Kathy Griffin says she immediately contacted Jimmy Kimmel “on day one” of his recent suspension from Jimmy Kimmel Live!.
The 64-year-old comedian recalled her own public fallout in 2017 when she faced backlash for a photo that showed her holding a fake severed head of Donald Trump and how Kimmel supported her at the time.
“It’s been a trigger for me because Jimmy was the only one who still had me on his show when everyone else said I was too dangerous,” Griffin shared People by the late-night host whose ABC show was briefly pulled from the air in September after comments he made about conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The show has since returned.
Griffin will launch his new comedy tour, New face, new trip—a nod to her latest facelift — on Nov. 8 in Las Vegas, with dates running through May 2026.
“I change my act every night and always start with local jokes,” she said. “One time I read the local sex offender list during a show and had to run out of the theater. I called Cher afterwards and she just said, ‘Come home, bitch. Come back to Malibu.”
