Just a heads up: I was just checking out websites that list upcoming guests on late night talk shows and saw that Chris is listed for the July 14 Craig Ferguson show. It wasn't marked as a repeat, so I assume it's a new show. Let's hope this is accurate!

TV lineups

ooh yay!!!!

thanks!!!

Hey Sapphire Girl -- Thanks for the info! Chris Isaak and Debbie Reynolds. That's a combination I have got to see. I don't know if anyone else here wrote to Craig but I did after the last time Chris was on his show and said to please have him on MORE! I will be a happy TV watcher on July 14th.

Oooh...me too! That's the first night of my vacation and can stay up late and then the concert is the next day!!
It's gonna be a nice week!

Someone is gonna put this on youtube right?

Coz my vcr sucks! LOL

Welcome, ladies.

I see it's now listed on the TV Guide webpage, so perhaps this is accurate.

I will actually be in L.A. during that time, so seeing this listing almost had me falling off my chair. I checked Ferguson's website and the July 14 show is sold out, but I put myself on the waiting list. I never really "luck out" like that so I expect I will have to rely on my VCR and/or any kind fans who would post it on YouTube!

Thank you SapphireGirl for the heads up. I hope he does an interview and song like his last appearance on Craig Ferguson. Busy boy!!!!

I hope Craig talks to Chris as well, but I think he will. He usually does. Craig Ferguson seems to be one of the few late night hosts that talks to the musical guests. More often than not, the musical guests are more interesting than the actors on the show.

I hear that Craig is always very good to the band when they are on his show.

SapphireGirl -- I hope you get tickets to the taping!

I will be in L.A. then, too, but we will be in Disneyland. I hope someone puts it on youtube.

~ Lilo

Ooohh....Disneyland is my FAVORITE place!! SOOO much fun!!!
Oh...um...not that I'm a TOTAL kid at heart every single time I go!! LOL!
Make sure you stop and get a picture when you first go in! We got ours with Tinkerbell..ha ha!
[I'm the one in the red SDSU jacket]

Ha,that's cute, Cheryl. I've been to the one in Orlando a number of times, but this will be the first time for the one in California. It should be a blast! The girls are super excited, especially the youngest, who is all about the princesses right now. Ariel is her favorite.

So...if the show airs on the 14th...when does the live taping happen? It must be happening just before the concert I'm attending on the 15th then right? Just curious if the guys are going from L.A. to San Diego

Damn I wish I could afford to go to the concert that follows on the 16th that is also in San Diego!

SapphireGirl, thanks for the tv heads up about Chris. That's neat that he will be a musicial guest again on Craig Ferguson's show. He was great on there last time. I look forward to watching it.

-Deanna

Thank you, SapphireGirl. Craig always gives the most time and personal attention to Chris than any talkshow host, except maybe in Oz. Looking forward to it and both of them being a total riot.

Hi Cheryl,

I just read an article by the Canadian Press comparing Conan's and Craig's late-night shows. According to the article, Craig tapes on the afternoon of the air date. Taping begins at 5:30 p.m. and is finished by 6:30 p.m., however, Craig usually carries on after the taping to have fun with the audience. I've only seen Craig live once (last summer in Toronto) but he's REALLY funny.

Here is the full article:

http://thespec.com/article/396757

Some bits and pieces:

Tapings of late-night talk shows can be a howling good time

Bill Brioux, THE CANADIAN PRESS
The Canadian Press, 2008

Vacationers heading to New York or Los Angeles this summer might want to add a studio taping of "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" or "The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson" to their to-do list.

After all, tickets for both shows are free, and the late-afternoon tapings are done by 6:30 p.m., leaving the rest of your evening free.

I took in both shows two weeks apart last month. As studio experiences go, a talk show taping is a far more pleasant experience than sitting in on a sitcom, where various re-takes and camera set-ups can keep audiences trapped in a studio for four or five hours.

While both O'Brien's and Ferguson's shows demand you arrive as early as 4 p.m. for a 5:30 show start, you are out of there at 6:30 sharp. The two late night rivals air opposite one another weeknights at 12:35 a.m.

Like L.A. itself, a Ferguson taping is more laid back and casual. "The Late, Late Show" tapes within the black-and-white walls of CBS's Television City, a giant, post-modern cube of a place that is, surprisingly, almost 60 years old.

... It seats just 113, although warm-up comedian "Chunky B" urges us to make it sound like 114. O'Brien's studio is not big, either, but it is brighter and wider and seats at least 200.

Ferguson strides out to wild applause to start the show. Relaxed and confident, the native of Scotland, who recently became an American citizen, slaps the camera and pitches into his 10-minute opening monologue, more a series of humorous observations than the usual joke-joke-joke intros on the other late night talk shows.

