Soundtrack Of My Life: Kathy Griffin (Report)

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US stand-up star. Does not like Donald Trump

The first gig I went to

Randy Newman

“My first concert was when I was 16 and my brother Gary and my sister Joyce snuck me into a club to see the one and only Randy Newman, who I still worship. He has a song called ‘Kathleen’ about an Irish girl from Chicago. So I felt like I had a connection with Randy Newman. Later, when I got to meet him, I had the freakin’ balls to walk into his dressing room where there was a tiny stand-up piano. I was like, ‘Please play ‘Kathleen’,’ and he played it for me.”

The artist I can no longer listen to

Selena Gomez

“Let me scroll through my iPod nano – you heard me, nano; print that, motherf**ker, I dare you. I’m not gonna lie, there’s probably a couple of Selena Gomez songs that I would just skip through. And look, she’s been through hell. Justin Bieber put her through hell, so I’m with her.”

The song I do at karaoke

TLC – ‘No Scrubs’

“I had a role in a not very good but very fun movie called ‘A Diva’s Christmas Carol’ and freakin’ Chilli [from TLC] was in it. She tried to teach me to sing ‘No Scrubs’ in a – how shall I say? – less Caucasian way. I was like, ‘You’re my karaoke song! I’m T-Boz!’ She said, ‘Girl, you are not T-Boz.’ I was like, ‘Alright, I’ll be K-Boz.’”

The song that makes me want to dance

Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Manaj – ‘Bang Bang’

“I play that song at the beginning of my sets. Me and my boyfriend Randy – who’s 18 years younger than me so don’t start your s**t – went to see Gwen Stefani at the Hollywood Bowl and she uses powerful female songs as her intro before she comes onstage, so I stole the idea.”

The song that I can’t get out of my head

George Michael – ‘Father Figure’

“Now that I come to think of it, I don’t know if George’s intentions were totally…

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