I'm convinced that most people aren't wishy-washy about Kathy Griffin: You either love her or you hate her. For the most part, I love her; sure, her antics are annoying, but they're also endearing.

While I can take or leave her stand-up, I have a soft spot for her Bravo reality show, "My Life on the D-List," [1] which starts its new season tonight. As E! TV critic Kristin Veitch wrote, Griffin "works twice as hard to get half as far," [2] and while she probably qualifies as at least C-list now, it's still funny and a little sad to watch her stand next to a poster advertising her show at Carnegie Hall and have passers-by say "who are you?"

This season has a bit of a twist (which I assume is tongue-in-cheek, though you never really know with her): She's given up on dating for love and is now dating for fame, asking her fans to help her choose a potential suitor. [3] The options: Sanjaya, Prince William, Mario Lopez, K-Fed and Larry Birkhead. (I'd vote Lopez, if only because — as Griffin's site points out — one of their celebrity couple names could be "Gropez.") To watch a clip of her attempting to put her new dating strategy to use with a big-deal New York chef,

Photo courtesy of Bravo [4]