The Hardest Working Man in Show Business

With all due respect to the rarely sober "Godfather of Soul" Mr. James Brown, yesterday marked a day when one of his many pseudonyms really did belong to Craig Ferguson.

I feel that I have to honour Craig's accomplishment of hosting two live programs practically back-to-back. Now, of course I didn't watch the People's Choice Awards (nor the most recent federal debate, for that matter...as I have inadvertantly shown just how vapid I can be by watching Blue Crush and posting about it instead...but I digress) which I assume he killed at, but I did see the Late Late Show. And while looking kinda like he could use a nap, Mr. Ferguson did a bang up job of being both very commical (his unrehearsed monologues are one of the funniest things on TV!), and then actually discussing his two divorces and his 14 years of sobriety with his guest (one of my favourites) Dr. Phil McGraw with some level of seriousness*. Now, this is a minor accomplishment in and of itself, as both of the above things are regular points of comedy in the aforementioned monologues, such as anytime he mentions his wife(s), he immediately spews out "who is a lovely person, for legal reasons" while shaking his head no....and when discussing 80's music (for example), he says that he never heard most of it until recetly, as the 80's are a little "fuzzy".

Yes, I'm blatantly pimping one of the few originally funny (and Scottish!) people on TV in a completely tranparent attempt to enrich your lives. As if you're not up at 12:30, anyway...

* - One minor exception being when Dr. Phil was talking about how divorces are caused by making poor choices, to which Craig replied "No, they were actually both quite lovely....oh, wait...now I get it....I was the bad choice!"