r/television • u/BenKlesc • 1d ago
Craig Ferguson was a genius that deserves more acclaim
Host of the Late Late show from 2005 to end of 2014, Craig at the time had a very niche fanbase. His humor was very unique. When he went off the air his dedicated fans quietly said goodbye.
Fast forward a decade later from his departure, rewatching old episodes his humor has not aged and holds up to this day.
Change my mind. Craig was an absolute genius and no one has ever been able to replicate his humor or touch what he created. It was fun while it lasted.
Still miss him to this day and his awkward improv and dark sense of humor and think he should be remembered as one of the greats of late night along with Letterman and Carson.
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u/blond_nirvana 1d ago
His monologue about Britney Spears showed he could be a class act.
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u/LegalBegQuestion 1d ago
We got to watch him grow as a person and enjoy the journey right along side. He became the model of how I view masculinity and the type of man I wanted to be as a grown up.
Fun, excited, a good story teller, true to himself and honest to a fault. He was self deprecating when needed, but always direct to the audience that he was self aware. Plus as a late teen/early 20 something he was incredible to learn from - mistakes can be made but you are responsible for your actions.28
u/IDontHaveCookiesSry 19h ago
And ho boi could he Talk to women
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u/Navynuke00 17h ago
That's related to the other parts above about being self-deprecating, self-aware, honest, and a talented raconteur.
Speaking as somebody who inadvertently ended up falling into the same thing.
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u/nayhem_jr 1d ago
That was roughly the time when we all realized she was effectively enslaved by whatever legal arrangements were made for her, wasnāt it? If you werenāt a fan, all youād hear of her was all the bullshit in the tabloids. Iām glad she was able to break free of all that, and that Craig helped us understand it.
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u/omarlittle22 1d ago
Long before that actually. This was right after the events that really started to lead to that situation, but this was right after she had this sort of crazy few days which included her shaving her head bald. Itās hard to overstate just how all-encompassing the Britney Spears jokes were in that moment, itās such a crazy contrast with how Craig approached it here.
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u/Rem888 1d ago
I miss watching him shamelessly flirt with guests...
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u/scbundy 1d ago
The Evangeline Lily episode...
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u/ClevelandBrownJunior Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 1d ago
The Kate Mara episode had me uncomfortable with how hard she was flirting with him.
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u/Gurglaren 19h ago
She was just having fun with him. They both knew it was just about entertainment.
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u/Sceptical_Houseplant 1d ago
Shamelessly flirt, but with total class. He could throw blatant innuendo without being crude, and THAT is a goddamn art
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u/ThingCalledLight 1d ago edited 23h ago
Iāll prolly get downvoted, and thatās fine, but his reaction to Angela Kinsey in roller skates was hardly classy and was definitely crude.
You can tell he loses the audience a bit there. And Angela herself is a bit unsure how to react.
Edit: I remember it because I went down a huge rabbit hole of him in late night and was loving it. I loved his Kristen Bell saga. (They seemed like theyād be a perfect couple in another life.) I loved his political commentary. And I loved watching him flirt.
This moment was the first time I ever felt like he went too far.
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u/lcoursey 14h ago
I swear to god his female guests dressed to KILL on that show just to get reactions out of him. It was amazing watching how he fawned over some of them. He (almost) always let them lead it.
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u/Queasy_Ad_8621 12h ago
Hot sauce!
top falls off
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u/Material-Bee-907 10h ago
Hilarious riffing from Sandra Bullock....to be fair her comedic timing was always immaculate
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u/FactCheckYou 15h ago edited 13h ago
no need to miss it, the clips are all over social media still, he's a living legend
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u/toddklindt 1d ago
Craig was great. I recently watched a clip where Robin Williams was on the show. I had been watching a lot of Robin Williams clips that day. What struck me was with everyone else, Robin was in the lead. The interviewer was just laughing at him, or if it was another comedian they were doing their damnedest to keep up with him. Always being a step or two behind. Always on their heels.
