As I can't sleep and don't have to work tomorrow, I stayed up watching a re-run of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. He's probably my all-time favorite talk show host. (Well, except for when Conan was around. Then they ran neck and neck.) Still he's always good for a laugh and, as I discovered in the wee hours of this morning, wonderful junkyard quotes.
Part of what I like about him is his interaction with the cameras. He gets right up in front of them and moves them around with his hands. Sitting on your couch at home, you get the distinct feeling he's having a conversation with you and not the audience in the studio seating. Other talk show hosts don't have that appeal. They stand or sit very formally in front of the cameras looking very stiff even when they are joking around. I think that is why I've never cared for David Letterman or Jay Leno. There's just something about them that makes them look uncomfortable.
And now...the quotes:
A) "Tomorrow's just your future yesterday." - a line in the opening song he sings
B) "NO APPLAUSE" - During the show he tried to keep the audience from clapping in between sets and when going to commercial break. Before pauses and breaks he would hold up a hand-written cue card with this quote. He wanted to see what would happen to an American audience if they weren't allowed to transition from one thing to another using some phony construction like clapping.
C) "Oh, come on! They died because it's just a fact of life, people." - This was his response to a collective "Oh!" from the audience as he and Antonio Banderas were discussing the elephants who died at the animal sanctuary Banderas's mother-in-law runs.
D) "No, he didn't look like the secret police. That's why he was secret." - Antonio Banderas responding to a question about his father's job with the Spanish secret police.
E) "I feel like I've been hit over the head with a plate. And I was! But I'll tell you about that later...on cable!" - What Ferguson said after a commercial break because he kept messing up his lines.
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