Just One More Thing…
So we were going to start our break last night after the final show aired, but a few things have popped up. Here is your first bonus post:

Tour Update
Craig has added Peekskill, New York to his Hot and Grumpy Tour. See the complete listings on our Live Comedy Tour page.

Josh’s Post-Show Thoughts
Josh Robert Thompson posted a thank you to fans on his Facebook page on Saturday.

Trending Topic
The RSA’s @bgrhubarb noted that both “#ThankUCraig” and “Craig Ferguson” were trending on Twitter during the broadcast, and @becka_shoe put together many of the best quotes and photos from the show.


Media Coverage
Following the show, more outlets reported on the finale, including TVLine.com, Variety, the New York Daily News, Deadline.com, TV Guide, Time Magazine, Digital Spy, the Guardian, Gawker.com, the AV Club, the Washington Post, the Hollywood Reporter (and another from them), RopeOfSilicon.com, theInterrobang.com, and the BBC.

UPDATE: Additional media coverage followed the show’s final episode from multiple sources, including Slate.com, Entertainment Weekly, ET Canada, TV Guide, Perez Hilton, TV.com, STV in Scotland, The New Yorker, MediaPost.com, InStyle.com, The Scotsman, TheComicsComic.com and The Daily Record. Examiner.com added a detailed interview with Josh, and fan The Phantom Dioramo blogged about the show’s finale.

The Final Show
The final episode is now available on YouTube, along with short clips of the monologue and the final “what did we learn” segment. Any time you’d like to take another look at the last episode, enjoy!

Video courtesy: CBS

Once More with Feeling
Friday, December 19th marked the final episode with Craig Ferguson as host of The Late Late Show. After ten years and more than two thousand shows, Craig sat down with former Tonight Show host Jay Leno to savor one more conversation. When Craig took the job, the advice he was given was to make the show his own. And while it took some time, he most certainly did, and there won’t be another show like it.

Lots of entertainment writers and fans across the country agree, with stories in Variety, Deadline.com, Vox.com, USAToday, the New York Observer (and another from them), Fourthmic.com, TVGuide.com, TVLine.com, The Wrap, The Daily Dot, Elite Daily, ThankYouLizLemon.com, brycejmcneil.com, Ken Tucker at Yahoo.com, Examiner.com (talking about the show’s theme song), Esquire.com, the Los Angeles Times (which gave him a bad review early in his tenure and now calls him “the best host on TV”), Mediaite.com, CNN.com, CBS News and many more. If you haven’t seen the show, you may want to wait before watching the promotional clip CBS released on Friday morning, another revealing the men inside Secretariat later in the day, along with a montage of monologues.

Guests making special appearances on the Friday night finale included: Kevin Bacon & Kyra Sedgwick (plus their dog Lily), Kristen Bell, Pierce Brosnan, Steve Carell, Don Cheadle, Kristen Chenoweth, Marion Cotillard, Tenacious D, Jeff Daniels, Ted Danson, Kat Dennings, Julia Louis-Dreyfus & Tony Hale, Carl Edwards, Cedric the Entertainer, Jon Hamm, Sean Hayes, Samuel L. Jackson, Rashida Jones, Toby Keith, Jimmy Kimmel, Mila Kunis, Lisa Kudrow, Jane Lynch, Justin Long, James Marsden, Matthew McConaughey, Mary McCormack, Joel McHale, Tim Meadows, Metallica, Kunal Nayyar, Geoff Peterson, Regis Philbin, Ray Romano, Bob Saget, William Shatner, Michael Sheen, Quentin Tarantino, Josh Robert Thompson, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Henry Winkler, Shailene Woodley, Weird Al Yankovic, Larry King, Angela Kinsey, Betty White, Thomas Lennon and more.

Fan @GuillerLizaran from Spain created a wonderful illustration in tribute of Craig’s final show. And we’ve seen a fun and cheeky tribute video from Kaleidalee and a great rendition of the theme song from Paul Lasko. Well done, all!

Next up for Craig is a vacation for the holidays. Then, he’ll be on the road for two months, with a string of stand up comedy appearances around the country in February and March. He’ll also continue to host Celebrity Name Game and executive produce I F-ing Love Science for the Science Channel, and there will be many more projects to come. We’re looking forward to what comes next!

