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The Atlantic The more vulnerable she became, the greater the public’s interest was in watching her disintegrate. Dave Allocca / DMI / The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty In a video that recently went viral after it was dug out of the aughts time capsule, the former late-night host Craig Ferguson brings up Britney Spears. TV viewers have become accustomed over the past few years to talk-show hosts digesting difficult news and processing it for a nation to grasp, but in early 2007, when Spears’s erratic behavior and self-administered buzz cut consumed the public, Ferguson did something unex...

Blackface. what has always been done, advance white supremacy at the expense of people of color. yellowface, "breakfast at tiffany's." buck teeth, slanted eyes. audience laughs. object of ridicule and mockery. whoever's in power in the case of western society often white spr supremacy, the rest of us marginalized, the people are color. why we're stuck. okay. all these liberals putting on blackface, brownface and conservatives don't seem to like black and brown people and we're stuck in the middle? what's going on? talking to a stylist at cnn. person of color. never occurred to put on blackface...

All right. tonight, the cnn original history of comedy is back with a all new episode. and this week, we take a look at the comedy powerhouses from carol burnett to dave schappell are using comedy to make audience laughs. this is a sneak peek. >> i once took a improve class and i remember a woman after the class coming up to say, hey, you are really good at that. you know. i went, oh, my. i am goodt the -- good at the impr improve. and i hated to memorize lines. and so that combination and wanting to do the improve interested me, and that is the beginning of "curb your enthusiasm." >> the enig...

Surprise to senator ted cruz. here he is on "the tonight show show." >> i'm one of the many people not a fan of shutting down the government. >> you looked like a big fan from where i was sitting. >> that's right. ted cruz says he didn't want to shut down, and, of course, the audience laughs. you would think he would learn a lesson from that. but you would be wrong. >> i didn't want to shut down. throughout the whole thing, i said, we shouldn't have a shutdown. now, folks here can disagree. but repeatedly, i voted to keep the government open. >> what they're laughing about is that obviously, y...