Craig Ferguson Leaving ‘Late Late Show’

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CBS is down one more late-night host – Craig Ferguson just announced to his studio audience that he would not be re-upping his contract to host Late Late Show and will step down in December. “CBS and I are not getting divorced, we are ‘consciously uncoupling,’ but we will still spend holidays together and share custody of the fake horse and robot skeleton, both of whom we love very much,” Ferguson said in the announcement, which immediately triggered speculation as to who would replace him.

Ferguson is sticking around until year’s end to give show staff time to figure things out, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. But, with Ferguson leaving in December, it’s likely CBS will have a new 12:35 AM host on its air before Stephen Colbert replaces David Letterman — Colbert is likewise leaving his Comedy Central series The Colbert Report at the end of the calendar year, but David Letterman has yet to set his end date on Late Show — only saying it will be some time in 2015.

Ferguson has been Late Late Show’s host since succeeding Craig Kilborn in January 2005; his contract was set to expire this summer, so it had been widely expected some decision on his CBS late-night future would be reached soon-ish. And all America recently was brought up to speed on the clause in that contract that landed him a pot of cash if the network looked elsewhere for its David Letterman replacement. That happened when CBS went with Stephen Colbert after Dave also surprised his studio audience with news he was stepping down in 2015. But Ferguson was quick to tweet his congratulations to Colbert the morning the news broke. That night, Ferguson opened his show with another shout-out to Colbert, after which he teased viewers with cracks about resigning — but only for the length of a commercial.
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Damn it, he was the only one I actually liked anymore. :( Not surprising though considering how things played out with the Dave's show.

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Don Vito Corleone

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This has been in the cards since Letterman announced his retirement. He was Ferguson's major booster and had the authority to choose the host who followed him because his production company owned that time slot. Ferguson's ratings have always been pretty weak and the network seems never to have really warmed up to him.
 
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Don Vito Corleone said:
This has been in the cards since Letterman announced his retirement. He was Ferguson's major booster and had the authority to choose the host who followed him because his production company owned that time slot. Ferguson's ratings have always been pretty weak and the network seems never to have really warmed up to him.
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Has anyone that late ever had decent ratings? I like him, but I'm not staying up that late to watch anything
 
OILFIELDTRASH

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Figures the only guys with true conversation talent, him and Conan, would not be liked by an increasingly dumber American audience.
 
her209

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Comparing Craig Ferguson to Conan O'Brien is like comparing Kim Kardashian to Anne Hathaway.
 
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Read that earlier, but it was coming since Colbert got the job. Craig's been putting it out there very subtly for the past week or two.

Going to enjoy the rest of the year. I've been DVRing every one of Craig's shows for the last year.
 
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KeithTalent said:
Damn it, he was the only one I actually liked anymore. :( Not surprising though considering how things played out with the Dave's show.
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Too true.

her209 said:
Comparing Craig Ferguson to Conan O'Brien is like comparing Kim Kardashian to Anne Hathaway.
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Comparing Craig Ferguson to Conan O'Brien is like comparing someone who is funny to someone who is not funny.
 
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MongGrel

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I still would have liked to see someone like, um Lewis Black.

But that would never happen.
 
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It was all down hill (for me) when they moved to the new studio. Seems like they did less sketches and Craig became more "button up" so to speak.

Also, Red Eye has gone to shit as well since Schulz got the boot.
 
JamesV

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He needs to do a 'guest only' show.

We have this idea of what a late show will be, and let's be honest... other than some momentarily brilliant segments with hand puppets, Ferguson's pre-guest banter was eight-grade mentality sex/fart/innuendo nonsense.

I'd often watch his show, AFTER all the BS and when he had a guest. Nobody, not even Carson had better guest skills; able to draw out and make his guests laugh and break their PR shells. Well... maybe they were on par; Carson had a much easier gaggle of stars to deal with.

Point being. Ferguson shines as the interviewer when he is just trying to have fun. While *insert any other late night host* feels stiff or unsure, Craig seemed not to care, only wanted to have fun with his guests, and I always enjoyed his interviews.
 
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