Kathy Griffin on new tour, Roseanne Barr & more!

Kathy Griffin says that in her new Laugh Your Head Off Tour, she will not be ducking sensitive subjects.

In a new profile in OUT Magazine, she wants this tour to be, in part, both a brief tutorial on the freedom of speech, which she feels the Trump administration is determined to undermine, and a closer look at guilty-pleasure gossip sites like TMZ, which helped bury her and whose founder has ties to the president. “I’m very proud of the material because nobody else has it,” says Griffin, referring to the portions of the two-hour show where she takes the crowd into the interrogation room with her. “I’ve never had what I call a very special Blossom [episode], where I try to be serious.” She gestures to the TV on the wall above the fireplace, which is almost always tuned to MSNBC: “Sorry, this is everybody’s lane now.”

Griffin repeatedly steers the conversation back to how disappointed she is in “a very famous friend” who told her he only spends “a hot 10 minutes” of his act on Trump. And she’s heartbroken by Roseanne Barr, an early mentor who tapped Griffin for Fox’s short-lived, late-’90s SNL rival Saturday Night Special. “People literally say they want to shoot me in the cunt, so I can’t afford to be happy for Roseanne,” she says of the now militant Trump supporter whose rebooted series has attracted more than 25 million viewers. “I don’t think that character should be normalized.”