This is sort of like that. Why surround Britney, who is basically just walking around like she's looking for a missing sock, with dozens of accomplished dancers? Are they there just to hold her up? Every five or ten seconds she's being propped up or carried by someone. They magnify her lack of dance skills, rather than mask it.

And the look on 50 Cent's face... priceless.

They should have cut to the vultures perched just offstage. I kind of admired that she's publicly rebelling against people who don't care what happens to her if they get a return. She's not bright, but she seems to have figured out more than loads of people before her. She's headed for irrelevance, but it's sort of on her own white trash terms.

Sarah is funny. But, it annoys me that Sarah makes fun of women like Britney and Paris. What about making fun of the men who use women and/or violence to sell their music. Justin had strippers at his party, wtf? 50 Cent is famous for being shot at. Uhm, Britney and Paris might sleep around but so do the men.

@4: You are totally right. I was a fan of Sarah Silverman's for a while and saw her at the Showbox recently. She wasn't funny then either. If anyone had a career takedown at the VMAs it was her, not Britney. I thought B. walking around in boots was more interesting that Silverman's act.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg9mK_CezzU

I don't have MTV these days, and can't say I feel bad about missing last night's show. Or any year's award shows.

And for those of you dissing on Sarah S., just remember, all the wingers thought Stephen Colbert "bombed" at the White House Correspondents' Dinner a couple of years ago too. As Steve Martin said many, many years ago, "comedy is NOT pretty!"

Because I'd have sworn it was the VMAs at which she skewered Paris back in June.

If Britney bombed she bombed. It's actually not the end of the world, and having a comedian crack jokes about you isn't the end of the world either. It isn't a crime against humanity to suck at the MTV music awards.

Aren't you the same crowd who wanted to send Tom Cruise to federal prison for life because he jumped up and down on Oprah's couch?

It truly is awe-inspiring to see a career ending performance.

I've seen the Salina Kansas Junior High Girls Show Choir do a more polished performance.

In the end, Britney's career ended when she smashed her kneecap during a video shoot in 2002. Since her act really depends on her dancing ability, it was all downhill from there.

I'd respect the Foos for this, but the other clips look like they're just playing the game. Hat tip to Serj.

Also, did anyone else notice that all the male dancers onstage with her were dead ringers for Justin Timberlake? Is she projecting regrets or leftover yearnings of some kind? The answer is yes.

So given this, are we surprised at her fall from grace? All it took was a few years of age, a few errors in judgment, and a couple of kids and she's no longer what she was. She's gone - in the public's eye - from wet-and-ripe to tainted skank - at 25!

You can't be a burlesque queen forever, y'know.

I'm looking for my Beadazzler as I type!

It's all fun and games until you unleash Sarah Silverman on them. Everyone starts shitting bricks, crossing their fingers that she doesn't put them on blast.

She's seemingly dying up their and it's probably the only time you'll ever be right to take the audience to task for the comic on stage not killing.

If Sarah makes you uncomfortable then you get it. If she makes whatever you're drinking come out your nose then you get it and you're not your parents yet.

The whole audience was silent, not because she insulted Britney's kids but because she was embarrassingly bad.