{"id":2395249,"date":"2026-04-29T22:43:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2395249"},"modified":"2026-04-29T22:43:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:43:03","slug":"kathy-griffin-slams-annoying-meghan-mccain-after-the-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kathy-griffin-slams-annoying-meghan-mccain-after-the-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Griffin Slams \u2018Annoying\u2019 Meghan McCain After The View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\">When <strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/kathy-griffin\/\"><span class=\"s1\">Kathy Griffin<\/span><\/a><\/strong> visits <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/shows\/the-view\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>The View<\/i><\/span><\/a>, it\u2019s safe to say she would prefer not to see a few former cohosts at the table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI love all the girls. This is an easy panel,\u201d Griffin, 65, shared in a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pOeLZZqjnHA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">YouTube video<\/span><\/a> on Tuesday, April 28, when addressing her recent appearance on ABC\u2019s daytime talk show. \u201cWhen they had [<strong>Elisabeth<\/strong>] <strong>Hasselbeck<\/strong>, I had to put up with her stupid or indignant stupidity, which is kind of the most amusing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Kathy had the opportunity to visit <i>The View<\/i> on Friday, April 24, to promote her new comedy tour. <strong>Joy Behar<\/strong>, <strong>Sara Haines<\/strong>, <strong>Ana Navarro<\/strong>, <strong>Sunny Hostin<\/strong> and <strong>Alyssa Farah Griffin<\/strong> served as cohosts for the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">One person Kathy was seemingly thrilled not to see was <strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/meghan-mccain\/\"><span class=\"s1\">Meghan McCain<\/span><\/a><\/strong>, who <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/meghan-mccain-announces-exit-from-the-view\/\"><span class=\"s1\">left the show<\/span><\/a> in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cHave I been on with Meghan McCain, or does she just come after me? I can\u2019t remember, but she\u2019s an annoying c***,\u201d Kathy claimed when bringing up the former cohost. \u201cOther than that, fun at a party, I\u2019m sure. I just love to go for her because she takes the bait every time. And now she\u2019s gonna do a post about how I\u2019m not a feminist. And that\u2019s how this works, Meghan. One of these days you\u2019ll pick it up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Us Weekly<\/i> has reached out to McCain\u2019s team for comment. At the beginning of her YouTube upload, Kathy displayed a statement that said, \u201cThis video is intended for entertainment purposes only. All claims are alleged.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4322830\" style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:54.857142857143%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Kathy Griffin<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Kathy Griffin\/YouTube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">One person Kathy was prepared to poke fun at during her latest visit to the Hot Topics table was Alyssa, 36.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Before becoming a cohost of<i> The View<\/i>, Alyssa served as the White House director of strategic communications in 2020 during <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s first presidential term. The job title, Kathy said, gave her some possible material to work with.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cJust so you know Alyssa, in my mind, I was going to go for you because of course when you were the press secretary for Trump, I didn\u2019t always see eye to eye with your presentation,\u201d Kathy said when accidentally getting her job title wrong. \u201cBut just as I was about to get all my Alyssa jokes in a row, somebody goes, \u2018She had a baby yesterday.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Alyssa and her husband, <strong>Justin Griffin<\/strong>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-moms\/news\/alyssa-farah-griffin-skips-the-view-goes-into-labor-with-1st-baby\/\"><span class=\"s1\">welcomed a baby boy<\/span><\/a> in February. The celebrity.land commentator enjoyed maternity leave <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-moms\/news\/alyssa-farah-griffin-returns-to-the-view-after-baby\/\"><span class=\"s1\">before returning<\/span><\/a> to <i>The View<\/i> on April 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cShe turned out to be the nicest one at the table,\u201d Kathy continued. \u201cI have to remember I\u2019ve always had lots of Republican friends and it will always be that way even though I\u2019m a big ol\u2019 lefty.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Kathy Griffin visits The View, it\u2019s safe to say she would prefer not to see a few former cohosts at the table. \u201cI love all the girls. This is an easy panel,\u201d Griffin, 65, shared in a YouTube video on Tuesday, April 28, when addressing her recent appearance on ABC\u2019s daytime talk show. \u201cWhen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2395250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[304753,24003,467434],"class_list":["post-2395249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-feuds","tag-celebrity-news","tag-summer-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Kathy-Griffin-Slams-\u2018Annoying-Meghan-McCain-After-The-View.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395249","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=2395249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2395251,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395249\/revisions\/2395251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2395250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2395249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2395249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2395249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}