Kathy Griffin is coming to TPAC this Saturday and I’m going. Orchestra level tickets are mine. I’ve been watching her show, “My Life on the D-List” since it first aired. At first I thought it was just okay. But over time, I’ve really come to love her humor and outlook on life. She works her ass off, deals with each crisis openly and doesn’t take herself too seriously.

Hopefully it won’t be an show full of BDS tainted liberal spew like Margaret Cho’s was. (I saw Cho on a cruise a year and a half after her show in Nashville and she was still telling the same jokes. They still weren’t funny. Get an act, girl.) And hopefully it won’t be a confusing montage of gross humor mixed with the same joke being repeated 3 times in the same show like Joan Rivers was the last time I saw her. Even reading from the cue cards taped to the front of the stage couldn’t save her from herself.

Kathy should be great. We’ll see if she can induce the pain in my sides from laughing too hard that Leslie Jordan’s did when he was here a year ago April. He went for two hours, off the cuff, telling stories of his life in a way that few comedians can match. (Disclosure: I am proud to say that I co-produced that show.)