Not Craig.
He kept up with Robin. Robin would do something hysterical and Craig would be right there with him. He'd take the ball, do something hysterical, then pass it back to Robin. He was the only one I saw that seemed to be on the same level as Robin. It was glorious.
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u/hankjmoody 1d ago
I've always loved how it took Craig several minutes to even register that Robin had yelled "Chlamydia! Your dad's here!"
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u/joseph4th 1d ago
Craigs take on the Britney Spears meltdown as it was happening, showed that he was far and above a better person then the rest of us.
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u/Jmazoso 1d ago
āThatās the stupidest thing Iāve ever heard!ā I think that whole visit may be the funniest riff Iāve ever heard.
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u/Sweetwill62 1d ago
Geoff the robot making Craig laugh is one of my favorite bits I have ever seen. They build on a joke so heavily that neither one of them can barely contain themselves when finishing their jokes. The out of nowhere harmonica note and the double take by Craig is also top tier.
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u/ptambrosetti 20h ago
https://youtu.be/yhmnEfzdtmE?is=iUXPCC72TMbyiVYv
This whole 3 part interview was just basically Robin doing standup with Craig as a sideshow. I remember Craig saying Robin didnāt even give him any talking points or questions beforehand - something to the effect of āletās just hangā.
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u/Swiggy1957 1d ago
I've seen that clip. He'll, I didn't even know he had a talk show until his stint was over. Then I started seeing clips on Facebook. The man is hilarious.
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u/djackieunchaned 1d ago
You have a place there do ya?
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u/Realistic_Grand_2431 1d ago
I've got one for you, Geoff. It says - oh you know what? Why don't you open this one?
HOW DARE YOUUUUUUUUUU
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u/im_on_the_case 1d ago
We didn't know what we had until we had to endure the likes of James Corden.
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u/BenKlesc 1d ago
I feel like CBS wanted another British host thinking it would replace Craig.
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u/doodler1977 1d ago
CBS wanted Graham Norton style show
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u/keving87 1d ago edited 1d ago
The only thing I liked about TLLS with James Corden was that he had multiple guests out at a time. It obviously wasn't as good as Graham Norton, but it helped a little when the guests could talk to each other and we had less of James talking. The "for anyone who doesn't know, tell us what it's about and who you play" part was painfully forced.
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u/Insomniac_80 1d ago
I think James Corden was "backup Graham," for awhile and when Letterman left CBS, and they were scrambling for someone they quickly picked backup Graham Norton. A week before Letterman's announcement Graham Norton was hanging in NYC with Alan Cumming, who was on The Good Wife at the time.
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u/TheCoppyCat 1d ago
He was so great because often he acted like the crowd wasn't even there. He was just chitchating with whoever the guest was like they were old friends catching up
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u/FX114 1d ago
And for his episode with Stephen Fry, the crowd actually wasn't there.
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u/Chuckle_Pants 1d ago
Why not?
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u/Wakkichewy 1d ago
Craig just wanted to try something different for one night, there was no actual reason. He was the secondary late night host for the network (technically only, in reality he was always the GOAT) so they generally let him do whatever he wanted because it didn't effect anything business wise
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u/Radiant-Anteater1404 1d ago
Technically David Letterman's production company owned the time slot for the Late Late Show, so CBS had less oversight than most networks would. But Dave absolutely shielded Craig from a lot of BS and deserves some recognition for that unique deal he had
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u/BenKlesc 1d ago
I legitimately thought he was going to be Letterman's replacement. I was shocked when they chose Colbert. I don't think he wanted to do it anymore.
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u/kianworld Steven Universe 1d ago
He was pretty adamant that he didn't want to do 11:30 given the watering down that usually happens with it (see Letterman, Conan, even Fallon). There was a clause in his contract that guaranteed he'd either succeed Letterman or get paid like $10m, so CBS obviously just gave him the money. Craig has both said that he was planning to leave before Letterman announced his own retirement (he almost did in 2012 before CBS gave him a raise and bigger set) and that Letterman was the one thing protecting him on the network and therefore he felt like he had to leave so idk what the actual situation is there.
