IMHO "Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List" (5.4): Paris is my new BFF

After three episodes with Kathy trying to learn from Hollywood's mature "A-Listers", she decides to take on "Young Hollywood" ... with mixed results.

Journey below to find out why this episode of My Life on the D-List earns an up arrow, despite the presence of "Young Hollywood"'s Queen Vapid Debutante.

The episode starts off great, with Kathy trying to worm her way into Hollywood's elite youth, and what better way than try to get an appearance on a hot, hip CW show? She wants Gossip Girl, but has to settle for Privileged.

She meets up with hot lead actor Ignacio Serricchio, who's a good sport about playing along with Kathy's schtick, although one bizarre moment halfway through their meeting causes Kathy to be taken aback. See for yourself:

Kathy has about three lines on the show and continually flubs them (just ... perhaps ... purposely), and when she asks Team Griffin for their verdict on how she did, fabulous casting director Patrick Rush delivers my favorite moment of the night:

Kathy: Patrick, how'd I do?

Patrick: Margaret Cho is on hold.

Kathy: I'll have you know I have a stand-in!

Patrick: Hmm ... does she look like Chelsea Handler?

Kathy decides the next step is to put her mother in charge of her Facebook account, which works about as well as you would imagine. I absolutely adore Mama Griffin, especially when she's being mildly abused by her daughter.

The biggest laughs occurred when Kathy put her mom in front of the computer to update her page, which leads to talk of "teabagging" ... and more:

Unfortunately for me, that's really where the enjoyment in the episode ended. Most of the rest of the show was devoted to Kathy taking advice and running around Hollywood with Paris Hilton.

Ugh.

Some of this worked (for instance, the counter-girl getting her name wrong), but I really can't stand watching Paris for more than a few minutes. I much prefer Mama talking about updating "FacePlace", and Kathy having to ... fire her.

What did you think of this week's episode? For me, it didn't hit the heights that last week's Paula Deen show did, and I could've done with a lot less Paris, but there was enough good stuff to raise the arrow to the up position.