Don't know if anyone watched Craig Ferguson's new series on CNN

[misanthrope]

2. I liked his old talk show

It was kooky enough to be good.

I especially liked that he seemingly gave Bill Maher the hook one night. It was during the Michael Jackson trial when Maher tried to run through a joke saying that from testimony it appeared Jackson serviced the victims, not the other way around.

"You don't have kids do ya?" Ferguson said. "I have a son. It makes me crazy, this Michael Jackson thing. The thought of someone just touching my kid- I would, I would go crazy."

Then Maher referenced a particularly vicious beatdown he suffered from schoolyard bullies. "If I had a choice between being savagely beaten and gently masturbated by a pop star- It's just me."

Ferguson suddenly broke for commercial with little warning. As the camera pulled back, you could see Ferguson leaning in closer to Maher and talk to him as Maher's hands became more animated in conversation. When they returned from commercial, Maher was gone.