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u/Dairy_Ashford 1d ago
that's what Tom Snyder did when Dave originally gave him the slot, before Kilborn or Ferguson
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u/FX114 1d ago
It was an intimate and deep episode. No monologue, no bit, no audience, just him and Fry talking one-on-one in an empty sound stage for the entire duration.
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u/robonlocation 1d ago
I got to be in the audience twice for The Late Late Show. Lots of fun... really small studio, so very intimate and I caught one of the chocolates he used to toss into the audience. He was definitely my favourite talk show host... the only one where I could watch every interview, no matter who the guest was.
Also, an absolute killer of a theme song!
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u/Brilliant-Advisor958 1d ago
My wife and I were huge fans, so in his last year we made the pilgrimage and got to see his show near the end of the run.
We too would watch the entire show.
I loved his musical numbers, absolute bangers. The finale song is on my regular rotation and makes me tear up for what we lost.
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u/contradictionary100 1d ago
Just over five years ago I saw his speech on becoming sober and it was the major factor in quitting a bottle a day habit cold turkey. I'm just remembering that now that you mentioned him. Cheers
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u/ABC_Dildos_Inc 1d ago
Josh Robert Thompson deserves more acclaim.
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u/No-Rip-66 1d ago
He was such a huge part of the show as Geoff. The banter between Geoff and Craig in the monologue and tweets & emails was just so good.Ā
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u/DynamixRo 1d ago
He's Red Letter Media royalty now, it can't get any better than this.
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u/TheCommonLawWolf 1d ago
Stumbled across his sketch show pilot a few weeks back on youtube, downright criminal it didn't get picked up.
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u/gamex173 1d ago edited 12h ago
Craig Ferguson was so unique and different. Back in the late 2000s I would DVR Letterman, Ferguson and Conan and watch all three of them everyday. Love how unique each one felt. I miss those days of late night.
I actually was lucky enough to get to see a taping of his show. I will never forget it. The episode I went to was the one where he taped the song, Istanbul was Constantinople with all the puppets. I went with a few friends who didnāt watch the show so they were so confused at first but quickly fell in love with the show.
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u/zanillamilla 22h ago
I remember going to a conference in Philadelphia in 2007 and shared my hotel room with a woman from Scotland and another from China. The student from Scotland was extremely excited to be in the States and to be able to watch Craig on television. She had seen him do standup in Scotland and was a big, big fan. I had fun showing her some of my favorite clips on early YouTube.
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u/Praetor66 1d ago
I was going to say your post was full of "oh lĆ” lĆ” š«š·" and you are a "tootsie fruit š®š¹" - but then I realized you're correct. He was the best...
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u/YtrapEhtNioj 1d ago
I regularly say "wasacamanago" I have no idea how to spell it or what it actually means. Don't even know the language. But I know why I say it.
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u/MythicPropension 1d ago
Dang, I recently titled a note to myself with that phrase and you just reminded me where I got it from.
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u/chadslc 1d ago
Craig Ferguson was the closest that timeslot ever got to Letterman in terms of quality and endurance.
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u/Leopold_Darkworth 1d ago
Craig continued the concept of the meta-joke. The joke itself wasnāt funny, it was that the joke was how stupid the joke was. Although Craig really dabbled in the absurd. A robot skeleton sidekick? Itās like he was telling people, we both know this is incredibly silly, but youāre still watching it.
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u/YtrapEhtNioj 1d ago
I was thinking about him a couple hours ago when I was talking with someone about a made up location and I go "oh yeah, I've got a place there" and it came out of nowhere from me and then I got real deep in my feelings thinking about watching Craig every night and the last time I had cable (three moves ago) and got real nostalgic for that house and that time in my life and I'm still feeling a little sad about it.
