craig ferguson c or d?

the episode where he interviewed russell brand was probably the 20 funniest minutes of late night i've ever seen

I feel like I've given him enough of a chance now to comment on him. Eh, he's alright. I like his interviews generally and I think he's quick on his feet. There's a nice relaxed vibe to the show. Too bad his jokes and persona are pretty cornball and lame most of the time.

And the pre-monologue "routines" are almost universally terrible.

OK, I'll admit the guy's pretty likable. I'll stand by the "cornball" but retract the "lame".

i slept on craig ferguson for a long time cause of my hatred of foreigners. but i watched him last night, really good awkward, sleazy vibe that i dig, some things i like about letterman and things i like about conan but his own style. even moon bloodgood interview that i'd change to nhl playoffs highlights or peter popoff instead of, usually, with another show-- i was into it

God, that Bing Hitler routine was awful. I evidently had much less refined taste in comedy in my early teens, or that was a bad example - I do remember finding him much funnier than that. I thought it might just be the Bing Hitler I! Hate! Things! persona that was grating, but YouTube suggests that him being himself (1980s version) was also terrible, so, um, there you go.

I watched a couple of clips of him all grown-up and American-based, and I liked them though.

I heart anything with the shark puppet.

holy crap this dance routine/puppet show/whatever to 'istanbul, not constantinople' just pushed all my buttons!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdP6bUMjaSc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPfTzlgV-sE

Classic.

thanks nick, because that made me look up fred astaire doing puttin' on the ritz, which is dope as fuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFQkMAPVoIo

The fact that Ferguson went over to the US and became a celeb is really headfucking for those of us who remember the years he spent as a largely unknown but pretty funny comedian in the UK.

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.. who totally nicked his act from Jerry Sadowitz until lawyers had a word with Jerry, and he had to stop saying that, so would instead describe him as a huge talent etc, in sarcastic ways.

fwiw, they are both scottish, and were somewhat similar in style.

My guess is that after Sadowitzgate, Craig left the UK to make it big in the US, and, um, did!

laugh track

I do like how everyone on the show just lets their natural accent rip. Jennifer Tilly was just on and launched full on into her highspeed Southern voice, to the point where she sounded like Katy Mixon(from Eastbound & Down) on wayyyyyy too much caffiene.

the only thing i've ever seen this guy in is a trailer for a movie where he's a hairdresser from about 15 years ago, i think.

he was on the Drew Carey Show for what seemed like 45 years

Stepping down:

https://twitter.com/ZeitchikLAT/status/460936808360984577

nice to remember this one, about the day he forgot to kill himself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGLzpt3caHw

I knew from that moment I was on this guy's side. I just didn't always get to watch his show.

He was in fine form tonight, though!

james corden??

So is this guy funny and/or weird?

You will come to hate him as we have come to hate him.

Great, looking forward to it.

Thank you America! With any luck, this will be the last we see of him.

lol youse poor fucks he is three types of cunt

genuinely can't see america being fooled by this utter turd. britain's greatest shame :(

Finally CBS has its own Carson Daly

Oh, you guys will love him, sure you will.

This sounds like a disaster in the making.

http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/craig-ferguson-in-final-negotiations-with-tribune-for-7-p-m-syndicated-talkshow-exclusive-1201283991/

Craig Ferguson is in final negotiations with Tribune Media to host a daily syndicated half-hour talkshow that would air in the 7 p.m. hour across Tribune Broadcasting’s 42 stations.

The show is targeted to bow in the fall of 2015. It’s expected that Michael Naidus, exec producer of CBS’ “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” will be on board as showrunner of the show that will blend comedy and talkshow elements. The intent is to rev up the hour leading into primetime with the Ferguson yakker paired at 7:30 p.m. with a prime sitcom rerun a la “Two and a Half Men” or “The Big Bang Theory.”

Reps for Tribune Media and Ferguson declined to comment.

Man, the guy who does the voice for Geoff was off last night, so Geoff's unanimated skeleton was just standing there, no glow in the eyes, all episode and I realized that he's at least half of (if not more than half of) the reason I like the show. Give that gay skeleton robot his own gig!

Tom Lennon was a good Geoff fill-in years ago.

And fin.

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/entertainment/television/Craig-Ferguson-signs-off-Late-Late-Show-with-Jay-Leno-homage-to-classic-TV-finales.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1Gep_hAP3A

Josh Robert Thompson, the voice of Geoff Peterson, is apparently launching a new show (though when and where it will air is unclear).

So Ferguson's new show Join or Die manages to turn the concept of Deadliest Warrior from a guilty pleasure into, uh, regular pleasure.