Kathy Griffin: Fearless and back on the road as she mounts a comeback

If there's a word to describe Kathy Griffin as she returns to what for her is the normal, hectic life of a stand-up comic it would probably be one that's suited her for much of her career: defiant.

As a standup in the '80s and '90s, she was defiant in the face of what was often a boys' club of comedy, following in the footsteps of her idol Joan Rivers. Her material sped along with a mix of cutting asides and a tell-all honesty about being both an insider and outsider on the celebrity scale that led to her Bravo reality show in the mid-'00s, "My Life on the D-List."

But she fell from grace last year after participating in a photo shoot in which she held a bloodied Halloween mask of the decapitated head of President Trump. She