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Kathy Griffin Gets Booed By U.S. Troops After Calling Bristol Palin Fat

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Comedian and self-proclaimed “D-lister” Kathy Griffin hosted VH1 Divas Salute the Troops which was taped for an audience of servicemen at the Marine Corps Air Station in Miramar, California, and aired last night. The ribald and unconventional comedian set the tone for the night when she joked about Bristol Palin and her supposed weight gain while competing with Dancing With The Stars. But the joke fell flat, as the military men and woman in attendance lustily booed the host for taking a shot at Sarah Palin‘s daughter.

Ms. Griffin has used the Palin clan for her “comedy” material before. Last summer, while filling in for a vacationing Larry King, she had on as guest Sarah Palin grand-baby daddy Levi Johnston. This was a follow-up to Johnston’s attending the Teen Choice Awards as Griffin‘s guest the night before. She later revealed that the “romantic” relationship between Johnston and herself was merely a publicity ploy (duh!)

Griffin may have been guilty of misjudging her audience on this particular joke, but she went with it, even challenging the audience to boo more (which allowed her to “own” the failed joke.) Watch the clip from VH1 below, which includes a subject-changing introduction of Jersey Shore’s Snooki and Mike “The Situation” Sorrento:

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  • Big Eddie

    Why invite this female impersonator to ” entertain ” the military ?

  • CosmosDan

    Sometimes Kathy is funny. This is not one of them.

  • Atticus Draco

    just the beginning stages of repealing ‘DADT’
    Allowing Kathy Griffin to entertain our troops

  • disenlightened

    I won’t even watch the video. I just ate.

  • Atticus Draco

    disenlightened said:
    I won’t even watch the video. I just ate.

    lol
    i didnt watch the video either
    but thats because i just hate her

  • skyfet

    It’s just wrong to call a girl fat, it’s even meaner coming from another female.

  • Cecelia

    “Griffin may have been guilty of misjudging her audience on this particular joke”

    Yeah, her audience wasn’t her usual assortment of angry uncouth idealogues.

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: Liberal acting liberally.

  • Jackie_Treehorn

    She’s been to the Middle East 3 times supporting the troops…..more than anyone here can attest to.

  • tatboy

    Kathy is the 2010 version of a comic 50 years ago telling racist jokes. It’s all based on hate and bigotry of the audience your thying to appeal to. Her audience hates certain people so she appeals to the hate and bigotry. This was NOT that audience.

  • Atticus Draco

    Jackie_Treehorn said:
    more than anyone here can attest to.

    You gotta be a liberal,, ‘coz you aint very smart at all are ya?

  • tatboy

    Jackie_Treehorn said:
    She’s been to the Middle East 3 times supporting the troops…..more than anyone here can attest to.

    That excuses hate jokes… your right… hate IS funny. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    “Griffin may have been guilty of misjudging her audience on this particular joke, but she went with it, even challenging the audience to boo more (which allowed her to “own” the failed joke.) ”

    You just cant help yourself, but to carry water for liberals when they say nasty shit.

  • disenlightened

    Jackie_Treehorn said:
    She’s been to the Middle East 3 times supporting the troops…..more than anyone here can attest to.

    No, she was in the middle east three times attempting to spread her virus.

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: Yes sworn to defend against the enemy that’s with in!

  • sarainitaly

    Is someone who almost died having so much fat sucked out of their ass and thighs really in a position to mock someone else about their weight?

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Kathy, you forgot the first rule of successful comedy, “know your audience!!”

    ps, you are the LAST person to criticize anyones looks.

  • skyfet

    @Just4thefax
    Enemy within, is different from an enemy with in. The latter has no meaning.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    I don’t think that was Griffin, I think it might have been Elaine B or DonnaK.

    You can view my latest video about the Palin Haters like the above mentioned.
    View it here……………..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt2FE4I7JJw

  • The Real Royal King

    I have found Griffin to be funny so seldom that she is not worth the odd chortle.

