I'm late to this, but it's too compelling to pass up.
CBS "Late Show" host Craig Ferguson used Monday night's monologue to announce his embargo on Britney Spears jokes. To paraphrase, he says the powerful, the bloviating, the self-important are all fair game, but that vulnerable people like the 25 year old pop star are out of bounds.
See the whole thing right here:
My take?
Ferguson should do what he wants and let the audience decide. If he can be funny without resorting to Spears, I don't think anyone will be walking out of his tapings saying, "Yeah, he was good, but I wish he would've done more Britney stuff."
I have a problem with doing a 12 minute holier-than-thou screed about it--it's as if he's fishing for a compliment by announcing his ascension to the high ground. Let your actions do the talking--if someone asks where the Britney cracks are, THEN open your cakehole.
I always admired the way David Letterman handled the O.J. situation: at a time when he had the rep of being late night's "mean one", he deliberately avoided using the Simpson trial for comic relief, saying, in so many words, that someone's murder isn't funny.
America apparently didn't agree. Remember Jay Leno's "Dancing Itos"?
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