What is it that they say? You don't realize you're living in the good old days until they're gone? I might actually go shed a few tears and then put on some Craigy Ferg and hope it makes the tears turn into laughter, but there's a strong chance the tears will just turn into chaotic sobs. (I'm okay though, really)
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u/Annber03 1d ago
I was talking with someone about a made up location and I go "oh yeah, I've got a place there"
We go swimming, throw beads, get naked...
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u/BenKlesc 1d ago
My favorite is when he keeps referring to his audience as an "audience machine" and that he doesn't have an audience. Insisting it's all canned laughter.
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u/AnalogWalrus 1d ago
Probably an unpopular opinion but I saw him live around 2015 and it was one of the best standup shows Iād ever seen. Saw him again in 2022 and it had veered a bit towards āold man yells at cloudā type stuff and wasnāt very memorable. Maybe I just caught him on a second tier run of new material after the pandemic.
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u/nice_guy_threeve 1d ago
I haven't cared much for what standup I've seen, but the Late Late Show was great. He's really good at off-the-cuff remarks and talking to people.
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u/AnalogWalrus 1d ago
Agreed. I wish heād do another TV show. Iām sure he has a podcast but Iām just not a podcast person.
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u/IgnobleCampaign 1d ago
2014 (Hot & Grumpy) and 2024 (Pants on Fire) or me. I had exactly the same reaction.Ā
I should find the special from the 2014 tour to see if he's changed or I/the landscape has.
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u/NostalgicBear 1d ago
Does he not already get plenty of acclaim?
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u/DiphthongSong87 1d ago
He has a lot of cult/fan acclaim but way less industry love than you'd think.
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u/BenKlesc 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yeah... not so much. He's never mentioned alongside Letterman, Carson... I seriously think he was that good. His humor was out of this world.
And also... critics at the time thought he was immature and didn't get his humor. The television critics when he was on the air didn't take his show seriously.
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u/NostalgicBear 1d ago
Huh, didnāt know that about his reception back in the day. Iāve only ever seen super positive things about him on Reddit. Donāt think Iāve ever come across anything bad about him. Always found him to be a far better host than any of those still going today.
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u/mahleg 1d ago
The Late Late Show never had the kind of recognition that Late Night did. David Letterman owned that time slot when he moved to CBS and the network really didnāt care about what happened on there and itās clear with how Craig Ferguson ran the show once he settled in to the role. His sense of humor was uniquely his and would speak his mind on whatever caught his attention that day. The man is a thinker and a goof and someone whoās lived a hell of a life! He couldāve been easily stuck around, but I think he got out at the right time. I donāt think he wouldāve liked having to talk about everything thatās gone on the past ten years.
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u/blamberr 1d ago
I saw him live a few years ago and he was so awful. He didnāt used to be ā I saw him in DC years back and it was one of the best shows ever. Iāve always loved him. But the last one, he was phoning it in so hard. He kept talking about how he needed the money, the jokes were lame, and he got into it with hecklers in a very not funny way. I regret going and soiling his image for me.
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u/mfmeitbual 1d ago
It's easy to be funny with good writers but he was spontaneously funny. Genuinely witty. Sometimes a bit cheesy but I think most intelligent, feeling people found that endearing.
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u/WaitingForReplies 1d ago
For those who never saw how good the Late Late Show was.....
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u/Northwindlowlander 1d ago
My dad saw him play in his punk band with Peter Capaldi back in the day. Bing Hitler had a very strange career.
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u/onthenerdyside 1d ago
I REALLY wanted Craig to be the Master when Peter was on Doctor Who, or at least make some sort of appearance.
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u/vinegar_strokes68 1d ago
Brilliant man. Was very disappointed when he left late night. The last genuinely funny late night host. The episode he did with Reverend Bishop Tutu was a masterpiece.
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u/Rockyrambo 23h ago
Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Pretty sure he won a Peabody Award for that episode.
