Late Night host David Letterman is getting old, both literally and figuratively. I could use his grandpa humour and stale approach to late night as an example, but that would be too easy. In stead, I noticed this gem in the closing segment of his show on Tuesday night. Typically he tells the viewers at home to stay tuned for Craig Ferguson before his show ends. It's a small showing of support for the CBS teammates, and it's common place for the 11:30pm hosts to pitch to their after-midnight counterparts. Conan O'Brien (as host of The Tonight Show) on NBC always made the pitch to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, just as Leno before him often gave the introduction to Conan's Late Night Show.
Etiquette aside, the point I'm trying to make, is that Letterman has been throwing to Craig Ferguson for over 5 years. In January of 2005, Craig Ferguson was hired as the replacement for Craig
Kilborn on
CBS's Late Late Show.
Watch this clip from Tuesday night (Feb 09, 2010), as the Late Show with David Letterman is wrapping up, Dave clearly says "Craig KILBORN is next... Goodnight everybody!" but someone in post production caught the mistake and brutally dubbed in Ferguson's proper last name. It was like the bad overdubbing from low budget Japanese films. It's in the first 2 seconds of the clip, so feel free to rewind and read Dave's lips. He clearly throws to Craig Kilborn.
