Kathy Griffin Gets Creative
Award-winning D-Lister Kathy Griffin to host the 2009 Creative Arts Emmys this September. Special to air on E! Entertainment.
Two-time Primetime Emmy® Award winner Kathy Griffin will host the 2009 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy® Awards on Saturday, Sept. 12 from the NOKIA Theatre, Lee Miller and Steve Venezia, executive producers of the Creative Arts show, announced today.
The show will air as a two-hour special on E! Entertainment Television.
A self-proclaimed "D-list celebrity," Griffin first gained recognition for her supporting role on the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan as Vicki Groener, Brooke Shields' acerbic colleague.
A multi-faceted performer with rapid fire wit, Griffin's My Life on the D-List debuted on Bravo in August 2005 to rave reviews. Now in its fourth season, Griffin received two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Reality Program Non-Competition, which was presented at the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards Ceremonies in 2007 and 2008.
A Chicago native, Griffin moved west and joined the famed Los Angeles Groundlings comedy improvisational troupe where she began building her resume with guest starring roles on such series’ as ER and Seinfeld, where she created recurring character Sally Weaver.
After her various TV guest spots, Griffin began gaining notice as a stand-up comedienne and landed her own HBO Half Hour Comedy Special. In 1998, HBO gave Griffin her own one-hour special, A Hot Cup of Talk. She has co-hosted The Billboard Music Awards three years in a row and her passion for reality TV led her to participate in Celebrity Mole on ABC, which she won.
She then hosted the NBC reality series Average Joe, as well as the MTV series Kathy's So-Called Reality. In addition, she has yearly performed a set of four very successful stand-up specials for Bravo -- Kathy Griffin Is…Not Nicole Kidman (2005), Kathy Griffin: Strong Black Woman (2006), Kathy Griffin: Straight to Hell (2008) and most recently Kathy Griffin: She’ll Cut a Bitch, which aired in April on Bravo. She also just returned for her second stint as host of Bravo’s The A-List Awards to which she garnered great reviews.
In June 2008, Griffin released her first comedy album For Your Consideration, featuring tracks such as Straight Guys Wake Up! and Hi Barbara Walters. The album received a Grammy nomination for "Best Comedy Album."
Griffin is very involved with the gay community and was presented with the prestigious Vanguard Award at the 2009 GLAAD Media Awards. She won the Gracie Award for Outstanding Female Lead in a Comedy Series and a Lucie Award. Griffin was also nominated for the PGA Award in the category of Television Producer of the Year Award in Non-Fiction Television.