Back to Normal Everyone is excited for Craig Ferguson’s return after a long summer break… even Craig himself, who tweeted:

1st show back after 2 week break. Controversial new hairstyle, weird audience & robot broke during monologue. Fab! It’s like we never left.

And the RSA’s General @malinky2stoatir put it this way:

Hot diggity! It’s a GREAT day for America everybody, yes it surely is! Go outside & sniff the air…U can smell Craig’s essence percolating.

If you missed out on any Craig Ferguson and Late Late Show news over the past couple of weeks, be sure to check out our most recent post, filled with Criagy goodness! New Live Shows! Craig’s assistant Rebecca Tucker let us know on Monday afternoon that her boss has added three new live shows to his 2011 tour, including Red Bank, New Jersey as well as both Fort Myers and the Miami area in Florida.  It’s nice to see some new dots on the map!  None of the locations have posted ticket information quite yet but keep an eye on our Live Comedy Tour page.  We’ll update the links as tickets go on sale. Craig on Arthur in October One of our Euroskellies tells us that the new season of French comedian Jacques “Arthur” Essbag‘s talk show will begin on October 4th on the Comédie channel, featuring Craig has his guest for interviews and sketches throughout the show.
Fallon on SNL New York Magazine reports that Jimmy Fallon will host the December 17th episode of Saturday Night Live.  Alec Baldwin will host the season premiere on September 24th and actress Melissa McCarthy from the CBS show Mike and Molly will host the following week’s show. Josh on Fame The voice of Geoff Peterson, Josh Robert Thompsonenjoyed a moment in the spotlight:

On red carpet in Hollywood. PR guy to press: “Next we have Josh Thomas. Gay robot from Craig Kilborn show.” #closeenough

Tonight’s Guests Monday night on the Late Late Show, Craig welcomes back his old show business pal, actor Hugh Laurie and actress Saffron Burrows.  The Late Late Show website lists actor Don Cheadle as the evening’s first guest but we are told that Hugh Laurie was at today’s taping.  Cheadle’s segment was recorded last month, so it will appear sometime soon.  Tuesday, Craig welcomes comedian Lewis Black and singer/songwriter Amos Lee. Guest Update

More new guests have been added to the schedule.  Later this week, actor Kal Penn will appear on Thursday instead of actors Kunal Nayyar who will be rescheduled.  Also moving to a future date is actor Jerry Ferrara.  Added to Friday’s list are the Mythbusters Tory Belleci and the twice-bumped comedinne Marina Franklin.   To round out August and get September underway, Craig’s guest will include William Shatner, Chi McBride, Leslie Bibb, Louie Anderson, Kathy Griffin, Leslie Sloane and more.  Check out the complete and updated list on our Guests page.

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