Griffin hit back at Carolla after he called her a “red-haired, pasty” person.

Kathy Griffin slams longtime friend Adam Carolla for attacking her over Karen Bass interview: ‘Go f--- yourself’

Griffin hit back at Carolla after he called her a "red-haired, pasty" person.

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- Kathy Griffin has hit back after her longtime friend Adam Carolla criticized her looks and her support for Karen Bass.

- In a YouTube video posted Tuesday, the comedian slammed Carolla for his response to an interview with the Los Angeles mayor.

- "Adam, go f--- yourself," Griffin said.

Kathy Griffin is fed up with the man show on display over on Adam Carolla's podcast, thank you very much!

The comedian hit back at her longtime friend and Jimmy Kimmel's former *Man Show *cohost in a YouTube video posted Tuesday after he criticized her support for Los Angeles' mayor, Karen Bass, amid the mayoral election in California.

"Adam, go f--- yourself," Griffin said in the video (clip below). "Adam and I have been friends for decades. I absolutely love him. So, he came after me, and I know I should be really mad and give him a smackdown, but I’m just so used to this now."

Griffin summarized the feud, telling her viewers that "Adam is now MAGA, and he’s got a podcast and I did it," which ended up being an enjoyable experience for her.

"I wasn’t sure if I should do it, so I called Jimmy Kimmel first and I said, 'I’m a little nervous now that Adam has turned MAGA, if he’s going to throw me under the bus,'” she recalled. "Jimmy said, 'No, he’ll be good with you, he’ll be cool with you,' and he was. So, I had a great time doing his podcast, and we just agreed to disagree."

She then played a clip of Carolla dissing her on a subsequent episode of his podcast, because, as she put it, "I interviewed Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles, the first Black female mayor in the history of Los Angeles, which is what I said during my interview with her."

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The podcast footage showed Carolla taking issue with Griffin identifying Bass' race, as he spoke about “Kathy Griffin talking to Karen Bass about being a Black woman or whatever," before noting that he pointed out in a follow-up social media post that Angelenos had a Black mayor, Tom Bradley, from 1973 to 1993.

"Guess who didn’t give a s---? Everyone who lived in Los Angeles," Carolla said. "So, get the f--- over it. Just get over it, red-haired, pasty Kathy Griffin, with light-skinned, red-haired Karen Bass. Just get the f--- over it. We had a [Black] mayor 50 years ago. More than 50 years ago."

In her video, Griffin replied to Carolla's remarks about her appearance.

Kathy Griffin in April 2026.

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“I know, always throwing in the looks, Adam, with the red hair and the pasty skin," she replied. "I’m not pasty, I’m fair. I’d like to say fair and pale. If he was trying to make the point, as a Caucasian woman, why am I bringing up that Mayor Bass is a woman of color? Because it’s not something Mayor Bass can say every two seconds."

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She finished, “She doesn't have to carry the weight of running around being accused [by] people like Adam [for] saying I should be the mayor because I’m Black."

* *has reached out to representatives for Carolla for a response to Griffin's remarks.

Watch Griffin's full YouTube video above.**

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