  • The Real Royal King

    skyfet said:
    It’s just wrong to call a girl fat, it’s even meaner coming from another female.

    That’s interesting. One might think just the opposite were true. However, at the Pub last night after the Festival of Lessons and Carols last night, my wife, daughter-in-law, sisters and nieces began one of their fat thigh conversations, and, you are right, there was a strong element of nastiness, even cruelty in it. Brisket and Hillary! were among those specifically discussed. My son, brother-in-law and I were heartily laughing, to be sure, but it was less vicious. Again, interesting point.

  • The Real Royal King

    sarainitaly said:
    Is someone who almost died having so much fat sucked out of their ass and thighs really in a position to mock someone else about their weight?

    That was her choice, just scarfing down a couple of ham and cheese sandwiches and a bag of Cheetos is Brisket’s.

  • cjd ohio 1

    thanks kathy, its ok to make fun of weight again, poor taste

  • skyfet

    @The Real Royal King
    It’s very touchy for the fairer sex, it’s a subject that has egg shell around it. Hence, we see anorexia amongst young girls, and sometimes this leads to disastrous effects.

  • Cecelia

    The Real Royal King said:
    That’s interesting. One might think just the opposite were true. However, at the Pub last night after the Festival of Lessons and Carols last night, my wife, daughter-in-law, sisters and nieces began one of their fat thigh conversations, and, you are right, there was a strong element of nastiness, even cruelty in it. Brisket and Hillary! were among those specifically discussed. My son, brother-in-law and I were heartily laughing, to be sure, but it was less vicious. Again, interesting point.

    THAT explains a lot!

  • Tony the Fist

    It’s not so much that she’s insulting Sarah Palin, via Bristol, which was Kathy’s intention, but the service members hear someone being mean-spirited to the sister of a fellow service member (Track). Kathy, know your audience.

  • TangledThorns

    Cho and Griffin should go on a bad comedy tour :)

  • Cecelia

    The Real Royal King said:
    That’s interesting. One might think just the opposite were true. However, at the Pub last night after the Festival of Lessons and Carols last night, my wife, daughter-in-law, sisters and nieces began one of their fat thigh conversations, and, you are right, there was a strong element of nastiness, even cruelty in it. Brisket and Hillary! were among those specifically discussed. My son, brother-in-law and I were heartily laughing, to be sure, but it was less vicious. Again, interesting point.

    The converstation of these…ahem…. intellectuals….coming from the midst of Christmas festivities is to diss on the anatomies of people they see on the boob tube.

    Then have you have a bunch of troops, at an event that should be to all effects raucous, and they behave in way that shows them to have been very well-raised.

    Quite a juxtaposition, eh…folks.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    King, I don’t think anyone here is surprised that the rest of your family is as fillied with hate as you. Thanks for admitting it though!

  • The Real Royal King

    Cecelia said:
    The converstation of these…ahem…. intellectuals….coming from the midst of Christmas festivities is to diss on the anatomies of people they see on the boob tube.

    The Festival of Lessons and Carols is an Advent event. Christmas events don’t begin until sunset on 24 December.

  • The Real Royal King

    TangledThorns said:
    Cho and Griffin should go on a bad comedy tour :)

    And, take Dennis Miller with them.

  • The Real Royal King

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    King, I don’t think anyone here is surprised that the rest of your family is as fillied with hate as you. Thanks for admitting it though!

    Koming from the most intolerant person on the web, perhaps in Amerika, that is rich. Sorry, Michelle-in-Utah, a point of view different than your radical rightist klaptrap is not hate. It is intelligence.

  • TruGal

    Did she lie? Nope. Bristol Palin IS the only DWTS contender who ever GAINED weight. The truth hurts. Suck it up.

  • ImRubberYoureGlue

    I seriously hope that Bristol issues an apology to liberals for allowing her beautiful bodyshape to be imperfect enough to incite such judgmental, useless if not destructive ridicule.

