Thankfully, I can't watch YouTube vids at work, so I remain immune from any think-related activities for another day! Yeah!!!

It was a refreshing change of pace and one I wish more hosts/comedians would think about incorporating into their thing.

As the son of an alcoholic (and as someone who at least so far has avoided that particular addiction), I really appreciated this.

Thanks for sharing.

(...as someone who at least so far has avoided that particular addiction)

Logically and intellectually, I didn't like the idea of Addiction being expanded to anything other than substances that actually alter your mind and body's chemistry. From personal experience, I have learned otherwise. For someone who went a lot of years proud that he 'didn't turn out like my dad', it's been shattering. That's why I "Damn you!" anybody who gets me thinking about it.

I hear you, wendell.

And while Science is finding evidence that things like High Fructose Corn Syrup do effect the brain in semi-addictive ways, they'll never be able to do the same testing on "Manipulative Ex-Wives"...

(I keep having to give back my 30-day chip at Exes Anonymous)

(FINALLY, I'm able to make a joke...)

Heh.

I heart Craig Ferguson. He was one of my crushes in the embarrassing celebrity crush thread. I liked him from day one, and Tivo religiously. After this monologue I like him even more. Thanks for the link.

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I saw the post at MetaFilter yesterday but ignored it. Today I didn't. Thanks for posting it, wendell.

Logically and intellectually, I didn't like the idea of Addiction being expanded to anything other than substances that actually alter your mind and body's chemistry. From personal experience, I have learned otherwise.

I'm the child, grandchild, sibling, aunt and niece of addicts and I can also say, like wendell, that I have learned that the mind-altering sort of addictions aren't the only addictions to be had.

Anyway, more on topic with what Ferguson said, I've come along way with getting rid of my judgmental ways, but I need to try harder.

I've finally watched it, and it's the first time that I can remember that a host of a show like that has ever said, "wait a sec, maybe I'm being a bastard about this. And here's why. And here's what I think about that, and where that comes from." It's funny in a bittersweet way, as it's very honest. Billy Connelly does that on occasion, and I think I remember Jeanane (sp?) Garofalo doing it too. No one else comes to mind right now, which is a shame. It's refreshing to see, and, IMHO, makes Leno and Letterman and the rest of them look like total fuckheads, to be blunt.
So, yeah. Go Craig!

Oh, and (without meaning to derail) I followed another link to one of his monologues, in which he eulogises his father. It's very Good. It's a Good Thing. And quite touching in very few words. It'd take some brass ones to get up and do that, and he's got them.

Hmm. ok, link to what I was talking about.