 
|
|
DVD
Universal Studios
Publisher: Universal Studios
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Actors: Kathy Griffin
Season One of Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List comes to DVD for the first time ever, giving an insider's look into the personal life of one of America's top comedians. Join Kathy, the hilarious performer who's not afraid to speak her mind, as she navigates her way through the ruthless world of Hollywood surrounded by a supportive but motley posse: her husband Matt, wine-loving parents, trusty assistant, and two "Main Gays." Nominated for a 2006 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program, this 2-disc set includes every irreverent Season One episode, a sneak peek episode of Season Two, and the entire stand-up special Kathy Griffin Is... Not Nicole Kidman. Your jaw will drop and you'll laugh 'til it hurts as she deconstructs show business myths and legends in this must-own show Newsweek calls "a subculture sensation."
| Customer Reviews: |
|
| |
| Kathy Griffin Is A Wonderful Comedian & Stand Up Comic |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
 |
|
I'm now watching the 5th season of this show and am somewhat bewildered by why only one season of this show is on DVD. I am NOT someone who took to this reality tv show genre with two big exceptions. I do watch this show and PROJECT RUNWAY. I have not even been tempted to watch any of the other reality tv shows.
I first saw Kathy on SEINFELD. Jerry is remarking to Kramer how terrible a stand up comic Kathy is and Kramer turns around and tells Kathy this dig. In retaliation, Kathy stages a new show which completely tears apart Jerry Seinfeld, the stand-up comic, and it is a big hit, especially with everyone Jerry knows.
Nowadays Kathy Griffin does stand up comedy shows plus also her own reality tv show. The basis for the title is that Kathy is so far down the food chain as a celebrity that she is on the D List and hasn't got a chance of hitting the Hollywood A list (where Jerry Seinfeld is).
The show is Kathy trying to forge her way up the food chain and beyond being on the D list. She has some hilarious moments doing gigs that most other comics would rather die first before doing. However, Kathy is unstoppable. She is also incapable of being insulted. Like most stand-up comics, she is very fast on her feet and can come back with rejoinders right away. She also involves everyone she can in her quest and her parents have become mini stars in their own right. (her Dad has since died but her Mom remains a big hit)
Since this first season she has won two Emmys for the show. We are now on the 5th Season and Kathy Griffin, I submit, is no longer on the D list. I don't know if she is on the A list yet, I doubt it, but she is moving up fast on the inside track. I've also noticed that some of the bigger names are now getting her on their shows. For example, during the time Letterman was getting pilloried over his Sarah Palin jokes, he brought Griffin on and she managed to get off a few key lines which helped Letterman's cause. I also saw her appear on Howard Stern TV and there was nothing that he and his band of goons could say to fluster her. She is so on top of her comedic game that they didn't have a chance up against her. They were not able to land one blow on her, try as they did. This was the first time I ever watched that show because normally I totally hate everyone on it. Kathy is also the emcee for the Joan Rivers roast which is being broadcast this month.
It really is great to see a female stand up comic start to make it like a Jerry Seinfeld. Griffin is out there in the vanguard and doing one heck of a job.
|
| The Best Reality Show on Television. Hands Down! |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
|
|
Kathy Griffin takes reality television to a whole new level, some might say a new low, and I absolutely LOVE IT! In the first season of My Life on the D-List, Kathy Griffin introduces us to her family and lack of professional entourage. Each episode will have you laughing out loud thanks to her hilarious "alleged" observations and unapologetic celebrity bashing. She just wants people to recognize her name... The show was so incredibly fabulous that is was nominated to receive an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Reality Program" in 2006. While she didn't win for the first season, thanks Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, the show was nominated and WON for its 2nd and 3rd seasons! I have always loved her stand up and while this is no substitute for the unfiltered dish you get at a live show, My Life on the D-List gives you the Kathy Griffin experience at home. I definitely recommend the 1st season even though the whole thing is CENSORED. Not cool! I can only hope that Bravo and Universal Studios will realize I/we want more (uncensored please!) and will start releasing new seasons to DVD...not just the iTunes Store. Pretty please, my DVR is totally getting full... Happy Shopping!
|
| Sometimes even being gay isn't enough to "get" it. |
| Customer Rating: 2 out of 5 |
 |
|
Jeesh! Talk about a meaningless existence. Here we have a histrionic, vain, attention [...] letting cameras into her superficial life for the purpose of - what was the purpose? I forgot. Griffin isn't particularly interesting as a human being (unless you think that anyone who appears on E.T. and knows how to make a roomful of intoxicated gay men laugh is interesting (I say that as a gay man. Unfortunately, any woman can make a roomful of intoxicated gay men laugh simply by dishing fellow celebrities or talking dirty. I'm not proud of that fact--I'm ashamed of it--it's an occupational hazard in the gay world. I've learned to accept it-- just as I've learned to accept that terrorism is now a fact of life.)). We get to see Kathy redesign her home. Yawn. We get to see her prepare for a fundraiser (there's even a trip to one of those huge box stores! Wheeeeee!). We get to see her treat her (apparently very pleasant) husband like a houseboy (they eventually divorced --no surprise there. Advice to straight men: never, never get involved with a woman who has nothing but gay male friends; she's looking for an audience or an accessory, not a real flesh and blood heterosexual husband. Buy her a chihuahua, wish her "good luck," and run away as fast as you can!). Who would watch this series all the way through? I dread to think of lives so uneventful that tuning in to Griffin's life means a dramatic ramping up of the excitement factor. As for Griffin, she appears to be the type of person who has trouble convincing herself that she really exists if she isn't the center of attention. Non-stop jabbering and blathering about nothing. She is no more funny than the dateless secretary from work who gets drunk with her gay friends at a bar and entertains them (again, not very difficult when you consider your audience) by saying things that "good" girls don't usually have the nerve to say. Before my brain softened to cucumber dip, I turned this off. Why was I watching it in the first place? Because someone recommended it to me, telling me that it was "(absolutely) hilarious!" Who told me that? Another gay guy, that's who. He must have been drinking cosmos while he was watching it. There's no other explanation.
|
| Simple |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
|
|
The disc itself is plain and unattractive. It is just letters on the bare reflective DVD.
The DVD menu is simple yet attractive. No animations or anything like fancy The Office or Seinfeld DVD sets, but it is still pretty. "Sneak Peaks" to me do not count as DVD extras, and it's lame of them to list that as if it were totally awesome. That's like listing "Subtitles" as a DVD extra. The DVDs, though, DO include a stand-up special, which I know any Kathy fan could love, and that's really what topped it off for me to buy it. If the DVD's did not include the stand-up special, I would not have bought it.
Of course the show is hilarious and I do adore her and everything about this show. I wish they'd make Season 2, 3, and 4 DVD's, I'd buy all of them.
|
| Hilarious |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
 |
|
I was weiry about spending the money for the 1st season of D-list considering Bravo on occassion repeats her episodes. I have come to realization that its much better to have on DVD so I can watch it whenever I wanted a good laugh. Downside is whenever she curses, they bleeped out the bad words, so that was the only problem I had with it. It is still worth the purchase price though. Hopefully when they release season 2 it won't have the bleeped curse words...
|
|
