{"id":26413,"date":"2014-01-12T02:15:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T02:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/?p=26413"},"modified":"2014-01-11T22:06:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T22:06:16","slug":"craig-ferguson-oswalt-downton-npr-interview-elvis-a-thon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/new\/craig-ferguson-oswalt-downton-npr-interview-elvis-a-thon\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: large;\"><strong>Oswalt Calls Out Craig<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Downton-Abbey-sl.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-26415\" alt=\"Downton Abbey sl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Downton-Abbey-sl-150x86.jpg\" width=\"135\" height=\"77\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2014\/01\/Downton-Abbey-sl-150x86.jpg 150w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2014\/01\/Downton-Abbey-sl-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2014\/01\/Downton-Abbey-sl-250x144.jpg 250w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2014\/01\/Downton-Abbey-sl.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/><\/a>During his visit to <em>The Late Late Show<\/em> this week, <strong>Patton Oswalt<\/strong> called out <strong>Craig Ferguson<\/strong> for dissing the more recent seasons of <em>Downton Abbey<\/em>. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uproxx.com\/tv\/2014\/01\/patton-oswalt-calls-craig-ferguson-downton-abbey-hipster\/\" target=\"_blank\">Uproxx.com<\/a> reported, Oswalt hilariously equated Craig with hipsters who give up on bands who go mainstream, and Craig didn&#8217;t disagree.\r\n<br clear=\"none\" \/><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: large;\"><strong>Craig on Radio<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/craig-ferguson-american-on-purpose.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-15439\" alt=\"craig-ferguson-american-on-purpose\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/craig-ferguson-american-on-purpose-100x150.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2012\/02\/craig-ferguson-american-on-purpose-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2012\/02\/craig-ferguson-american-on-purpose-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2012\/02\/craig-ferguson-american-on-purpose.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 80px) 100vw, 80px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span>\r\nIt&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve posted this, and you may not have heard it before. Craig appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=113118998\" target=\"_blank\">National Public Radio<\/a> back in 2009 while promoting his autobiography <em>American on Purpose<\/em>. It&#8217;s a half-hour well worth hearing.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: large;\"><strong>Craig&#8217;s Elvis-a-thon<\/strong><\/span>\r\nAs you&#8217;ll see in this two-part monologue from 2005, Craig talks about spending a weekend watching Elvis DVDs and speculates about Elvis&#8217; brief visit to Scotland in 1961.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Video courtesy: FrankGerbertson<\/span>\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NkxbBTxSfpU?rel=0\" height=\"420\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eqJQF9tdVDo?rel=0\" height=\"420\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size:20px; line-height:1.25em\">Oswalt calls Craig a hipster, a CF NPR interview, plus Craig&#8217;s appreciation of Elvis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/new\/craig-ferguson-oswalt-downton-npr-interview-elvis-a-thon\/\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>- Robot Skeleton Army News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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