My Favourite Late (Late) Show Over By Christmas.

I don’t watch much late night comedy shows, so I was surprised to find about a year ago, my love for ‘The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson’. With the recent shake-ups in late night TV, including David Letterman’s retirement and Jimmy Fallon’s continuing success, fans of late night TV have been in quite a spin. Even though it seemed late night TV show hosts were dropping like dead flies, I was certain that Craig Ferguson was safe. However, a couple of weeks ago, he announced he will be stepping down from the show in December. With him he will take his unique comedy style and the incredibly funny and candid late night show that he has built.

The set of ‘Late Late’ has become a second home for fans who have looked at Craig, Geoffrey Peterson the talking skeleton robot, and Secretariat the dancing horse, as friends. Going to bed with them has allowed fans to have a good hearted laugh after a long and stressful day at work and relax before doing it all again tomorrow.

The much loved segments of ‘Tweet Mail’ (where Craig throws most of the emails off his desk before even reading them), ripping up the note cards with questions for the celebrity guests right at the beginning of the interview, offering celebrity guests an awkward pause/meditation/therapy session to sign off the interview, receiving phone calls from celebrities (impersonations), and of course the sign off of the show ‘What Did We Learn From the Show Tonight Craig?’ where Geoff and Craig sum up the show.

I, along with many other fans, will shed a tear in December when Craig does his final show, ending an era of unique late night TV. I guess I’ll have to buy the box set and watch re-runs to ease me to sleep.