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Kathy Griffin (born November 4, 1961 in Oak Park, Illinois) is a stand-up comedienne whose career took off in the early 1990s amongst counterparts like Janeane Garofalo and David Cross. She is also an actress, voice actor, a frequent commentater on E!, and a self-proclaimed D-list celebrity.
At a time when comedy was turning from punch-line oriented joke-telling to humorous social-commentary and satire, Griffin's wry observations about celebrity culture and fame quickly propelled her into stardom (she even made a cameo in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 smash Pulp Fiction). In the late 1990s she became a household name playing the quirky best friend of the title character on the long running American sitcom Suddenly Susan. Griffin voiced the character of Alice in the animated television series Dilbert. In 2003 she was the grand prize winner on Celebrity Mole, and she continues to tour with her stand-up routine. In 2005, she returned to television in a reality show on the cable network Bravo based on her everyday adventures, titled "Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List."
Her most notable controversy occurred when she made a joke during an interminable "E!" televised event that eight-year-old Dakota Fanning was just out of rehab.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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