    And the ridicule coming from self-hating Obot women sure says a lot for their character. I can assure everyone they have some lumps they don’t want you or anyone to see.

  • notsofast

    Griffin: just another pathetic hate-spewing lib with an ugly face, body and mind.

  • Cecelia

    The Real Royal King said:
    The Festival of Lessons and Carols is an Advent event. Christmas events don’t begin until sunset on 24 December.

    I suppose you’ll save farting and burping contests till then.

  • notsofast

    Hey, Griffin, you think l Bristol is overweight and then you call out that really overweight Snooki?

    LOL

  • Cecelia

    The Real Royal King said:
    Koming from the most intolerant person on the web, perhaps in Amerika, that is rich. Sorry, Michelle-in-Utah, a point of view different than your radical rightist klaptrap is not hate. It is intelligence.

    I suppose chortling over thighs would be intelligent conversation among your declasse bunch.

  • The Real Royal King

    Cecelia said:
    I suppose you’ll save farting and burping contests till then.

    No. Someone makes the inevitable comparison between the fruitcake and a cellulite enriched thigh. Then specific examples are given. To break the monotony, we sometimes talk about tacky Christmas sweaters and people who put marshmallows on top of sweet potatoes.

  • Cecelia

    The Real Royal King said:
    No. Someone makes the inevitable comparison between the fruitcake and a cellulite enriched thigh. Then specific examples are given. To break the monotony, we sometimes talk about tacky Christmas sweaters and people who put marshmallows on top of sweet potatoes.

    Then you all unscrew the lids on the salt shakers and leave the wait staff pin pall tokens.

  • TrollJuice

    “After learning that Bristol was pregnant again, Sarah Palin told her husband, the First Dude, to make a chastity belt for Bristol. “She needs to lock that thing up. Throw away the key!”

    It seems Ms. Bristol is pregnant again!

    http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/21890/bristol-palin-pregnant-again/

  • ondrock

    Who is Kathy Griffin? Did she do that show, “Life on the Douche Bag List?”

  • Jackyboy

    Long story short Kathy, get some new jokes. Come on, Bristol is fat? Now that’s just lazy…

  • Obeezy

    Does not anyone find it odd that Snookie and the other guy would be paid to go stand there as entertainment for our troops? And Carrot top in drag makes it worse. I guess gone are the days when real entertainers gave thier time to support our troops..If this is the best we got, the worls must be laughing at us…3 morons without a brain amongst them

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Mcleod-Smith/1824423811 Mark Mcleod Smith

    Liberals are obsessed with trying to destroy these people, its like they get a bonus in their checks for spewing this bullshit (they probably do)

  • writer

    Hilarious. A guy who spells America with a ‘k’ accuses others of intolerance.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Blair-Maury/1027829552 Blair Maury

    gordonbloyershow said:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt2FE4I7JJw

    Wow Gordon. 80 views. This is a record for you. Congrats.

    You must have 0-1 viewer in the coveted not dead demo.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tracy-Starrett/782356411 Tracy Starrett

    Haha! Yep, I’m sure Kathy loves getting booed….she is a washed up has been -no new jokes kathy.

  • alecj

    Maybe if Bristol calls Kathy Griffin’s plastic surgery and goes in for say…….8 or 9 tummy tucks and face lifts like Griffin has, she will be more sympathetic.

    Griffin is an angry, bitter ugly person who hates that she is barely F list after working so darn hard to be a celebrity while Bristol is more famous and isnt even trying. Its typical for liberal to tear down others out of jealously and pettiness. Thats about all they have inside them. When was the last time a liberal worried about themselves instead of what everyone else is doing.

    Only a liberal could try to make a living tearing down a sweet young girl who hasnt done anything to anyone.

    Liberalism is truly a mental disorder.

  • writer

    The King is not mean or hateful. It’s all in good fun. I bet if someone joked about Michelle Obama’s thighs, he’d laugh so hard he’d gag on his Cheetos.

