Craig Ferguson: A Wee Bit o' Revolution

Craig Ferguson is great -- he has so much energy, and although he is pretty bouncy on his talk show, he is even more bouncy on stage doing stand-up. The gloves are off, he is able to say and do whatever he wants... and he does.

I love that he calls out Sean Connery for "Red October" (even if the joke is thirty years old). But then the "Highlander" thing... genius. So true on how movies cast ethnic or national roles...

Ferguson's monologues should probably be collected on DVD... a "best of" Ferguson, that could be all funny and several months long. It would be some of the funniest stuff ever released to the public (far more so than Leno or Letterman could do in such a short period of time).

So here we have the very first-ever live stand-up DVD offering from "TV's Craig Ferguson", and what a great offering it is. For over an hour, the man whose name is an anagram for 'a surging force' holds court at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston, hilariously riffing on a myriad of topics including (but not limited to) his days as an alcoholic, his fondness for junkies, the sex/drugs/r&r lifestyle, James Bond, Scotland, his mother, being a new American citizen and the gargantuan reptile that lives in his pants (apparently there's nothing 'wee' about the man).

This is a must for fans of the TV show, needless to say, but if you're not familiar with The Late Late Show and you're in the market for some savvy, irreverently outrageous - but never mean-spirited - humor, this is for you as well.

There's also a really cool interview with Ferguson, where he shares at length what it means to him to have become an American citizen. Also included: a speech he gave on July 4th in Boston, where he expounds further on being a citizen and what America and freedom mean to him. Very inspiring stuff.