Suck it, Hollywood!

Before Kathy Griffin won a creative arts Emmy last week for her reality show, "My Life on the D-List," she was a relative nobody in Tinseltown.

Oh sure, she had some credentials – a role as Brooke Shield's sour-grapes colleague in "Suddenly Susan," a cameo on "Seinfeld," an appearance on "Ellen" and a stint on "The View" in Rosie O'Donnell's chair. But like the title of her Bravo reality show inferred, Griffin was a D-list comedian – at least until this award came her way.

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Griffin once mused that it would "take an award to get her star to move." Actually, truth be told, the award has very little to do with her sudden notoriety.

In giving her acceptance speech, Griffin declared: "A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus."

Holding up her statuette, she added, "Suck it, Jesus! This award is my god now."

Kathy Griffin

She's probably more accurate than she thinks. Given the content of her comedy, it is hard to see why Christ would waste His omnipotent power to come to the aid of another smut-comic, only so she could climb the career ladder of godless Tinseltown and give more crass acceptance speeches.

Then again, Hollywood celebrities aren't exactly noted for their theological sophistication.

What is it about these celebrities and their need to bad-mouth Jesus anyway? They've been doing it since the 1960s, when John Lennon made that absurd statement about the Beatles being "bigger than Jesus." Add to that the antics of people such as Madonna, who reportedly planned to mock the crucifixion in a TV special last year. And then there was "glam-rock" star Marilyn Manson telling Spin magazine a few years ago: "Hopefully, I'll be remembered as the person who brought an end to Christianity." And now there's Griffin, who considers herself a "militant atheist," evidencing the same kind of neurosis.

These entertainers are so steeped in their own vanity they can't see how small, vacuous and classless they really are.

On the red carpet after the ceremony, Griffin refused to acknowledge she'd said anything wrong. In fact, she tried to push the envelope even further, telling reporters, "I hope I offended some people. I didn't want to win the Emmy for nothing."

So now, the real purpose of winning awards (apparently), is so these celebrities can go on national television to "offend some people."

Give her credit, though; finally a celeb has come clean about the true nature of their godlessness. Griffin, like so many other Hollywood entertainers, worships at the altar of self. The entertainment industry has elevated common, human celebrities to god-like status. Stardom has become a religion, aided by a priestly class of agents, image consultants, fitness coaches and a host of other professionals all dedicated to "deifying" Hollywood's icons.

The only thing unique about Griffin is that finally someone in Hollywood has come clean.

But she's still a D-list entertainer. Because the fact is it wasn't her talent, her show or even her award that got her noticed – not by me or a host of others – it was her brazen, classless blaspheming.

And perhaps that's the most telling and cynical thing about celebrities like Griffin. Madonna kisses Britney Spears on stage at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, and instantly both of them rise to new heights of popularity. Janet Jackson "accidentally" pops out a breast at the Super Bowl and she's back on top. Michael Moore produces movies that are full of brazen and provable lies and calls Bush a terrorist, and he's a hit at the box office as a "documentary producer."

Celebrities will do and say anything to get noticed and climb that ladder of "success." (Not to throw a curve ball here, but what does this say about the North American media consumer?)

It is telling, isn't it? Even though she claims to hate Him – Jesus that is – these Hollywood types still can't make it without Him. Because let's face it, folks, without that blasphemous outburst, you'd never have heard of Kathy Griffin.

But now, because of evoking Jesus – in a way – she's got fame, fortune and that D-list idol, too.

In the end, you almost have to feel sorry for Griffin, because if that award – that deaf, dumb and blind little idol in her hands – is her "god," what does that say about her and her newfound fame?

Suck it, Hollywood. I'll worship the living God.

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