The second episode of the fourth season of Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D-List airs tonight on Bravo. Given how much gay content there in store for us this season (Pink Flight! Gay Mardi Gras! Lesbian cruises!), we'll be recapping every Friday going forward ... so to get us in the mood, here's a quick recaplet of last week's season premiere. There wasn't much actual gay content, but since it's Kathy Griffin ... it's all gay content.

It's obvious that the running theme this season is the fact that Kathy is now an Emmy winner, and her Emmy speech pissed off a lot of people, especially "The Catholic League" (whom Kathy describes as "one guy with a computer"). In case you don't know, when she won the Emmy (finally beating the evil Extreme Home Makeover), she made a very Kathy-esque speech involving a popular religious figure, which inexplicably caused controversy.

This season starts out with Kathy being offered the chance to co-host the CNN New Year's Eve coverage in Times Square with the Silver Fox himself, Anderson Cooper. Her assignment is "humorous looks at events in pop culture", and her countdown for 2007 includes:

Britney Spears and her sister Jamie Lynn (Kathy wants to "go ahead and push for the abortion"); Marie Osmond and her collapsing baby doll dance; Paula Abdul and her big bag of crazy; David Hasselhoff and his inability to eat a hamburger while wasted; Alec Baldwin and his rude, thoughtless message to his daughter; Dog The Bounty Hunter and his racist bile; "Pampered" astronaut Lisa Nowak and her alleged stalking road trip; and to finish, Paris Hilton appearing on Larry King.

Ahh ... memories, light the corners of my mind...

Kathy makes a deal with her team (Tom, Jessica, and Tiffany) that each time she calls Anderson "Andy", they have to take a shot. By the end of the New Year's Eve show, Jessica is slurring her words, and very nearly hurls on Anderson's shoes.

We also meet Kathy's new boyfriend in this episode, Steve Wozniak. Yes, the introverted, socially awkward co-founder of Apple computers is dating the somewhat less reserved Kathy Griffin. He's her escort tonight for the Producers Guild Awards, where Kathy's show is again nominated, this time against 60 Minutes, Extreme Home Makeover, and the new bane of Kathy's existence, the sciencey mini-series Planet Earth. Since Kathy is also presenting at the awards show, the producer shows up at her house, because he's ... a little nervous about what she might say, and as she rattles off insult after insult about the celebrities who are going to be there, the poor guy breaks out in a nasty (and hilarious) case of flop sweat.

The producer makes it clear that the one person that Kathy is not to go after is Oprah, which prompts Kathy to deliver this line, which is my favorite of the episode:

"Is Oprah the new Scientology? Where people are actually so afraid of her they think they could lose their livelihoods?"

You've got ovaries of steel, Kathy. After some more griping about Planet Earth ("Oh, let's film a squid in slow motion for five years. I'm going to film my own mini-series called Uranus"), Kathy and Steve head to the awards, where her show loses ... to Planet Earth. Somehow, Kathy blames it all on Oprah (Planet Earth was one of Oprah's "Favorite Things"), and ends up ripping on the Big O during her presentation, to the nervous laughs of the audience. After Kathy brings Steve out on stage, a champagne cork is popped in the audience, and without missing a beat, Kathy collapses as if she's been shot. When she gets up, she says weakly into the microphone, "don't ... ever ... make ... an ... Oprah ... joke".

And that right there is the reason why I love her. Because she's not afraid to go there. To take on Oprah and Scientology on the same show, you either have to be a fool, a lunatic ... or Kathy Griffin.

After the break, you can see Kathy and Steve in a deleted scene from the episode, where he attempts to teach her how to drive a Segway (I guess he's got some guts, too), and from now on, we'll have regular day-after recaplets of every episode of My Life On The D-List ... so see ya tomorrow!