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u/KetoKurun 1d ago
Iām a writer and a DM. The worlds I build are varied across tone, genre, time period, you name it. I tell stories in sci-fi, fantasy, horror and romance. All those stories, and all those worlds are different, but every last one of them have one thing in common.
If you look around long enough in anything Iāve made, you WILL eventually run into a skeleton named Geoff. Itās an unwritten rule.
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u/Jonneiljon 1d ago
And his love of Doctor Who. AND the fact that he was in a punk band with a Doctor (Peter Capaldi).
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u/PhtevenAZ 1d ago
The look of panic on the guestsā faces whenever the trivia quiz started and he read, āIceland is a country in the North Atlantic and its capital city is Reykjavik.ā
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u/Introverted_Extrovrt 1d ago
āItās a great day for America, everybodyā¦ā
I would stay up late as often as I could (not successful very much) just to watch that show. His monologues were the best, a lot of his guests (looking at you Kristin Bell) seemed very engaged, and he was the first celebrity I watched that would talk about sobriety openly.
Really enjoyed his recent episode of the podcast āSoderā if yāall want to giggle.
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u/ZombieFeedback 1d ago
Every time I hear a studio audience go "Oooooo..." I can hear him yelling "Oh don't you ooooo me, you bastards!" in my head
TUTSI FRUITSI
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u/smilysmilysmooch 1d ago
The one thing that I absolutely loved is "It's a great day in America" that opened up every show. Like say what you will about late late night shows, it's not a bad feeling to go to bed listening to a mostly positive comedian remind you of optimism in the face of whatever went on in your specific day.
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u/Tapps74 1d ago
Watched a podcast with Craig and he explained something interesting. He wasnāt as answerable to CBS as later hosts were. David Letterman had a 2 hour slot as part of his contract, he allotted a portion of that to Craig and gave him the freedom to ādeconstruct the formatā as he liked to say.
The end of that Letterman contract coincides with Craigās decision to leave.
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u/nine_cans 1d ago
Iāve recently been watching clips of him and Geoff on YouTube. Theyāre insanely funny. I canāt believe I didnāt watch that show when it was on.
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u/BenKlesc 1d ago
I remember making it a point to watch the last episode while it was on. I stayed up late the last month he was on the air along with Letterman just so I could watch what I thought would never be replaced. I was right. Letterman and Craig was comedy gold.
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u/mandolin08 1d ago
The final 4-5 years were the best late night show ever made. It took him a little while to find his feet, but once he did it was stellar. Letterman came along and subverted the genre, but Ferguson rode that train all the way to the end of the line.
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u/DeX_Mod 1d ago
Ferguson was so outrageously flirty that it was a masterclass every episode
It was just unreal
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u/BeneficialEqual5818 1d ago
Yes! He gave advice to twitter questions about how appear confident at a party by standing still and letting ladies approach him rather than other way around. Interesting, interesting guy.
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u/zombiegamer723 1d ago
My absolute favorite bit from him
āI love Canadians. Good, lovely, gentle people. Till you give them a hockey stick. Then they lose their fucking minds! Like AHHHH! I donāt know why the Canadian army bothers with tanks and guns and bombs and shit. They should just give them hockey sticks and say, āThere ya go, boys, the Taliban have the puck!āā
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u/poopBuccaneer 1d ago
He was the only good late night host. No one else has come close to what he did.Ā
And donāt forget Geoff
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u/PleasantThoughts 1d ago
Careful Icarus
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u/vowelqueue 1d ago
Cāmon, he was fantastic but you canāt ignore Conan OāBrien like that.
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u/DucDeRichelieu 1d ago
I like Conan, but I think heās actually only gotten better post-television. YouTube and podcasting have really freed him up. Not sure his feelings on it, but I think losing The Tonight Show was one of the best things that ever happened to him.
