during the filming of an episode for My Life on the D-List with former View co-host/moderator Rosie O' Donnell, Griffin dished about being being banned from The View, specifically targeting View executive producer Bill Geddie in a video posted on R blog.2005 saw the debut of Griffin's solo reality show Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, on the cable network Bravo.She said one time she was there she went backstage and talked with a Groundling member (Phil Hartman) and asked him what The Groundlings were all about.This led to her taking classes there and eventually being asked into the Main Company.
Griffin has released six comedy albums, with all of them receiving Grammy Award nominations.After starring in an HBO Half Hour Comedy Special, Griffin's first consistent public exposure came in 1996, when she was cast as the acerbic colleague of Brooke Shields' title character on the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan.In 1998, Griffin starred in her first one-hour special, HBO's Kathy Griffin: A Hot Cup of Talk.Kathleen Mary "Kathy" Griffin (born November 4, 1960) is an American actress, comedian, writer, producer, and television host.Born in Chicago, Illinois, she moved in 1978 to Los Angeles, where she studied drama at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and became a member of the improvisational comedy troupe The Groundlings.
Griffin's TV production company is called Inappropriate Laughter, a reference to her sometimes shocking form of humor.