Has ANYONE who has appeared as guest host for “The Late Late Show” in the wake of Craig Kilborn’s abrupt departure been even CLOSE to being worthy of helming the show full-time? Drew Carey was awful. D.L. Hughley was awful. Mike Gibbons (the show’s head writer) was awful. Adam Carolla is on tonight, and he’s the only one who has looked like he has ANY CLUE what the hell he’s doing. But even then, he’s more what I’d call competent-substitute-host material as opposed to someone I’d want to build a franchise around.
Man, if I were CBS, I’d have bribed Kilborn to stick it out another couple of months in order to do a more thorough search for a replacement.
Craig Killborn is the single most irritating human being this side of Dennis Miller. A Tickle-Me-Elmo doll would be a better host, so I sincerely doubt these auditioning guests are any worse than Killborn.
I heard that in one taping, they couldn’t get a host, so they just had the guests sit behind the desk, ask a question, and then run around to the sofa to answer it.
Heard it had the highest ratings out of the Late Late Show’s entire run. Honest. You don’t need to go check it out, you can trust me on this.
I saw a little bit of Adam Corolla as host. He wasn’t bad except the whole time I watched it, I kept thinking that he looked weird in a suit. He looked so uncomfortable.
No, I’m sure Kilborn has a trademark on it. I’ve heard he also has the trademark on “The Daily Show,” which is why it’s not “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.”
Heh … I remember way back when “The Daily Show” was being launched, the voice on the promos sounded so much like Dennis Miller that I thought he was doing it, when it turned out to be Kilborn.
This had me laughing out loud. I’ve been watching Kimmel more often than Conan of late, but I have flipped over to watch how Adam was doing. I agree he looks uncomfortable in a suit, he was pointing out the tightness of his collar for most of one evening, poor guy. He’s my favorite of the guest hosts so far.