Keep an eye out next week, when Craig will appear on Shawn and Larry King‘s Back and Forth Podcast. They usually post a new episode every Thursday but may send it out a bit early due to the holiday.

A Little Promotion
CBS put up a billboard on Beverly Boulevard and Fairfax near CBS Television City, thanking Craig and Company for a great ten-year run on The Late Late Show. The RSA’s @LearBeer (daytime) and @NancyInTampa (evening) took some great photos:

 

Holiday Break
As we outlined a couple of weeks ago, now that Craig’s run on The Late Late Show is wrapping up, we’ll be taking a break for the holidays. Then, when the new year gets under way, we’ll be switching from daily posts to a once-per-week summary of Craig-related news. Our first weekly post will appear on Wednesday, January 7 and continue on Wednesdays going forward. January 7 also happens to be the night of the People’s Choice Awards (fingers crossed). We’ll continue to send out our email newsletter with each new post, as well as links on Facebook and Twitter. Thanks as always to the entire robot skeleton army, and to our many contributors who make this site possible. We’ll see you in the new year!

Craig Interviewed
To date, this is still one of the best interviews we’ve ever seen of Craig. Kevin Pollak conducted an in-depth interview with Craig a few years ago, where they covered a lot of ground talking about Hollywood and life away from it. If you haven’t had a chance to see it, set aside a couple of hours, get some popcorn and enjoy.

Video courtesy: KevinPollaksChatShow

‘Name Game’ Doing Well
Craig Ferguson‘s freshman game show Celebrity Name Game has been performing well in the ratings, especially among women (now there’s a surprise). As Deadline.com reports, the show is among the strongest first-year contenders to be approved for a second season, along with daytime talk show The Real. Already picked up for a second season are The Meredith Vieira Show and the court show Hot Bench.

‘A Celebration’
On Wednesday night’s show, Craig warmly welcomed incoming Late Late Show host James Corden, who took note of Craig’s passionate fans. Craig was clear in his response: “He’s lovely!” The Nerdist and The Daily Beast agree.

The RSA’s @Colleen_Byrne has been in Los Angeles all week to watch the Craig’s final tapings of the LLS and went to his appearance at the Paley Center on Monday. She talked with the show’s producer Michael Naidus, and told him that many fans were sad about the end of the show. Naidus immediately jumped on that and said the shows this month are a time for celebrating everything we love about the LLS and Craig, and that new projects are on the horizon. Colleen agreed and urges everyone in the RSA to celebrate and show Craig, Josh, Joseph, Ryan and the whole team just how much we love and appreciate them.

Memorable Moments
Blogger Drew Zuhosky put together a piece this week featuring ten of the most memorable moments of The Late Late Show, including the poignant and the hilarious. And blogger @INSPEKTRDETECTR wrote a great piece outlining so many of the things that made Craig’s show a pleasure to watch.

LLS Slideshow
The website fansided.com has assembled their own collection of great Craig moments from The Late Late Show in slideshow form. Thanks to the RSA’s @bghrubarb for invaluable help all this week, finding practically every online mention of Craig.

The Sounds of Josh
Josh Robert Thompson tweeted recently to remind folks he has a podcast and that you can hear episodes of “Driving Myself Crazy” any time on Soundcloud.

LLS Highlights
As Craig’s final appearance on The Late Late Show draws near, media outlets are weighing in with their thoughts, including the folks over at Salon.com, who put together a look back at ten years of show, and Raleighco.com, which started with the show’s beginnings. Also offering send-off pieces are Diamondbackonline.com, the Winnipeg Free Press, PasteMagazine.com, Frazer Moore for the Associated Press, Salon.com, Zap2It.com, People Magazine, TV.com, NBCNewYork.com and the Washington Post.

Kings Things
Larry King just arrived on Celebrity Name Game.

Video courtesy: Celebrity Name Game

‘Tis the Season
The RSA’s @NancyInTampa was in Los Angeles recently and captured in image of “Craig’s fountain” in front of the Grove shopping mall, not far from CBS Television City. Of course, it’s the fountain in which Craig Ferguson soaked himself for the opening theme video for The Late Late Show. This month, it’s all decked out in holiday trim.

