Kathy Griffin on Her Emmy Loss to Ryan Seacrest and Double Dates with J.J. Abrams

It isn't easy to lose an Emmy, but it's even harder to lose it your archenemy, as Kathy Griffin found out this past weekend when My Life on the D-List lost the reality series trophy to Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, produced by her nemesis Ryan Seacrest. The next night at an Emmy bash at Cecconi's, Griffin rehashed the loss to Movieline.

It happened, Kathy. Ryan Seacrest won the reality Emmy over you.

Look, this has been a tough week, between Levi [Johnson] and Ryan, it's very hard for me to stay positive about heterosexual men...although one of them might be on the bubble, and I'm not going to say which one.

What happened with Levi? First he was back on with Bristol, now it's off...

I am a homewrecker.

Uh-huh.

I am a homewrecker, I am going to be the First Lady of Wasilla, and eventually, I am going to live in the White House.

Get in on his reality show!

Yeah, right.

Did you have an acceptance speech ready for the Emmys if you had won?

Not only did I have an acceptance speech, but I had a bit and it was so funny and I was proud of it. I'm not going to say what it is, because you've got to earn it, Emmy voters. I'm not going to tell you what I would have done, because you have to give me the statue to get the water-cooler talk.

Did you watch the Jamie Oliver show?

No. I'm sorry, I don't watch a show about someone who flies to Alabama and says, "Here's a free salad." I'm too busy fighting [against] Prop 8 and getting a public pap smear and performing in Iraq.

I hear that you used to teach J.J. Abrams back in your Groundlings days.

He was my student, yes.

Did you know each other well?

We used to double date -- it was Greg Grunberg and J.J. Abrams and my friend Nancy and I. We'd go for yogurt, and he was funny then. He worked in...not the mailroom, but he had some low-level job. I just emailed him two days ago, and that's what I love about Emmy week: I get to see people like J.J., who is normally too famous for me to talk to.

He did a little bit of acting then, but would you ever have foreseen the mogul he's become?

No, but how smart is he?

Get him to give you a role in Mission: Impossible 4!

I'd rather produce it like he does! I don't want to hang from a rope. I'd rather be J.J. and collect the checks.

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