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While inexplicably devoting valuable viewing time to Last Comic Standing, the Defamer correspondent on televised roasts of marginal Saturday Night Live alums notices an interesting choice by NBC executives to broadcast a joke about how host Jay Mohr landed a breakout role in a big film:

Jay Mohr was brutally (some say deservedly) roasted as part of the premise for the show last night. Those in attendance at the taping got treated to three competing comics blasting Mohr, with Triumph The Insult Comic Dog marking the same territory. But toastmaster Jeffrey Ross got in the best barb.

Referring to Mohr's role as a ruthless sports agent in Jerry Maguire, Ross said he "got himself a part by using his talent, his good looks and his willingness to bang Tom Cruise." The crowd gasped, Mohr did a huge spit take, and our handy Tivo evidences that NBC actually aired the Cruise buggery comment on primetime. Granted, no nipples were displayed on the telecast, but we're betting that the humorless, heterosexual Tom Cruise won't be giving any "exclusive" interviews to NBC in the near future.

Nah, we're sure that Cruise's sense of humor about himself has improved since his days with scary publicist Pat Kingsley, who would dispatch an army of lawyers to crush all who might insinuate he's anything short of the greatest lover of women since the invention of the missionary position. As a matter of fact, those now-bored lawyers are probably delivering a congratulatory fruit basket to the office of NBC head Jeff Zucker right now, thanking him for airing the zinger and helping him soften his image!