It has been long documented that Derek Sonderfan, in no way affiliated with Britney Spears other than a latent and often passing desire to see her naked, has been using Cruci-fixins in his stand-up for the better part of a year now, and it has even been described by the booker at the Improv Comedy Club as "one of the funniest bits he's heard in a while." Not only that, that very joke has appeared on www.esoderek.com since its inception. It can be found by clicking here.
As it is one of his perennial fallback jokes and always one that gets a bit of ashamed laughter (and probably religious disgust), Derek is saddened and traumatized to see one of his brainchildren being sodomized like this when portrayed by Britney Spears, who is not known so much for her talents as for the fact that she possesses breasts.
Legal action is not entirely out of the question, although it isn't exactly foremost in Derek's mind as he's not sure how to properly annotate and register jokes. He is preparing his six or seven documented performances at which he delivered the very very funny joke, as well as this website and testimony from just about anyone who wants to back him up. A boycott of Will & Grace is certainly in order. Not only is it not funny, the only way to make it funny is at Derek's expense, and that just isn't very cool.
What's next, Will & Grace, are you going to take my (Paul's) Forna-Caterers joke? C'mon, it's ripe for the pickin'!
EDIT: WILL AND GRACE NOW SCARED OF DEREK (AND CHRISTIANS)
In a similarly shocking display of backpedaling, it looks like Derek's precious bit will be preserved because of this bit of information, found on EOnline. It looks like another pointless moral victory for Derek.
"Earlier this week, NBC issued a press release touting Spears' guest appearance on the sitcom. Per the Peacock's PR department, Spears, in her first television outing since having a baby, would appear on the Apr. 13 episode playing a religious conservative TV personality who winds up cohosting a talk show with Jack.
Spears' character, the release said, would emcee a cooking segment called "Cruci-fixin's."
Faster than you could say, "Oops, they did it again," NBC was facing another beef from the American Family Association.
The conservative Tupelo, Mississippi-based group, whose protests helped lead to the cancellation of the network's The Book of Daniel, was ready to call for a boycott of NBC, saying the Spears-fronted episode "mocks the crucifixion of Christ" and "further denigrates Christianity" because the show airs the night before Good Friday. The AFA is urging its supporters to contact NBC affiliates and demand they not broadcast it.
"NBC is clearly mocking the Christian faith," the group's founder, Don Wildmon, says on the AFA Website. "They clearly have hostility toward the Christian faith, They absolutely will not treat Jews or Muslims in this manner, but I think they are smarting from the Book of Daniel defeat that they suffered, and this is their way to get even."
Wildmon was one of several activists who blasted The Book of Daniel for its portrayal of a pill-popping priest who, when not conversing with Jesus, deals with his gay son and drug-dealing daughter. Several affiliates declined to air the show and many advertisers pulled their ads; after four episodes, NBC pulled the plug.
For its part, NBC bristled at allegations it was intentionally trying to poke fun at Christians, issuing a statement chalking up the dispute to unnamed trigger-happy publicist.
"Some erroneous information was mistakenly included in a press release describing an upcoming episode of Will & Grace, which, in fact, has yet to be written," the network said in a statement, which was disseminated to its affiliates. "The reference to 'Cruci-fixins' will not be in the show and the storyline will not contain a Christian characterization at all. We value our viewers and sincerely regret if this misinformation has offended them."