Kathy Griffin deserves a New Year's Eve comeback

Gawker

It's been five years since CNN fired Griffin from New Year's Eve Live for a video of her holding what looked to be the decapitated head of then-President Donald Trump. "Now she just needs somebody to give her a New Year’s Eve telecast," says Kelly Conaboy. "Now, I do have some demands. I do not want this to be on a streaming-only channel. I do not want it to be on an 'app.' I don’t want to have to download anything additional on my Roku to watch it. I want it to be on a normal channel. The channels that exist will have to figure this out for themselves, but I feel like TBS could probably use something. Or maybe PBS? It also has to be filmed live from Times Square. We aren’t doing this from like … a f*cking … room somewhere. This isn’t a joke. Kathy Griffin is going to be freezing cold on a platform in Times Square on New Year’s Eve and we’re all going to enjoy it. Omicron be damned. Now, for a cohost. All you need is a prudish gay man to giggle demurely while Kathy makes her tasteless jokes. I don’t think it would necessarily be appropriate of me as a straight woman to make a list of suggested prudish gay men, and I don’t want to get this canceled again before it even begins, but I think we can all imagine some in the safe confines of our own minds. Actually — why not Ronan Farrow? Is he available? If he doesn’t giggle, I’m sure he could come up with something. Maybe he could hide his face in his hands when Kathy said something rude. That would be good enough for me. Listen, the time has come. We’ve all been punished enough. Let us stay home on New Year’s Eve with Kathy Griffin again."