![]() ![]() And I remember feeling kind of shocked at the kind of glee that seemed to accompany them. ![]() I happened to be away doing stand-up that weekend, and I started seeing news reports about what was happening to Britney Spears. And I think what I thought was, “I’m not going to have him think I’m for jokes I didn’t even write, or jokes I don’t even agree with.” ’Cause that happens when you do a show every night and you have a bunch of writers, you’re bound do a joke and never think about it. He was too polite to say it, but I could tell he did. And I realized that he had seen this and that, you know, “Dances With Wolves” thought I was. And it was only afterward I realized, “Wait a minute, I’ve been making jokes about this guy.” I can’t even remember what the jokes were about, but I’d been attacking him on TV. I was introduced to him and he was very nice to me, but there was a weird kind of distance in his eyes. And I had run into Kevin Costner, of all people. I had been doing the show for a couple of years, and had been out on the road doing stand-up gigs. That monologue made a lasting impression. Here, speaking by phone from Glasgow, he recalls that night, and what came before and after. “This is just for me.” It was news at the time, and remains vivid today. “This is totally a mea culpa,” Ferguson told his audience. ![]() Rather than mock Spears, Ferguson delivered a remarkable, seamlessly flowing 12-minute monologue - “essay” might be closer to the mark - on humor, responsibility and compassion, including a surprisingly rollicking account of his own bottoming out and rehabilitation. ![]()
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