  • philipjames

    Look, Kathy Griffin is a skank… her core audience is the gay community because they like the narcissism and self immolation…. again, she is a skank, nothing more.
    Sometimes I think the right has a skank like her perform in the stupid thought it makes them more hip… rather, it just points out what a worthless piece of crap Kathy Griffin and people like her are.

  • RichS

    The Real Royal King said:
    The Festival of Lessons and Carols is an Advent event. Christmas events don’t begin until sunset on 24 December.

    Its a Christmas and Advent event. You really should try harder to get your lies correct.

  • Penguin60

    writer said:
    Hilarious. A guy who spells America with a ‘k’ accuses others of intolerance.

    Typical MO of the loons on the left. See racist, nazi…….

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Hp-Loveshaft/100001634700834 HP Loveshaft

    Jackie_Treehorn blathered:
    “She’s been to the Middle East 3 times supporting the troops…..more than anyone here can attest to.”

    Oh, you’re done? I was waiting for you to get to your point.

  • LibertySister

    Jackie_Treehorn said:
    She’s been to the Middle East 3 times supporting the troops…..more than anyone here can attest to.

    We now see what a complete moron you are with that statement… If people like you represent the face of ‘Progressives’ . . I think I’ll pass.

  • M Colins

    Look closely you can see Griffin’s Adam’s Apple.

  • CAconservative

    I pray this women never gives birth!

  • Knowledge_Is_Power

    Kathy has no room to talk about anyone else’s looks! This woman has had everything on her “fixed” yet still looks like a man in drag, an ugly a** one at that!

    If CNN has her back for their New Years Eve show they are incredibly stupid!!

  • libra blue

    Good for the troops! They know trash when they see it.

    I detest the Palins, but I hate Anderson Cooper’s hatchet faced botox addict BFF Kathy Griffin even more! Calling her a pig is an insult to pigs. I can’t stand celebrities, but she could make Charlie Sheen look decent.

    @Knowledge_Is_Power, “If CNN has her back for their New Years Eve show they are incredibly stupid!!”

    You know they will. They will do anything to get the ratings on NYE. I read they might do a “menage a tois” with that buck-toothed drunk Lady Gag Gag.

  • libra blue

    @CAconservative, “I pray this women never gives birth!”

    Who the hell would f*ck her!?! Maybe AC will make a charitable “contribution”.

  • libra blue

    Grotesque sh*t mouthed Griffin is no patriot! “It” admitted that “It” only goes to entertain the troops to impress Anderson Cooper.

  • milynily

    They were booing when she mentioned Bristol, way before she mentioned the weight,next.

  • Dave Richards

    This woman is still a pig.

  • Jelperman

    I realize most of the writers at Mediaite are dishonest concern trolls, but this piece from Colby Hall takes the cake. For the record, the crowd started booing when Kathy Griffin said Bristol Palin’s name. It shows a real lack of shame to post a video, then to lie about its contents.

  • oPad

    milynily said:
    They were booing when she mentioned Bristol, way before she mentioned the weight,next.

    Yep, people forget that being booed is part of her act.

  • LibertySister

    Jelperman said:
    I realize most of the writers at Mediaite are dishonest concern trolls, but this piece from Colby Hall takes the cake. For the record, the crowd started booing when Kathy Griffin said Bristol Palin’s name. It shows a real lack of shame to post a video, then to lie about its contents.

    Trust me, they were no booing at Bristol Palin. You may want to think that in your little world, but the troops do not like kathy Griffin…
    80 percent of the military service people considers there morals and values more inline with the conservative party. I dont think Kathy Griffin is inline with most military service people.

  • Biscuit

    Their morals and values, Libertysister, not there. Funny how it’s never any big name conservatives like Bush, Reagan, Cheney, Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, etc, etc, etc, who EVER serve, huh? Typical republican cowards.

