"Life on the D-List": Kathy Griffin's Back, Emmy in Hand and Still Biting the Hand That Feeds It

amp160Cable TVamp8217s favorite frenemy is back Kathy Griffin is living Life on the DList for a fourth season on Bravo 10 pm ET ThursdaysBut something is off Instead of judging dog fashion shows and getting booted off redcarpet jobs Griffin now is seen in Times Square aboard the CNN platform cohosting New Yearamp8217s Eve 2007 with Anderson Cooper Sheamp8217s a headliner at the Producersamp8217 Guild Awards with megabillionaire Steve Wozniak as her armcandy And sheamp8217s never less than impeccably coiffed and heavily lacquered with glossy lips and Lucyesque high eyebrowsWhattup Kath Have you gone Alist on usNot quite She still maintains that sheamp8217s been blacklisted from Alist guest shots on all the major network talk shows even after winning a 2007 Emmy for best reality show And the Woz while being a highprofile date turns out to be the supernerd with no pop culture acumen He gets none of Griffinamp8217s references She speaks Hollywood he hears Charlie Brownamp8217s teacher going amp8220wahWAHwahamp8221That Emmy by the way costars on the season opener of DList She wags it around like a puppy and plonks it in front of Wozniak when he comes over to meet Griffinamp8217s widowed mom whoamp8217s still pouring wine from a box and begging her daughter to stop saying amp8220Suck it Jesusamp8221Griffinamp8217s poorme act is a little harder to buy now as aerial cameras sweep over her Los Angeles home cantilevered off a hillside like a crashed UFO She rides in limos and gets free gowns via ubiquitous celebrity stylist Robert VerdiIf this is Dlist where does the line startLots of stars are Dlister than Griffin By blowing up the inside secrets of the tabloidsamp8217 favorite celebrities and sharing them with her audience like a rejected cheerleader gossiping at a slumber party Griffin has risen above some of her Alist targetsamp8212including Paris Hilton Nicole Richie Lindsay Lohan and even BritBrit Working harder than they do and staying sober helps Sheamp8217s also damn funny But if there are fewer quotables on the Bravo show itamp8217s because Griffin seems to be working too hard at seeming spontaneous It feels as scripted as The Hills Getting bigger laughs the hard way are Griffinamp8217s trio of helpers Jessica Tom and Tiffany On New Yearamp8217s as their boss quips alongside Anderson Cooper they play a drinking game Every time Griffin calls Cooper amp8220Andyamp8221 they do a shot Five Andys later Jessica is bombed stumbling back to the hotel muttering amp8220five shots too many five shots too manyamp8221One season too many is how this round of DList feels We love Griffinamp8230but the act is starting to grow stale Now about Jessicaamp8230how about Life as a DList Assistant Bet SHE has some storiesamp160

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