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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 3 april 2018
Kathy Griffin warns that her nightmare 'can happen to you'

By RYAN PEARSON had joined ISIS. "I don't think
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kathy they're recruiting 57-year-
Griffin says she hopes to old Irish-American come-
make her U.S. comeback dians," Griffin cracked. "I
by laughing about the dis- don't think I would do very
turbing photograph that well in the training camps.
got her in hot water with I've seen those videos."
the feds and almost killed Unable to tour in the United
her career. But she also has States, Griffin went over-
this warning amid the jokes: seas, performing in 23 cities
"If it happened to me it can in 15 countries. This summer
happen to you." she plans to tour in Mexico,
Griffin is embarking this Canada and the United
summer on a North Ameri- States, including stops in
can tour that kicks off a San Francisco, Seattle, Bos-
year after she was widely ton, Chicago and a sold-
condemned for posing out gig at Carnegie Hall in
for a picture in which she New York. The tour name
gripped a bloodied ren- alone is defiant — "The
dering of President Donald Laugh Your Head Off World
Trump's head. Ten months Tour."
on, she is unbowed. "I'm trying to sort of get peo-
"I'm the same girl I've always In this March 22, 2018 photo, comedian Kathy Griffin poses for a portrait in Los Angeles to promote ple to forgive me and get
been — just a hardwork- her upcoming “The Laugh Your Head Off World Tour. people to come back to
ing, obnoxious, red-haired Associated Press me or give me a chance.
comedy girl. The whole And it's interesting. It's re-
time I've been consistent said. Griffin said she un- ily put-together apology like Anderson Cooper ally like I'm starting all over
in just trying to make you derstands if people don't video followed by a "di- turned away but one ce- again," she said.
laugh," she told The Associ- like the photo, but it is pro- sastrous" press conference lebrity reached out — Jim Griffin, who said many peo-
ated Press. "Am I shocking tected speech. "If there's with attorney Lisa Bloom in Carrey, someone she didn't ple still send her Bibles, ac-
sometimes? For sure. Do I one amendment I'm famil- which she called Trump a know that well. He advised knowledges there are some
go too far? I hope so. That's iar with it's the First Amend- "bully" and only worsened her to find the comedy in places in America where
my job." ment. I know it back and the still-spiraling disaster. her absurd situation. she will never be welcomed
The "Suddenly Susan" and forth and it's how I make "My social media was "It was really meaning- again and that some TV
"Kathy Griffin: My Life on my living." so flooded that I really ful to me that he called," shows won't ever invite her
the D-List" star lost income, The comedian's life thought, 'OK, I am the most she said. "Jim's advice was back. "I still haven't won
received death threats, changed radically last May reviled person in the world right on, which is, 'Lean into over the entire cast of 'The
was denounced by Trump, when the image came out: right now,'" she said. "It's this topic and you'll find View,'" she joked. The initial
landed on an Interpol crim- "I really never thought that been a long time to sort of the comedy.' And luck- revulsion and aggressive
inal list and was afraid to photo would take off at all. process that and figure out ily I found a lot of comedy reaction to the photos has
leave her home. She said Like I've been doing 'shock- what's real and what isn't." while hibernating." softened lately, especially
she was under investiga- ing' things my whole ca- She added: "I really do be- Some funny stuff inadver- in the wake of the #MeToo
tion by the Department of reer." She called the fallout lieve if it happened to me it tently came from her mom, and Time's Up movements
Justice for two months. "faux-outrage." can happen to you." who said she was watch- spotlighting sexism and
"It shouldn't happen to She said there were a few During those dark days, Grif- ing TV with the sound off misogyny in the entertain-
an American citizen," she missteps, including a hast- fin said many colleagues and believed her daughter ment industry.q

'Other People's Houses' offers view from the carpool minivan

By CHRISTINA LEDBETTER man.Abbi Waxman's "Oth- larious inner dialogue and soccer games.
Associated Press er People's Houses" follows listening in on her decision Waxman's take on the
Frances Bloom can jam the four families impacted process as to which chick- drudgery of parenting is
seven children into a mini- by Anne's fling. Rumors and en to purchase for dinner fantastic. Anyone who has
van designed for six with suspicions ooze through proves relatable and en- ever unintentionally memo-
no problem. Her daily car- the upper middle-class Los tertaining. When we're not rized an episode of "Dora
pooling duty tethers her Angeles neighborhood like loitering in Frances' psyche, the Explorer" or attempted
neighbors' lives together. It slime, and even the tamest we're privy to other char- to awaken a sleeping teen-
also affords her snapshots of marriages begin to toe acters' thoughts. The om- ager will find comradery
of their mornings, which fragility. All the while, Fran- niscient narration at times with the comically flawed
are typically less than scan- ces continues to taxi chil- borders on feeling over- folks residing in "Other Peo-
dalous. This changes the dren to and from school, done (at one point we're ple's Houses."q
day Frances whips the car take her best shot at par- even in the head of a ca-
around to retrieve a kinder- enting a high schooler and shier), but avoids discom-
garten passenger's forgot- two other needy children, bobulating territory.
ten school supplies. In ad- and maintaining a sexless Settings provide their own
dition to finding the urgent life with her dependable comedic flair to the hub- This cover image released by
project tools (toilet paper husband. bub. The drama unfolds in Berkley shows "Other People's
rolls), she finds her neighbor, Large swaths of the read front yards, around kitchen Houses," a novel by Abbi
Anne Porter, in the middle take place in Frances' tables and in the cheering Waxman. Associated Press
of an affair with a younger head. She possesses a hi- section of dreaded youth