Craig Ferguson: A 'Late Night' Revolutionist

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? Please say your name for the people at home Stephanie Stephanie where are you from? Stephanie uh Walnut California Walnut Walnut California Walnut yeah Where is that near Pomona and Diamond Bar? Oh okay, hi, I'm popeyJN and this is beyond the screen. Today we're taking a look at Craig Ferguson's groundbreaking nighttime run. Wait T and that's fine, you can always sleep tomorrow, okay? Hey, tomorrow is just your future yesterday. It's raining in California right now, you're probably thinking, but Craig Craig Craig Craig.

I know it's raining in California, but you're inside. Won't you be safe in your fancy Hollywood studio? You don't know enough about me. Come. Look at this, you can't see the lighting equipment because it's poorly lit, but water is coming into this studio

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at night. Television has always followed the same structure for many years and we all know what the monologue on the news of No, It's Not a Great Day for a Mechanic in New Hampshire is. He was arrested after he was caught masturbating in a client's car. I didn't know that was illegal. A comedic skit thrown in for good measure to show more of the host's personality. to the audience the cheer team took me to the bottom of the pyramid you're in the bottom row I'm the bottom row eww interviews with celebrity guests that are sometimes scripted so tightly they seem like a checklist of what needs to be said and addressed To promote a movie, I want to talk to you about this Captain Phillips movie, holy cow, what a movie it is.

It went right. It's difficult to make a good movie. When, when did you make this movie because it seemed like a change from the actual event? Even the release of the movie is pretty quick, we finished it around July 4, 2012, so it was a little over a year ago and maybe I'll be a musical guest to showcase the culturally relevant music of the time, always an angel , never a god, always an angel. never a god always an angel never a god always an angel never a god now look Johnny Carson did a fantastic job with the format and Jimmy Fallon is currently doing a great job with the format which he has sort of reshaped for a modern audience, but enter Craig Ferguson....

Craig, you were looking at the wrong camera, yes I know you have more than one camera. Don't know. I Never Counted From 2005 to 2014. Craig Ferguson's version of The Late Late Show completely revolutionized the format. Craig's show actively mocked the format and almost winked at the audience as if to say, "You see the facade here , it's good, no". The show started on January 3, 2005, the show wasted no time in establishing itself as something new, uh, yeah, I want each of you to look inside your heart to dig deep into your souls and embrace this moment, so I ask them if they would be willing to exchange. every day from this day to that for one chance just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies they can take our lives but they will never take our freedom well well then let's make the show who was that guy huh that's new host how Is it Dutch or something?

Craig's trademark relaxed approach to interviewing can be seen from the first celebrity interview conducted on the show. Hey, you're Scottish too, right? I'm half Scottish. How can you be half Scottish? Because my mother is Scottish, my father is not mine, my father is Jewish and my mother is Scottish, so he was always, you know, don't ask me to pick up a check or anything, that's my son. my son has this thing that says my son's mother is Jewish and I'm Scottish, my Scottish grandmother used to say the two most maligned people on the face of the Earth, the Scots and the Jews, and you know, there's a name for what your son is and what I'm half Scott, half Jewish because apparently there's a lot of stuff out there, most likely because of you guys, hello as the show continued.

Craig began experimenting with how far he could push jokes and ideas for the late-night audience. Hi Craig and Jeff, can you show me? we some ferrets again they are very cute uh I don't know we have a picture of me and my f we have that's that's that's that's enough that's enough fa no hey you clap your hands I'll do it again comedy The sketches were introduced later and they were so quirky clumsiness and unusual nature of them is often what provided comedic relief. Welcome to the life of Larry King comedy sketches, like the Arnold Schwarzenegger sketch, which would also feature Josh Robert.

Thompson to the show L I heard you leave the show Oh, that's true. I want to spend more time with my children. I think I have a photo of them. Check out those little cuties growing up so fast later in the show's story. Josh would become a little more significant in 2010 after 5 years of riffing on the ridiculous nature of late night television. Craig introduced the partner, watch out, Liu with your wax wings and your father with a van beard. I can't live by your rules, I want to watch. like if my head is upside down while I fly upside down it will look like my head is facing the right way which would be a situation where you would have to be careful, yes the idea of ​​the sidekick on any late night show is to make the host shine and look better, we'll talk about this later, when we're alone, we'll talk about redundancy, watch this show every damn night, hey, hey, don't clap for Jeff in the middle of an argument, there's your dollar.

Cy, oh, there's another one initially, Jeff Peterson. The character was just a few buttons with pre-recorded lines from Craig, not how wonderful this is, this pre-recorded nature was to poke fun at the fact that the Sidekicks would often say the same 5 to 10 things over the duration of a show, however, according to the conversation Josh and Craig had on the 2023 Joy podcast because you were originally doing the voice very briefly, that's right, it was like a doll, that's how it was, you're the man and you know this about yourself that you notoriously you got very tired. all those machines and things, the sound machine, shocking, that being said on April 14, 2011, Jeff came to life properly, have you kept in touch with anyone since you got back from Vegas? uh, no, no, yeah, yeah, you got a number. yeah, who did you get Ha's number?

No, did you get Carrot Top's number? uh, maybe you're having something with Carrot Top. Josh was asked to come and voice him and puppeteer Jeff live on the show. This would add a whole new dynamic to the show that would carry it to the end, dear Craig. I hope you don't mind, but I have a question just for Jeff, no, not at all, this is for you, Jeff. Do you want to read it yourself? How dare you continue? He'll ask me to play the harmonica, okay, that was a little insensitive. Sorry, okay, this is for you.

He says, uh, Jeff, would you consider going to the movies with me on Saturday night? I'm so his girlfriend. I'm glad I can do it. I know it helps this is from uh Bonnie in Edinburgh Scotland uh have you ever been to Edinburgh Jeff oh hell yeah I have a place there you have a place there yeah what do you do how often do you get to your place at EDM oh once a year you come , yes, yes, I should   what do you do when you get home? Well oh I'm laughing again you throw beads you're going fishing good night everyone oh okay Bulls oh man Josh Robert Thompson is being brought back to the show as Jeff really added a new element to the program.

Craig initially wanted to make fun of the sidick, but is now quoted as saying: I liked that Jeff was emblematic of my creative failure on the show, that's right, because I wanted to put in a sidekick. In it there was a parody of Sidekicks because he was a robot that did whatever I wanted and then when you brought him to life, in my opinion he became the best sidekick in the history of late night television, really likable and completely negated by Pary. in my kind of bloated, whiny stomp against the genre, of course, I created it and I endured it, which I love, I was wrong and then the end came, but I think what I hope we've done is maybe it's uh, try maybe art is a very big word, but what I was trying to do here and what I think we've managed to do here is do something that wasn't here before.

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