Even though Kathy Griffin just apologized for posting a video of her hoisting Trump’s bloodied severed head, fellow-admiring comedienne Sarah Silverman thinks she has nothing to apologize for.  “Kathy is a singular voice.  She’s really funny and it won’t be news tomorrow.  Kathy is a prolific storyteller.  That’s part of who she is.”  

Sarah was telling that at a Q & A, for her upcoming “A Speck Of Dust,” comedy special as part of Netflix’s FYSEE series in Beverly Hills, to court Emmy voters.

Sarah is unabashedly vocal about politics. “We are being bombarded by daily atrocities.  I’m from New Hampshire; everyone tends to be involved with politics there. “ She says she can be so active “because I keep my overhead low.”  When asked her childhood idols, she answered, “Woody Allen, Nichols and May, Albert Brooks, Robin Williams, his “Live At The Met,” album is just classic. Steve Martin, well he was my everything.  I love smart and aggressively dumb.  Artsy and fartsy.  He embodies that. He pulls scarves out of his fly and he writes for the New Yorker.”  

She then was asked about her recent health scare due to epiglottis, a blockage of the airway.  She joked, “They had to tie my hands down, because I’d wake up and try to get the thing out of my throat.  I really thought, because I was loaded with painkillers, that I was captured by ISIS.”  

She recently received acting kudos for her acting turns on “Crashing,” as well as “Masters of Sex.”  Is acting something she’ll do more of?  “Well objectively, I’m really good at it.  I like to dip my toe in it, long as it doesn’t get in the way of stand up.” She continued, “I’m a comedian and comedians want everyone to love them. That’s our sickness.  Her theory is not to question it.  “I think comedy dies in the second guessing.” 

Silverman also quoted writer Charlie Kaufman as a mantra she adheres too.  “Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure. And if you don’t risk failure, you’re never going to do anything that’s different from what you’ve already done or what somebody else has done.”  Savvy Sarah then noted, “I’ve never been for everyone. I’ve had to be comfortable with that. “ 

Former “Love Connection” game show host has been melting down for the last day on Twitter. Who knew he was so crazy and awful? Now 76, Woolery is currently fighting the accusation that among other things he’s anti-Semitic. Of course, it’s possible he suffers from dementia. That would be his best defense after reading all these Tweets. All the great, smart, articulate and literate game show hosts like Alan Ludden and Gene Rayburn are rolling in their graves. PS Peter Marshall is 91, and I’m sure he disapproves.

There’s news this morning that ABC didn’t work out their “American Idol” deal with Ryan Seacrest before he arrived at “Live with Kelly” and the network signed Katy Perry to be a judge on the revived series.

(No one wants “American Idol” to come back, by the way. It’s way too soon. But that’s another story.)

So Seacrest faces getting paid a lot less than Perry. His team obviously planted this story for negotiations purposes. I’m sure he figures, they can’t have “American Idol” without him.

There’s also a story going around that one time “Idol” winner Chris Daughtry was signed to be a judge.

But wait– Adam Lambert wants in. At a recent ASCAP event honoring songwriter Diane Warren, our Leah Sydney asked Adam if anyone from “Idol” had called and if he’d do it.

Lambert’s response: “it could be cute and it could be huge.” Lambert told Sydney that he’s on the road with Queen this summer, but still would want to be a judge on “Idol,” and that ”it could be worked out.” 

What we don’t get is why they don’t ask Diane Warren to do it. She’d be the best “Idol” judge ever– and the most qualified. At the recent 34th annual ASCAP Pop Music awards, LeAnn Rimes performed Warren’s signature hit (among her 1000 signature hits) “How Do I Live?” ASCAP President and hitmaker Paul Williams cheered the songwriter crowd on, as they sang her songs, and Snoop Dogg kept puffing away in the Wiltern Theater.

Warren, whose talent and productivity in music is unparalleled and is still as strong as ever, was honored with the Founders Award. Relative newcomer Meghan Trainor received the Vanguard award.  Snoop presented Diane (they have collaborated before) with her award to which she quipped, “Is that a spliff you’re holding?” then asked the crowd for a light for laid back Snoop. Rimes literally stole the show with her and Warren’s mega hit, “How Do I Live.” 

Trainer recalled that her parents took her to an ASCAP Expo as a 16 year old, and thanked the group for “looking at me as a person, not just a pop star or a dollar sign.”  Sony/ATV was awarded publisher of the year. Their greast CEO Martin Bandier noted, “ It’s a great time for the music business with streaming driving up revenue.  But I don’t have to tell you songwriters are not yet sharing in this growth.” “Love Yourself” written by Ed Sheeran and Benny Blanco, was Pop Music Song of the year, and Max Martin — who writes the hits Diane doesn’t– took the Songwriter of the Year.