I'm not a big Williams fan; his act has worn very thin. But I liked him on Ferguson. I think that is a credit to Craig.

I exorcised most of my Robin Williams thoughts in a thread somewhere in the Movie sub-forum a while back. I will say, Craig managed to succeed at something I haven't seen others even attempt in years, and that's actually participate. He even made Robin Williams stop his one-man show long enough to laugh at something he (Ferguson) had to say!

After hearing all these reviews, I ALMOST feel bad for not making it through more than 3 or 4 minutes (of the first segment).

Maybe sometime I'll check out the 2nd part on Youtube. But, since it's Robin Williams, I'm not in any hurry.

I agree, Craig could have made that Dancy interview a very real embarrassment for Dancy, but I think Craig appreciated that a serious guest came on the show and would like to have more like that. Since he's not unwilling to take chances/do new(in perspective, anyway) things, he tried to salvage as much as he could.

I saw Robin's interviews on Craig, Letterman, and the Daily Show. In all three, he was much calmer than I'd seen him in the past and having actual, engaging conversations with the hosts. Something has calmed him down, either his surgery, divorce, or some combination of the two. Didn't he also have a stint in rehab? At any rate, I usually find his interviews painful and awkward to watch but didn't have that feeling with any of his three recent appearances

I'm not a fan of Williams, and gave up a few minutes in, but I'll youtube the rest of the interview if it got better (or maybe someone not at work can post it). I've always been a fan of Joss Stone, and thought that she did great with Craig.

And I guess there are those that liked Darcy with Craig. Ken Tucker of EW did.

From Tucker - "Dancy is a very big cheese in his field. A Brit who teaches at the University of Texas at Austin (yet another reason I want to take his class — love Austin!), Dancy (Hugh Dancy’s father, obviously) came very close to making a dunderhead like me understand what he was getting at in making distinctions between right and wrong and the context in which such terms have meaning."

Sorry, but he sounds like an egghead poseur to me. Dancy did nothing to actually explain his field aside from negating every effort Ferguson made to get a grip on it for himself or his audience. The entire interview went something like:

Ferguson: So it's like [this]?
Dancy: No, it's not like [this]. [This] is unimportant.
Ferguson: So it's like [that]?
Dancy: No, not like [that]. What I do is more complicated than [that].

Maybe Tucker is more easily wowed by entirely muddled double-speak than I am, or maybe his editor wouldn't let him write that Dancy came off as a self-important Wizard of Oz trying to keep the locals from figuring out that he's not a fiery head.

He's been on Letterman more than once since his surgery and I also noticed that he was more calm and under control. I actually didn't mind his wild antics at times, but when it's constant it becomes totally annoying and he wouldn't even stay in his chair for 1/2 of the show. It's most bothersome on a show like Real Time. When he was on that show, he just did material and interrupted the discussion, while offering little about the topics the panel was discussing.

Re: Dancy

As I said before, this is how philosopher's talk. He wasn't trying to be a prick to TV host or whatever, he was just treating Craig as he would a student. I think his main problem is he's used to 50-90 minute lectures, and his topic probably needed at least that much time to try to establish all the nuance and minutiae of his ideas. But instead he barely had 10 minutes and so he was cut off just as they barely were making some headway.

i would actually pad tonights show even more, since the game starts at i think 9:20, plus once the game is over, they gotta do the trophy presentation and all that shit. i wouldn't be shocked if the game didn't end until way past midnight, plus you got 35 min of news, then letterman then finally craig

I think it would have been helpful had the two had a discussion before taping about what moral particularism is (and isn't). I would love to see James Lipton sit down with Dancy, though.

Set your DVRs !!!

Kristen Bell tweeted that she is going on Ferguson in a few hours with the Robot Skeleton!

with the news still on, pad an hour an a half.

Really? They're really going to push Craig back to the wee hours to show a RERUN of Letterman? And a CRAPPY rerun, at that. What the fuck?

looks like dave started at about 12:37 or so

ok, this opening is fucking awesome

What is the song everyone is "singing"?

You know, I'd like to see late night shows cut down on all the time before the guest comes out, spend more time with all guest-especially the friends of the show and big stars, and if it's one of those two, forget about the middle guest and do 1 person and then the band or the comic.

Kristen is awesome on this show and she got about 10 minutes and I think that it included a break for commercials. That's just not enough. They're having fun, why does the time need to be up? Why not 20 minutes?

Letterman gets his first guest out around the top of the hour and unless it's Julia or Tom Hanks (and a few others) the first guest, which can be Amy Adams or Emily Blunt all get around 8 to 10 minutes.

If anyone would be open to consistently doing something new and different to the format it would be Ferguson.

Someone here on Twitter? Someone here hang out with him? Suggest it, please.

That wasn't the best KB appearance, despite the robot (goes with out saying that it should have said a few more things), but where else are you going to see her talking about farting on planes and Craig telling her that her farts must smell like vanilla ("You would think."-Kristen Bell)?

They were just getting on a role when he told her they'd run out of time.

Also, how why would someone that wealthy sell patio furniture for $200 instead of going with Goodwill or something like that? And do you really think she let some stranger come over, only to find out it was Veronica Mars, to buy stuff from a Craigslist ad? That must have been a pleasant surprise.

Awesome...

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"Look Out, There's a Monster Coming," by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

I also loled that kristen also has "the vacuum cleaner with the proper amount of suction.

the opening was awesome last night, but i wasnt really feeling the robot sidekick.. too much hype i think. but atleast kristen bell made up for it

He recently had Michael Sheen on for the full show and did the special with Stephen Fry. Plus, once or twice a week he'll bump the second guest. Most of the people he has on (despite his ability to hide it) start to get old after that 5-10 minutes of conversation. And he doesn't usually allow people to indulge in "Let me tell you this deliberately worded 6 minute story my agent gave me to recount on every talk show" that Letterman and Leno love. Not that I don't agree with your desire for longer talks (I do), I'm just assuming Craigy-knows-best.

That said, I would've happily given up on the taped journey of Geoff Peterson in favor of more Kristen Bell, whether they had anything else to talk about or not.

The robot is pretty disappointing after the hype, but Ferguson's ability to play off of that makes it a different kind of awesome.

I want a job where I can say, "Hey, I need 3 hot Asian girls in bikinis who can simulate blowing horns...NOW!"

I don't get to see him that often. Even when I want to stay up, I live in one of the markets where he STILL doesn't follow Dave.

I guess I was just sort of crabby that Kristen got only 10 minutes with commercials.

If he wanted to do something fun, he'd do and entire show with Mila and Kristen and they'd lose the set and sit up in front of the desk with a fire, roasting weenies and marshmallows, and getting drunk.

Well, Craig can't drink, but nothing wrong with getting the two pretty girls drunk. You never know what Craig could get them to do. I'm pretty sure Dax would be good with it.

...did this thread just take a left turn into Fanficville?

I wish I wasn't such a big pussy and could still stay up and watch Craig.