Kathy Griffin is on the D-List no matter what you effing say!

Even if you’re not as big a fan of Kathy Griffin as we are at AfterElton.com, you have to hand it to the foul-mouthed comedian: she knows her shtick and has worked it like few other folks in show business.

Have you looked at her early credits? Did you really think she'd ever become an Emmy winner and a Grammy nominee? Come on, Suddenly Susan wasn't exactly the harbinger of great things to come. Frankly, the woman has been in more crap than an army of plumbers and yet somehow she has arrived at a point where is one of the most well-known female comedians of all time.

Not that she’ll ever admit that.

AfterElton.com recently had the chance to briefly chat with the biggest gay-rights supporter on TV when she dropped by NBC’s party at the Television Critics Association Summer Tour in Los Angeles. Kathy claims she was there because she’s a publicity whore, but we suspect it’s because she simply had to meet some of her AfterElton.com gays.

AfterElton.com: You were the first straight person to win our AfterElton Gay of the Week after the gay episode, we put you up.
Kathy Griffin: After the Prop 8 episode?

AE: After the Prop 8 episode. And it was a massacre. So what would you like to say to our readers who voted for you?
KG: I would like to say thank you to the gays, and to the men and women who support them. I appreciate the award. You know me. I do love awards more than people! They define me. And I will continue to lovingly look at the website and celebrate all things gay.

AE: All your seasons have really been fun, I've really enjoyed them, but this season has really been something special.
KG: I kicked it up a notch with the celebrities. We really, really try. I mean honestly. It started with I kind of pack, pack, pack my schedule, then I pack it with things I think will hopefully be funny on the show, then life just sort of happens, and sometimes that's how we get our funniest moment. Like in the Bette Midler episode, our beloved crack lady who just found the camera at the end of the episode, and was just cracked out and found her light.

Those moments you can't write. It's a combination of planning and not knowing what the f*ck's going to happen.

AE: Since I'm with Kathy Griffin, I have to go Kathy Griffinesque: Paula Deen and the dog poo? Really?
KG: Turd Alert. There was a full scale turd alert at Paula Deen's house. I do know the gays secretly indulge in those recipes even though they have a lot of carbs. So a lot of gays will have a Paula Deen meal, then have to work out extra hard for the next four days, and drink some sort of supplemental drink — and that's not code.

AE: Now your mom is...
KG: A gay icon!

AE: She totally is!
KG: And a gay activist!

AE: Did you bring your mom all this way [on gay issues], or was she always so amazingly progressive?
KG: My mom was always progressive in that she always bragged when we were little how my dad would do whatever needed to be done. My mom always worked, and my dad would change the diapers right along side her. When the gay issues came up, like getting her to march at the Prop 8 rally, it just didn't even occur to her to not do it. To me, it's not even about whether you're liberal or conservative; it's kind of just knowing right from wrong.

Our beloved Maggie knows right from wrong. She knows it's wrong that gay people shouldn't be allowed to marry legally. It's just wrong. She did have the best sign: "Gay Marriage? I'll drink to that." Come on!

AE: Did she really write that?
KG: No, the producers of the show wrote it, and we didn't even tell her what was on it for the first ten minutes.

AE: Now, you're mom has the best line so far of 2009, which is, "I've got to go work on my FacePlace." KG: My mother has been contacted by Facebook. They've literally reached out to her and offered to be at her beck and call because she has given so much good press to FacePlace. So now, we only call it FacePlace. I Twitter, but I don't want to tell her about my twats, because that's just me being vulgar again, but I twat and she does FacePlace.

AE: What's the most shocking thing in the book, which we're totally going to review.
KG: This is so sick. You're gonna hurl. I decided to print my plastic surgery post-op photos, which are worse than crime scene photos. They're so disgusting that after a while they just became funny. So make sure you take some Tums before you look at them, because you're not going to feel well. I hope you like the book.

AE: At what point do you move up to the C List?
KG: I'm holding my sign. Who are we sh*tting? Jay Leno's not holding his sign.

AE: Please, I came in the door and there was one other person waiting to talk to Jay Leno. When I first tried to talk to you, you had fifteen people around you.
KG: It was a gay McFlurry.

AE: It wasn't just gay people. There were some straight sprinkles thrown in there.
KG: Well there goes the neighborhood. What are you gonna do? They sneak in. It's legal.