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There will never be another late night host like Craig Ferguson.
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There will never be another late night host like Craig Ferguson.
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He was the best towards the end. He just thought up the most outrageous shit imaginable. It was like he just didn’t give a Fuck! It was fantastic to watch.
In a league of his own, he just did whatever he wanted to!
BALLS
i’ve been working through the archive on YouTube for the last month.
he said he based the show on Jung’s Red Book. going to have to read that one day.
He was the best! Miss him on late night. Love that devilish twinkle in his eye.
To think he was replaced with Corden
awww grant imahara 😢
Bonzo dog doo dah band!
I have a place down there.
Is there anywhere you can still watch weird stuff like this? Any other shows? Wasn’t the whole point of streaming and YouTube etc to get more weird and interesting content?
My wife and I watched his show almost religiously from maybe a year in until it ended. It was by far one of THE best late night shows I’ve ever seen. Aside from the puppets and dance numbers, the way he would just not let guests talk about their movies or what they had going on was fantastic. It was always just the most random of things and it was so refreshing. He went through so much earlier in his life and is such an inspiration in terms of what someone can dig themselves out of.
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[Edit] So much so, in fact, that we had this song at our wedding that we discovered on the show! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ-DJwu-0jI
Who’s that at the door IT’S SECRETARIAT
He was so grounded. Miss that guy.
The Sheogorath of talk show hosts
The guy has range. Sometimes it’s something like this, sometimes it’s 15 minutes talking directly to camera about his sobriety or remembering his father.
I got to attend tapings twice while in town on vacation, I’ve never regretted spending those days that way for an instant.
I remember when the show first came out, I was like “Why did they give like the 5th or 6th funniest person on the Drew Carey Show his own tv show?” But I was amazed how good it was. I miss it.
Is there a new show in the works?
“Sony Pictures Television Sets New Syndicated Latenight Talk Show With Craig Ferguson. Channel Surf with Craig Ferguson is set to debut in fall 2023.”
RIP Grant Imahara
This show was the best. I loved the doctor who song they did too.
I remember one episode where Garry Senice was on it and said that he remembered the last time he was on that ot was a much different show and Craig noted that they “stopped giving a fuck”(if i remember right) and its true. Once it stopped being a shitty, standard, late-night talk show, it was the absolute best show. Half the time they never talked about the projects of the guests. Just how they’re doing.
Do we have a picture of Paul McCartney?
Him and Conan were my favs back before it all stopped being funny
Ass möde!
His [Brittany Spears monologue](https://youtu.be/7ZVWIELHQQY) has always stayed with me.
Craig Ferguson was the ONLY Late Show I ever went out of my way to tune into, once Carson retired. Conan was fun, but outside my realm of interest. Letterman @ NBC was counter-culture but @CBS he was status quo. Like a classier and more intellectual alternative to Leno. Leno was cookie-cutter. None were “bad”, none “sucked”, but Ferguson was a class of his own.
He was candid(ish). His on air personality came across as candid and “real”. He was there to have fun, entertain, do things his way, and supposedly defy CBSs preferences that he be more vanilla like Leno or Letterman. Whether that was a bit or reality, CBS apparently/allegedly begrudgingly let him do what he did his way _because it worked_. It captured a particular, underserved demo and we would make time and effort to tune it because it was always worth the effort.
The inside jokes (various “bleep” alternatives with flags and exclamations), Secretariat, Geoffrey Peterson, “I have a place down there”, the phone calls, the cold opens, the regular segments like email, and tons more all led to gut busting and uncontrollable laughter.
Even when he wasn’t familiar with his guests, he came across like he had a genuine interest. And when he WAS familiar (like with Peter Capaldi or various regular gueats), it was uproariously funny – but everyone was laughing together.
I will often look up archived Ferguson Show footage for a laugh because so many shows and guests produced absolutely legendary interviews.
A product of the times – right place, right time – and we’ll always be lucky while it existed.
When CBS named James “Craig from the Lodger” Corden to succeed, I groaned. I caught 3 shows of his over time and I couldn’t enjoy it.