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TORONTO — Now even Ken Burns has weighed in on Rob Ford. Well, sort of.
Late night funnyman David Letterman on Thursday introduced a video later posted to the Late Show with David Letterman YouTube page that he jokingly claimed was put together by the legendary PBS documentarian.
The two-minute video features Hollywood celebrities Jennifer Lawrence, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Martha Stewart reciting lines from recent, and now infamous, impromptu press conferences by the Toronto mayor as his Crackergate scandal exploded into worldwide media headlines.
“Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine,” The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’s Lawrence says, opening the video.
The parody of a Burns video, in which U.S. presidents recite lines from the Gettysburg Address, also has Vaughn saying, “probably, in one of my drunken stupors,” as he quotes Ford on where and when he had smoked crack cocaine.
Although clipped of his mayoral powers, Ford has become a global media sensation since admitting he had smoked crack cocaine before going on to campaign for re-election next year.
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