Kathy Griffin

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Kathy Griffin (born November 4, 1961 in Oak Park, Illinois) is a stand-up comedian whose career took off in the early 1990s amongst counterparts like Janeane Garofalo and David Cross. She is also an actress, voice actor, a frequent commentater on E!, and a self-proclaimed D-list celebrity.

At a time when comedy was turning from punch-line oriented joke-telling to humorous social-commentary and satire, Griffin's wry observations about celebrity culture and fame quickly propelled her into stardom (she even made a cameo in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 smash Pulp Fiction). In the late 1990s she became a household name playing the quirky best friend of the title character on the long running American sitcom Suddenly Susan. Griffin voiced the character of Alice in the animated television series Dilbert. In 2003 she was the grand prize winner on Celebrity Mole, and she continues to tour with her stand-up routine. In 2005, she returned to television in a reality show on the cable network Bravo based on her everyday adventures, titled "Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List."

One of her most notable controversies occurred when she made a joke during an "E!" televised event that eleven-year-old actress Dakota Fanning was just out of rehab.

On September 27, 2005 filed for divorce from husband Matt Moline with whom she was married to for 4 1/2 years.

Griffin is a vocal proponent of plastic surgery including the use of botox. She has discussed her own surgeries on television shows including Oprah. She is an outspoken opponent of LASIK eye surgery, having gone through a traumatic series of operations for her own eyesight which has left her partially blind in one eye (with a visible eyeball deformity.) She discusses this on a section of her own website called "LASIK=BAD".