It's Britney, Bitch!

This might well be an actual comeback for Britney, as opposed to the train wreck that was last year's VMAs. This year - almost a year to the date after her latter-years-Elvis impersonation at the VMAs 2007 - Britney is appearing in a couple of commercials for the MTV Video Music Awards. She looks good, happy, sparkly, not particularly clever, and mostly not insane. So normal Britney.



So rather than talk about her past couple of years - the metaphorical elephant in the room - they put an actual elephant in the room. No idea why or what it means.

Best, though, is the inclusion of madcap Brit comic Russell Brand, he of the worst hair ever. Russell, who was the best thing about the forgettable Forgetting Sarah Marshall, has a delightful propensity to bite the hand that feeds him. So I'm looking forward to all of the usual nonsense in early September, as he'll be hosting.

Mostly, though, I'm happy to see Britney is off the suicide watch. I think her meltdown, as catastrophic as it was, is something she'll recover from. And let's give the girl a little bit of sympathy: she has the second worst showbiz mom in the world (thank you, Dina Lohan, for setting the bar so low); she makes worse choices in men than Elizabeth Taylor, and she's no longer getting her body rocked by Justin Timberlake. These are things that would drive anyone to go on a two year bender.

So I have just one more question: there's Britney, but where's Whitney? Duelling comebacks, yo!