[paulat]

He actually said, "take THIS, Al-Quida!!!"

[leadpenny]

I've seen his show maybe a dozen times. Very talented.

What'd say?

[jaykay]

I guess you had to be there.

[flashbunny]

Wow,did you see that clip of that guy doing that thing on the news tonight? Isn't it amazing how the other guy did that stuff right after the first guy did that thing?

[monkapotamus]

[Xenophobic Alien]

4th of July party must have started early.

[L.N. Smithee]

Craig Ferguson is a breath of fresh air in the stagnant world of network television. He's only been hosting Late Late Show for a few months, and he's already turning out the best daily monologue on the tube -- and IMHO, the best since Johnny Carson. But his approach is fresh as a daisy in that he rarely resorts to the Lenoish, Lettermanesque one-liners; each early morning he tackles a timely topic, and the jokes spring from a lighthearted expansion on said topic that sounds more like you are on the receiving end of a lively conversation than sitting in an audience waiting for some guy to make you laugh.

Ferguson's politics seem to range from the middle left, but he is rarely strident. Perhaps that is because he is a Scottish emigre who is still in love with America, and rather than being obsessed with taking one side of issues, he is delighted to live in a country where one can disagree so agreeably. That was clear in the first part of his monologue tonight, when he spoke of how America may be in the midst of a loud family quarrel nowadays, but that this shouldn't diminish the celebration of the United States, and spoke of the days remaining before he becomes a citizen as if he was a child counting down the days before Christmas.

[ovrtaxt]

Oh, dude! I saw it too!

That was gnarly yo!