DVD/150: KATHY GRIFFIN: ALLEGEDLY (Keith Truesdell, 2004, tv)

Kathy Griffin is now notorious for the 2017 incident when she posed for a picture holding a Halloween Trump mask covered in ketchup and, despite her swift apology, cue media outrage, online trolling, cancelled work contracts, extensive FBI investigations, and placed on the No Fly list so she was detained at every airport during her Laugh Your Head Off world tour.  But that is now and this was then...

ALLEGEDLY was Kathy's fourth HBO stand-up special and her affinity with the audience and comic timing of death shows why she is the natural successor to Joan Rivers.

Kathy skewers Macy Gray, Renée Zellweger, Salma Hayak, Gwyneth Paltrow ("she's our new Tippi Hedren"), Anna Wintour ("bunch of real riots over there at Vogue"), Barbara Walters and Eminem.  She also monologues on the culture shock of her Afghanistan USO tour and Brooke Shields' new-age wedding hijacked by her alcoholic mother.

Shelf or charity shop?  I can see myself wanting to cackle at this again so one for the DVD limbo of the plastic storage box.