Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List

The sixth season of the two-time Emmy award winning series "Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List" begins with great A-List news: Kathy Griffin has been cast in a special guest-starring role on "Law & Order: SVU," or as Kathy's mom, Maggie Griffin, calls it, "Law & Order: SUV." Excited and a little nervous, Kathy "smells guest star Emmy". Kathy does what any adorable American ingénue would do: she calls Liza Minnelli for advice. Kathy travels to New York with her tour manager, Tom Vize, in tow. Before she has a nervous breakdown, Kathy rushes to see Liza, and the experience is both A-List and encouraging. Liza, who recently guest starred on "Law & Order" herself, runs lines with Kathy and gives her some great advice on how to tackle the gig.

Kathy Griffin hires A-List designer Kenny Davis to remodel her Hollywood Hills home. Meanwhile, Kathy's mom, Maggie, is living large and is tapped to write a book. Kathy has a surprise announcement: Team Griffin will be guest judges at the upcoming California Gold Coast Toddler Pageant. During the competition, Kathy stirs the pot and deadlocks the judging in a "closed door" session. When it's time to hand out crowns Kathy rewards a few of the girls with her own special categories.

With her mom Maggie’s fancy new retirement home bill and the growing wine bill, Kathy is forced to take a stand up gig in Anchorage, Alaska. This visit gives her a chance to visit her hunky man-boy-toy escort, Levi Johnston, in his natural habitat. Kathy is invited to host the big pre-race event at the Musher's Annual Banquet, a 2000-seat dinner and big money auction. This group of dog-sledders is not exactly her crowd -- but the cold has frozen her brain and she can’t help but open her show with her standard "Where my gays at?" shout out. Later, things get competitive when Kathy and Levi do a dual bookstore signing together. Kathy signs her book and Levi signs his Playgirl centerfold issue. The trip ends with Kathy and Levi visiting two gay bars so Levi could study up on the gay culture he didn’t realize was right under his nose.

After Kathy Griffin and her mom, 89-year-old Maggie, have an intimate talk with their financial idol Suze Orman, Kathy realizes she needs to start thinking about her and her mom’s financial future. This means she needs to push her book sales to the next level and start exploiting a vast untapped natural resource -- Maggie’s skyrocketing popularity. It's time for Maggie to earn her keep, so Kathy arranges a book deal and looks for other Maggie merchandising opportunities. Kathy sets up a meeting with Robert, the ghostwriter who helped Kathy with her own best-selling book, but when the head honchos from Hyperion (the book publishers) arrive for a meeting, they’re shocked when Maggie lays out her demands. Wanting to get some expert advice for creating a fashion line, inspired by Maggie, Kathy calls on budding designer Lauren Conrad for help.

Kathy Griffin gets a call from the president of the Human Rights Campaign who tells her she is being honored with the Ally For Equality award at the annual HRC dinner. When California State Senator Barbara Boxer (D) speaks at the event about "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and the importance in fighting for its repeal, Kathy decides she wants to do whatever she can to help the cause. The next day, Kathy and Team Griffin head to Washington. Kathy gets the opportunity to meet with some of the soldiers for whom she is fighting. Kathy makes her case to Congress and things go as well as can be expected. Boosted by the adrenaline rush from speaking in front of the Senate, Kathy gets an idea to build even more support and sends out an urgent tweet for all of her followers to come to D.C. to help stage a peaceful, but powerful protest on the mall.

Kathy Griffin begins another busy week reviewing her agenda with Team Griffin. Kathy wants to do something for women’s' health, and cooks up the idea to do a public pap smear as a publicity stunt idea with a positive message. Meanwhile, with the economy being what it is, ticket sales are low for her Madison Square Garden show, so Kathy has to go into self-promotion mode and does the media rounds. She does Joy Behar's show, and after their taping, the ladies become fast friends. Kathy presents her idea of the public pap smear, to a group of ladies from the National Cervical Cancer Coalition, explaining her good intentions -- and their eyes widen at the idea. The risks of creating a spectacle seem to outweigh the positives for their organization. Kathy admits that if she were Cameron Diaz, she could get press just going into a doctor’'s office, but on the D-List -- you’ve got to make some noise to be heard.