5 Things Not To Do As A Guest On A Talk Show

2. Offering To F@#% The Other Guest Because She's Whitney Houston

Case In Point; Serge Gainsbourg on Champs Elysees http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uxAofXJCh8 Serge Gainsbourg was before my time and he has quite the wikipedia page of his accomplishments. I skimmed through it and basically got the impression he was the French Dean Martin. A social butterfly and darling of the talk show circuit he was to smoking cigarettes and France what Dean Martin was to drinking martinis and Johnny Carson. In 1986 Serge was invited on Champs Elysees, a French TV show hosted by Michael Drucker to partake in conversation with the recently famous, pre-Bobby Brown and still beautiful Whitney Houston who spoke no French. Serge, ever the gentleman told her in English that he would like to .... well, let's just say he certainly wasn't a racist. Drucker tried valiantly to pretend that Serge didn't say something that would get most men facing a sexual harassment lawsuit to little avail. Watching the video, you can see Whitney just sort of sitting there like a stunned gazelle to Serge's leering lion. It is only the promise of a cigarette (which was still permitted on Tv in those days) does he switch affections. Poor Whitney.