Letterman as well as the Palin family . `` As a comedian , you look at what Dave does , '' Foxworthy said . `` You 're trying to do this night after night , year after year , decade after decade -- at some point in the road , are you going to throw one out there you should n't have ? Yeah . '' Foxworthy said it 's probably time to forgive and forget . `` It 's about forgiveness , '' Foxworthy said . `` He came back and apologized and said : ` Hey , the joke is flawed . ' And to me you move on . '' King asked what advice he 'd give Sarah Palin if she received an invitation to appear on Letterman 's `` Late Show . '' Foxworthy said he 'd encourage the Alaska governor to accept it . `` Life is about forgiveness . I think that makes her bigger to go on there and say ' I accept your apology ' . '' Letterman has insisted he was referring to Palin 's 18-year-old , Bristol , who gave birth to a boy in December , and not her
-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- David Letterman has been taking some heat and issuing some apologies for the off-color joke he made last week about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin 's daughter , but he found a sympathetic critic in comedian Jeff Foxworthy on Monday . Jeff Foxworthy , the father of two teenage daughters , says David Letterman 's joke was flawed . The best-selling comedy recording artist in history paid a visit to CNN 's `` Larry King Live '' to talk about Letterman 's gaffe . `` As a father of two teenage daughters , it was a flawed joke , '' Foxworthy said . Letterman joked last Tuesday that Palin 's `` daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez '' at a recent Yankees game , stirring up an angry reaction from the Palin family . Letterman has since apologized twice for what he called `` inappropriate '' humor . And Foxworthy agreed : `` I do n't think any kind of joke about someone having sex with a teenage girl is funny . '' Watch Foxworthy comment on joke '' But Foxworthy 's rebuke of the joke was gentle in tone , and he showed empathy for