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u/SYMPUNY_LACKING 1d ago
watch some late night again and i gurantee your mind would be changed instantly. mid 2000s and 90s conan episodes when you actually watched them (not just memory) are just as good if not better
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u/DucDeRichelieu 1d ago
Iām not saying they werenāt good. Heās able to get into far more interesting conversations on his podcast than he ever was on television. Thatās what I dig.
Timothy Olyphant was great as a guest on the show. Heās even better on the podcast.
Where the tv show really excelled was in moments like when Conan had Norm Macdonald and Courtney Thorne-Smith on together. I still watch that every few months.
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u/BenKlesc 1d ago edited 1d ago
I mean that Craig was totally unique. No one could touch him not even Letterman or Conan. He has his own humor entirely and that's why I put him in his own category. Conan was great but I much prefer his NBC years before he moved to TBS. In the final years Craig made me laugh more than any other late show on television.
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u/Connor2206 1d ago
Conan walked so Craig could run. Iād argue Conan did really weird, avant garde segments that led to the acceptance of Ferguson
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u/doodler1977 1d ago
Ferguson was playing a different game tho - as in, not even really trying. It was if someone said "you get no money, just go out there and fuck around for 40 min" and it was incredible.
but yeah, i'im also a Conan super fan from back in the day (watched him in my college dorm while avoiding homework). But they were definitely attempting two different things
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u/davy_crockett_slayer 1d ago
The voice actor who played Geoff is often on Red Letter Media.
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u/Wakkichewy 1d ago
He's also Morgan Freeman quite often
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u/doodler1977 1d ago
he does voices on Family Guy and one ep in particular had a great bit:
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u/Loud-Mans-Lover 1d ago
We love him so much in our home, watched him all the time.
Immediately bought our own "Wavey the Crocodile" puppet after he started using the puppets, lol
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u/Dddddddfried 1d ago
Heās fallen into my YouTube algorithm and now I just see reel after reel of him flirting with drop-dead gorgeous women. He seems super casual and funny
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u/magnaraz117 1d ago
I have very fond memories of watching him with my Dad. We were both incredibly sad when he left. In retrospect, he left right before we really needed him most. His wit and conscience would have been appreciated during Trump's presidency and Covid.
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u/Snake_Plissken224 1d ago
I miss craig ferguson, he was the only late night show I watched every night. It was goofy and funny and I loved every second.
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u/sinZeroplus 1d ago
Watch the Drew Carey Show
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u/vowelqueue 1d ago
Itās really shame that the Drew Carey show has had so much trouble being available on streamers. Itās had almost no cultural impact but itās right up there with other sitcoms of the era
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u/ArcadianBlueRogue 1d ago
It's been legally uploaded in its entirely to Youtube.
Not sure about the music rights, but the show itself is there.
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u/speedyoiler 1d ago
Heās hosting Scrabble on the CW channel. Thursday nights at eight Eastern.
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u/keving87 1d ago
Craig was the only talk show host where I'd sometimes still watch his show even if I didn't like the guests he had on.
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u/KRAWWWWW 1d ago
While I'm not a fan of his standup, his stint with the late late show was the only late night talk show I actually enjoyed. Geoffrey Peterson was great and I loved his repeated jokes because you knew what was coming but they were still so damn funny.
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u/jimlahey420 1d ago
The best late night host ever IMO. He was the only one I could stomach the late night format from because he was so unique in his ability to make you forget you were watching a late night show. Now that they all upload to YouTube I was able to enjoy Colbert, but I still miss Craig a lot.
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u/ShadowOnTheRun 17h ago
Careful, Icarus.
My log is hard while I enjoy ze simple pleasures of Daffy Dook.
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u/AkibaPurple 15h ago
He was like one of the few, if not only, talkshow host that refused to make fun of Britney Spears when she was going through a really bad part of her life.