    What morals and values, pretending to respect women when they listen to Rush Limbaugh call women feminazis? (funny how a right-wing moron calls women nazis when nazis were RIGHT-WING. What a fat loser!)

    Yes, there’s a reason why hard-working, decent, intelligent and TRULY moral women find conservatism repugnant. They sense the hypocrisy.

  • Biscuit

    Hmm, Liberal women WORK whilst lazy, foul-mouthed, cheap conservative girls just get knocked up. Funny!

  • notsofast

    M Colins said:
    Look closely you can see Griffin’s Adam’s Apple.

    That’s not an Adam’s Apple; that’s her dick.

  • Biscuit

    Maybe if Bristol calls Kathy Griffin’s plastic surgery and goes in for say…….8 or 9 tummy tucks and face lifts like Griffin has, she will be more sympathetic.

    Griffin is an angry, bitter ugly person who hates that she is barely F list after working so darn hard to be a celebrity while Bristol is more famous and isnt even trying. Its typical for liberal to tear down others out of jealously and pettiness. Thats about all they have inside them. When was the last time a liberal worried about themselves instead of what everyone else is doing.

    Only a liberal could try to make a living tearing down a sweet young girl who hasnt done anything to anyone.

    Liberalism is truly a mental disorder

    ********No, what Reagan, Bush, and Cheney were the psychopaths, hon. You want mental disorder in addition to shitty parenting, check out your conservative family.

  • Hugo Daun

    How totally out of line for an insult comedienne to…well, ya know, insult people.

  • Cecelia

    Biscuit said:
    Hmm, Liberal women WORK whilst lazy, foul-mouthed, cheap conservative girls just get knocked up. Funny!

    And FUN!…

  • equaljustice4u

    kathy is a SLUT…….the troops deserve better….

  • mlong

    She just upset that after picking up Bristol’s leftovers in Levi Johnson to make him her boytoy he leaves her to go back to Bristol only for her to kick him to the curb..I guess just to show Kathy she could take him back from her .

  • Jelperman

    LibertySister said:
    Trust me, they were no booing at Bristol Palin. You may want to think that in your little world, but the troops do not like kathy Griffin…
    80 percent of the military service people considers there morals and values more inline with the conservative party. I dont think Kathy Griffin is inline with most military service people.

    Is that why there’s so much porn on military bases and ships at sea?

  • Nachi

    Fact of the matter is that ost US troops are rather slobbish themselves. Not unlike the rest of the nation.
    Fat!

  • disenlightened

    Biscuit said:
    Yes, there’s a reason why hard-working, decent, intelligent and TRULY moral women find conservatism repugnant. They sense the hypocrisy.

    Yeh, then these liberal chicks you’re really talking about go to the bar, get drunk and stoned, go home with some guy they just met, get pregnant and kill the kid. Murder as birth control. The new definition of moral?

  • LibertySister

    Biscuit said:
    Their morals and values, Libertysister, not there. Funny how it’s never any big name conservatives like Bush, Reagan, Cheney, Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, etc, etc, etc, who EVER serve, huh? Typical republican cowards.

    What morals and values, pretending to respect women when they listen to Rush Limbaugh call women feminazis? (funny how a right-wing moron calls women nazis when nazis were RIGHT-WING. What a fat loser!)

    Yes, there’s a reason why hard-working, decent, intelligent and TRULY moral women find conservatism repugnant. They sense the hypocrisy.

    Nazis were not right-wing they were socialist. Hitler wanted total government control of everything… So its a oxymoron to call the conservative Right of America today Nazis…

  • Pablo

    Biscuit said:
    Their morals and values, Libertysister, not there. Funny how it’s never any big name conservatives like Bush, Reagan, Cheney, Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, etc, etc, etc, who EVER serve, huh? Typical republican cowards.

    Both Bushes served, as did Reagan. The elder Bush is reasonably described as a war hero. What’s that you were saying?

