SXSW Keynote: Kathy Griffin with Kara Swisher
Griffin was interviewed by Swisher during this session which showcased the comedian and media personality's unfiltered and outspoken takes on several topics. She was also promoting her documentary Kathy Griffin: A Hell of Story, which screened at SXSW Film and explored how her inflammatory rhetoric about Donald Trump led to attempts to ruin her career, and how she coped and fought back.
Kathy Griffin
Publicist, BWR
Kara Swisher
Editor-at-large, Recode, Host, Recode Decode podcast, Co-Executive Producer, Code Conference, Vox Media.
Kara Swisher is the editor-at-large of Recode, host of the Recode Decode and Pivot podcasts and executive producer of the Code Conference. She also is a contributing writer to the New York Times Opinion section and appears weekly on NBC.
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