Fort Myers to Miami
Craig Ferguson played to a lively crowd in Fort Myers Saturday night before making his way across the Everglades to reach Hollywood, Florida (just north of Miami) for his Sunday night show at the Seminole Hard Rock Live Arena.  Fort Lauderdale’s Sun Sentinel has a short interview with Craig about his stand up show and his career.   Sunday’s stand up comedy performance is the last scheduled live show for Craig in 2011 and we’ll be keeping an eye out for announcements about 2012.  We’re also hoping to hear your stories.  If you attended any of Craig’s shows this weekend, we’re looking for your stories and pictures to share with the rest of the RSA.  Just use our Contact Us form to send us your information or links and we’ll be happy to pass them along.

Florida State Pictures
The folks at FSUNews.com got some great pictures of Craig on stage Friday night:

Tallahassee Fun
There were several hobos in the audience in Tallahassee on Friday night, including the RSA’s @Nancy InTampa, who took a picture of Craig wearing his Florida State jersey as he was being projected on big screens at the Tallahassee Leon County Civic Center.  She is attending all three of Craig’s shows this weekend and is blogging as she goes:

[stextbox id=”custom”]Craig On The Road – The Florida Tour, Part 1

 There’s only one person who can make me drive all over the state of Florida and still feel like I’m having a relaxing weekend. When Craig’s Florida standup dates were announced, I knew I would make good on my promise to see all of them. When the FSU Pow Wow was added to the mix, I wondered if I was even allowed to go! Not an alum, though I do have plenty of friends who are. So that’s my excuse. 🙂

Tallahassee is a beautiful place, capitol of the state and home of the Florida State Seminoles. When I found the Civic Center, I was surprised that even with GA tickets I found a seat in the 5th row! (Going on my own made it a little easier I think.) The crowd waiting to get in was huge. Not sure how many were there, but most of the 13,800 seats filled up quickly.

The Homecoming entertainment was fantastic! An excellent jazz band, followed by singing groups and dance troupes and videos, nonstop for at least 90 minutes. During this, Craig was tweeting from backstage.  I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much activity on Twitter for a live show! Check the stream and you’ll see all of Craig’s retweets and responses. BTW during all this, I kept seeing a gentlemen in a kilt walking around. Hmm…

Finally, after an intermission, Craig’s opening act, a very entertaining comedian who’s name I don’t have (help?lol) came out and did a great job. Former theater major at FSU, worked as Goofy at Disneyworld, how do I know all about him and not his name?!  Then it was time for Craig. Then I found out why the kilted guy. A full band of bagpipers came out playing the FSU fight song, and then Craig, tomahawking his way onto the stage wearing an FSU jersey, jeans and  black,red and white sneakers. Perfect! And he danced with the music! The big screen at the back of the stage projected all this wonderfulness to the cheering crowd.

Since I know the basics of this show well (5 times in Denver, then Chicago, Bucks County and Red Bank), I have a different take on it. I enjoy watching Craig figure out the audience. And a college crowd at homecoming is different! He included the marching band (sitting upper deck stage right)  and changed things up for the partying college crowd, getting in the Seminole spirit of things. It was the master at work. And FSU loved him! It was very cool that he took a picture of the audience. Like a family photo. The perfect end to a memorable evening.[/stextbox]

Craig Pictures
Craig captured a couple of pictures from his hotel room in Fort Myers on Saturday:

http://twitpic.com/7ghfho Naples FLA in November. I should have packed my speedos. Btw Packed Speedos is a website etc etc…

http://twitpic.com/7girkr Jeez. The things people get up to on the beach #aw

Joe Knows
Craig’s opening act for Fort Myers and Hollywood, FL is Joe Matarese, who tweeted on Saturday morning:

Can’t wait to open for @CraigyFerg tonight in Ft.Myers,Fl. The crowd will be alert, intelligent, and happy they aren’t in Kingston,NY.

The Leg Bone’s Connected To The Bolt

The RSA’s @celtickisses75 read an interesting article in Discover Magazine and wondered if Geoff Peterson is perhaps setting a trend in fashion, given the advances in medical science with exoskeletons. If skeletons become the next big thing, Geoff is on the cutting edge of fashion as we speak!


Neil Gaiman on The Simpsons
Author and LLS guest Neil Gaiman makes an appearance as himself on Sunday night’s episode of The Simpsons on Fox.

Video courtesy: Fox/20th Television

ComicBookResources.com did an extensive interview with Neil about his Simpsons episode, the Los Angeles Times mentions the show Neil blogged about the day he recorded his voice for the show back in January.

Pre-Thanksgiving Holidays
Saturday, November 19th is Family Volunteer Day and the anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.  Sunday, November 20th is the birthday of the late Seantor Robert F. Kennedy and UN Universal Children’s Day.

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