Craig Ferguson and the skeleton go bye-bye

NPH is another pipe dream. And he would be wasted in the role. If I'm CBS I go out and find an unknown, someone who won't have a past to live up to and can take a show in whatever direction he or she likes. Someone under 30 preferably.

 

I'm not getting "wasted in the role." Why?

 

Ferguson has mentioned Handler and NPH during tonight's opening ramble. Several veiled jokes, but no addressing it so far.

 

Available:

 

You do a late-night talk show, that's pretty much all you do. He sings, he does Broadway, he acts. I think he would find it limiting.

 

All he'd want to do is dance...

dance...

dance...

Oh hurt me!

 

Damn, Kilborn's Wikipedia page indicates that the only TV work he's done in the past three years has been a three-day guest stint as host of The Artie Lange Show ... and a one-shot on the series "Chuck."

Ouch.

 

My vote: NO to Handler, and NO for a second go-round of Kilborn. If I had been given a choice, I would tell CBS to scrap the comics and return it to its original format of one-on-one interviews without the comedy schtick. I'm really sorry to see Ferguson go, though. He isn't P-C, and he sometimes just spoke his mind in monologues without there being any comedy attached, which was interesting at times.

Someone on a Facebook thread suggest Sasha Baron Cohen might be a good successor. Again, I would vote no, even if he dropped the idiot foreign guy schtick.

Did I forget to mention NO to Handler and NO to Kilborn...?

 

There's a reason why no one has even heard from Kilborn since Old School.

He's despised and nobody wants to work with him.

His best bet would be to pull an Olbermann and go crawling back to the WWL.

 

Is he like Olbermann?
I never heard that about Kilborn... Of course, I'm not in the loop.

 

Craig Tweeted this article out a few days ago. I think he wants people to know this was of his own doing.

Of course, fans of the show will know this is how he is. People that like to speculate will ignore the truth.

http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/craig-ferguson-i-wanted-to-leave-the-show-before-i-stopped-enjoying-it-exclusive-1201166239/

 

It's hardly a secret that he was despised when he was at The Daily Show. He made "joking" comments about the show's co-creator. He said something like, "If I wanted her to blow me, she would..." and was suspended.

I think he was the best SportsCenter anchor ever. My favorite SportsCenter call of all-time was when the Nuggets upset the Bulls and he said, "Rauf, Rauf, Rauf is on fire..."