Last night we saw Kathy Griffin in Toronto at Massey Hall. The show started at 7pm which was great, because it allowed us to see the show and go out afterwards. Much appreciated Kathy!
First off, I am a fan. Not a super fan, I think she is very entertaining, I have watched her Life on the D-List show, but I don’t go crazy for Kathy. I really like how her comedy is current and she makes fun of recent celebrity news and gossip… or so I thought.
In her reality show she has said that she makes a lot of her material up on the fly, and I was really looking forward to that. She started off the act talking about Beijing which is as current as it can get, and then moved onto Canadian Idol which she said she watched last night. Which is curious since the night before was Thursday and it doesn’t air on Thursday’s. Oh well, at least she threw something in there that was Canadian content.
She covered topics like Paula Abdul and her American Idol slip up, Miley Cyrus, Tom Cruise on Oprah, the Lohan’s and The Hills. Don’t get me wrong a lot of it was very funny, but it wasn’t that current. Especially the Paula Abdul fiasco. I guess comedians have to set their show and sort of run with it for the duration of their tour.
So I was entertained, but I don’t think I was as entertained as I thought I could have been. Don’t get me wrong, I was laughing and she was funny but after the first hour, I was sort of just hoping that it would wrap up. It got old and I was checking my watch (even though I did’t wear one) to see what time it was to predict when it would be over. And some of the things she said was crass but I was actually expecting more. Out of two hours there were only a couple things that were really worth repeating due to their hilarity, and some if I just wouldn’t want to repeat because it would sound like I was just reading Perez Hilton from 5 months ago.
On another note, she joked a bit that she is sometimes mistaken for Kathy Lee Gifford… and actually from a distance, she sort of does look like her.