"Leave Chris Crocker Alone": Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Green enter the fray

Thanks to a tip from GayTVluver we got to see that Jimmy Kimmel made fun of Chris Crocker's "Leave Britney Alone" video. Kimmel parodied the video with one made by a man playing Crocker's father, "Where? Where did I go wrong? I bought him a BB gun! I took him camping! I played catch with him! And now my baby boy looks like crazy old woman!" After taking a bottlefull of pills he continues, "I can't take it anymore! He's not a human being! He's not a human being!"

At the very least, Kimmel has shown that he has issues with people who blur gender lines with his transphobic remarks to Rebecca Romijn and the time he put Sanjaya Malakar on the spot about his sexual orientation. This mockery takes a similar tone, positioning that an effeminate son is worth killing yourself over. (The parody comes off as a little more insensitive if you remember that Crocker wasn't raised by his father.)

Kimmel later gave Crocker a chance to discuss the video in an interview, a chance for Kimmel to add some depth to the parody. Wearing a strapless bikini top (that he kept adjusting) Crocker set the tone for the interview by trash talking Sarah Silverman and flirting with Kimmel:

Jimmy Kimmel: (Chuckling) Well, don't you look beautiful tonight!

Chris Crocker: Hi!

JK: How are you?

CC: I'm really sexually aroused right now.

JK: Why are you sexually aroused right now?

CC: Okay, more than this is about Britney or me. This is about us and Sarah. Us and Sarah.

JK: It's about you, me and Sarah -- you mean my ladyfriend Sarah Silverman.

CC: Oh, I'm getting rid of her.

JK: You're getting rid of her?

CC: Definitely.

JK: Then what will you and I do?

CC: The same thing you and her do.

Overall, I thought Crocker played up the "freak" angle that got his video so much attention. When I first saw Crocker's videos, I thought he offered a mix of substance and silliness. Even though people were laughing at his melodramatics, those videos showed him railing against homophobia as well. Unfortunately, it looks like he's playing to the stereotypes a lot of people saw in the video. That's too bad. In one of the articles I read, Crocker comments about empathizing with the scrutiny Spears receives from the media. Unfortunately he seems to be playing into the joke the media sees in him.

Another parody of Crocker's video was made last week for The Soup with Seth Green crying "Leave Chris Crocker alone!" Instead of suggesting that Crocker's effeminacy is Crocker's problem, Green's parody largely focuses on the misplaced priorities displayed in the video. While Green stops to mock Crocker's appearance, he avoids making the joke demeaning like Kimmel's "He's not a human being!"

After the cut check out videos of Kimmel's monologue leading into his parody of Crocker, Kimmel's interview with Crocker and Green's parody video.