Kathy Griffin Pissed Off 10,000 Seminoles

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Monday night on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Kathy Griffen talked about a bad experience she had performing in front of 10,000 college students in Florida.

Griffin said she doesn’t believe in being PC or “trigger warnings” which are warnings on college campuses that a course offering or an event may be upsetting or traumatic.  She says trigger warnings should be for heads of state or elected officials, not stand up comics.  “I think if you’re a stand up comic you should be inappropriate and wrong and sometimes booed off the stage.”  She got the chance to prove that at Tallahassee State.

Griffin likes to do a little local prep, so she said she opened her set talking about their team name– The Seminoles– which she called a bit dated and offensive. Her first ten minutes covered the idea that they should change their name and get rid of the karate chop chant. The problem was it was homecoming weekend and her openers were the homecoming court and the football team. When you tell 10,000 proud Seminole fans they need to change your name, you get booed.   Kathy said she thought it would be fun to try to win them back with jokes about the top sex offenders living near campus.  It wasn’t.

But, Griffin says, she’s stay on stage with buttcrack sweat, flop sweat, full body sweat, whatever it takes to make sure you get that check, so she did her full time and as she exited the stage, the stage manager suggested they make a run for the car.

What do you do when you’re a gay icon comedian getting booed off the stage by 10,000 football loving Seminoles? You call Cher, of course.

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