This weekend, we were treated to the likes of Brian Regan, The Lucas Brothers, and even Chris Rock, in a way, doing stand-up on late night TV.
So, we’ll cap this weekend off with the debut of Alingon Mitra, who’s already gotten to do stand-up on Last Comic Standing and Adam Devine’s House Party, on The Late Late Show on Craig Ferguson.
Tenacious D’s Festival Supreme is only in a few hours and get yourself in the mood from the rock comedy power duo themselves?
(via TV Guide Magazine)
The dates have been made official for the departure of The Late Late Show’s current host Craig Ferguson and his upcoming predecessor James Corden.
Ferguson’s final show will air Dec. 19th and Corden will have his debut on Mar. 9th.
There is rumor, according to The Wrap, that there will be guest hosts throughout that winter gap. If this does indeed happen, there’s a treasure trove of comedians for those spots here in LA and around the country, not to mention the other folks that were in talks for The Late Late Show earlier this year, that would do splendidly.
All of us were lucky enough to get T.J. Miller on late night twice this week with stops at Conan and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
Not that were any sort of medical authority, but we figure that you need a good dose of T.J. in your life. So, enjoy T.J. talking to Conan O’Brien about his performance art morning news appearances and then proposing only like T.J. Miller would and having all sorts of hijnks and then doing stand-up on Ferguson.
The very funny Daniel Sloss from the UK is thankfully making the rounds on late night here in America. He’s gone from doing Conan to getting a set in at The Late Late Show before Craig Ferguson ends his run there.
Watch that very set from Sloss right here.
Carmen Lynch has already notched in two sets at Letterman and, last week, made her way onto The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson with another great stand-up set.
We wouldn’t be surprised at all if she makes all the rounds at late night with a performance like this.
Approaching the precipice of ending his decade long run as a late night talk show host at The Late Late Show, Craig Ferguson imparted some advice to late night newbie Seth Meyers while on Late Night with Seth Meyers.
For the most part, Craig stresses that there will be a point where you go crazy.
Yesterday, the news broke that James Corden will indeed be replacing Craig Ferguson as the host of The Late Late Show.
As you’d expect, Ferguson noted this on last night’s episode of The Late Late Show and gave a nice welcome to the new host as Craig, Geoff Peterson as well as bits as Awkward Pause are getting to go.
(via Entertainment Weekly)
A few months ago, there was a rumor that leaked that one James Corden from the UK would be replacing Craig Ferguson as host of The Late Late Show at CBS. There was only one unnamed source and neither CBS, Ferguson, or Corden would confirm the rumor, so we continued to wait for the official word on CBS’ choice.
Well, as of today, CBS has confirmed that Corden will succeed Ferguson as another host from across the pond of The Late Late Show starting some time after Ferguson leaves in December and heads for his syndicated 7PM show through Tribute Media.
So, 2015’s CBS late night line-up will be The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Late Late Show with James Corden, which will be probably the most intriguing move in late night in the last few years.
As Joan Rivers passed away yesterday afternoon, there were plenty of tributes throughout the world of late night, one she was such a forceful, hilarious presence in. Conan O’Brien and Chris Hardwick, David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman, Seth Meyers, Jon Stewart, and Craig Ferguson all paid their respects to Rivers on their respective programs.
Succinct in description and detail, Ted Alexandro gives us a very clear picture of being 45 years old throughout his set on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson last night.
Hopefully, there’s better social media when millennials turn 45 as to not have to deal with what Ted puts up with. Watch his set here.
(via Variety)
As of now, Craig Ferguson is lining up his next show after his departure from The Late Late Show at CBS, which he’s aiming to be a syndicated talk show that would air right before primetime for networks at 7PM.
He’d also be going from an hour to a half-hour as well as leaving a broadcast network to syndication through Tribune Media, which owns WGN America.
Pending these final negotiations, Ferguson’s new show, where he’ll probably be even dissuaded from having his innovative curse word censoring on The Late Late Show, will look to premiere in the latter part of 2015.
We’re throughly curious as to how this new show will look, sound, feel, be formatted, and, also, what will happen to Geoff Peterson.
(via The Wrap)
The end of Craig Ferguson’s run at The Late Late Show may be the end of The Late Late Show as well.