The tone of the entire show, in fact, is more that of a rehearsal. Ferguson kibitzes with the audience between set ups, at one point leaning over to kiss a woman in the front row. Later he explains this is a friend and that he's not in the habit of kissing strangers, giving a shout out to the woman's mom.

His first guest on this night is actor Chris O'Donnell. Ferguson immediately rips up his blue cards the moment a guest sits down and the two go wherever the conversation leads.

Unbilled guest Alfred Molina - dressed up as Sherlock Holmes - surfaces in one of those silly, Benny Hill-esque sketches Ferguson favours. Two sparse flats are wheeled into place for the bit; Ferguson cracks that it looks like a high school play. He returns dressed as Jessica Fletcher from "Murder, She Wrote." Molina and Ferguson spend the next four minutes cracking each other up.

At the end of the night, instead of shooing the audience out as they normally do on talk shows, Ferguson tapes some promo spots for an upcoming charity gig. Realizing how dumb it all must look - he basically does take after take saying, "and your host, Craig Ferguson" - he spices it all up with some juicy, take-wrecking profanity.

Ferguson seems almost reluctant to leave the set, sitting with his feet on his desk. Chunky B has to explain to him that this is where the host gets up, waves to everybody and exits stage right. Ferguson dutifully follows orders.

But not before he takes off his tie and does his end of the evening, "What Have We Learned from Tonight's Show?" bit. What we have learned is that attending late night talk show tapings is a howling good time.
For O'Brien tickets, call 212-664-3056. For Ferguson, visit http://www.ocatv.com/latelate.

Bill Brioux is a freelance TV columnist based in Brampton, Ont.

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Oh cool! Thanks for the info FifiKitty! Looks like I'll see him 2 nights in a row then...ha ha LOL!

Yes -- lucky you. When you see him, tell him I thought he was great on the Craig Ferguson show. (I'm psychic -- I know he will be good.) LOL

It is going to be a BRAND NEW song!!!!! (So says his myspace blog).........

At the OC Fair show he said they were going to play the next song on Craig Ferguson, and then they played "If You Leave Me", which he said was going to be on his new record. I love that song and I love how they do it, but I want a BRAND new song. Call me greedy

That is what he said in Livermore too. Maybe they haven't played the brand new songs enough to do them on a TV program?

Chris was great on tv on "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson". He did a good job as usual singing "I'll Go Crazy". I'm glad that song will be on his new upcoming album.

-Deanna

I don't know that I can stay up any later....I may miss it unless I can get a copy from someone else!

However:
Tomorrow is the San Diego concert!!! I can't wait!!!

Thanks Deanna!!! Did he mention the new CD and when it is coming out (2 months) ? I am staying up for the show!

Just finished watching Chris on Craig Ferguson. He looked very nice, as usual and his singing was great. The new cd was mentioned, but not when it is coming out. He sang "I'll Go Crazy." I love when he does that song in concert so I am thrilled to hear that it is on the new cd.
BTW, I happened to catch Jay Leno tonight and James Hunter was on. Jay mentioned that James will be touring with Chris this summer.
Luckily, I can watch the early feed of the shows from a Detroit station so I don't have to stay up late. I am recording on my computer as well.

Really enjoyed Chris on Craig last evening. He was such a hoot following Craig's monologue with that mustache, and I loved it when Craig ripped it off of Chris' face, and Chris said something like, "it's kind of like a bikini wax, isn't it?" (Well, maybe right at first, but not later on ) "I'll Go Crazy" was great too, and I'd love to know what had Scott and all of the guys cracking up!

didn't he look like Mario with that mustache? LOL

I've just watched the I'll Go Crazy clip on You Tube and it looked like to me that during the entire performance, Chris didn't play the guitar. Did anyone else notice this or was it just me??(I could be wrong!)

If he didn't play, would have been nice if he ditched it and we got a real good look at his "moves"

Nice move off the chair to stand up

noticed that myself.

Ah well...can't play and be sexified all together I guess!

I thought Chris looked a little Daliesque with that moustache on. I loved his tie. Chris and Craig are always funny together, even though Craig almost squashed Chris' monkey story. (Very Peter Sellers: "Do you have a licence for your minky"?)

Since it was Vegas Week, maybe Chris could have gotten away with one of his flashy suits. He should have been permitted to stay on when Debbie Reynolds appeared. They could have had a nice Liberace conversation.

It was nice to hear that "Chris is putting I'll Go Crazy" on the new record because his fans like it.

Alert: Tonight on Craig's show, the Comedy Pet Theatre is on. I saw this show in Vegas a few months ago. (and I'm admitting it.... ) I hope he brings his cats on tonight.