Kathy Griffin Moves From The "D-List" To The "A-List"

November 20, 2008 8:03 p.m. EST

New York, NY (CNS) - Things are certainly looking up for comedian and D-Lister Kathy Griffin. Bravo has inked a one-year deal with the star that puts her, gasp, on the A-List. The deal gives Griffin hosting duties for Bravo's second annual "A-List Awards," two comedy specials and a fifth season of her two-time Emmy-winning series "Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List."

Celebrity News Service laughed when Griffin said her full schedule gives her high hopes for 2009 -- being one step closer to her dream of branding herself like Suzanne Somers. No one can lampoon powerful A-Listers better than Griffin, earning the comedian a return performance as host of Bravo's second annual "A-List Awards," which celebrates the best in food, fashion, beauty, design and pop culture, honoring those who have made an indelible mark in the arts, and showcasing some of the leading creative minds working today.

The two-time Emmy award winning "Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D-List" begins production on its anticipated fifth season in January 2009. In each episode, Griffin falls into unique and unsettling, but always hilarious predicaments, with her assistant, Tiffany Rinehart, her tour manager, Tom Vize, her bubbly mom, Maggie, and her unruly dogs, Chance and Pom Pom, never far from her side.

Next year, Bravo will also unveil two all-new, one-hour stand-up specials featuring the talented comedienne on her current nationwide tour, in which she recounts her surreal celebrity encounters and shares her various pathos and vulnerabilities as an underappreciated D-Lister. Griffin's controversial stand-up performances continue to uncover the aspects of celebrity and pop culture that everyone knows, but few have the guts to say.