Kathy Griffin born a male?

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on March 26th, 2009

When a magazine about standup see that question come up twice in its stats in the space of just a few minutes, the magazine is obligated to do a minimum amount of Googling just to see what the fuss is about.

Turns out this is what probably happened:

1. A gossip website runs a series of pics taken during a Kathy Griffin/Paris Hilton shopping spree in Los Angeles.

2. One of those photos depicts Griffin lifting up her skirt to expose her underpants.

3. Another gossip site speculates that, judging from the “bulge” in Griffin’s knickers, she’s quite possibly a male. (But probably just doing it so they can drop the word “mangina.” It makes them giggle.)

4. (And this is pure speculation on our part.) A morning radio show picks up on the second site’s speculation and makes great hay about the idea of Kathy Griffin being a man. Such rumors are Zoo-nip extraordinaire. Indeed, one local (PHL) radio station talk host (who normally toils in a decidedly non-Zoo format) even brandished the Jamie Lee Curtis was born a man meme one morning to break up the usual talk of local/national politics and culture. (And they used it in drop-in promos for a while!)

Word echoes through the WWW (or folks listening in Amsterdam and Maspeth and Ft. Wayne listen via live streams) and they, in turn, do some of their own Googling.

They end up at SHECKYmagazine.com because we’ve mentioned Griffin on a few occasions and we have a rather high ranking in Google.

To summarize: Kathy Griffin was most likely born a female. We won’t speculate on any bulge in her pants. That wouldn’t be ladylike– or gentlemanly– of us.

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