Nobody there seems to last. Except those that do. And even then sometimes they don't.

Carolla, by the way, is in consideration for a talk show of his own on Comedy Central. So is fellow Late Late Show guest show D.L. Hughley.

WTF? Ferguson said he'll make the show "his own" gradually. He didn't want to just uproot everything. I mean they already have a slightly new set and furniture.

He'll do fine. All the doubters will be proven wrong over the next year or so.

I like Carolla a lot but his stint on TLLS was stiff and kinda lackluster.

Gimme a ****** break. Conan was awful for just *two years*? Really?? Oh, how quickly people are willing to forget. Conan O'Brian arguably had THE WORST TALKSHOW, DAYTIME OR NIGHT, FOR A GOOD FIVE YEARS RUNNING. There isn't a single Conan sketch or show, skit, idea, promo, or monologue from his show pre-1998 worth revisiting. I wouldn't be surprised if he's burned all of the footage and film from those first five years. For a good five years Conan was the laughingstock of late-night tv, and for good reason. He made everyone from Letterman and Jay Fuckin Leno, Tom Snyder, Jon Stewart, Craig Kilborn and even Carson Daily look like comedy geniuses. His show was worse than even, :::shudders:::, that infamous single season of SNL with Mckean, Garofalo, and Elliot. I don't know what he did around January 1999, maybe in a legitimate panic over losing his job dropped the gauntlet and fired a shitload of people, but that's obviously when Conan realized that he either get some legitimate laughs or he was going to be out of a job.

Ferguson is already better in his first three or four shows than Conan was in his first three or four years. This post is directed at you William Fuld.

Your tripping! This ferguson guys sucks, they should've went with DL Hughley. And ive been watching Conan for as long as i can remember, and maybe the 1st year or two werent all that, but nowhere near as bad as you claim it was. His show was always something special, he pushed against the grain of what a typical "Late Night" show should be like. His beginnings are apart of why hes so awesome today, cuz he came up and his show is basically the same its always been, a hell of a good time!

Ferguson has been terrific this week at filling the role of generic talk show host. It's just too bad he doesn't seem to have any ambition beyond being the next Craig Kilborn.

Nonsense.

The new theme song is CATCHY!

http://www.cbs.com/latenight/latelat...heme_new.shtml

Dave should have told Amy Sedaris that he'd only finance the Strangers with Candy film if she took this job.

I don't usually stay up that late and maybe CBS and Pants just didn't really care as late late night viewers expected.

I thought it was a great opportunity to get somebody exciting and I don't think Ferguson is that person. He might become the next great host for all I know, but him being the host doesn't make me want to stay up and watch or think that I'm missing anything and where I live the show is on 30 minutes after Conan, so if I'm up, I usually am already with Conan and forget to even check it out.

If Amy had gotten it, I would have post its on the tv to remind me.

Sorry but that's what he said sir.