Kathy Griffin to resume touring following backlash from Trump severed head photo

After a highly-publicized and unexpected pushback from posing with a replicant severed head of Donald Trump in what she called an artistic exercise, and having fallen from favor and lost a lot of work for doing so, former comedian Kathy Griffin tweeted that she’s about to make a comeback.  On March 9, Griffin also appeared on TV’s “Real Time With Bill Maher” to say that she’d be touring again and doing so at New York’s Carnegie Hall and at Washington’s Kennedy Center – or “Trump’s backyard,” according to ABC News.  The backlash over Griffin’s now infamous May 2017 severed head photo with Trump ended up with most of Griffin’s U.S. comedy shows getting cancelled and also cost her the lucrative long-standing New Years Eve show she co-hosted with Anderson Cooper.

“I’m dipping my toes into touring again,” Griffin said, adding that the Republican president and his supporters would prefer she never worked again.  ~ per CBS News

Griffin publicly thanked Maher for being one of the few stars, if not the only one, to support her while she was being blacklisted during the last nine months.  She was also under a federal investigation because of her artistic exercise gone wrong.  And although she wasn’t getting any work in the States, she was “performing in 23 cities in 15 countries, she said. But because she was under investigation in the United States, she was “detained at every single airport,”” according to CBS.

“Imagine if you took the worst selfie in the world, you went to bed and you woke up, and found out that the president tweeted about it, which then mobilized the alt-right, Fox News, everybody else, and they also thought it was illegal,” Griffin recalled. ~ per MSN

Immediately following the severe push back she received after releasing that Donald Trump severed head photo, Griffin apologized for her actions but then recanted that apology a few months later, saying  “I am no longer sorry, the whole outrage was B.S., the whole thing got so blown out of proportion,” according to Entertainment Weekly.

Griffin has not yet released the performance dates for her upcoming shows in D.C. and New York City; but if you’re interested, you can “Link to sign up: http://bit.ly/2Ev3CXP “

~ Written by: Richard Webster, Ace News Today   /   Connect with Richard on Facebook and Twitter