Kathy Griffin just can't keep herself out of the headlines!

The controversial comedian had just started to move past her scandalous photo shoot with a beheaded Donald Trump likeness and now she's back in the news. Saturday night Griffin and her live-in boyfriend Randy Bick called the police when the neighbor's grandkids were reportedly making raucous noise in their back yard around 8pm. Apparently Griffin thought the decibel level was too high but her neighbor Jeffrey Mezger, CEO of one of the nation's largest homebuilders KB Home, disagreed. And boy did he disagree ...

It's unclear exactly where this recording came from, but it's reportedly from a security camera -- at Kathy's house, we presume -- and in it you can hear Mezger's expletive rant against the comedian and her boyfriend. He dropped so many f-bombs we stopped counting and he called Griffin a "bald dyke" and a C-U-Next-Tuesday. He referenced Kathy's Trump controversy by saying the President "kind of put the heat on."

And now Mezger's paying the price -- he had his annual bonus cut by 25% as a slap on the wrist from the board of KB Home. The company stopped short of firing him, but they released a statement saying, "Mr. Mezger's recent behavior in his personal dealings with a neighbor is unacceptable and a negative reflection on KB Home."

In a statement provided to HuffPost, KB Home said Mezger apologized for "losing his temper over a supposed noise complaint involving his three young grandchildren in his swimming pool around 8 p.m. on Saturday, while they were being supervised by their mother and grandmother."
"He apologizes for the language he used," the statement said, "as it does not reflect who he is or what he believes."

He seemed to believe it when he was saying it! ...