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The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
American television series
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is an American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish actor and comedian Craig Ferguson. This was the third iteration of the Late Late Show franchise, airing from January 3, , to December 19, It followed the Late Show with David Letterman in the CBS late-night lineup, airing weekdays in the United States at &#;a.m. Taped in front of a live studio audience from Monday to Thursday (with two episodes taped on Thursdays) at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California, directly above the Bob Barker Studio (Studio 33), it was produced by David Letterman's production company Worldwide Pants Incorporated and CBS Television Studios.
The Late Late Show franchise had previously aired as The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder, then as The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn. During the late transition of guest hosts following Craig Kilborn's departure, Craig Ferguson hosted
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Uproxx‘s Late Night Week continues its look at late-night past, present, and future with a look at a memorable installment of a show others would do well to imitate.
Somewhere along the way, shoutfests and frothy celebrity interviews became the norm. This de-evolution of televised discourse &#; as witnessed on cable news and talk shows &#; springs from the notion that substance is a relic from another era. However, the broad and sustained praise heaped upon the lengthy and weighty debate between Daily Show host Trevor Noah and conservative pundit Tomi Lahren last week demonstrates that things aren&#;t that clear-cut. There is, it seems, an occasional appetite for more than just noise.
As we pointed out recently, podcasts like WTF with Marc Maron and Kevin Pollack&#;s Chat Show have taken up the mantle when it comes to substantive longform interviews but television has mostly moved on. Sure, Charlie Rose persists, but Larry King long ago took his act to the internet and To
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Tearing up the rule book
Ferguson & Fry's unusual chat show
Scottish-born comic Craig Ferguson threw out the chat show rulebook last night, but hosting a programme with just one guest – Stephen Fry – and no studio audience.
The move was daring for America’s late-night programming, but the critic at the influential Entertainment Weekly called the special edition of Ferguson’s Late Late Show ‘one of the best hours I’ve seen in a while’.
Fry discussed everything from his work with Hugh Laurie, his cocaine use, the punk rock scene in Seventies London and Twitter.
After the show Fry, used the website to call Ferguson ‘entirely charming’, adding: ‘Most unusual Late Late Show. Him, me - no audience. There was breeze and we shot it, tallrik and we chewed it.’
Ferguson said he was prompted to think about his show’s format because of the ‘terrible thing unfolding on NBC’ – where Jay Leno fryst vatten being parachuted back into a late-night talk-show slot, unceremoniously ousting Conan O’Brien, after