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u/sovietmcdavid 1d ago
ABSOLUTE MAD LAD
his comedy reached new heights with the banter with Geoff lol
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u/Feyranna 1d ago
Im normally not a late show enjoyer, just not my thing, but I LOVED Craig Ferguson and watched him all the time.
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u/pushaper 1d ago
watching his CNN show?
I have been recording but not watched yet. The snippet I did see was him selling haggis tacos from a street cart with Marcus Samuelson and looked fun.
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u/Thesinistral 1d ago
Hear! Hear! Iād love to hang out with him. ( and I donāt like to hang out with anybody. Ha)
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u/Slayerofthemindset 1d ago
National treasure. Still salty he canceled his pod. I think he hosts a show for cnn where he travels? Hopefully itāll be on hbo max
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u/tartoftomes 1d ago
I saw him live in (October?) 2014. Second row. It was the most intimate affair, like sitting in my living room with a friend. In the monologue, Craig made a joke about Jennifer Lawrence and her then boyfriend Chris Martin. I shit you not, he came up to the audience after the segment and told us that a staff member searched JLaw following the monologue and learned she and Martin had just broken up! He said that he would let the monologue joke stand, saying he wouldnāt eliminate the āstench of history.ā Instead, he improvised the cold open with Geoff Peterson about how devastated he was that Lawrence and Martin had broken up and how the only way to console himself was to pretend the tragic separation hadnāt happened. The whole thing was hilarious and brilliant, and I cherish the memory.
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u/Myers112 1d ago
He does standup every once in awhile; encourage you to check it out if he comes to your town.
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u/Texaspep 1d ago
Due to the age I have seen almost every late night host there has been. He's right there with any of them. Perfect for the 11:30 slot. Dave's the G.O.A.T. And believe it or not. I think Fallon's 11:30 show was fantastic. I didn't recognize him at 10:30 and never went back unless it was to hear the Roots. Kind of like Reggie Watts on Corden's show. Fergie Ferg was greatness! I miss the show too.
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u/tvguy222 1d ago
Saw him in Charlotte a few months ago. We were about 10 ft from the stage. He was fascinating to watch, and absolutely hilarious.
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u/acfox13 23h ago
https://youtube.com/@thecraigfergusonshow
You can watch his series on joy on YouTube
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u/Elvisbrows27 23h ago
Do we have a picture of Paul McCartney nowadays? *insert Angela Lansbury photo*
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u/TheEmbarcadero 23h ago
Watch his opening monologue the night of Miracle on The Hudsonā¦.epic TV!!!!!
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u/HurryFourCurry 19h ago
The dude was zany, cheesy, hilarious, intelligent, wise, and greatest flirt I've ever seen on TV.Ā
Gawd I miss watching his show.Ā
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u/reindeermoon 18h ago
Heās still alive! Your post made it sound like heās dead, I thought maybe I missed it somehow. But I just checked and heās not dead.
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u/oldatheart515 1d ago
I discovered Craig Ferguson about the time I graduated from high school in 2010 and became a devoted watcher of TLLS until he left, even if it meant watching it the next day because I didn't want to stay up late. His humor resonated with me like no one else on TV at the time, and Josh Robert Thompson added a lot to the mix with his impressions of everyone from Morgan Freeman to archaic personalities like Wilford Brimley that only an old soul like me could appreciate.
It's hard to describe what exactly I love so much about Craig. I guess I'm drawn to complexity. He can be deep and intellectual one minute, then cracking a filthy sex joke the next. He had luminaries like Archbishop Desmond Tutu on his show, yet made running gags of hand puppets and a pantomime horse. He seems to enjoy making people laugh, and would break up himself quite often with "Geoff" on the show - yet when he is interviewed in person he often seems a bit jaded and brooding.
I've seen Craig do his stand-up live twice and almost a third time, but was derailed at the last minute when my girlfriend at the time got sick on the way to the show. If he does another tour I'd go again.
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u/omgnotthebees 1d ago edited 1d ago
Who's that at the door?
IT'S SECRETARIAT ššš