Kathy Griffin Lesbian Kiss Cut from SVU

Kathy Griffin made her highly anticipated first appearance Wednesday night on NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, but the scene in which she kisses Mariska Hargitay was axed.

In the scene below, Griffin, who plays a lesbian activist, is rebuffed by character Olivia Benson, played by Hargitay. The rejection comes despite the Griffin character’s flattery that Benson is “Ellen, Joan Crawford, and Calamity Jane all rolled into one. You can balance a checkbook, I’ll throw in Suze Orman.”