Kathy Griffin doesn't think she'll win another Emmy

Kathy Griffin hacked off a lot of Christians when she won an Emmy for her Bravo reality show “My Life on the D List.” “No one had less to do with me winning this award than Jesus,” she declared, which is true enough, but then she went even further, inviting Jesus to do something He quite obviously would not be interested in doing.

In doing this, Griffin managed to p!ss off more people than actually had probably heard of her before. And, in “Kathy Griffin: Straight To Hell,” she manages to take a 30-second incident and expand it into about 15 minutes of pretty funny stand-up material.

Performing before a sold-out crowd in a huge theater in Chicago (I remembering seeing her in a venue so small that it couldn't've held the front row of the audience in this special), she reveals that her controversial acceptance speech was, in fact, written by a friend who works on the Nickelodeon show “Zoe 101.” She recalls that a Tennessee religious group took out a full-page ad in USA Today protesting her speech, marveling, “I couldn’t get Bravo to give me a tenth of this!” She concedes, “I’ve probably f@&#ed myself out of another Emmy.”

The rest of the show is given over to her discussing her obsession with “To Catch a Predator” as well as her trademark dishing on/trashing of celebrities. Paris Hilton, Paula Abdul, Larry Craig and Dr. Phil take the hardest lumps, as she takes us behind the scenes at a CNN event celebrating Larry King’s 50th anniversary in broadcasting and the Rosie O’Donnell-Elisabeth Hasselbeck dustup on “The View” (she suggests “a show called ‘The Makeup Room at “The View”’”).

Hard to say if what she shares tonight – particularly a major TMI moment with Barbara Walters that concludes the special – will get her barred from the show. But then, everyone in Hollywood should know what they’re getting themselves into if they allow Griffin within their radius. Perhaps having her around is Hollywood’s equivalent of a normal person going on a reality show – it’s probably not a good idea, but it just seems irresistible.

- “Kathy Griffin: Straight To Hell:” 9 tonight, Bravo.