Monthly Archives: October 2012

Seeking Studio 56 Stories
We’re still looking for stories about your experiences at CBS Television City. Have you been to a taping of the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson since the new studio opened in August? Or do you remember a great time seeing a show taped in the old studio across the hall? Send us your stories! You can use our Contact Us page to send us your story, or just tweet us a link to your existing blog or website. We’ll be happy to share it with the robot skeleton army. Not many Craig fans have the chance to travel to California and see a show in person, so please share the fun!

Phil’s Productions

Dr. Phil McGraw is a guest on Tuesday’s show. He and his brother recently started a new television production company, which, as Broadcasting & Cable reports, is producing shows for several cable networks.



Pitching Pitch Perfect
Actress Hana Mae Lee is also on Tuesday’s show. She and some of her castmates from Pitch Perfect recently told PopSugar.com about their singing auditions to get on the show.

Life Imitates Art
One of Craig’s most famous opening segments was his lip-synced dance number with Britney Spears‘ “Oops, I Did It Again.” Last year, a group of middle school students did their version, imitating Craig’s moves, complete with puppets. Thanks to the RSA’s @sherivig for sending us the link!

Video courtesy: sjjsrl

Tonight’s Guests

Tuesday on the Late Late Show, Craig trades jabs with TV host Dr. Phil McGraw and chats with actress Hana Mae Lee. On Wednesday, Craig welcomes actress Susan Sarandon, author David Benioff and comedian Thomas Dale.



Ophira Eisenberg

Guest Update

The official guest listings for the Late Late Show have been updated through November 2nd, with the additions of David Benioff, Ophira Eisenberg, Billy Crystal, James Spader, Nikki Reed and Toby Keith. You can see the most up-to-date and complete details on our Guests page.

Stand Up Shows
When Craig Ferguson takes his stand up comedy tour on the road in November, will you be in the audience?  If you plan to see his show in Denver, Chicago or Washington, DC, we want to hear from you.  We enjoy sharing your stories and photos with the rest of the robot skeleton army. Dozens of fans have contributed their stories, and yours could be here, too!  You can see the updated tour schedule on our Live Comedy Tour page.

Cranston Promotes Film
Bryan Cranston, star of Breaking Bad, is on Monday’s Late Late Show. As the BBC reports, he has been flying around the world in the past several days, promoting the premiere of his film Argo, directed by Ben Affleck.

Wash Those Place Mats

Dr. Lisa Masterson of The Doctors will be on Monday’s show. The Huffington Post reports that on a recent episode of her show, Masterson took a closer look at table place mats and discovered that they can be hotbeds of bacteria.



Giraffes
Craig offers his opinion on giraffes.

Video courtesy: karik00

Tonight’s Guests
Monday on the Late Late Show, Craig chats with actor Bryan Cranston and OB/GYN Dr. Lisa Masterson. On Tuesday, Craig’s guests are TV Host Dr. Phil McGraw and actress Hana Mae Lee.

Guest Update

Two more names have been added to the list of future guests: Actress Maggie Grace and Regis Philbin. You can see the most up-to-date listings on our Guests page.

Craig’s 2009 Tour
Back in 2009, Craig was taking his stand up comedy show on the road much as he does these days. But in our search for past dates, we have only been able to verify seven appearances for that year. We’re pretty sure he had more shows than that, and we need your help to fill in some dates. Did you see Craig perform live in 2009? Do you have a photo of your ticket or a link we can use to verify the venue and the date? Please let us know in the comments below and check out our extensive list of Craig’s past appearances on our Live Comedy Tour page.

Late Night Hosts as Guests

Not only with NBC’s Jay Leno appear as Craig’s guest on the Late Late show this month, David Letterman will soon be a guest on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. Entertainment Weekly reports on Letterman’s scheduled appearance and provides some video clips of past shows when late night hosts appear on each other’s shows.



Craig Has Cheezburger
The RSA’s @joannapowers2 was looking around the Cheezburger.com website and found an entry featuring Craig.  Our fearless leader tops a cute cat any day.

