By Maggie Griffin
EDITORIAL evaluate: expensive Readers, There are at the least 5 reliable purposes to Tip It! instantaneously. My daughter Kathy positioned out * her* memoir final yr, which was once genuine great aside from the debatable components. And it received to be a number one * big apple occasions* bestseller. Congratulations, Kathleen! yet now it really is my flip. i have written my very own e-book. i've got issues to assert, too, with no need to be all arguable such as you have been. Tip it! humans realize me in the street much now and are available over, properly, and say "Maggie, you ring a bell in me of my very own mother." they usually say "Maggie, i admire your show"--referring to *Kathy Griffin: My existence at the D-List *as * my *show. occasionally I right them, I say, "Oh, it isn't my show." yet occasionally . . . i do not right them. it is a bit enjoyable being a celeb, is not it? Tip it! with the intention to recognize a number of issues approximately my daughter Kathleen that just a mom may perhaps understand (How the heck did she get this fashion? Did she regularly swear rather a lot, for Chrissake?), you've come to the perfect booklet. Tip it! you know the way a field of wine is rarely empty simply because the spigot turns out to have run dry? (There's regularly a bit extra for those who simply tip it!) This ebook is like that. there is rather a lot in it--never-before-published Griffin relations photos!, a love tale (me and my pricey departed husband Johnny), a complete consultant to stable dwelling (including the best way to live on on what is on your purse), and many humorous enterprise during this booklet from Kathleen (she made reviews during this e-book; readers, i used to be unable to forestall her!). So take this e-book and Tip It! And be sure you get the final drop out of dwelling. is not it great that "Tip It" acts as a toast? i am ninety years previous, and that i imagine "Tip It!" even works pretty much as a motto for residing to the fullest. So, Tip It! this present day. Yours, Maggie Griffin A humorous factor occurred so as to Kathy Griffin's skyrocketing stardom. The extra she instructed tales approximately her mom, Maggie, in her stand-up act and on her Emmy-winning tv express, * Kathy Griffin: My existence at the D-List,* the extra well known her mom turned. (At the mere point out of Maggie, a stadium choked with fanatics will cheer, "Tip It! Tip It!") surprised through Kathy, exasperated by means of Kathy, grudgingly amused via Kathy, and on the finish of the day, continually a loving mom to Kathy, Maggie Griffin has develop into the darling Gracie to Kathy's George Burns, the wry Cher to Kathy's Sonny Bono, the spry, candy Roadrunner to Kathy's Wile E. Coyote. Maggie Griffin grew up in Chicago, the youngest of 16 little ones born to Irish immigrant mom and dad. She met Johnny, the affection of her existence, in Chicago, begun relationship him after highschool (while operating on the shape healthy Bra manufacturing unit within the returns department), and so they fell in love and married throughout the battle. jointly they raised 5 youngsters, the youngest a cutie named Kathleen, who by no means gave them a moment's hassle all through her childhood--though it has been payback time ever due to the fact. As Kathy's comedy profession took off, a growing number of tales of Maggie magically labored their means into Kathy's exercises. And as a typical on *Kathy Griffin: My existence at the D-List,* Maggie takes extra guff from her daughter than the other mother on nationwide tv. good, after having her lifestyles wear comedian demonstrate via the loudmouthed redhead she fed, clothed, and cared for good into the comedian's maturity, Maggie ultimately has the ground, and she or he has a few company to proportion with you. So get out your Franzia, fire up a few Hamburger Helper, and dive into the realm in keeping with Maggie.