Ricky Gervais should totally have been better friends with Craig, they're great together. enjoy-joy, that means enjoy. Tell me if anything is off, I'm however not interested if that thing is your pants.
Oh, no. I disagree. I think Craig is funnier when his cussing is being _censored,_ and acting frustrated by it, and that's coming from a guy who was a sailor, and has been around the world 5x accompanied by other sailors, and we all know sailors are the cussers all other cussers are compared with... Craig is also 5x funnier with the damned robot than without, and Josh is funniest as the robot. That's the act Craig should have developed and taken on the road. Most everything else he's done since he stepped away from the show has been crap. Of course he has adopted the vegan life-style he used to mock, so...
Well it's been a while since I started. And I watched most of the clips multiple times now. But I wish I knew of him while he was doing do show. I missed it by a few years unfortunately.
12:41 "No, we did that in the Monologue." The speed and delivery is unreal. Ricky Gervais is blown away, not an easy thing to do. They're both so funny and great. Absolutely love this
@@waltz9230 Ricky wanted to do a flat unfunny ending for the awkward pause bit, that was the suggestion Craig immediately replied "no we did that in the monologue" Google what's a monologue. I can't believe it's come to this. I'm explaining a fuckin joke. Taking all the soul of it.
Thank you so you so very much you two nutters, I am laughing my socks off here. I am a 75 year old cockney, miserable as only old biddy's can be. Recently widowed and within 5 weeks of my beloved hubby passing, I lost both my elderly dogs so happiness is a past joy but you two did the impossible and made me laugh. Ricky always does but Craig also very funny. Thank you again.
+jbmp1390 Conan is way more orthodox and typical and textbook, you can't compare him to literally one of the most quick-witted men alive. and don't get me started on Colbert, he can't interview for shit. hes an amazing tv person and his monologues and solo shit is great, but have you ever seen any of his interviews?
I was really sad when Craig left the show, but I decided to give Corden a chance. But on literally his first episode I saw how coordinated and artificial it all was with the sketches and games and the carpool karaoke, and that was when I realized... what made Craig so good was how random and unprofessional it was. It felt genuine.
To be fair, *everyone's* first show is gonna be crap. Colbert's was. Conan's was. They're just figuring things out, and it can take a long time to find their stride. Granted, I'm still not really a Corden fan, but just watching the first show isn't a fair assessment.
to go from this chap to James Corden is just insulting. Corden is an ass kisser, cheesey, just reads shit off the prompter. The show is so fake and 'american' format. He does have some fans in the UK but mostly British people didn't care for him at all and were happy when he pissed off to the states along with Piers Morgan UGH !
It was genuine, that's why it didn't survive television. We live in a country where the news isn't even real. Television here is just people with agendas attempting to manipulate our psychology.
They joke about how unprofessional this show is and that's why it's the best. These are real conversations and far more interesting than any other show. We need it back.
I dont think that ricky was joking how shite the show felt. Ricky is a straight forward person. He shares his brothers stand in humor, that is if you see something funny, you must express it no matter how messed up or inappropriate it is. Ricky was actually gobsmacked at how raw and lazy the show was. How everything was permitted and allowed bar the few censoring. He was amazed at the thought or lack thereof of the shite horse and geoff. Ricky knows how much comedic talent craig has and to see his talents wasted on talk show where the host couldnt be asked to sit up straight for an interview; The thing is craig knows that ricky knows this and craig finds a sort of catharsis seeing his friend ricky realise craigs situation, how ricky finds the humor in the messy talkshow craig is hosting. But then again, Ricky highlights that craig is actually skimming the people paying him with the no effort show and ricky realised how easy and cheaper comparatively the show was to produce as opposed to a more serious and professional talk show like conan, fallon or kimmel. Craig doesnt take offense of course to all this being pointed out because they both share the cheeky self deprecating british humor and he doesnt really care, at the end of the day, he gets his paycheck at the end of the month.
@@ronweasley9001 No offence, but I do utterly disagree with everything you said. Having watched ricky gervais for so many years. It actually does seem like he enjoyed the show and how bizarre it was. Even the other celebs who came on the show seemed much more comfortable and natural in their conversations and didn't feel like they had to put on a show.
