Late night TV is a pretty sad state of affairs these days. Conan can be pretty good but seems sort of hit-or-miss, Letterman is basically phoning it in, and Jay Leno at 10pm makes me want to gouge my eyes out, it's so unfunny. (Fortunately, I opt for not watching it, instead of the more painful method.) Craig Ferguson, though, that guy's awesome. Sadly, I haven't seen a whole lot of him, since I tend not to stay up that late and prefer not to spend hours on YouTube, but what I have seen is thoroughly entertaining. For example, compare the monologues:
Letterman/Conan/Jay: 1. Joke setup 2. Punchline 3. Overenthusiastic audience laughter 4. Repeat, with an unrelated joke.
Craig: A monologue that actually builds on itself, segueing from one topic to the next.
Last week, the power went out on the set of the Craig Ferguson show, and he just kept going. And it was funny. Would the other late night shows do that? I'm not so sure.
Moral: Craig's show needs to be on earlier, when people (read: me) will actually watch it.
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I'll have to u-tubez it sometime. Here's the problem with traditional late-night comics:
Jay- he caters to starchy, easily offended old people and the retarded.
Letterman- he tries to parody late night shows' eccentricity and comes off as an asshole. He also runs the same joke into the ground for DAYS.
Conan- Has to adapt college male-geared humor to Jay's traditional audience of said starchy old people.
Mike Bullard: he was just terrible. Also Canadian.
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