Craig Ferguson Rules

Craig Ferguson's Doctor Who Cold Open.

Craig Ferguson's Leather Boy Raffle

Ten Days of Betty: 5 Days Left

These are a few of my favorite things: Craig Ferguson + Betty White = Yay!

Betty White has always been pretty popular, but the ZEITGEIST she has been riding the last two or three years i think probably has a significant something to do with Craig Ferguson having her on his show every month or two like clockwork. Craig's smart- he regularly pays homage to Late Night Tv's rich history. BW was, as we've seen already on the Ten Days of Betty, a Tonight Show with Johnny Carson staple, and as previously mentioned on SLWMAC, Craig recently did a tribute episode in honor of Tom Snyder when he spent an entire episode interviewing British actor Stephen Fry. Anyway, this is funny shit. A good formula works forever.

The Robot Skeleton Sidekick/Oysters Rockefeller Connection: REVEALED!

David Mason of House of Vader is in the upcoming "MULTINAUTS, the AMAZING FANTASY ADVENTURE PROGRAM," starring multiple luminaries beside himself. His character, arch villain Oysters Rockefeller, is the big bad on the show. the picture at the top is DM in character.

ANYWAY, Craig Ferguson, host of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, unveiled his new GAY SKELETON ROBOT SIDEKICK, Geoff Peterson. I think you'll agree that there is a striking resemblence between the two... i think they should let David style Geoff Peterson, though. Considering he's a gay robot skeleton, you'd think he'd have a little bit more flair.

It Makes Me Sick To Say It, BUT:

i'm thinking of getting a twitter account so i can follow Bret Easton Ellis and Craig Ferguson. Justin Jorgensen posted a tweet on his D&D (Design and dicks) blog Penis Ennui (best blog title ever?)from Ellis and it was GENIUS:

BretEastonEllis via twitter: Ran into Roger from American Dad at The White Party. “Telephone” blasting, pools of lube, Nacho from Grindr, all of us watching “Dahmer”…





if you've read his books, you recognize this as classic BEE. just the way he can totally put you in this fucked up surreally psychosexual scene with just a few strokes (as it were). ACK, i CANNOT wait for Imperial Bedrooms to come out. Also, twitter is sort of the perfect medium for Ellis, what with his fixation on disposable culture.

also, i GUESS it would be cool to interact with my friends :-)

still thinking about it though! not sure i'll go through with it.

Craig Ferguson Wins Peabody Award

For his watershed interview of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. If you watch this and still don't get why Craig Ferguson is the most compelling presence in late night television, then i'm pretty sure that i don't want to know you. I love tv... so much of it is trash, but it really can be transcendant sometimes, and this is an example of that.

Above is the complete episode, in order. it's worth the 38-40 minutes of your time, i assure you.

HOLY SHIT

Jennifer Tilly was on Craig Ferguson relatively recently, and first instinct would be to be like "um, who cares?" BUT holy crap, she's FUNNY! she talks about her boyfriend cheating on her, how nobody loves a brunette, talks shit about Pay-Less shoes, tears craig a new one for giving her a "generic welcome back to the show card," tells a story about how she tries but always FAILS to get discounts on designer clothes, and reveals the secret of "what Craig smells like."

it's a freewheeling good time! check it.

SLWMAC's Attitude of Gratitude

You know, i was so busy with being angry/traumatized by the bullshit with lu last week that i totally forgot to celebrate the 1st anniversary of Still Life With Monkey And Cigarette and to thank some people that have contributed to its success- what i consider to be success, at least.

I started writing it because my friend Jason started a blogger blog, and at the time i lived in a different city than he did, and i thought it would be a good way for us to interact more, and just keep up. Jason let his blog just sit, empty save for one entry until MAY, while i began writing in mine immediately (which he DID read and comment on even though he wasn't writing in his... just to be fair). since then, i've moved to his area, jason moved away, jason moved back, and jason's moving away again on thursday, but the blogs and the highly valued friendship remain.