@@drjsguha i didnt say the didnt enjoyed the show. Of course he enjoyed the show. He could be himself and just come on the show And thats what i meant, the other celebs liked going to craigs show because theres not red tape going on there. Its very simple. No games no acting bit. Just dance and talk to craig
Not in this day and age. He would get cancelled immediately. I mean the first joke about Canada Mexico already would have cancelled him by the extremist.
i don't get how talk show hosts like jimmy fallon, james corden and jimmy kimmel are so famous, they aren't funny. show hosts like craig and conan o'brien deserved to be more famous.
i abseloutly agree, i have always been a fan of conan i watch all he's videos specially those without any famous celebrity he just hang out with some of he's staffs and even when he goes out in public with random normal people he's still 100x funnier than any other show but I just found craig i didn't even know him and I realized he's really just as good
He isn’t wrong. Hands down the best talk show and the best host. He doesn’t just ask ridiculous questions nobody wants to know the answers to. He’s on their level. It’s always just a riff battle. He’s a genuine comedic personality who is never intimidated or outclassed by his guests. It’s such an easy watch, because there’s never a cringe factor. I love it.
Craig is one of the best interviewers ever. No one else was ever able to get so many celebrities to actually open up, be comfortable and genuine. And he always kept it real as well. Anytime someone was trying to be "professional" (aka fake) the interview was stale awkward and lead nowhere. But when he clicked with someone it was gold. I miss this show very much.
Ricky and Craig are like brothers from different mothers, UK-ers, rule-breakers, and top-notch comedy writers. What a pleasure to be able to see this interview. 🙌
I came here to watch Ricky. I left googling Craig Ferguson. What an awesome comedian, I haven't laughed that much in ages. These two together make me happy about life 🤣
Indeed, but Ricky and Craigy and Geoff all missed a great setup at 21:10 "Why do we have to have another human being", why not train chimps so you can get a prostate exam from Coco the chimp doctor, or a sloth? The gay robot wannabe proctologist is RIGHT THERE! Gervais is funny, but he's a rabid anti-robot-Geoffite.
He was a punk. Played in a band with Peter Capaldi years ago. There's a podcast on Spotify called Turned out a Punk. All the guests have a connection to punk in some way. The Craig Ferguson episode is great.
@@thebrazilianatlantis165 , that's how we roll in Scotland. For example, Google John Smeaton Glasgow terrorist attack. I'll not spoil it but, a few years ago, a couple of guys tried to set off a car bomb at Glasgow airport. They failed but the rest I'll let you discover 🙂
I have a feeling Craig never got considered for an earlier slot because he didn't want to be a robot asking pre scripted questions to set up brain dead actors to ineptly tell a story.
@phosphorescent wave no that isn't what I said at all. The writers write the monologue. The parts with guests do not require a writing staff if you have the right host. Maybe try not to be so combative in future 👍
@phosphorescent wave the pre interview is done by the talent co ordinator not the writers. For some guests it is skipped entirely if they are a regular. The writers do not get involved unless it's a sketch or a monologue
@phosphorescent wave the talent co ordinator normally talks to the guests agent or the guest themselves if they are plugging anything or have a story they want to tell, the talent coordinator then gives the bullet point cards to the host who can use them if need be. A comedy writer would not do this job as it's not their role as it requires no real creativity, particularly if the guest is not comedic. My original point was that Craig doesn't really fit into that format hence he got the late late show where if the host is as good as Craig he doesn't need cards and can talk naturally and waddya know the guests respond well and it's a lot more natural than a host saying out of the blue ' i understand you've been to Tunisia recently' I think you need help if you would choose a comment like this to be overly aggressive and insulting when it's clearly you in the wrong here. You seem to be angry with someone and it ain't me
OMFG!!! This is Absolutely hysterical. Why is Craig Ferguson not on late night television???!!! He puts all late night television to shame. He’s the only late night show host I ever watched and laughed for real every time.
yeah..i gotta admit....craig formulated his very own unique creative space...which is hard to do in late night..and he made it his own....a small,and interesting little pocket of reality that only he existed in....he did great...he aint my favorite...that's conan..but craig kicked serious ass
You have to be incredibly talented to be this relaxed and "unprofessional", and make it seem easy - the hardest things done by masters always seem easy. Craig is truly a master.
Years later Ricky made his joke about a psychiatrist into a real character on his show Afterlife. I guess brainstorming with Craig is always a good idea :)
Someone PLEASE give Craig a show. He was genuine, a comedic genius, and most importantly he kept out the damned politics that's infiltrated EVERY facet of life today.
Sorry to say, Craig quit because he didn’t want the show to go stale. Great loss. I agree with everything you said. Current show hosts care so weak that they need to resort to politics in order to pander to the mentally weak.
