Kathy Griffin Marries NYC Couple, Still Not Funny
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Kathy Griffin has fans? Imagine that! Fans so passionate about her work that they would seek her out to officiate their wedding? Yeah, I didn’t buy it either, but apparently she does. Meet Mr. Brian Anstey and Ms. Elka Shapiro of Queens.
Anstey, 31, is a fifth-grade teacher; Shapiro, 29, is a marketing director. Neither is affiliated with a religion, and “the major factor in our relationship is laughter,” Shapiro said.
Griffin flew in from Los Angeles for the wedding at the Queens County Farm Museum. She performed a 10-minute service that ranged from telling raunchy jokes to having the bride recite the reception menu, according to the Daily News.
“It’s so unusual and something we’ll always remember,” Shapiro said.
While I appreciate the concept, I have to question the couples’ judgement. Was Kathy Griffin really their first choice? Couldn’t these folks have aimed just a tad higher? Steve Gutenberg? Pauly Shore? Carrot Top?
My own marriage on the horizon, I am seriously considering taking this idea and running with it. Adrianne and I already want to invite musician Daniel Johnston to our wedding, perhaps he’d consider doing us the honor? Ok, that’s probably a disaster waiting to happen.
What about Mr. Met? I mean, the Mets official website says he’s available for weddings. He does “make any occasion Amazin’!” It says it right there. Let’s check the Universal Life Church to see what he’ll need to do to get ordained. “Applying for ordination in the name of a fictitious person or animal, or the submission of a person’s name without his or her permission is fraud.” Son of a bitch!
Back to the drawing board. Perhaps the guy who played Booger in the Revenge of the Nerds films? Yeah, Curtis Armstrong. Oddly enough I think my fiancée would really enjoy being married by a guy wearing a ratty old t-shirt that reads “Who Pooted?”
What do you fine folks think? Any suggestions?
[No joke: NYC couple wed by Kathy Griffin - Yahoo! News]
[Comedian Kathy Griffin weds couple in Queens - NY Daily News]
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