‘Tis the Season
The RSA’s Laura brings us ten of her favorite moments on The Late Late Show when Craig made it all feel real.

Important Moments
Theater producer Richard Jordan wrote a piece for thestage.co.uk, talking about some of Craig’s monologues that made an impact on him, and the power of television.

Craig on Stage
Craig fan Chelsea had a chance to see Craig on his stand up comedy tour recently, and posted some photos from the event.

Paley Reaction
Following Craig’s appearance at the Paley Center in Los Angeles on Monday night, lots of media outlets reported on the conversation, including Deadline.com, which focused on one of the show’s transformation moments, and PromaxBDA.com, which reported on Craig’s decision to move on to new projects.

Spin That Wheel
Bob Sagat is always being confused with Pat Sajak, at least on Celebrity Name Game.

Video courtesy: Celebrity Name Game

The Color Blu
The animated feature film The Hero of Color City, featuring the voice of Craig Ferguson is now available on Blu-Ray. It was released on DVD last month.

HTTYD2 Gets CCA Nom
The DreamWorks animated feature film How To Train Your Dragon 2, featuring the voice of Craig Ferguson, has been nominated for Critics Choice Award for Best Animated Feature. Nominations for the award are seen by some as a barometer for potential Oscar nominations.

Deconstructing the Genre
The website fourthmic.com offers a list of ten ways that Craig challenged the late-night status quo during his run on The Late Late Show.

Tribute Meme
Tributes to Craig continue to pour in this week, including a fun meme from the RSA’s @ShockPop1, who tweeted it will be “sad to see this robot-and-pony show end.” It’s true, but it also clears the way for new and exciting things to come.

Craig at the Paley
Craig appeared at the Paley Center in Los Angeles on Monday evening, interviewed by Jim Rash, which drew the attention of Broadcasting and Cable, The Examiner and many more outlets. The RSA’s @becka_shoe live blogged the event, capturing several images and listing some of Craig’s best quotes from the evening on her tumblr page. The RSA’s Kevin was able to record the live stream, so if you missed it, enjoy!

Video courtesy: Paley Center

Dreamboys Days
With Craig Ferguson‘s success on American television and Peter Capaldi‘s current role as the Doctor in Doctor Who, many fans are searching for details of the early days, when Craig and Peter were in a band together. The website WarpedFactor.com recently put together a piece retelling the story of the Dreamboys and other projects the two did together in the 1980s.

More Tour Stops Added
Craig has added seven more stops to his late winter/early spring tour, including Greensboro, NC; Norfolk, VA; Burlington, VT; Providence, RI; Morristown, NJ; Merrillville, IN, and Joliet, IL. He’s up to 25 appearances in just a two-month span. You can see the most complete and up-to-date listing of Craig’s tour stops, including venues, dates, times and links to tickets on our Live Comedy Tour page.

Fan Favorites
The RSA’s @mizzdawn67 sent us a note that expresses what many Craig fans are feeling this week.

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Paley Live Stream
Don’t forget, you can see Craig at the Paley Center in Los Angeles on Monday night via the center’s live stream, which is set to begin at 11:45pm ET/8:45pm PT.

Star Wars Meets The Graduate
In one of the stranger clue combinations we’ve seen on Celebrity Name Game, Mrs. Robinson becomes Darth Vader.

Video courtesy: Celebrity Name Game

The Craig Era
As the final week of Craig Ferguson‘s turn on The Late Late Show winds down, tributes and praise continue to pour in. In a recent blog post, Jim says Craig’s departure will be the end of an era in the late-night talk show world.

Creating Bonds
As one Craig fan explains on her tumblr blog, Craig and The Late Late Show have held a special place in her life, and she knows others have been helped as well.

Paley Live Stream
Don’t forget, you can see Craig at the Paley Center in Los Angeles on Monday night via the center’s live stream, which is set to begin at 11:45pm ET/8:45pm PT.

Start Date Changed
James Corden‘s starting date as the new host of The Late Late Show has been moved from March 9 to March 23. As an article in Variety explains, the two-week delay will give the show’s new creative team more time to ramp up, and allow the network to promote the show during “March Madness,” CBS’ coverage of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.

Skippy and Matty
To recent contestants on Celebrity Name Game should probably get a show of their own.

Video courtesy: Celebrity Name Game