'Late Late' comedian turns darts on himself

[BlackVelvet04]

It would have been so easy to open fire on Britney and her newly shaved scalp. But this past Monday night, during his monologue on The Late Late Show, host Craig Ferguson decided to get serious.

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Now a couple months ago, Kevin Costner got himself into some kind of bother, and I made fun of him in the monologue. And then, a couple of weeks later, I meet him at this event, and I could tell he was, he was angry at me. . . . He's a very polite man, and a gentleman, and I could see in his eyes he made a decision to not go after me, just to be polite and nice and stuff. And that kind of freaked me out. . . .

It was the look in his eye that bothered me. And I began to think, at what price am I doing this stuff? And I started to think about the effect it was having on real people, and it's been needling at me a little bit ever since.

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This is totally a mea culpa. This is just for me. I think my aim's been off a bit recently. I want to change it a bit. So tonight, no Britney Spears jokes. And here's why. Here's exactly why. Britney Spears -

Uproarious laughter. Ferguson stops, shakes his head.

No, no, it's the truth. Wait . . .

He tries to get them to stop.

The kind of weekend she had, she was checking in and out of rehab, she was shaving her head, getting tattoos. . . .

This Sunday I was 15 years sober.

Finally, the audience is silent.

So I looked at her weekend, and I looked at my own weekend, and I thought, you know, I'd rather have my weekend. But what she is going through reminds me of what I was doing . . . where I was 15 years ago, when I was living like that.

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/02/23/Floridian/_Late_Late__comedian_.shtml

I, too, wonder at what cost we make fun of people all the time. I think it somehow demeans our humanity.

Good for Ferguson!