Don’t expect Kathy Griffin to appear on Your Friends and Neighbors anytime soon.
The comedian has explained that she’s yet to forgive Jon Hamm, who stars in the Apple TV dramedy, for the way he treated her at a dinner party.
The Mad Men alum came up during her appearance on a recent episode of the podcast In Your Dreams With Owen Thiele, when the host asked her who’s on her 2026 “hit list.”
“I mean, I’ll pick weird people like Jon Hamm,” Griffin said. “Like, nobody hates Jon Hamm except me. And it’s so funny. Because I used to date a guy that was in his fantasy football league, and I thought Hammy was rude to my boyfriend. I just thought, ‘Ooh, that shows bad character.’ Even though he’s an amazing actor and, I hate to admit it, he’s even funny. And hot. Of course he’s hot.”
But that isn’t why the Suddenly Susan alum still holds a grudge.
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“One time I got to be at this crazy dinner party with only eight people and freaking Jack Nicholson walks in,” Griffin said. “This woman named Sue Mengers, who used to be a power agent, used to have these kinds of salon parties, which I do now.”
Mengers, who died in 2011, would ask her guests to sit around the coffee table instead of the dining room table to ensure the dinner was intimate.
“I had met Jack a couple of times, but I was shy around him because he’s Jack Nicholson,” Griffin recounted. “And so one time we’re at the party, and he turns to me, and he says, ‘Kathy.’ And I’m like, ‘Whoa, he knows my name.’ And he started talking about making the movie The Departed, which I think is a classic. And I’ve seen it many times.”
The 2006 cop drama stars Nicholson, along with Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Vera Farmiga, Anthony Anderson, and Alec Baldwin. Martin Scorsese directed, for which he won one of the film’s four Oscars;The Departed was also named best picture.
Griffin recalled being stunned that Nicholson was being so open about his work, which she said he usually didn’t mention.
“He’s talking about playing a Whitey Bulger-type character, and Whitey Bulger had just been found and arrested after decades of being on the run,” Griffin said, referencing the June 2011 capture of James “Whitey” Bulger, who was convicted two years later of 11 murders, as well as racketeering and extortion.
“I’m thinking, ‘Oh my god, Jack Nicholson is talking about the one topic I would want to ask him about,'” Griffin said.
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She alleged that Hamm took her attention away with impolite comments.
“Hammy was wasted,” she said. “So he’s next to me in my ear, and he’s going, ‘You’re so old. What’s it like to be so old? Your Emmys are fake Emmys.’ And I go, ‘No, no, Hammy. And you don’t even have an Emmy.'”
Griffin won Emmys in 2007 and 2008 for her former reality show My Life on the D-List.
She returned to her conversation with Nicholson, she said, who “missed the whole thing.”
“But I never forgave Hammy for that,” Griffin said.
The comedian said she thought Hamm might have been trying to be funny, but it wasn’t.
Entertainment Weekly has reached out to reps for Hamm.
Listen to the full conversation above.