@@MythicalMD It's a communist strategy of politicizing everything under the sun as it gives government an excuse to get involved. (And make a train wreck out of it.)
Craig Ferguson is just hysterical. I watched his show all the time. He was superior to all the ones now. Craig and Ricky made me cry I was laughing so hard. Laughter is the best medicine. That just picked me right up.
Probably better than watching him for almost a decade and finding out he was quitting. It was terrible. So we come here and watch clips of reruns. It's truly sad.
Ricky Gervais is also comedy gold, so he knows when a show’s good. THIS was his favorite talkshow to be on, because it was sooo good. I honestly think this show is still one of the most watched shows ever! People are still watching it on youtube after all these years and are still laughing. If I could buy the entire show on blu-ray I would.
Craig has stayed away from Late Night on his own terms, by his own decision. So it's not up to anyone but himself. That said, I want him back so badly too haha
Ricky: Should I tell a joke, a punchline that just falls flat and it fades out? Craig (immediately): No, we did that in the monologue. My God, that's quick wit at its very finest.
And that laugh that Ricky does is a rare one, it only happens when he finds something genuinely hysterical - another time was when Karl Pilkington said "My Mum said 'to be in the Hells Angels you have to shit in your pants and keep them on for a week'......my Dad said 'Your Aunty Nora could have got in then'" 🤣
@Brian Robertson well if the world wasn't spinning we'd be dead but I get what you mean, still people have been terrible since day one, that's why you look for the good ones and just accept there will be bad. Besides if there wasn't bad, how would we know what is good. And I want this quarantine to end to but first you have to accept where you're at in order to determine where you're going. It's a good time to work on yourself and not worry about others because worrying doesn't help in trying times, action does. And just like a plane crash when the masks go down, you need to help yourself before you can help others, and that's the only way to make change baby, by splitting a dollar
@Brian Robertson @Brian Robertson wow, I didn't think I would actually even make a difference talking to you but I'm glad I did. I'm not perfect, no one is, I've seen people get shot and die and I've stabbed one and let's just say there was a serial rapist and hurts a lot of my friends under my nose. So I really try to live by my word, after all that's the only thing you can truly have in this world, because sometimes your life doesn't even belong to you. I've definitely seen my fair share of the fucked nature of the world to want to see my ecosystem to flourish, and generally you need a gardener to do that, and you can't be a Gardner without patience and a bit of love
Since Craig left, I don’t watch any late night shows. His show was/is by far the best. He could go from ridiculous immaturity to flirty to serious to wildly intelligent to heart wrenching all in one show. All while doing minimal political topics. Thanks for posting these.
I love Craig Ferguson and Ricky Gervais. But the two of them together is brilliant! I love that Craig made Ricky laugh so much. I love his laugh! They should work together seriously!
Craig is one of the best that did late-night. And he was the best the hosts The late late show. Having David Letterman as your boss instead of the actual Network must have been awesome 😎
Distribution of intelligence. The smarter you are, the faster and edgier comedy has to be to crack you up because it's harder to derail your brain and give it something it has not seen coming. But since highly intelligent people are a minority, you can have successful comedy with a lot less effort. Hence Jerry Seinfeld, hence Amy Schumer (which is not to say Seinfeld is as bad as Schumer, he's just not as good as his reputation).
James Cordon seems to be way more willing to conform to the kind of show that CBS wanted, picking up the Fallon millennial audience. He's good, but it's a totally different show. I really wish they'd film Craig's Sirius XM show.
I come here a couple of times a year. It's genuinely one of the best half hour comedy duo in the history of comedy. These 2 should do a show, it will be the most watched comedy show easily. Ricky was laughing hard so many times. 2 great quick witty comics just riffing free range style. It sucks they only met twice on this show. The ending bit was just fantastic high octane improv comedy. "I've got a table", 2 finger celebrity colonoscopy, fall from the ceiling body position and this show being so bizarre it's not a television show. Craig really did a podcast in late night talk show.
Ferguson is the best ever. Never tired of his show. Do not understand why he is not on anymore. Had to have been voluntary. He is hilariously funny and these interviews with Ricky are a match made in heaven.
he decided to leave after 10 years. he felt he did everything he needed to do and wanted new challenges. i watched this show live adn it really was the best ever every night.
I watched this show when Craig Kilborn was the host as a kid. When he left I thought it would suck. Craig Ferguson changed my mind instantly, dude was great
Who on this planet could have possibly given this video a thumbs down? I think I’ve watched it at least 10 times since it was uploaded. Never gets old.