Craig Ferguson, The Late Late Show
With a comedic campaign for honorary U.S. citizenship and his increasingly inspired monologue, CBS' The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (weeknights at 12:35 am/ET) has really hit its stride. We spoke to the show's Glasgow-born host about what it's like working the night shift.
TV Guide: At nearly 15 minutes, your monologue is practically a stand-up gig.Craig Ferguson: That's what we do — 10, 15 minutes of new stand-up every show. I have eight or nine writers, and we decide what subject it's going to be... and construct a set of bullet points. Basically, [the monologue] is just my life. It's a stand-up-slash-blog. But you know what the difference is? A lot of blogs are terrible.
TV Guide: The monologue really started to pop when you began talking more about yourself, including your battle with al
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Carla Gugino (mmmm... ) and David Boreanaz (Angel Cohn goes, "Mmmm... ") will star in Our Lady of Victory, a drama set against the 1972 feminist movement and featuring Gugino as the head basketball coach at an all-girls Catholic college.... Mike Myers is set to daydream The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a remake of the Danny Kaye classic. Hey, anyone else remember the Saturday-morning kids' show The Secret Life of Walter Kitty?.... Greta Scacchi is joining the likes of Emma Thompson and Matthew Goode in the big-screen Brideshead Revisited, playing Lord Marchmain's lovah.
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Will Ferrell and Cheri Oteri, Saturday Night Live
Despite stumbling through much of the 1980s, NBC's Saturday Night Live returned to its place as a comedic touchstone in the 1990s. The ratings and critical response at the time didn't always show it, but in retrospect it's hard to argue with the results. Revisit the roster of talent that passed through the halls of 30 Rockefeller Plaza during the decade and names like Chris Rock, Tina Fey, David Spade, Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell immediately jump out at you. And from "Wayne's World" to a request for "more cowbell," numerous sketches from the time still resonate in the cult
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ABC is calling upon the big green guy to usher in a new holiday tradition, developing a half-hour animated special based on Shrek, and featuring the voices of Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy and Antonio Banderas. The special will pick up where the forthcoming Shrek the Third feature leaves off, and is set to debut in December 2007.... Per Variety, FX has picked up It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia for a third, 15-episode season, to premiere next summer.... CBS has given a pilot order to an ensemble drama about a team of public defenders, from Law & Order/Numbers vet Barry Schindel.
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Austin Powers star Mike Myers and his wife, Robin Ruzan, have decided to call it quits after 12 years, a rep for the couple announced on Friday.... In happier news, Jurassic Park's Laura Dern married her longtime beau, Grammy winner Ben Harper, on Friday in a sunset ceremony, US Weekly reports. The pair have two children together.... And speaking of offspring, Don Johnson and his wife, Kelley, are expecting their third child together "around May," the Miami Vice alum's publicist reports.
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Question: I recently saw the trailer for The Pink Panther, and it wasn't what I expected. I thought I'd be seeing a CGI version of the Pink Panther, but instead I got Steve Martin making a fool of himself. So what's the connection between the actual Pink Panther and the movie?Answer: This one really threw me for a loop, but I guess I have to assume you've only seen The Pink Panther TV cartoons, not the original The Pink Panther (1963) or any of its sequels (a case history in diminishing returns, but that's another story), which starred Peter Sellers as bumbling French police inspector Jacques Clouseau. In the first film, "pink panther" wasn't Clouseau's nickname: It was the name of the rare gem that debonair jewel thief Sir Charles Lytton (
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You know how your version of what's sexy and your mom's version of what's sexy don't exactly reside in the same zip code? Well, just imagine your mom's version gets let loose on a reality show. Carolyn's all tarted up in the boardroom (hellooo, ladies!); Trump's asking his candidates point-blank whether they're gay or virgins; and George is… alright, fortunately for everyone involved, George sees fit to stay above the fray on this one. But alas, the permanent damage to my psyche's been done. It all starts out innocently enough: The teams tackle the wild and wacky world of continuing education, with slapped-together seminars at the Learning Annex. Teflon Ping-Pong ball Randal leads Excel to a fairly painless victory, while Adam takes the I-might-throw-up-at-any-given-moment approach to project management. Despite their leader's squeamishness, Capital Edge takes a cue from Salt-N-Pepa and decides to talk about sex — and it all goes downhil
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Mike Myers is heading back to the '60s, signing on to headline an untitled biopic about late Who drummer Keith Moon. Roger Daltrey will serve as a producer.
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Cast of characters: Jude Law and Gwyneth Platrow in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (above); Shrek 2
Question: Can you explain what an animated film director does? What I really what to know is whether directors like Shrek 's Andrew Adamson have the same kind of impact on the way the movie turns out as, say, Clint Eastwood, who won the Best Director Oscar last year, had on Million Dollar Baby. Answer: An interesting question. Clearly the director of an animated film doesn't do one of the things we most associate with movie directors, which is working with actors. Though that said, the director of an animated film does work with the voice actors, and more and more the actors doing voice work on major animated films are the same performers who appear in major live-action films. The cast of
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