Kathy Griffin knows what you said about her

Tuesday, Kathy Griffin stopped by The Tyra Banks Show to talk about the new season of My Life on the D-List, and of course one topic of conversation was Kathy's love of "the gays".

One of the things we'll see this season is an performance she gives for an audience in prison: "I like to challenge myself as a standup," she explained. Kathy had hoped to perform for gay inmates at the Los Angeles County Jail, but, as you may have heard, was rejected by the Sheriff's department out of concerns that her material would be "inappropriate".

Part of the fun of watching Tyra is some of her strange reactions. When Griffin explained how some gay inmates would improvise cosmetics (using pencil lead for liner and turning red vitamins into lip stain) Tyra had a look of perplexed surprise, as if the idea of prisoner not having access to makeup had only just occurred to her.

Instead of spending time with gay prisoners in L.A. County, Kathy performed at a maximum security prison in Arizona. Talking about the prisoners she met, it sounds like this episode of The D-List will be similar to her encounters in Iraq last year, when she treated her audience as people worth spending some time with and getting to know a little, not as an audience there only to feed her applause and reality TV drama. It's too bad she didn't get the okay from the LA Sheriff's Department, the D-List would probably be better exposure for the prison than a MSNBC Lockup documentary.

Another D-List story is Kathy's current romantic cynicism after her divorce. "I decided that I married for love like a fool and now I only want to date men I can be in magazines with. Only photo ops." When Tyra responded that some celebrities use follow that rule Kathy mused, "I think for the really big stars it's almost like the old fashioned Hollywood arranged marriages and if they get along fine,if he's banging guys on the side, who cares."

She also talked about how she doesn't turn a deaf ear to people who talk about her online:

Kathy: I Google myself all the time

Tyra: What does that make you feel like?

Kathy: Famous... through the tears.

Tyra: Have you really cried about something?

Kathy: All the time.

Tyra: Are you serious?

Kathy: Oh, yeah! 'She's an old, ugly hag!' (pantomimes typing) I'm like 'Ha, ha! That's funny!' (stops typing, feigns crying) 'No, that's not!' I read all that stuff, but sometimes it really just makes me laugh.

So. Now you know who was behind all those hits on your blog that came searching for "Kathy Griffin fabulous" "Kathy Griffin funny" and "Kathy Griffin old hag." Hi Kathy!