Get Those Tickets
Book early to avoid disappointment! Tickets for nearly all of the fall shows scheduled for Craig Ferguson‘s New Deal Tour are on sale. Only one scheduled venue that we know of has not yet posted links for tickets. We’ll keep an eye out for on-sale dates for Snoqualmie, Washington. It is possible that a few other dates could be added to fill some gaps in the schedule. We’ll post those as soon as we can confirm them. And for those who have asked, there is also a September 26th show in the works that we have not added to list for now. It will be at Hofstra University on Long Island, and we’re told that ticket sales will be geared toward incoming students, their families, faculty and staff, rather than to the general public. Craig has done shows like these at other universities around the country.

Meanwhile, Canadian comedian Mark Forward will be opening for Craig in several cities during the Canadian portion of the tour. Forward has opened for Craig several times and gets the crowd rolling. He tweeted:

I’ll be opening for @CraigyFerg Sept. 23 thru Oct 4. Toronto, London, Kitchener, Ottawa & Hamilton & more.

To see the complete list of shows, along with dates, times, venues and links to tickets, see our Live Comedy Tour page.

Home Stretch
Josh Robert Thompson is in the final days of his indiegogo.com crowdfunding campaign, to raise money for post-production of his self-titled variety show pilot. The campaign raised its initial goal in just three days, and has also surpassed a second goal. You can still contribute toward a third goal until midnight Pacific Time on Wednesday night. Check out the site for more details.

Here’s Johnny
It was bound to happen: With Craig Ferguson no longer on late-night television, the newest plan is to bring back the other best late-night host. Antenna TV has purchased the rights to show episodes of Johnny Carson. They’ll be played at 11:00pm ET/8:00pm PT starting on January 1, reports the trade publication Variety. They’ll be showing episodes from most of Carson’s run on The Tonight Show, starting when the show moved from New York to California in 1972, through Johnny’s retirement in 1992, but no episodes from Carson’s days in New York are planned. They’ll show hour-long episodes on weeknights, and 90-minute episodes on the weekends, from the days when the show ran from 11:30pm-1:00am. The shows will simply be called “Johnny Carson,” because NBC still owns the rights to the name The Tonight Show. And incidentally, NBC has signed Jimmy Fallon to a six-year contract to continue as host of the current iteration of The Tonight Show. Where can you find Antenna TV? It’s an HD channel available over the air (and sometimes on cable) in about a hundred markets around the country. Use their channel finder page by typing in your zip code to see if it’s available “in your region.”

Pull My Finger
In a preview of the next season of Celebrity Name Game, Craig recalls a time when a handshake turned into something else.

Video courtesy: Celebrity Name Gamee

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