PeTA and Comedy Central Roast Pamela Anderson

You really have to wonder — Comedy Central kicked in $200,000 to PeTA for useful idiot Pamela Anderson to be roasted. I kid you not . . . here's the story (the roast is scheduled to be aired Sun., Aug 14):

Pamela Anderson was escorted by a man dressed up as a carrot to a comedy night in her honour in the States.

Pammy was the butt of many jokes at the roast but revealed she didn't care because it was all for the animal charity PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals).

PeTA an "animal charity"? You've gotta be kidding my a... uh ... you've gotta be kidding me.

"I'm vegetarian I can't do a roast. That's why I brought a vegetable so I could eat something tonight."

"It's great. Dan Matthews (vice-president of PETA) came up to me and Comedy Central wanted to do it, and they were going to donate $200,000 to PETA for me to do it."

"I was like absolutely, roast me, boil me, poach me. Whatever you need to do, let's get it done."

Courtney Love was among the stars who went along lend Pammy her support.

"We share the distinction of being the two biggest female freakshows on earth who have the most fame and the least amount of money."

"I have a lot of rock cred and I just want to give it to her. I want to give her a blunt (hair)cut and her to go out with Marilyn Manson and dye her hair black and start reading."

"And then I'm going to fit into her CJ bathing suit."

I've never been a real fan of Pamela Anderson's — and up until the early spring of 2004, I found her to be mildly annoying, but fascinating in a way that one might find a pro wrestler heavily into steroids . . . 80% human and 20% other. But once I found out that she's a committed PeTAphile, I decided she might well be 20% human and 80% other — a suspicion that seems to have been born out — literally — by this.

Brian