Kathy Griffin? Are you gay?

I hate reality TV. I vaguely recall watching the first two seasons of The Real World and maybe the first of Road Rules. I remember some fights, some accusations, some well-meaning gay AIDS-activist and his cartoonishly intransigent foil. I willingly watched a few early episodes of the first season of Dancing With the Stars and soon realized that every episode thereafter would be B-listers fucking tango-ing.

I was watching baseball this evening and it occurred to me that I hadn't so much as glanced anything on ABC (apart from sports) for longer than I can recall. It further occurred to me that any time I fired up my digital-enhanced on-screen guide (one of the decade's great overlooked inventions, sez I), I noted that ABC was airing three hours of Swapped Nannies Being Made Over in Extreme Homes seemingly every weeknight. Sure enough, a digitally-enhanced skip over to ABC's prime time lineup showed three hours of Brats Dancing with Bachelors on Inventors' Home Videos. Thus, my prophecy self-fulfilled and my bias reinforced.

The upshot of all this is that I find myself, in classic Gomer Pyle-style, surpraaaaaaiiiiiised at how much I dig Kathy Griffin's My Life on the D-List. In my universe, Griffin has gone from cute, clever Seinfeldian to deliciously self-deprecating, over-the-top attention whore in a matter of months. My ex-roommate turned me on to the show last year and, in my abject joblessness, I was able to watch a MLotDL marathon last weekend. It's in a new season (three?) and new episodes air on Thursdays at 9 Central. Odd as this sounds, I can't recommend the show enough to the showbiz-weary among you. If you hate Paris Hilton news coverage more than you hate Paris Hilton, then watch the show.

To make this topical, she's self-identified as an atheist, and her "Suck it, Jesus" Emmy acceptance speech ranks as my favorite atheist-friendly moment of the past twelve months.



For the record, I am not gay. Not that terribly many records will exert themselves to note my sexual orientation, but I suppose I need to answer the question asked in the title.

Watch the show or I'll get a job, I swear.