Britney Spears tries to prank bodyguards in SUPER-CRINGE video

Britney Spears. Bless her. Bless her bloomin' cotton socks, peroxide blonde locks and perpetually terrified grin.

Britney is tired, she just wants a nice sit down with a garibaldi. But Neil Patrick Harris has made her do one of those funny viral things that those YouTube kids keep burping out, and he's roped in his "second favourite Jonas brother". Yep, you guessed it: he meant Joe.

On his show Best Time Ever - which is basically a US version of *Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, *minus Ant and Dec and plus lots of Americaness - Neil has tasked Britney with interviewing prospective bodyguards, but she has to do all the weird stuff that Neil and Joe demand.

This involves Britney forcing the "strongest man in the military" to kiss her hand, like she's a Jane Austen character. Then she introduces herself to the second candidate Keith as "Britney Bitch". Keith is our favourite, he seems the least capable of actually doing the job, but we think he should get the job ( if it does really exist) because he's a hoot.

Soon Britney starts making up her own gags, giving poor old Keith the run-around while she chooses where she wants to sit. Then, later on, Britney compares the third candidate (who's obviously seen some seriously dark, black ops, delta force stuff that's probably going to end up in a WikiLeaks post one day) to "Batman" and "Scooby Doo".

Overall Britney Spears was pretty funny, but we couldn't help but cringe several times during this video. Just stick to the singing and dancing Britney Spears. You're quite good at that.