I have also greatly enjoyed keeping up with my old english teacher from the alternative school trailer that i got my GED prep from some THIRTEEN years ago. She, too, moved away- to portland, with her husband where she's had two beautiful... um, precocious children- but i always used to write her drunken, drugged out emails for years and years and she's so much fun to talk to and she's so clever and just a good, nice, unwaveringly supportive influence in my life. Her blog is pleasant and fun to read, too, but it's a pale shadow of the level of sass she TRULY has (her conservative family reads it, and she has to dumb it down a bit for them)... i guess i shouldn't expound on that any further, but ANYWAY, i love her and she's awesome and that's that.

Lastly, i guess i need to thank David Mason of House of Vader, because HALF of my readers have cross-pollinated from his site, where he has me linked on his blogroll... a privelage i am not sure i understand, but am very grateful for all the same. In the same vein, thanks to Donny from Hip Like Me, for similar blogroll linkage. Your patronage is also unexpected but appreciated :-)

To all of my ghosty readers that i don't know in real life, and follow my blog but never comment, thank you too! Feel free to jump in and say hi or commiserate with me or bitch me out if you disagree with something, or to express enthusiasm for media stuff i put up that you like, or, you know... if you want to interact at all or what have you. you're more than welcome, i appreciate your presence and would welcome participation... no pressure, though.

to my friends in REAL LIFE who VERY RARELY or NEVER comment, thanks for loitering, you worthless bastards! i expected a LITTLE MORE out of you.

(just kidding!)

this probably seems a bit self-indulgent for what is essentially just an ALREADY self-indulgent personal blog that (to date) 11 people openly follow (including myself!), but all the same, writing SLWMAC has been fun, therapeutic and surprisingly non-chore-like for the most part. I get to keep up with some of the people in my life that i love, and i have met new people that i like very much and find to be creatively brilliant, wildly entertaining and clever as well as excellent human beings... it's pretty cool, and so THANKS, you guys. I consider my life enriched!

i thought i'd close with one of my heroes, Craig Ferguson and Company, closing the 1000th episode of his hosting run on The Late Late Show. You should download that while it's still up on the torrent sites. Craig Ferguson 1000th episode. it's a GOOD ONE.

Craig Goes Old School With Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry, Old-school british queen, does the late late show with craig ferguson with no audience or anything, like tom snyder used to do. pretty bad ass. it's weird without the live "laugh track" but you watch it, and it actually gets deep. not a lot of clips available of this episode, but you can certainly download it on pirate bay, btjunkie or demonoid if you know what i'm talking about. pretty great interview, and as much as i enjoy stephen fry NOW, i think i'll have an even greater appreciation for him in the future.


FYI, you can next see stephen (if you're an american living in the U.S., that is) doing the voice work as the cheshire cat in Tim Burton's upcoming "Alice in Wonderland" and he's also a frequent guest star on the long-running FOX dark comedy "Bones," on which he plays psychiatrist-turned-gourmet-chef Gordon Gordon. I watch that show (and LOVE IT, especially since i started A&P) and the episodes he's on tend to be season long standouts. He really is a great actor.

I've been meaning to see his portrayal of Oscar Wilde in, duh, "Wilde" for years, but am just making a point of doing it tonight. He's an absolute DEAD RINGER for the quintessentially clever "dorian gray" author (second only to dororthy parker for clever cuntyness, in my opinion, though it's a tight race) and in it he does it with a super-young jude law. I'm sure he's very good, as always.

Craig Has Drank Of The Twitter Kool-Aid

The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson is an official Still Life With Monkey And Cigarette "Shows That I Like" Selection. One of the reasons that i like this show are the graphics. they are often very funny. Also, he often opens his show with puppets and a man-gimp. That's a winner by itself right there. Finally, he has the great BETTY WHITE on FREQUENTLY. One time, betty brought a leather man-slave with her... ON A LEASH! and yes, i have looked for the clip, to no avail. Anyway, he joined Twitter, which i find personally repugnant. I mean, to me Twitter is kind of like, 'HEY! let's squeeze ANY AND ALL meaning out of our personal interactions, and then MAKE THEM VIEWABLE for third parties!' It's like the stupidity of the nature of myspace, but in concentrate form.

BUT, I FORGIVE CRAIG because he at least made a good graphic about it.

If you're only going to watch one of these videos, i suggest the one at the bottom of this entry. it's a greatest hits compilation of the "what did we learn on the show tonight, craig?" kitten. If you have time for TWO, i recommend the last TWO on this entry. check 1:26 and 2:26 on the 'email' one!