Comedian Kathy Griffin is officially endorsing Hillary Clinton for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, but she has a feeling that with this revelation, “There goes half my audience.”
“That’s the world we live in,” she lamented to Billboard Monday. “Katy Perry goes and stumps for Hillary, sings a few songs and now half her fan base is like threatening to walk away. And I don’t believe that. I have a very good friend who is voting for Jeb Bush if he gets there, and I’m not going to disavow her as a friend.”
While there is no statistical evidence to prove Perry lost fans after performing at a Clinton rally in Iowa last month, Griffin’s inner circle still tried to warn her about incurring the wrath of her fans if she spoke her mind politically.
“I’m told by my team, ‘Don’t say who you’re supporting. It’ll cost you ticket sales,'” she said. “F— that. Yeah, I’m supporting Hillary, sue me. At this stage in my career I’m less fearful than I was 20 years ago, and yeah, I’m supporting Hillary.”
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The famously outspoken Griffin went on to discuss the difficult road ahead for Clinton as a female candidate in relation to the hardships faced by President Obama as the nation’s first black president.
“If you think sexism is dead, wake up America,” she said. “Look how hard we’ve been on the black guy. The black guy has had eight years of straight-up racism and I think it’s going to be harder on the chick. So yeah, I want Hillary to win and I think it’s going to be an incredibly difficult presidency for her because as the first woman everyone is going to be so, so tough on her.”
Griffin also used the Billboard interview to make fun of Republican candidate Donald Trump, comparing him to Amanda Bynes, a starlet who had a public meltdown that she largely broadcasted on social media.
“He’s kind of like the Amanda Bynes of candidates,” she said. “Remember when poor Amanda Bynes was sending all those tweets to people saying, ‘you’re ugly, you’re ugly’? He’s no different. So do I want him to be president? No, but as a comedian I’d love it.”
She did mention, however, that Trump in the White House could lead to good things for the U.S.
“The dream scenario is that he gets elected and then gets impeached 48 hours later and we just have two days of utter chaos and then Hillary comes in and makes it all better,” she said.
