Entertainment Television E!’s “Live from the Red Carpet”: 2005 Golden Globe Awards, a three-hours long award show was aired from 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. (EST/PST) Sunday, Feb. 13, prior to the Grammys. It was hosted by comedienne Kathy Griffin and Star Jones as a special correspondent, pulled a 1.69 household rating and a 0.91 among adults ages 18 to 49 to easily top TV Guide’s numbers.

Actress, stand-up comedian and self-described television maven, Kathy’s razor sharp wit and amazing comedic timing made her a great addition to E!'s “Live From The Red Carpet” award show coverage, where she covered the Golden Globes, Grammys and the Academy Awards for the Network. Kathy, winner of three MAC awards and a Cable ACE Award, likes to have fun with the proceedings. She is an extraordinary acerbic, biting and hilariously sinful gossip on the crazy world of Hollywood.

For the past few years she has perhaps become best known for performing a one-woman show at venues ranging from cruise ships to comedy clubs to civic auditoriums around the country. She walks onstage in a long-sleeved black shirt and fitted black pants. Her script is nothing more than a sheet of paper scribbled with prompts like “Idol finals”, “Gwyneth”, “Whitney”, and “Olsen twins”. Her performances are conversational nonetheless, and she has the innate ability to make a crowd of 3,000 people feel as if they’re guests at her dinner table. She makes the audience pleased to welcome her every time on the red carpet for both the Grammy and Oscars, and make them look forward to experience her unique humor and offbeat personal observations as the stars arrive.

The celebrity-mocking comedian, Kathy said in an interview before hosting the award function: “It’s some tennis event at UCLA for MusiCares, like I know what that is. Agassi (tennis star Andre) is going to play Roddick (tennis star Andy), and then they’re going to play doubles with Dr. Phil and Gavin Rossdale (former lead singer of grunge-lite band Bush and pretty-boy husband to Gwen Stefani). I hate that fat-ass Dr. Phil, by the way.”. She speaks with the habitual up tick of a teenage girl, and in her slightly nasal, slightly screechy voice “And I’m supposed to be a funny line judge. But I’m pretty sure I’m going to bite it really hard. Because it’s going to be me on the microphone making fun of Andre Agassi’s old hair extensions and then the audience booing me”.

In a world of free-radical stardom, in which celebrities of disparate fame-levels routinely collide, Kathy’s self-appointed job is to point at these collisions and laugh. Ideally, you will laugh, too. But she doesn’t just mock from the sidelines. She enjoys a pseudo-celebrity of her own. If some stars are famous for being famous (Paris Hilton, the Gen-Y Zsa Zsa Gabor), then Griffin does Paris one better. Kathy Griffin is famous for not being all that famous, and knowing it.

While hosting the Red Carpet coverage of the Golden Globes for E!, she describes Angelina Jolie’s mouth as “an inflamed anus”, quips Sylvester Stallone’s face-lifts make him look like “a drag queen”. She libelously commented about Farrah Fawcett’s reality show, “The thing with Chasing Farrah is that once you catch her, you find out she’s just a dumb drug addict”. She also claimed that the cherubic 10-year-old Dakota Fanning was just out of rehab, a joke that prompted a long written apology from the channel and almost cost her gig.