  • Pablo

    Biscuit said:
    Hmm, Liberal women WORK whilst lazy, foul-mouthed, cheap conservative girls just get knocked up. Funny!

    Maybe it’s just me, but Bristol seems to be earning a living. Look Ma, no food stamps!

  • nrgetick

    gordonbloyershow said:
    I don’t think that was Griffin, I think it might have been Elaine B or DonnaK.

    You can view my latest video about the Palin Haters like the above mentioned.
    View it here……………..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt2FE4I7JJw

    oh god! that shit bored me to tears,. you need to start imitating your mentor jabba more. Keep on swinging there scooter.

    btw carolyn kennedy also didnt run for vice president wise guy

  • luigicorelli

    This is why she is on the D list. Should be the F list if you know what I’m sayin’. Useless and boring.

  • Maskedpainter

    She’s nothing more than a fake ass wanna-be Lisa Lampanelli.

    And Lisa’s actually funny.

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  • Gipper1980

    Cecelia said:
    “Griffin may have been guilty of misjudging her audience on this particular joke”

    She also WAS guilty of misjudging her humor as funny.

  • Gipper1980

    Biscuit said:
    Hmm, Liberal women WORK whilst lazy, foul-mouthed, cheap conservative girls just get knocked up. Funny!

    Do you honestly believe your load o’ crap??? What sort of females have you been around? You imply that libertard women are not tarts & don’t go around getting knocked up. Where’s your data? Bristol Palin made a mistake & acknowledged it. She tells teens of her mistake willingly & up front. She tells them that abstinence works. It does. Can you provide proof that it doesn’t? And what better person to tell others to not make the mistake she did?
    It’s ‘funny’ that liberals praise the bravery of drug addicted, alcoholic, and sex-addicted Hollyweirdos for their multiple rehabs & then have the gall to attack someone like Bristol Palin. Once again, liberals show their ongoing hypocritical attitudes. And YOU, Biscuit, are just as guilty as those celebretard hypocrites!

  • Gipper1980

    Pablo said:
    Maybe it’s just me, but Bristol seems to be earning a living. Look Ma, no food stamps!

    EXCELLENT! A most excellent point. Bravo! Kudos to you, Pablo.

  • Quite the Pundint

    A voice like a grinder full of nails.

  • TCinAZ

    The Real Royal King said:
    And, take Dennis Miller with them.

    What about Pretty Boy Maher, TRRK? I mean, I think our troops there would get a real Hoot from his telling them they have no Balls because they drop smart bombs from thousands of feet above the earth, while haji terrorists are the Truly Ballsy and committed ones, since they were willing to kill 3,000 or more, by their….

    Of course, that little bitch would be among the first to groan, and moan, and whine, had we instead, been using dumb bombs since 2001, to “air raid villages and kill civilians”. As that would’ve, uh, created more terrorists. Not sure how That works though. Dead terrorists create More of them? Fking proggie math. lol.

  • Nahu Tuk

    skyfet said:
    It’s just wrong to call a girl fat, it’s even meaner coming from another female.

    I am happy to find myself in agreement with you. It is so rare that I do.

  • YankeesGirl

    Kathy Griffin should be the last person in the world dissing anyone personally.Just look at her , she looks like a nightmare.I think all the plastic sugery and botox messed up her brain.I think anyone would choose Bristol over this ugly washed up unlady like old hag.She would never have the grace as Gabourey sidibe.

  • Nahu Tuk

    Nachi said:
    Fact of the matter is that ost US troops are rather slobbish themselves. Not unlike the rest of the nation.Fat!

    You are without doubt the most stupid individual posting on this site. I can think of no words appropriate for cultured people to express my disgust for you. In the time I’ve been visiting this site, I have yet to see you make a contribution worthy of consideration. I realize you have your rights of free speech but the manner in which you use those rights discredits you and your parents. I am certain if your parents knew of the remarks your make here they would be shamed….and rightfully so.

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