Even if you believe that out-of-control celebrities “deserve” what they get because they somehow ask for it, it doesn’t mean we have to pile it on or applaud it.  If we all got what we truly “deserved” we’d all be going straight to hell in a handbag.  It’s called MERCY.  Try some.

Thank you Craig, for being courageous.

As someone who is in the spotlight I find it difficult to accept people’s rational that actors “choose the lifestyle” and therefore deserve no empathy.

By that so called rational I ask you to recall any difficult period in your life and I will assure you three things. 1. We could all say to you, You choose to be in this situation. 2. We would be right and 3. The only thing it would achieve is to make you feel worse.

How many people do you know are in unhappy relationships or circumstances? And how many of those people do you know actually choose to walk away? When you’re best friend/mother/uncle/sister is unhappily married but perserveers, do you say “I’m sorry, I have no empathy for you, you choose to remain in this relationship, therefore it’s your fault” No, of course we don’t, it’s more complicated then that. There are other factors involved and frankly most people don’t have the courage to walk away, do you?

If you do, then congratulation but if you don’t then don’t scold some kid for having a dream at 8 years of age, persuing it with the kind of committment and sacrifice that most people simply couldn’t appreciate and then when it all falls apart say “sorry kid you choose to be here, don’t like it? go back to minimum wage…”

I agree, don’t make fun of Britney, applaud her for having chosen to do something radical and independent of her ‘handlers’. She woke up and got sick and tired of being hounded by the cameras, and the shaved-head thing is about what Sinead O’ Connor did when her music promoter or whatever couldn’t keep his hands off her ass.
She ‘punked’ him, and that’s awesome, and I think Britney should get BIGGER tattoos, and start a punk band…

BRAVO, CRAIG!......Compassion for the suffering of others is one the first steps toward any possibility of Peace…...BRAVO!

Love,
GrammaConcept

A character is a character in a play
But a celebrity is not really that way

Free-wheeling judgement
Applied to these
Is not mere art criticism

It’s attack on persons

Ferguson deserves kudos for his integrity, and I agree with him for the most part—it’s rather mean-spirited to kick someone when they’re already down, and hypocritical besides to attack someone for their behavior when you’ve been guilty of the same things yourself. At the same time, however, the fact is that fame comes with a high price and anyone who isn’t prepared to pay it probably shouldn’t seek fame. After all, the overwhelming majority of famous people are famous because they aspired to be—it wasn’t exactly something which was inflicted upon them against their will. It’s understandable that living in a virtual fishbowl is stressful for most celebrities—but if you want all the perks of fame, you have to put up with the bad stuff as well. Any celebrity always has the choice of withdrawing from public life if they get tired of it—it’s not as if it’s never been done.

I won’t quibble about who deserves what or who has earned what. Craig is just an amazing person and as wonderful and funny as he is, I have to admire what he said and how he’s said it. He’s a brave, brave man and one to be admired, especially in this filthy societal snobbery America has come to uphold. It’s good to hear a human being talk when all you hear are the anti-smoking and disgusting “christian” zealots shouting about how decent and upright and correct they are and everyone else is just a piece of garbage in their eyes.

If one person thinks from this video, then YAY Craig!

I watched Furguson’s comment last night and had the appeal of the man reaffirmed. It was honest, more honest than most anything else on the tube these days, sincere, and yet, even as it was moving, it was also entertaining. Much of what I have liked about his monologues is that the person he makes fun of the most is himself, so the humor doesn’t ‘trash’ anyone else, and one need not feel uncomfortable laughing. Lately I’ve felt that he was beginning to stray from that simple premise, and was pleasently surprised by his ‘confessional.’
It’s one of the things I like least about Leno’s monologue/humor lately—it makes you feel dirty even as it’s funny. He seems to choose subjects that morons find funny and I know he’s much more intelligent than that.
Letterman’s fave at the moment is, of course, Bush—I particularly liked the comment about the guy who’s running for Pres who’s a Mormon, whom Letterman contrasted with the person we have now, whose merely a moron. True, Bush is more intelligent than that, too, but you won’t know it by the time he leaves office and we begin to clean up the mess.
Furguson’s main targets are Prince Charles, Sean Connery, and Michael Cain, all of whom Craig can (kinda) imitate and the humor is always playful. Oh, and also Bob Barker, who got Craig back by coming on the Late Late Show, along with his gorgeous girl-helpers and basically destroyed Craig’s desk with a single karate chop. It was pretty funny, just to show no hard feelings.

Wow—a comdeian with integrity.
I never wasted any time following Ana Nicloe Smith or Britney—but theirs are personal tragedies. So I applaud anyone in the media who will step back and let these two difficult situations play out in private.

That took alot of courage.  Kudos Mr. Ferguson

I have taken an independent poll and I can’t find anybody I know that even watches this loser. Who gives a rat’s ass about what he thinks. Everybody in America is in rehab these days. Big Fucking Deal!

So you wanna be an actor?  OK.  Just don’t come crying to us when you’re being chased at 100mph down the turnpike by papparizzi.  So you wanna be a soldier?  OK.  Just don’t come crying to us when the promises made by a self professed liar turn out to be untrue.  So you wanna be a doctor?  OK.  Just don’t come crying to us when a buddy of yours leaves a instrument in a patient and your malpractice insurance goes up 100%.  So you wanna be a computer tech…....

The spotlight is actually a bulleye.

I saw this show and he is right-on with his comments. This socially blood-thirsty society doesn’t stop and think before condemning someone. The mere fact that their (Britney/Anna etc.) conduct was so bizarre should give an indication to a thinking person that perhaps, this person is sick or in trouble and needs help, not people throwing rocks at them—- remember that, next time you’re down.

I disagree. You reap what you sow. These people we collectively ridicule chose this lifestyle and they enjoyed all of the attention when it was positive. They now must live with the consequences of those actions. I feel no more sympathy for the child of Anna Nicole Smith than any other neglected child.

We build these people up to knock them down. It’s an ancient game of the proles, just another form of geeking. We are an incredibly trivial and flawed species.

Hollywood used to be fun, then then PR went hyper-corporate. It’s so ugly.

Good on Craig Furguson. It’s good to hear this from a fellow Briton, we’re usually the worst offenders in this dept.

People thirst for conflict, drama.  Comedy is just one form.  If he thinks any harder about it, he might have to conclude not much of it is very nice at all. 

He is a good man.