"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? Submitted by on Fri, 2008-08-15 13:19. |
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This is a large part of the reason why
I like Kathy so much. She actually dragged her butt over to Iraq and visited women in prison, shedding light (albeit reality TV light) on subjects we don't see much of.
Watching her visit the soldiers really drove home how little of the collateral damage we actually see from this sanitized war. Kudos to Kathy for putting those men and women front and center so it isn't so easy for Americans to forget them.
Because.... Jesus Loves You!
"Because.... Jesus Loves You!" nearly killed me. Best line evah.
We love Kathy. Great finale.
We love Kathy. Great finale.
If MLOTDL ends, I hope Bravo will bring us more Kathy because I just can't go see her on stage, as I don't live in the US.
Nick love
I thought Nick was adorable and I was extremely glad to see Kathy start including the people she'd met at Walter Reed in the show. She really should have known better than to keep saying "tits" at the start of her show. Anyway, it was a brilliant show and a fabulous finale.
The Republicans have banned photographers from taking pics of the returning victims (including caskets) of their ill-conceived war, so Americans will be less aware of the costs of war this time. They know that such photos killed public support of the Vietnam War. My thanks to Kathy for letting us have this rare little peak at their lives. Those people at Walter Reed were wonderful.
I'd love to see D-List continue forever but Kathy must decide whether or not it feels right for her. Only she can know what is best for her. I just pray we get to keep seeing her on TV in some form.
Kathy and the Casualties
I absolutely think Kathy Griffin's show should be renewed for many more seasons. Surely Bravo Tv won't throw this show away after loosing Project Runway. Kathy really should work up some PG 13 rated jokes though. The breeders will continue bringing their rugrats to inappropriate shows because they expect others to accommodate their kids everywhere. This is like the fourth time in two seasons that Kathy has sweated out a show because kids were brought.
As far as casualties of the Bush War, once January 20th rolls around this nation will be shocked by the information that tens of thousands of young people have been maimed by this lying president and his evil henchmen. The VA Hospital system was starting to downsize now that the World War 2 vets are dying off but now the VA will need to be fully funded for the rest of our lives. The investigations into the stupidity of this war, the graft and corruption of the businessmen profiting from stealing from the troops, the evil intent and actions of Bush's buddies will fill the news , multiple indictments and the history books for many years.
I myself don't think Bush is stupid. I think he is evil, a malevolent lying bigot, who schemes ways to serve his Saudi Arabian paymaster. And I think this is how he will go down in History.
Never attribute to malice...
...what can be blamed on stupidity.
Actually, I do believe that Bush is stupid. Or more specifically he's very closed-minded. Information that doesn't conform to what he wants to hear flows right over him like water off a duck.
Cheney, however, is evil (and his daughter's no prize dyke or no).
What actually happened here is that Cheney's oil industry buddies got sick of a decade-long embargo that was denying them access to the rich oil fields of Iraq. They also stood to make money on reconstruction post-invasion (which in fact they did, often on no-bid contracts that they were automatically awarded).
That pack of moronic neocons that Bush surrounds himself with genuinely believed that Iraq would quickly become a happy pro-American satellite state as soon as Saddam was ousted, which is why their entire plan for the invasion only stretched as far as removing him from power and didn't take the aftermath into consideration at all.
The severity of the subsequent mess came as a shock to the neocon ninnies. But not to the hordes of sociologists whose warnings were ignored, as are the opinions of any scientists whose theories don't jibe with what Bush wants to hear. Admitting fault is beyond Bush's capabilities however so he has dragged this out regardless of the massive human and monetary expense.
While actual deaths have been low compared to most earlier wars, the number of crippled veterans is unprecedented, mostly because better body armor and medical care allow them to survive but can't replace the body parts that have been blown away. So we will, for decades to come, have to face the horrible mutiliation of tens of thousands of our troops.
All for Mr "Mission Accomplished", and for Halliburton.