Since the last time comedian Kathy Griffin played a show at Desert Diamond Casino — fall 2013 — she’s moved into a new house and new neighborhood in Los Angeles.
Her neighbors: Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.
Ah, the stories she could — and will — tell when she hits the Diamond Center stage Saturday, March 4.
“There’s always something going on and the funny thing is the proximity. I’m not even kidding, I could wave to them right now, that’s how close it is,” she said during a phone call Monday from home. “Kris Jenner came over one day, like on moving day, and I showed her: ‘Look how close we are. This is ridiculous.’ And then she started waving out the window.”
Griffin also met Donald Trump long before he had “president” before his name. She did a charity event for his “Apprentice” reality show with Liza Minnelli on one of Trump’s golf courses.
“So I spent the day on the golf course with Donald Trump and Liza Minnelli, and Donald Trump was driving the golf cart and Liza and I were in the back and Liza was getting the spins. And Trump wouldn’t slow down because he was showing us off to these big golfers there,” said the 56-year-old comedian/celebrity/author/actress. “And I was in heaven, not because of him but because of Liza. But I don’t think it’s appropriate, no matter your office, to ever give Liza Minnelli the spins.”
While some comedians tell jokes, Griffin tells secrets.
“If you come see me at Desert Diamond, you’re going to hear stories that honestly you can’t hear from anybody else on the planet because Liza doesn’t remember,” she quipped. “What I pride myself on doing is doing the entire show, stories that you can only hear from me on that stage on that night. It’s not going to be a Trump hair joke; it’s going to be me poking his hair the last time I saw him. It’s not going to be a joke about Kim and Kanye. It’s going to be ‘What is it like to live next door to them. What is it like when Kim Kardashian comes to your house?’”
You can also expect to hear her:
Dish on Trump: “This administration is made for standup comedy. ... You have to realize it’s a comic’s dream to think that the more we make fun of him, the more he is personally offended.”
Stand up for Mexicans: “I’m going to be standing on, not the wall, but any kind of a fence and I’m literally going to be throwing Mexicans into America. I don’t know if that’s considered a passive form of protest.”
Look back on Oscar’s epic embarrassment: “I love that (‘La La Land’ producer) Jordan Horowitz is trending because people were actually saying, ‘Why can’t the president be more like the guy from ‘La La Land’ who did the right thing?’ ... ‘Wait a minute. People can take a minute and do the right thing and everything is OK and people are better for it?’”
Cheer on Arizona Wildcats: “My boyfriend (Randy Bick) of 5½ years is a Wildcat and he is 18 years younger than I am so I now have to be a Wildcat. I don’t know anything about sports, but when he and I go hiking every day, he wears his Arizona cap and it’s always a little embarrassing for me when a grown man passes him and says, ‘Bear Down’. I don’t think women have those secret societies. If I see a female friend I don’t pass her and go, ‘There’s a sales at Saks.’”
