Sarah Silverman Regrets Bashing Britney Spears on VMA’s

Sarah Silverman: “I wish I didn’t do the VMAs. I totally regret it.”

Katie Puckrik: Why?

SS: “Well, I liked the jokes I did, but all anyone focused on was that it was mean. But they put me on immediately after Britney, so I had to do jokes. Everyone else laughed, but Britney wasn’t ready to laugh at herself.”

KP: Britney wasn’t even ready to perform…

SS: “Every time she’s been on the VMAs, it’s been a spectacle – something amazing. I heard she was gonna have this magician, there’d be fire and smoke, and I would be the little comedian making fun of the big star. I caught a glimpse of her at rehearsal and she was walking through it, and then at the actual performance, she did that same thing! And then I come out and I’m an asshole.”

KP: Did you regret your comments about Paris Hilton as well?

SS : “Well, no. I think she didn’t feel bad because of what I said, she felt bad because when I said the set-up that she was going to jail, the whole audience cheered for a solid minute. And my heart sank at that point … I had to keep going with the joke, I was in the middle of a set-up but I was like, wow, she’s sitting right there and there’s grown men in her face with a camera.”

Eh… I do think calling her children “mistakes” was a bit over the top, even with my love/hate for Britney.

source: The Queen of Mean [guardian unlimited]

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