SAVE KATHY GRIFFIN! SAVE KATHY GRIFFIN!

Dear E! Entertainment Networks,

I'm going to be honest. I'm not exactly sure who is still watching your becoming - increasingly - irrelevant network. And yes, even I auditioned for that train wreck Kill Reality show; but I was hoping you could pull it together. Of course, that was a huge mistake. I'm sure you agree...that is, if you actually watched the show, which you probably didn't, and that would explain why you allowed it to be on the air at all.

At this point, I only tune into your network for one reason: to watch the red carpet shenanagins at awards shows. Yet I just read the Page Six story about how you FIRED KATHY GRIFFIN from her job as a host! Just WEEKS before the Golden Globes!!! It's just too much.

Okay, so Kathy pissed off Dakota Fanning's people when she said Dakota was in drug rehab. Dakota's people hated that. But everyone else LOVED it. There's no reason to let one little lawsuit-threat from Dakota Fanning ruin everyone's fun.

The only reason I tune in to your f---ing network is to watch Kathy Griffin tell Renee Zellwegger she is turning into an Asian cokehead. It takes guts for her to say these things, considering the fact that Kathy herself looks like Andy Dick in drag. But say such things, she does, and we love her for it. Besides, if you don't give her a job, she'll have to go on yet another revival of Hollywood Squares, and no one deserves such a squalid fate.

Who are you going to get for the job instead? Bring Joan Rivers back again? Please. Her public appeal is right up there with that of Don Knotts. Okay, so she made a brilliant cameo on Nip/Tuck, slathereing herself with sperm cream, but otherwise her ship has sailed. She needs to go the way of the majority of skin from her face, and be cut off. And she should bring her daughter with her.

I realize you have hired Ryan Seacrest as one of the hosts, but he is too boring to even talk about right now. Just typing his name gave me a headache. You need more than Ryan Seacrest. LOTS more.

Comments

[Chris]

Kathy's shenanigans are the only reason I tune into E, instead of a major network, for red carpet coverage. She's aweseome! I love the fact that she's not afraid to say what everyone else is thinking. Plus, anyone who has "her gays" as a posse rocks!
SAVE KATHY!

[Kakaze]

Oh god, they got Ryan Seacrest to replace her? He's like a talking 2x4 with rotting ends.

[Glenn C]

Hi:

Kathy is such a talented comedian!!! Why would they want to lose such an amazing entertainer? It does not make sense. I loved Kathy's "My Life On The D List" so much that I taped every episode. She really deserves to have her own sitcom again. She is too good to waste her muse on a crappy third rate cable network. If no talents like Jeff Foxworthy and Tom Arnold can get their own shows why not give Kathy a chance?

Kathy's commentary at award shows is what makes an otherwise boring show fun. Ryan Seacrest is such a closet case and pales in comparison to Kathy. You can't send a closet queen in to fill a DIVA'S shoes!!!

[Rocky]

Proof that the people at the top will NEVER understand their audience. Idiots.

[Jeff Funk]

Oh my god. Kathy got fired? That's crazy! Gay men LOVE HER. They'd better be prepared for the Purple Backlash.

[BRyan]

Kathy will bounce back, like she always does...and will go on to bigger and better things...I LOVE YOU KATHY...

Gay Men of America!!! Boycott Ryan Blah-crest and the E! Channel!!! They both SUCK anyway...Ugh! RS...even the initials sound like nails on a blackboard!! The day this man comes out is the day I become Str8 (with Inches hidden under the mattress, of course)

[Ray]

Kathy Griffin got fired? Ugh. She's probably better off. The last time I saw her at an awards show, they kept her away from the red carpet in a booth.

Ryan Secrest? Please.

E! sucks.

[Jess]

Wow, you really hit that nail on the head! Of whom does Ryan Seacrest have compromising photos? That's the only logical explanation for his success. Kathy Griffin, on the other hand, is wonderful.

[Erica]

OMG... Well, I won't be watching E! for Golden Globes OR the Oscars. I just about barfed with Starr "Now my head is too big for my body" Jones Reynolds last year. Poor Kathy. First a divorce and now this...

[Glenn C]

Hi

OMFG! Kathy is getting a divorce? She and her husband looked so happy and in love. She must feel like crap right now! Those E network wads are just pure evil to do this to her. Gay power!

[stevieb]

damn them!

[alex]

I love Kathy Griffin! She is so becoming a gay icon, and who the hell else really watches award shows other than gays and their girls? NO ONE! so it is in their best interest that they keep Kathy!

[Turtle]

Thankfully, Kathy recently announced she and her husband, Matt, are back together and trying to work things out. Good news.

Plus, filming begins in February for a second season of "My Life on the D List"! She's also doing another stand-up special for Bravo. Next spring can't arrive fast enough. (The new stand-up special should be interesting as she eviscerates Ryan Seacrest on the most recent one, "Kathy Griffin Is...Not Nicole Kidman.")

[Erica]

Turtle,

Good news about Kathy and her husband. I hope it does work out for them - and good news about the show, although I wonder if it will put pressure on their marriage. If Bravo was smart, they'd have Kathy on the red carpet and give E! a run for their money. Put her next to Joan Rivers or her daughter - the stars will be so busy avoiding them they'll leap at the chance to talk to Kathy (That used to be why I watched E with Joan and Melissa... you'd spot stars in the background spot Joan, and avoid them.)