Craig Loves the 90s
Craig made several appearances on VH1’s “I Love the 90s” series, including this segment on Beanie Babies. Be sure to watch through to the end for some extra Craigy madness.

Video courtesy: u27v

This Week’s Guests

Dr. Lisa Masterson

It’s another week of all-new episodes of the Late Late Show beginning Monday with actor Bryan Cranston and OB/GYN Dr. Lisa Masterson. On Tuesday, Craig welcomes TV host Dr. Phil McGraw and actress Hana Mae Lee. On Wednesday, Craig chats with actress Susan Sarandon and we’ll see a performance by comedian Thomas Dale. Actor Michael Chiklis is the lone guest scheduled for Thursday. And on Friday, Craig welcomes actress Amanda Peet and actor John Cho.

Late Late Tapings
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is scheduled to run new episodes from now until Thanksgiving. CBS traditionally run encore shows on Thursday and Friday night when audiences are smaller than usual. Then more new episodes are planned until the December holiday break, which usually runs two weeks. That means there are just nine weeks of shows left in 2012. Have you done your shopping yet?

Poking Around

When Josh Robert Thompson, the voice of Geoff Peterson, has some spare time between LLS episodes and touring with Craig, he produces podcasts featuring many of his impressions, original characters and friends. You can listen to them on jrtvoices.com. He has posted ten episodes this year, including a new one this month.



Craig Illustrations
Here at RSA News we have featured the work of @VincentWaller72, who is a big Craig Ferguson fan and enjoys creating art featuring our fearless leader. On Friday, Josh Robert Thompson tweeted one of Vincent’s most recent works:

Check out this amazing piece of ‘Late Late Show’-inspired art from the incomparable @VincentWaller72! pic.twitter.com/pTe8cfaQ

October Birthdays

Bela Lugosi

Saturday, October 20th is the birthday of actor Bela Lugosi, baseball player Mickey Mantle, musician Tom Petty and rapper Snoop Dogg. Sunday, October 21st is the birthday of baseball player Whitey Ford, actress Carrie Fisher, reality TV personality Kim Kardashian and musician Dizzy Gillespie. Here is Dizzy, instructing the crowd how to sing along with his composition, “Salt Peanuts.”


Video courtesy: hostroute

Craig and Chelsea
It’s always a wild interview when the outspoken Chelsea Handler is on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.  On Friday evening, CBS tweeted:

2nite on #LateLateShow @CraigyFerg & @chelseahandler express love 4 each other http://www.cbs.com/shows/late_late_show/video/2294087520/craig-ferguson-chelsea-handler …, plus @ninaconti & @allen_stone perform!

Josh the Vampire
The voice of Geoff Peterson, Josh Robert Thompson answered several questions Friday on Twitter.  Among our favorites was this:

At this point, I’ll take anything. RT @girlagainstyou: My mom just thought your name was Josh Robert Pattinson.

Craig at the Paley Center

The RSA’s @003lili has been editing her photos from her trip to New York to see Craig. She has posted a large group of pictures from Craig’s appearance at the Paley Center for Media on her Flickr account.


Sound Machine
In Craig’s early days hosting the Late Late Show, he had a computer behind the desk which was loaded up with sound effects. One day when he was welcoming back his “naughty monkeys” after a commercial break, the machine didn’t quite work:

Video courtesy: u27v

Tonight’s Guests
Friday on the Late Late Show, Craig welcomes TV host Chelsea Handler, musician Allen Stone and ventriloquist/comedienne Nina Conti.

Guest Update

Musician LL Cool J has been added to the list of future guests. For the most up-to-date listings, please see our Guests page.



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Playaas in a Groove
Wednesday night’s Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson was a rollicking good time from beginning to end. It started with banter between Craig and Josh Robert Thompson as the voice of Geoff Peterson, featured fun appearances from Carson Kressley and Kay Adams and wrapped up with the return of Prince Charles and a special guest. If you missed the show, pop over to the Late Late Show website and enjoy. We dare you not to laugh!

