Did you hear? Kathy Griffin dropped an F-bomb during her co-hosting of CNN’s New Years Eve show! You never know what that crazy broad’s gonna do, but you can bet it’ll be hilarious! Except when it isn’t.

Juh? I can understand risking an F-bomb for a good joke or to make an emotional point, but this? This is nothing. (Who doesn’t know how to say “Falcon”? Who thinks somebody might’ve named their child Fuckin’? Who puts their livelihood at risk by compulsively spouting the F-word?)

Which brings us to today’s news, brought to us exclusively by PopEater:

Following her very controversial F-bomb-dropping New Year’s Eve hosting gig, CNN executives have decided Kathy Griffin will NOT be getting a 2011 invite. “She was a total embarrassment to the network that calls themselves ‘The Most Trusted Name in News.’ Even Anderson (Cooper, her co-host) thinks it’s time to say goodbye to Kathy,” a CNN insider tells me.

I can believe Kathy Griffin getting banned from CNN over an errant F-bomb, but I can’t believe she’s getting banned over such a stupid errant F-bomb.

(Thanks, Towleroad.)

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39 replies on “Kathy Griffin Banned from CNN over Lamest Joke of Her Life?”

  1. Ugh, I still love her but that was kinda dumb. Can’t wait what she says about it at her show this month. I’m sure Larry King will pull for her and she’ll be back, but she won’t apologize and that’s ok.

  2. Risk her livelihood? She is making tons of money these days, the two $85 concert tickets on my fridge at symphony center at a testament to that. I seriously doubt she cares too much about being banned from CNN.

  5. 2: I don’t mean she’s going to be homeless, she’s just risking a high-profile job that set her apart from the vast majority of comedians….

  6. Can adults ever act like adults and get over “swear words”? They’re just words and when people do stuff like this, they’re just making it worse.

    I don’t care about Kathy Griffin much, though.

  12. I knew this would upset you, yay.

    I’ve invented a new term for taking delight in watching gay icons fail to live up to their status as cultural surrogates: Schmaderfreude.

  13. “Who puts their livelihood at risk by compulsively spouting the F-word?”

    Ever done a word count of the F word in a typical day’s postings on slog?
    Be careful if you ever get a job in the real world.
    If you carry shit around in your mouth and head sometimes it slips out when you don’t mean it to.
    Ask Kathy…

  14. This is just as fake as the Kanye West and Taylor Swift arrangement to bump up sales for country and western songs.

    CNN will huff and puff and hire her again.

    They want her because of the controversy and so they can claim that they were virgins before she said such naughty things to their poor virgin ears …

  16. Jesus H. Motherfucking Christ on a popsicle stick. Get over it, @11 and 13 – that’s the way adults in the real world do talk. Grow the fuck up, dipshit.

  18. I love Kathy Griffin, I not only think that she just wanted to drop the f-bomb, I also think she was teasing Anderson Cooper. cuz Falcon is also a gay porn studio, so she was asking him how to pronounce it, after all he would know cuz he’s ghey. (I mean happy). Also in a preshow interview then Kathy also stated that she would write her paycheck back to CNN if she cussed, so she was planning on doing this all along. its all in good fun. not everyone GETS Kathy Griffin “for crying out loud, for Christ’s sake… goddammit… son of a bitch… Jesus H. Christ hanging off a Cross… goddammit! son of a bitch, Peter and Paul and the other Apostles, what the Christ is wrong with you…”

  19. My New Year’s resolution of trying to care is suffering soil erosion; I so wanted to be amused watching the two of them share buffooneries, but got the impression that if Anderson had to deal with Kathy involving neither money or TV exposure, he would totally ignore her as his nervous laugh lightly masked deep blueblood embarrassment.

    As the unrepentant school child offered when asked to apologize for saying a bad word: “I’m sorry I said ‘Kathy, you puerile fuck’!”

  21. I’m not a huge Kathy Griffin fan but I found the duo to be a pretty good light entertainment, and much better than the usual painfully earnest NYE coverage.

    If the ratings are good she’ll be back, if not on CNN then somewhere else.

  22. Oh please, Griffin will eat this up. It will become part of her act, (“Christ Kathleen, why did you have to go and say the f-word to my Anderson!?!) and the moment will be featured on her show when it starts up in the spring.

  23. who watches the NYE countdown on CNN? If you’re home and you HAVE to watch some channel’s countdown, is CNN really ANYONE’s first choice?

    “Aww, I can’t hit dat homeboy party. I GOTTA catch tha’ Coop Countdown, dawg.”

  29. She’s great, I love her, I’ve got my ticket for her show. I’m sure the CNN insiders love her too, but they know all too well how crazy she is and the risk they are taking when they put her on air live. AC giggles happily away with her, and he is no doubt the envy of all of his boyfriends.

  35. kathy griffin – does one have to be gay to like her coz’ she seems like an talentless goof 99% of the time. i say 99% because she is honest about her plastic surgery and that friends, is funny!

    ds, she is our generation’s JOAN RIVERS ‘cept kg is NOT funny.

  37. FUCK YOU, CNN. And, while we’re at it, FUCK YOU @11 & @13. One more before I go – FUCK YOU to closeted BUTTFUCKING Anderson Cooper who sells his gay-ass soul to that LAME-ASS, FUCKING network. God I hope someone finally outs him with sleazy pics of his WASP-y white ass humping a twink. That guy is such a FUCKING tool.

  39. Once CIA always CIA..Anderson C. worked for this evil agency for 6 months plus in training and who knows what else. He is also a Vanderbilt..one of the richest families here in the USA with a lot of influence. If Anderson knows your not looking he will obsfucate for his corporate masters, and lie by omission. It’s an art and people who watch network news are being put to SLEEP. >>> FUKUSHIMA anyone (FUK-u-shima…LOL..sorry.. bad joke) Radiation fears played down in order to keep General Electric in business (GE built those plans and Billions$ are at stake. GE is also the owner of NBC news Network) PR machine (Public Relations…..a.k.a LIES to the public is in full gear on every news channeL. ( Watch…carefully..your not being told crucial information about this Disaster!!!!!!)
    As far as KAthy is concerned some, very few women can swear and do it well. Most women who swear on a regular basis ,to me, is a HUGE turn off. Somehow it is thought of as funny but without the comedy timing, and by the way this applies to men as well.
    I had to put up with this F-ing crap of swear words, at lunch time for 6 months when i got my first job..every second word was a EXPLetive about the most innocuous things in their daily lives……..Made me wonder how they talked to their kids/wife/or how they talked at family functions. If civility is dead, i found it long ago…but i know there are good people out there.
    Peace!! and thanks! Posted by Making Your Life GLOW

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