Of Kathy, Jamie says, 'So I know she made her mistake or whatever, and we're all going to make mistakes, but you need us, man, because we're there to make you laugh.'
- Jun 2, 2017
AceShowbiz - After Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx has also come to Kathy Griffin's defense over controversial beheaded Donald Trump image. Speaking to Entertainment Tonight at the launch party for Prive Revaux luxury sunglasses at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles on Thursday, June 1, Jamie suggested that comedians sometimes had to go beyond the line.
"Listen, as comedians, sometimes you do go beyond, past the line," Jamie said. "I still love Kathy Griffin. She went past the line, she'll pay for it in the way she pays for it, and we'll go out and we'll laugh with her again," he added.
While he understood why Kathy received backlashes from the incident, Jamie suggested that people sometimes needed to see it from different perspective. "It's not the comedian's fault for everything that's going wrong, man. Trust me. The world is filled with people that mean you harm and we sit and we give them a pass," Jamie continued. "So I know she made her mistake or whatever, and we're all going to make mistakes, but you need us, man, because we're there to make you laugh."
Earlier on, Jim came to Kathy's defense over the incident by saying, "I think it is the job of a comedian to cross the line at all times-because that line is not real." He added, "If you step out into that spotlight and you're doing the crazy things that [Trump is] doing, we're the last line of defense. And really, the comedians are the last voice of truth in this whole thing. It's impossible to get away from it."
