She’s coming for Brooklyn!
No holds-barred comedian Kathy Griffin will bring her unadulterated act to the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts on April 10 — and the borough’s hipster pretensions will definitely be a target.
“You’re very high and mighty, trying to shame Manhattan for being a cooler place to live — we will definitely talk about the Brooklynite attitude,” promised Griffin.
The self-proclaimed “good and bitter 55-year-old” is known for skewering celebrities and vacuous pop culture in her Grammy-winning stand-up albums and on her Emmy-winning series “My Life on the D-list.” Griffin’s last tour sold out Carnegie Hall in November, but she promised an entirely new act for her Brooklyn show.
“I have to come back because I have even more brand new material,” she said. “It doesn’t matter if you saw me in November a year ago or five years ago, I’m always hanging up my material and I cannot keep up with the crazy things happening in the world — it’s a great time to be in comedy.”
During a rapid-fire conversation, this reporter attracted Griffin’s withering wit several times. Her threats to hang up seemed most real when she extracted a confession that her interviewer prefers organized athletics to the Lifetime network. Griffin, who believes that no human should ever waste time on professional sports, was not amused.
“I’ll f—— hang up on you right now, Dennis,” she threatened.
Enticed to stay on the line, Griffin shared a few details about her upcoming show, promising a bevy of personal stories about her run-ins with Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, the best friend of drug kingpins Sean Penn, and recent Oscar-winner Leonardo DiCaprio.
The subjects may be well known, but her material is unique, she said.
“I’m not just making fun of [Donald Trump’s] orange face and crazy hair — I’ve had one-of-a-kind run-ins with him,” she said. “This is stuff you can’t get from anyone else.”
Everything Griffin does is “grist for the mill” she said, so anything that happens to her on the road could end up in the act on Sunday night. She will perform in Queens the night before her show in Kings County, so she may play up the borough rivalry for the crowd at the Brooklyn Center. Either way, she promises to “let the fur fly.”
“Six o’ clock is a bit early for all the inappropriate things I’m going to say,” she said. “But you know what — I’m going to do it anyways.”
Kathy Griffin at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts [2900 Campus Rd. between Hillel Place and Avenue H in Midwood, www.brook
