Kathy Griffin Is Trying to Get Back on the D-List
The New York Times
Ever since her Trump joke went wrong in 2017, Griffin has been seeking a professional rebirth, and wondering who among the canceled gets a second chance.
When Kathy Griffin met last summer with a surgeon to discuss the removal of the upper lobe of her left lung, and the cancer in it, she got right to the point. “Can this wait?” she asked. “Because I’ve got a gig.”
She was expected in New York, to film a four-episode role for “Search Party,” the HBO Max cult-hit dramedy about the bizarre travails of a group of 20-something friends, whose final season was released this month.
It wasn’t a run-of-the-mill opportunity. “Search Party” would be Griffin’s first TV role in five years that wasn’t based on the notoriety that enveloped her after she posed for a photograph holding a Halloween mask of President Donald J. Trump’s severed head doused in blood-like ketchup in May 2017.