In CBS’ TCA presentation, CBS entertainment chief Nina Tassler revealed that she’s been toying with the idea of doing something different when David Letterman and Ferguson end their runs at The Late Show and The Late Late Show, respectively.
So far, Stephen Colbert is slated to replace Letterman at The Late Show, which will presumably be called The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. There has been much speculation over what would happen in the 12:30AM slot following Colbert then, but no replacement host has been picked and it might not even be a comedy-oriented program according to Tassler.
Tassler doesn’t make it clear whether that will happen or not, but only details the possibilities, which could further shake up the late night world.
It has been stated that CBS will not make any decision until after they upfront presentation on how will take Craig Ferguson’s place at The Late Late Show when he leaves at the end of the year.
However, Michael Ian Black, Jason Jones, Neil Patrick Harris, Aisha Tyler, John Hodgman, Joel McHale, and Amy Schumer are all in rumored to be in consideration for the job.
Given how quickly they got Colbert to replace Letterman, we’d guess that CBS will have someone chosen by the end of May.
Craig Ferguson Leaving The Late Late Show in December
In the wake of Stephen Colbert being set to take over The Late Show from David Letterman at some point next year, Craig Ferguson has opted against any sort of renewal as a host of The Late Late Show.
There is no word on a replacement, but we think that it could really go to anyone, an idea that CBS should keep in mind, given that Ferguson was definitely a roll of the die by CBS when he took The Late Late Show from Craig Kilborn.
You guys really should be watching more Tom Segura for how beautifully simple and hysterical his comedy is.
Here’s his set from The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson this week to start off.
Craig Ferguson and Drew Carey Set to Swap Hosting Gigs for April Fool’s Day
The prospect of Craig Ferguson hosting The Price Is Right and Drew Carey doing a night of The Late Late Show, especially after their time together on The Drew Carey Show, will undoubtedly be a good time.
However, as this is supposed to be part of April Fool’s Day “festivities”, we are tempted to suspect that there’s more to this than just swapping.
The very funny Brooke Van Poppelen from NYC was on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
We’re really glad to both see more stand up on late night as of the past few months (go check Conan, Ferguson, Letterman, Arsenio, etc.) and it’s comedians like Van Poppelen getting to take the stage.
NYC’s very funny Christian Finnegan was in LA this week to do, so we found out, stand up on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
Watch the nicely done set from Finnegan here.
Both Craig Ferguson and Tig Notaro have their comedy albums nominated for Grammys in the same category.
They discuss who is going to win in her appearance on The Late Late Show last night.
Craig Ferguson to Host Syndicated CBS Game Show ‘Celebrity Name Game’
So, Craig Ferguson will be hosting both The Late Late Show as well as this upcoming game show over at CBS, which, we’d hope that he runs as loosely as he does his talk show.
Like the Louis C.K. model has encouraged comedians to produce and distribute specials on their own, would this almost be a result of the Chris Hardwick model of hosting multiple things on TV at once?
Every time Steven Wright goes on Craig Ferguson, they play a comedy version of chess in attempting to checkmate each other with how weird they can get and it’s pretty great.
So, one of the best things in late night isn’t even a regular segment. Watch their interview here.
The very funny Dave Stone got to make his late night stand up debut last night on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and got to share his take on living in a van and how esoteric hunting jokes can get in the South.
First off, let’s have a hand for The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson featuring more great stand up on their wonderful program.
Secondly, let’s have another hand for having that stand up being from the wonderful Andi Osho from across the pond. Watch her American late night stand up debut here.
Amongst the huddles of comedians, there are comparatively very few, especially nowadays, who make it to doing a set on a late night talk show. Even rarer is doing a great set, prompting the host to call them over to the couch and chat.
Much more rare, probably because it has never happened, is that when a comedian is called over to the couch by Craig Ferguson with Jay Leno sitting beside him after they interjected, admittedly like Statler and Waldorf, during a set that was going pretty great, then hear Leno say, “White men are on their way out! Lesbians rule!”
Well, that’s exactly what happened to the wonderful Cameron Esposito last night when making her late night debut on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and it was pretty damn hilarious and amazing.