What was Kathy Griffin thinking when she posed for a portrait holding what looked like the severed head of Donald Trump? That’s the question the comedian’s fans most want to hear answered in her se…
: A Hell of a Story,” which is her courageous attempt to soldier on after her career got “Dixie Chicked” by the scandal. But unlike the country band, who suffered blowback after Natalie Maines announced, “We’re ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas,” Griffin got heat from not just “Make American Great Again” supporters — whom she dubs “Maggots” — but the government itself.
Virtually overnight, Griffin saw her stand-up career implode as the belligerent bully-in-chief mobilized his apparatus — what she calls the “Trump woodchipper” — to silence her. Before she knew it, the suddenly blacklisted comic was being investigated by the Secret Service and threatened with charges of conspiracy to assassinate the president.
Now, had Griffin been approached by Oscar winner Barbara Kopple, the way the Dixie Chicks were, maybe we’d get a more objective — or slightly less self-serving — documentary, à la “Dixie Chicks: Shup Up and Sing.” Instead, Griffin took matters into her own hands, hiring “Arrested Development” director Troy Miller. With 23 stand-up specials to her credit, she did what she knows how to do, and that’s to make comedy of the situation.
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