“I doubt I would recognize Lady Gaga if she walked into a room unless she had a wedding cake on her head.” — Stephen Fry
I ADORE Craig Ferguson, I adore Stephen Fry, and I adored Tom Snyder and My Dinner With Andre…and I ADORE this idea: a late night talk show host KICKIN’ IT OL’ SCHOOL. As intelligent, honest, and engaging as Ferguson is — not to mention HILARIOUS — I would watch this flavor of talk show every goddamned night. It feels very REAL and low-tech — akin to reading an actual book you can hold and smell, or having a conversation with someone’s flesh and blood face, as opposed to just their pixilated picture on a computer screen. Fuck the braying, extraneous audience — ship ’em back to Omaha. What I want to see and hear is just two people talking…surrounded by delicious, beloved, empty silence…just waiting for them to fill it. BRING IT.
Craig Ferguson last night: no audience, one guest, a great hour of TV
About muffybolding
Muffy Bolding is a mother/writer/actor/knitter/feminist/withered debutante who likes the smell of asparagus pee, and remains obsessed with the bathroom hygiene of her three children -- despite the fact that they are 23, 19, and 16. She is blissfully married to a cute Jewish boy who looks like Willie Wonka, but remains tragically in love with the dead poet, Ted Hughes. She has the mouth of a Teamster, and her patron saint is Rocco (pestilence relief.) Ms. Bolding lives in Southern California, where she enjoys typing words, making movies, and plucking the rings from the fingers of the dead. She was the co-creator and Editor-in-Chief of the award winning satire zine, Fresno Lampoon, and in between writing screenplays, carnival barking, and savagely threatening her trio of darling larvae with a wooden spoon, she currently publishes the zine, "Withered Debutante." More of her work can also be found in the anthology, "Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts", the compilation zine, "Mamaphiles III: Coming Home", as well as in The Cortland Review and hipmama.com. She is currently writing and producing for film and television, and working on a book of essays entitled, "Inside A Chinese Dragon." She has slept around, but not nearly as much as she would have liked.
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