Craig Ferguson’s President’s Day Confessional

Posted on February 25, 2007
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If you’ve been following along, you’ll know I try and do something just a bit different on Sundays. I’ve seen this video posted around a few times but didn’t really know Ferguson and his work or the nature of the video. I’d read that he was saying to cut Britney Spears some slack. I tended to agree with that sentiment, but still am totally not into the Us Weeklyscene, and left it alone.

I’m glad I decided to watch it this morning.

If I tried to say what Craig says in this video, I likely would sound too preachy. He does it with grace and still a fair dose of humor. He’s talking about doing in comedy what good preachers try to do on Sunday mornings: “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.” Things go all wrong when you do it the other way around. The basic morality of it seems to fit equally well in multiple venues, including religion, politics, government, and yes, comedy. And as you can see here, self-deprecating humor is still some of the best humor of all.