[Turtle]

Erica -- Yeah, I hope it works out for Kathy and Matt. I do worry that the cameras will put too much pressure on them; last year Kathy talked about how she and Matt were ready to kill the cameramen by the end of filming.

It's not a bad idea at all for Bravo to do a red-carpet special; but one of the problems is fighting for space. You have to be a legitimate "news" outlet (he said, realizing how ridiculous it is to call E! a news outlet). From what I've heard from friends who have been on the red carpet as reporters, it's cut-throat.

What E! has completely forgotten is that Kathy GETS IT. She gets how ridiculous the red carpet parade really is. So does Joan Rivers; I know people who know her, and she thinks it's hilarious that every year people watch to see whose name she'll forget. She does research and prepares, but ultimately she just wings it. She gets it, just like Kathy does.

Melissa Rivers, unfortunately, does not. Star Jones has no sense of humor whatsoever, and neither does Ryan Seacrest. He's so invested in being a corporate superhero that everything he touches becomes as bland as milk.

Thank the goddess for our Kathy, who has retained her sense of humor. And Dan, of course...which is why this blog is entertaining.

[owen]

Oh well, she's a little tacky anyhow. Enough with pimpin for free stuff already, it just further tarnishes celebrities needs for free stuff that they can easily afford.

[cherrio]

We LOVE Kathy. You are too good for E (cheap bastards!!) and will do great. This is their loss, not yours.
Best Wishes from the OC!!!

[Liz]

Joan Rivers and Kathy do stand-up. That's the type of person you need on a red carpet. Star Beard and Ryan Queen 4 the Day are no talents.

[Kim]

Oh God! I would pay to see Joan Rivers, Melissa Rivers, Kathy Griffin and Anna Nicole Smith on the red carpet of the Oscars or any award show. That would just rock to see all of them. I love Kathy, she is so damn funny in her 2 stand up acts showing on Bravo. She had my sides busting open when she talked about Renee, Clay concert, The View, etc... Kathy says what we all think, imagine her with Joan.. Please let the planets line up for that one.

[Rit]

I was sickened by this news. When someone who watches Breaking Bonaduce (oh, you know that's a delicious bit of TV) thinks your network is crap, you're f*ed up. E! is dead to me now.

Oh, love that you tried out for Reality Bites, but even I couldn't continue with that one. Glad I stumbled on to your site.

[Eric]

Did you know Kathy ... ripped little Ryan Seacrest apart on stage after he tore open her blouse on an awards show, he's a little prick & I'm sure it was part of the "deal" to axe Kathy. People like him & Star Jones can never have truly talented people around them.
Ugh ... E used to be fun ... Screw it all
I say we go back to drinking games before awards shows ... like the good old days.

Cheers

[Erica]

What is Ryan Seacrest's talent, anyway? A butt-kissing asswipe? (OK... I know that is redundant, but you are talking to a gal from a family that frequently uses "Don't be a buttass" as an insult... that and pecker-necked pig fornicator (translation: dick-necked pig f...er)

I mean, at least Star Jones is intelligent (she did go to law school) although I am sick to death re: her wedding, etc. Her head is too big too.

Kathy has got "it" - she doesn't take herself too seriously, and really, she isn't as gross or mean as Joan. I think the stars get it too - you don't see Nicole Kidman protesting over the use of her name, and my estimation of Clay "Gaykin" went up when she told the story of him calling her backstage and being actually nice to her.

Kathy is one of us... she watches, maybe trashes, but also loves the stars and all the glamour, etc.

As for the freebies, don't kid yourself... she works hard for those, I suspect. She herself has said she lives in an A list house but on a D list salary. You KNOW that the A listers are in there grabbing the stuff too - only they probably have their assistants doing it for them. I don't see them opening their homes for charity though!

As for the drinking game... sounds great, but anymore I have to get up the next day! WHY they have these damn shows on Sunday nights I'll never know...

[Glenn C]

I think Bravo could score big ratings with a Kathy Griffin red carpet show and maybe they coudl get Carson from Bravo's Queer Eye to assist her.

Speaking of getting fired, Danny from Road Rules got voted off this week's Gauntlet. His castmates were immature Girls Gone Wild clones . The show sucks this season. It's all about these slutty $10 crack whore wannabees who got rejected from working at Hooters because their breast implants looked too fake. It's so high school and not like American Pie high school.

I felt bad for Danny. Amd what was up with making Danny wrestle Alton? That's just cruel. It reminded me of how MTV tried to humiliate our Dan Renzi in the previous challenges. Why does MTV do this to gay people?

[Glenn C]

I think Bravo could score big ratings with a Kathy Griffin red carpet show and maybe they coudl get Carson from Bravo's Queer Eye to assist her.

Speaking of getting fired, Danny from Road Rules got voted off this week's Gauntlet. His castmates were immature Girls Gone Wild clones . The show sucks this season. It's all about these slutty $10 crack whore wannabees who got rejected from working at Hooters because their breast implants looked too fake. It's so high school and not like American Pie high school.

I felt bad for Danny. And what was up with making Danny wrestle Alton? That's just cruel. It reminded me of how MTV tried to humiliate our Dan Renzi in the previous challenges. Why does MTV do this to gay people?

I wonder if the two gay Dannys would ever go out on adate. They would make a cute couple. Why haven't we seen any of the gay guys hook up? They only show the straight peopel hooking up.

[Dean]

I emailed E! Stop the insanity. Bring Kathy back.