Not long after news of Kathy Griffin's first stand-up performance in Alaska went public, the wickedly funny, tell-it-like-it-is comedian and her peeps -- aka "Team Griffin" -- went the social networking route to announce today's book signing at a southside Anchorage store.

The Facebook post, promoting Griffin's memoir "Official Book Club Selection," was met with an onslaught of comments from Griffin's legion of fans.

Many voiced disbelief that Griffin made her way to Anchorage and not their current location. Others opened verbal fire on a certain former Alaska governor, asked if Griffin planned to meet with Sarah Palin, or if the comedian hoped to rekindle the "romance" with Levi Johnston, her date to last year's Teen Choice Awards.

This may be Griffin's first official gig here, but the professed D-lister knows her way around Alaska's pop-culture fun. She will most likely dish about it tonight on the Atwood Concert Hall stage in her own self-deprecating and often ribald way.

"I am in a serious, committed relationship with Levi Johnston, and I resent that you're suggesting that it might be for publicity to sell books," Griffin told Conan O'Brien on "The Tonight Show" in October.

Griffin admitted to O'Brien that inviting Johnston, father to Palin's grandson Tripp, to escort her along the Teen Choice Awards' red carpet was indeed a publicity stunt. But the two couldn't help but "fall in love."

"This one's got legs," Griffin told Time Magazine in September. "I just have so much in common with Levi. We can talk for minutes. As long as I can quote 'The Bachelorette' to him, I'd say we have a connection."

Johnston not withstanding, Griffin, 49, has made something of an A-list comedy career out of skewering celebrities. She takes on all comers, from the most-esteemed, award-winning actor or musician to those that pass for celebrities because they live near the Jersey Shore.

Take that, Celine. Take that, Oprah. Take that, Snooki. Griffin sees no reason to apologize for her act.

"No, because it's all comedy," Griffin told OK! Magazine last month. "You have to. When I look at the comedians that I like and admire and make me laugh, they're the ones that go there."

Griffin has won multiple Emmys for her Bravo reality show, "Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List." The memoir is a New York Times best seller. In June 2008, Griffin released her first comedy album, "For Your Consideration." It received a Grammy nomination and Griffin was the first female comedian to debut No. 1 on Billboard's Top Comedy Albums chart.

Earlier this week, NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" featured Griffin's rare turn as a dramatic actor. The comedian played a gay activist who worked with the show's lead-characters after a woman is found dead.

Comedy legend Rodney Dangerfield always said he got "no respect, no respect at all." Yet he will forever be remembered as beloved influence and mentor for everyone with a joke to tell. It's a different schtick, but with all her success Griffin certainly can't milk the D-list lifestyle much longer. Can she?

"There's nothing I can ever do to get off the D list," Griffin told Time. "I was working on some show and the sound guy was putting the microphone on, and he kept talking about when we'd worked together before, but none of it rang a bell. Finally it dawned on me and I said, 'I think you're talking about someone else.' And he went, 'Oh, yeah, sorry.' If that happens you know you're on the D list."

Kathy Griffin

When: Tonight, 8 p.m.

Where: Atwood Concert Hall

Tickets: $45-$65, plus fees.

More info at CenterTix.net