If you stick around Hollywood long enough, especially as a woman, people will always start to poke fun at your aging. “What happened to her?” people ask, when they see a 75-year-old Ann Wilson (of the band Heart) tottering onstage under extra weight and unkempt gray hair. Well, getting older is what happens, but there’s a limit.
Comedienne Kathy Griffin appears to have found that limit. Twitter is abuzz this week with “fresh” pictures of the controversial performer walking around in full sunlight wearing a T-shirt promoting her show. Hard, direct lighting from the sun is unkind to women of a certain age for sure, but there seems to be more going on.
Griffin appears to have gotten her facelift from an embalmer. Comedian Terrence K. Williams has a happy-go-lucky manner that works well to sell his Cousin T’s line of pancake mix, but even he had a hard time staying nice. “Kathy Griffin-girl!” he said through laughter. “What in the world-wh-what happened to you? Girl, Kathy, did you look in the mirror before you walked outside?
Do take a look. The press oddly frames these grisly photos as due to Griffin being “makeup free,” but if you take a look, she’s got it absolutely caked on. It just doesn’t make any difference.
It’s not clear that a mirror would have helped, given that vampires do not cast reflections. Maybe it was the sunlight-a known undead allergy that did this to her face? Truth be told, Miss Griffin has been looking a fright for a few years. No one can know for sure, but it seems likely that the common plagues of female celebrity—anorexia, plastic surgery, neuroticism—are taking their toll on what’s left of Griffin.
Looking a fright isn’t the only thing, of course, that has put Kathy Griffin the news. The stand-up comic has long been known for bitchy, acid commentary and gossip-related jokes. She’s a bit like a downmarket version of the late legend Joan Rivers. But Griffin’s grotesque photoshoot protest against Donald Trump will be the thing she’s most remembered for. In 2017, a year after Trump took office for the first time, she posed for a photograph holding a realistic dummy of Trump’s decapitated head, dripping with blood. National Public Radio had a “look-back.”
Here’s a sampling of the Twitter/X reaction to Terrence William’s short video on the matter:
