{"id":2285045,"date":"2026-02-17T02:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2285045"},"modified":"2026-02-17T02:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:35:12","slug":"kathy-griffins-second-seinfeld-appearance-was-based-on-a-hilarious-true-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kathy-griffins-second-seinfeld-appearance-was-based-on-a-hilarious-true-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Griffin’s Second Seinfeld Appearance Was Based On A Hilarious True Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Comedian and actress Kathy Griffin<\/a> appeared on NBC<\/a>‘s beloved sitcom “Seinfeld<\/a>” twice between 1996 and 1998. She first showed up in Season 7, Episode 17, “The Doll<\/a>,” as Sally Weaver<\/a> \u2014 the sassy college roommate of Heidi Swedberg<\/a>‘s Susan Ross<\/a>, who appeared throughout Seasons 4 and 7 \u2014 before reprising the role in Season 9, Episode 13, “The Cartoon.” In that later episode, Weaver<\/a> is encouraged by Jerry Seinfeld<\/a> to keep pursuing stand-up comedy, even as people repeatedly tell her that she stinks. Instead of quitting, she leans into the criticism and builds new material about how awful Seinfeld is (famously dubbing her act “Jerry Seinfeld, the Devil…<\/div>\n

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Comedian and actress Kathy Griffin appeared on NBC‘s beloved sitcom “Seinfeld” twice between 1996 and 1998. She first showed up in Season 7, Episode 17, “The Doll,” as Sally Weaver \u2014 the sassy college roommate of Heidi Swedberg‘s Susan Ross, who appeared throughout Seasons 4 and 7 \u2014 before reprising the role in Season 9, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2285046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2285045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Kathy-Griffins-Second-Seinfeld-Appearance-Was-Based-On-A-Hilarious.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285047,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285045\/revisions\/2285047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2285046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}