Silverman: Spears wasn't ready for jokes

Comedienne Sarah Silverman has admitted that she regrets making jokes about Britney Spears at the MTV Video Music Awards last month, because the singer was not ready to laugh at herself.

The funnywoman came on stage following Spears' disastrous performance of her new single 'Gimme More' and joked about her two sons being "adorable mistakes".

But Silverman's jokes received a bad reaction from the troubled singer and her fans. She now claims she wishes she hadn't appeared at the show, telling the Guardian: "I wish I didn’t do the VMAs. I totally regret it. I liked the jokes I did, but all anyone focused on was that it was mean.

"But they put me on immediately after Britney, so I had to do jokes. Everyone else laughed, but Britney wasn’t ready to laugh at herself."