Craig Ferguson show 6/18/09

I watched Craig Ferguson this morning from the DVR I made last night. He did one bit about John Ensign, the Nevada senator, Chairman of Republican Policy Committee, or at least he was up until yesterday. He resigned because he had an affair with one of his staffers. He was always high on family values . . . but then aren’t they all? He said Ensign was unusual in that the affair was with a woman. He said it was nice to see the senator was branching out a little, and Craig said that’s a change he can believe in. He said that’s the sort of news vulgar lounge entertainers like him live for! When politicians on the left do something bad, politicians on the right are delighted and vice versa. But he doesn’t care who it is – it gives him material for his show.

And then he said he had a clip of the senator giving his resignation speech, but it would be too dull to show. But then he thought of adding farts to it! So he ran it, and the senator said about four lines, after which each time there would be a loud fart! I laughed so hard I almost fell off the couch! When people ask why he laughs at fart jokes, he says “Because they’re funny.” I agree – I think they’re hysterical. He ended with a message to all the politicians who keep screwing up: “Thank you hypocritical bastards – thank you!”