For Your Consideration (album)

Infobox Album
Name = For Your Consideration
Type = studio
Artist = Kathy Griffin


Released = June 17, 2008
Recorded = February 2008 at the Grand Theatre Center for theArts in Tracy, California
Genre = Comedy
Length = 57:38
Label = Music with a Twist
RED
Producer = Kathy Griffin
Christian Stavros
Reviews = * "Allmusic" rating|4.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:knfwxzrjld6e link]
Last album =
This album = "For Your Consideration"
(2008)
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"For Your Consideration" is a 2008 comedy album recorded by American stand-up comedian Kathy Griffin. The album was recorded at the the Grand Theatre Center For The Arts in Tracy, California on February 17, 2008. It is Griffin's first audio-only release of her stand-up material. Included on the disc are her takes on various celebrities and her personal life. Griffin stated that she decided to release this CD to try to win a Grammy award.cite press release |title=Kathy Griffin Wants a Grammy For Your Consideration, Emmy Award Winning Comedian's New Album |publisher=Permanent Press Media|date=2008-05-27 |url=http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS181646+27-May-2008+BW20080527 |format= |language= |accessdate=2008-08-10 |quote= ] [cite web|url=http://www.dallasvoice.com/artman/publish/article_9430.php|title=Kathy Griffin’s certainly ubiquitous. But her jokes aren’t getting old|date=2008-06-24|accessdate=2008-08-10|last=Kusner|first=David A.|work=Dallas Voice]

Promotion

In the Spring of 2008, a billboard for the album was placed on Sunset Blvd. Various print advertisements for bus stops, magazines and newspaper circulated from April 2008 to the release date of the album. The theme of the advertisements featured Griffin in an red carpetesque gown desperate for media attention (of which she is famously known for). The album also gained its own episode on Griffin's entitled, "For Your (Grammy) Consideration". [cite web|url=http://www.bravotv.com/Kathy_Griffin/season/4/episodes/index.php?episode=8|title=Episode 8: For Your (Grammy) Consideration|accessdate=2008-08-10|work=Bravo Television|publisher=NBC]

Tracklisting

#The Hot Ticket — 2:43
#The Survey: Gay? Straight? — 0:43
#The Clicker (For The Maggie Fans) — 2:16
#My First Rebanning (Hi Barbara Walters!) — 2:50
#Happy Sunday (More Maggie!) —3:47
#Cover Me —4:08
#Oprah Is A Deity (And I Think She Is Full Of Shit) — 2:35
#Oprah's Favorite Things — 6:19
#The Osmonds Were Never Cool —6:39
#Freaky Doll People (Demi? Oh Yeah!) — 6:13
#Straight Guys Wake Up! — 4:47
#Our New Daddy's Coming — 4:16
#Wizard of Woz —2:13
#My Run In With Spielberg — 8:20

Charts

The album debuted on Billboard's Top 200 at #85, making it the highest-ranked album by a female comedian since 1983, when Joan Rivers reached No. 22 with "What Becomes a Semi-Legend Most?" . The album also debuted at #1 on the Top Comedy Albums, making her the first female comedian to do so since the chart began in 2004. [cite web|url=http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/chart_beat/bonus_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003821205|title=Funny Girl|date=2008-06-24|accessdate=2008-08-10|last=Bronson|first=Fred|work=Chart Beat|publisher=Billboard Magazine Online|]

References

External Links

* [http://kathygriffin.net Griffin's Official Website]
* [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:knfwxzrjld6e For Your Consideration at AllMusic]