New life for Kathy Griffin … CNN ban lifted
Kathy Griffin will be ringing in 2011 from Times Square again this year with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Their prelude to the New Year’s Eve ball drop has been a source of several controversial moments on live television by the always irreverent comedian.
Two years ago the funny woman got on her high horse for an impromptu open mic rant unleashed at someone in the crowd. The network proceeded to add a no-cursing clause to her contract last year.
Despite the new rules, she dropped the F-bomb during the New Year’s 2010 show and was promptly banned from CNN – see it below. But that was then and this is now…
Kathy reports: “Yes, I was fired. They issued a statement. I was banned from CNN and then as Anderson Cooper says, ‘There was a change in management’ which was great because the guy who fired me got fired, so being the cockroach that I am, I’m just going to outlast everybody.”
She joked: “I have a simple goal, which is to get Anderson Cooper fired by the end of the night.”
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Check out her F-bomb ‘slip’ from last year on the video below: