"Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D-List" (4.10) recaplet: Children and Chaplains, and a soldier named Nick

This week was the season finale of Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, and what it lacked in laughs and gay content, it made up for in heart (ugh ... I know, that was horrible, but the snark is going to be hard to dish out due to the subject matter of this episode).

Kathy is prepping for her visit to Walter Reed Army Hospital, where she'll meet with and perform for injured soldiers. She's feeling nervous because she's not sure this audience will appreciate her Britney Spears and Brangelina jokes, but even more nervous is her military tour guide Lt. Colonel Todd, who has been to Iraq with Kathy and is wary about what language she'll use with the soldiers (because ... profanity is discouraged in the military?).

Kathy turns to Joan Rivers for advice on how to handle the situation, and Joan recommends talking about hairy Iraqi women, and suggests getting support from the gay male nurses. For some reason, this doesn't assuage her fears.

When they get to the hospital, Kathy's guide is a soldier's wife named Susan, who's just twenty years old, and is dealing with a toddler daughter and a husband who is an amputee. (As Kathy points out "I never could have done any of the stuff these women are doing. I was temping, and auditioning for Fresh Prince of Bel Air.")

Susan shows Kathy a picture of her giving her husband a playful spanking, and when a nearby child asks why he's being spanked, Kathy displays her extreme (and hilarious) awkwardness around kids by getting flummoxed and blurting out, "Because ... Jesus loves you!"

After a short interview with a military magazine, and a visit with an injured soldier who looks far too young to have be dealing with an amputated limb, they visit the Walter Reed rehab center, where they unexpectedly run into Susan's tattooed husband, Jace. Can I just be really shallow for a moment and say that Jace is hot as hell (even with the "I'm hung ... like Saddam" T-shirt he was wearing)?

Kathy meets up with other injured soldiers, including one who talks about the varying degrees of amputation, and how his injury is no big deal because it was below the knee, and the matter-of-fact way he speaks about it is startling. She also meets another amputee who talks about how some days are better than others, and eventually the enormity of the situation bears down on Kathy, and she has to retreat to a private room for some crying time.

You can say what you want about Kathy's material being shallow and superficial, but her humanity and sensitivity are second to none.

After the break, you can meet the ... unique Nick, and find out how the performance went.

Kathy is introduced to another soldier named Nick, who will become the running joke for the rest of the episode. Nick is in the hospital for "head injuries", and is very cocky and brash (and has a tattoo that says "F**k me, I'm Irish"). He and Kathy have a very natural rapport, but frankly, he reminds me of every guy who made my life hell in high school.

She then meets up with the therapy dog, George, and the hilarious Sgt. Shirley, who has lost an arm and a leg, and executes a perfect joke about it at Kathy's expense. He also assures her that there are guy's guys around that will come to her show.

It's time for the performance, and Colonel Todd delivers some horrific news: there are six children and four Chaplains in the audience.

Kathy starts the show, and as expected, her usual celebrity material bombs. Before the flop sweat starts, Nick rolls in to save the day, and Kathy mines his Nickness for comedy gold, which then opens the floodgates for Kathy to rag on other soldiers and their eccentricities.

Surprisingly, the most popular part of the evening is when Kathy offers up her Emmy award for pictures, and soon Nick rolls up next to her like it's the "Kathy & Nick" show. The night ends on a high note, as Kathy was able to provide laughs and a distraction for the soldiers and their families.

That's it for the season. There are rumours (even from Kathy herself), that this may have been the final season. If that's true, then I'm glad they ended with this episode, as it shows Kathy in the best possible light.

As for whether we should get a fifth season, I can't get enough of Kathy, so of course, I'd love it. What do you think ... has My Life on the D-List run its course, or would you like to see more of Kathy and her adventures?

BTW, here's a deleted scene of Nick, talking about a special part of his anatomy. How about a Bravo show about Nick?