Craig Tweets Once in a while, Craig Ferguson spends a little extra time on Twitter and has some fun.  Wednesday was a great example, when Craig started up a hashtag game that drew hundreds of responses.  His two tweets encouraging people to replace words in song titles got the ball rolling:

Smoke on the Water. #replacesongtitlewithothersongtitle #stupidtwitterhashtags  //  Old MacDonald had a Farm #replacesongtitlewithothersongtitle #stupidtwitterhashtags #babytoymusicinmyhouse #eieio

And in the midst of the flurry of responses, Craig added a deep and ponderable thought about Leap Day:

This day last year it wasn’t.

Meanwhile, one of Wednesday’s guests, astronomer Phil Plait, tweeted that he would be on the show:

“@BadAstronomer: Tonight I’ll be on @CraigyFerg! And that’s not code. #ItsAGreatLeapDayForAmericaEverybody http://is.gd/LQ32Na”

Craig saw the shortened link to Phil’s blog post and joked:

#iscode

Later, Wednesday’s other guest, actor Thomas Lennon tweeted:

Me and @CraigyFerg try to start a fire using only our butt cheeks on to tonight’s Late Late Show.

To which Craig responded:

friction burns but(t)worth it

And Phil Plait added:

@CraigyFerg Deny it all you want big guy, but between the @thomaslennon butt rubbing & our conversation, it *ain’t* code.

Craig wasn’t the only late night host playing hashtag games on Wednesday.  NBC’s Jimmy Fallon got one started and offered an example:

Hashtag game! Tweet out some funny, weird, or crazy story about your coworker and tag with #mycoworkeriscrazy. Could be on our show!  //  He walked into my office, aimed a marshmallow gun at my face, unloaded, then left. #mycoworkeriscrazy

So Craig decided to give it a try:

@jimmyfallon – He is a gay robot skeleton. #mycoworkeriscrazy

Working Ahead Craig and company have been busily taping extra segments of the show to store for later, perhaps to have a few all-news shows up their sleeve during Craig’s west coast comedy tour in April.  Among the guests being saved for a future date is comedian Geoff Tate, who tweeted:

I guess it can be told now. I’m taping the @CraigyFerg show today. This is my dressing room. http://pic.twitter.com/nE9zIRHg

Speaking of the west coast tour, tickets for Craig’s show in Lancaster, CA go on sale at 3pm ET/12pm PT on Thursday. As always, our Live Comedy Tour page has all the latest information and links for tickets. Intern Profiled Georgia-based theweekly.com profiles a Gwinnett College student Christopher Govan, who is interning for the Late Late Show’s audience wranglers and production support partners, 1iota.  He gets to do some fun work for the show and learn about the television business from the inside.  Thanks to the RSA’s @bgrhubarb for spotting the link! Brave Commercial You might have seen it if you were watching the Oscars this past weekend: The first television commercial for the Disney/Pixar film Brave has been released. Video courtesy: TheUnboxerHDX Tonight’s Guests Wednesday on the Late Late Show, Craig welcomes actor Thomas Lennon and astronomer Phil Plait.  On Thursday, Craig chats with actor/author Henry Winkler and one of his How To Train Your Dragon co-stars, actor Jay Baruchel.

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