Meanwhile, Craig continues his war against the pigs in Angry Birds:

Angry Birds > Bad Piggies. I don’t want to help the pigs. My birds are still angry dammit! #stupidphonegames #notimportant #pigsarebastards

Rochester Review
The University of Rochester’s student newspaper, The Campus Times, reviewed on of Craig’s two shows on campus last week. The largely positive review contains significant spoilers, so we’ve put the link behind a gray bar. If you want to be surprised when you see the show in person in November or on DVD in the spring, skip to the next story. Otherwise, click on the arrow to reach the link.

[stextbox id=”custom” caption=”Rochester Review”]Spoiler Alert!
Click to read a review of on of Craig’s Rochester, NY shows, from the University of Rochester’s student newspaper, The Campus Times.[/stextbox]

Who’s that Writer?
Fan favorite Neil Gaiman is writing another episode of Doctor Who in the second half of season 7, according to the print edition of Doctor Who Magazine. No specific episode name or date has been released.

Spirit Day

Craig will be among the CBS personalities wearing purple on Friday to mark “Spirit Day” in support of LGBT youth and to take a stand against bullying, as reported by GLAAD on its website.

Craig Kissing Face
After seeing Sarah Paulson’s kissing face earlier this week, we thought you’d want to see Craig’s kissing face.

Video courtesy: karik00

Tonight’s Guests
Thursday on the Late Late Show, Craig’s guests are actor Kelsey Grammer, actress Casey Wilson and comedian Ben Hague. On Friday, Craig welcomes TV host Chelsea Handler, musician Allen Stone and ventriloquist/comedienne Nina Conti.

Guest Update

The Late Late Show guest listings have been updated through October 31st, including new additions Dr. Phil McGraw, Hana Mae Lee, Michael Chiklis and Demi Lovato. Check out the latest complete listings on our Guests page.

Brave Coming to DVD/Blu-Ray
You will soon be able to own your very own copy of the Disney/Pixar animated feature film Brave, which is being released on Blu-Ray and DVD on November 13th. Featuring the voice talents of Kelly MacDonald, Emma Thompson, Billy Connolly and Craig Ferguson as the cantankerous Lord MacIntosh, the movie did well at the box office worldwide and will appear in stores just in time for holiday shopping. You can already pre-order your copy online. Thanks to the RSA’s @SexyCraigFerg for the heads up!

Football Fantasies
On Wednesday night’s Late Late Show, the guests are football analyst Kay Adams and fashion expert Carson Kressley. Kressley became famous on the Bravo network’s show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, where a team of gay hosts with skills ranging from clothing to decorating, and cooking to etiquette would train straight guys some basic tips on life and impressing a date. Adams is known online particularly as an expert in the world of fantasy football, where people build their own fantasy teams from the league’s existing players and compete for the most points based on their players’ statistics from each week of the NFL season. Foreshadowing an interesting show, Kressley tweeted on Wednesday evening:

Since ill probably never be asked back on the late late show w @CraigyFerg you all better tune in tonight and see why! // .@CraigyFerg so sorry about that lil mishap!

He also sent along a backstage photo with Adams:

#fantasyfootball time w @heykayadams backstage @CraigyFerg – I’ve had many fantasies about football! http://yfrog.com/obmczzmkj

Adams sent along a photo of her gift for appearing on the show:

🙂 pic.twitter.com/oExlLHnv

And she added:

Who wants to bet I trip on the stairs at @CraigyFerg tonight and become a YouTube sensation, #gangnamstyle?

Don’t miss Wednesday’s show to see what happens!

Waves from Wavy
When the RSA’s @003lili visited New York City to see Craig’s show at Radio City Music Hall, she also had a chance to be a tourist. On her journeys she found a familiar face at a toy shop and sent us the photo.

Brave Release
Promoting the Blu-Ray and DVD release of Brave, Disney/Pixar sent out this video:

Video courtesy: DisneyPixar

Tonight’s Guests

Wednesday on the Late Late Show, Craig welcomes football analyst Kay Adams and fashion expert Carson Kressley. On Thursday, watch for actor Kelsey Grammer, actress Casey Wilson and comedian Ben Hague.



Guest Update

RZA

Added to the list of future guests are John Cho, the band Tenacious D, Marion Cotillard, Lily Tomlin and RZA. For the most complete listings, please visit our Guests page.