So Kathy Griffin told Larry King last night that the real reason she’s divorcing her husband is that he stole $72,000 from her.

Yawn.  I actually don’t really want to blog about Kathy Griffin’s love life.  I want to blog about why people blog about Kathy Griffin’s love life.  Because I genuinely have no idea, though I don’t mean to knock anyone who does blog about her.  I get that people care; I just have no clue why they do.

Thanks to My Life on the D-List, Griffin has recently escalated her career from just kind of being around and being annoying.  Nowadays, she shows up everywhere.  Her show.  E!‘s red carpet coverage.  As guest judge on Last Comic Standing.  I think she’s funny, but not in any kind of earth-shattering way, so I have to wonder: do people really care about why her husband left her? (I didn’t even know about it until today, and I read my entertainment news.)  If so, why?  Is it because of her show, which I admit I have not seen?  Is her show even worth watching?

Basically, I would like someone to explain the appeal of this person as a gossip-worthy celebrity (not her appeal as a comic) to me, and I would like to know if it’s a genuine appeal, or something she and her PR people have manufactured.  It just seems to me that, all of a sudden, she’s famous for…not much of anything.