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Friday December 31, 2010

KATHY Griffin admits she was fired from CNN’s New Year’s show — until management had a change of heart.

The Hollywood funnywoman famously dropped an F-bomb live on air at last year’s festivities.

“I was fired,” Griffin confessed. “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. That’s my career philosophy; it’s not a very deep one. I basically have the survivor moniker in my life which is, outlast, outwit, outplay. That’s what I’ve done with the management at CNN.

“My career is built on being a glorious afterthought. I’ve gotten so many jobs when they fire somebody else and at the eleventh hour they say, ‘OK, our backs are up against the wall, darn it, we have to hire her’.

“It’s just years and years of basically painting people into a corner so they have to hire me whether they like it or not. I think CNN probably doesn’t think its biggest priority is its New Year’s Eve broadcast, however, they’re wrong. It should be their biggest event every single year and I will do whatever it takes to make it their biggest event and as usual I have a simple goal, which is to get Anderson Cooper fired by the end of the night.”

Griffin was recently asked if she watches the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

“The most compelling thing to me is the things they get super obsessed with,” she said. “It’s all about them missing the big picture. There’s Camille, who’s obsessed with whether or not she was called insecure, which to me is not that much of a pejorative, considering your husband left you for an airline stewardess, knocked her up and then she miscarried.

“I would say that’s what I would focus on. The other woman who has what I call a “beak,” Taylor. She no longer has lips; she just has a full beak.

“It seems like she might want to take the focus a little bit away from the lip plumping and a little bit more on her husband, who does not seem to be very nice to her and I think we all agree she can do better.”

Kathy Griffin

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