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Kathy Griffin Says She Ended Her Friendship With Anderson Cooper Over ‘Trump Picture’

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Earlier this year, Kathy Griffin shocked the internet when she released a picture of herself holding a beheaded Donald Trump. The graphic picture was met with immediate backlash and forced Griffin to publicly apologize. For Griffin the backlash appeared to be hard to deal with to the point that her friendships became tested. One of […]

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Kathy Griffin Reflects on Her Trump Photo Controversy

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It’s been almost three months since Kathy Griffin tweeted a photo of herself holding a bloody mask made to look like a beheaded Donald Trump — which resulted in a huge online backlash pushed in part by the POTUS himself on Twitter – and in a new interview with The Cut, Griffin gets candid about […]

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DL Hughley Points Out The Double Standards Between Trump’s CNN Meme And Kathy Griffin’s Trump Joke

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This weekend the internet went crazy when a video meme was shared by Donald Trump on his official…

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When news silences satire: Why firing a Kathy Griffin today weakens Anderson Cooper tomorrow

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When the media takes down a comedian, we all lose. When the hubbub of Twitter firestarters and talking heads are starting… MORE

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What Is Considered a Fireable Comedy Offense in 2017?

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The Friday before last, I noticed that my Twitter feed was suddenly really mad at Bill Maher. This wasn’t exactly anything new; he caught the ire of many people earlier this year when he had “alt-right” figure Milo Yiannopoulos on his show, and in general, courting controversy is kind of his thing. So, when I […]

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Kathy Griffin apologizes for this bloody Trump photo

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Kathy Griffin took part in a photo shoot where she held up a dummy head covered in blood, conceived to make you think it was Alec Baldw…no, Donald Trump. Which, of course, is provocative no matter whose effigy it represented. But when you’re pretending the sitting president of the United States is done dead and […]

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Kathy Griffin apologizes for this bloody Trump photo

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Kathy Griffin took part in a photo shoot where she held up a dummy head covered in blood, conceived to make you think it was Alec Baldw…no, Donald Trump. Which, of course, is provocative no matter whose effigy it represented. But when you’re pretending the sitting president of the United States is done dead and […]

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