Tuesday night's show may be the best of Ferguson's tenure in the Late Late chair.
His monologue riffing on Paris Hilton's burger-munching/car washing Carl's Jr. commercial was hilarious ("It shows her doing two things she's never done before; eating, and doing an honest day's work"), as was the Tim Meadows bit. His rapport with Alice Cooper was fun to watch, but the real magical moment was with the author, whom I had never heard of before, as they broke into a spontaneous yet flawless duet of an Irish drinking song.
I know that talk show hosts are intensely critical of their own performance most of the time, but I feel like Fergie had to go backstage after the show and say, "D---! I was great tonight!"
Oh yeah, the Irish author! I forgot about that song. It was very good.
I just love the show. He's delightfully funny and very warm.
Tonight he has Donny Osmond, so I'll be watching for sure. I had the biggest crush on him when I was a kid. I had planned to marry him actually. :-)
Did you happen to see that Craig Ferguson has Ozzie Osborne on his show tomorrow? (Wed 6/1)
That should be interesting trying to figure out what they are saying to each other.....