Leno, then offer ensemble comedy and other real entertainment.
The sit-down-on-the-couch talks are getting old with Leno and all current late-nighters. They’re just the boring peddling of new TV shows and movies. If she must share the stage with celebs, put them to work on comedy bits.
Also, she should stay away from having the inevitable screaming, no-talent rockers (?) that are an annoying staple on Leno, etc. Just maybe, some late-night viewers would rather see and hear real music.
You’re the best! Go get ‘em, Kathy!!!!
I only saw about half of this first season, but I enjoyed it immensely! My favorite moments were always when Kathy was off script. Not sure why others don’t enjoy the “real” people segments because I loved those, too. Definitely should keep her mom as part of the show. I can’t wait to see what’s in store for season 2!
I loved the show . . . when is it coming back?
I love the show, but I agree that it has a few kinks to work out. My favorite part(s) are with Maggie, and when she does the video cutaways that she filmed. More of those would be funny, but maybe I just really miss My Life on the D-List.