DOES ANYBODY ELSE MISS CRAIG KILBORN???!!!???

[R.jsheedy]

I was on YouTube yesterday, and i came across Craig Kilborn's last Late Late Show on CBS. Again, at the end of it, like i did 7 or so years ago, i cried my eyes out at the final 5 minutes of it. When he turns around from dancing, and looks at his studio, and it's empty, and no ones there, and he walks out of his studio for the last time, it really hit me. I was always a big fan of Craig Kilborn and loved everything he did, to Daily Show to Late Late Show to The Kilborn File (LUCKY ENOUGH I LIVE RIGHT OUTSIDE OF BOSTON!!!) I was wondering if anybody else is missing the class that Craig Kilborn brough to Late Night and if anybody else would love to see him make a come back someday, weather its taking over for Dave or Jay, or starting his own show on Cable or FOX, anybody interested in seeing Kilborn come back Full Time to television???









And about the Kilborn File, i wonder why he didn't go to Paramount television and do a Late Night Show like Arsino Hall did successfully on syndication. i think many FOX, My Network television stations, CW television Stations, and many independent stations would have love to have him on. But he goes to twenth to do a tested Late Night style show after dinner time. What the Hell was the logic to that one!!!

[Marvo301]

I miss Kilborn. I liked Craig Ferguson when he first took over but he keeps doing the same few jokes over and over and that gets old very fast. also he's allowing his very liberal political views to permeate his comedy more and more and that makes his show difficult to watch. Craig Kilborn was just funny and like you said had class. Ferguson doesn't even know what class is much less have any!

[R.jsheedy]

Originally Posted by Marvo301

I miss Kilborn. I liked Craig Ferguson when he first took over but he keeps doing the same few jokes over and over and that gets old very fast. also he's allowing his very liberal political views to permeate his comedy more and more and that makes his show difficult to watch. Craig Kilborn was just funny and like you said had class. Ferguson doesn't even know what class is much less have any!

I'm starting to think more and more of checking out Jimmy Fallon. Craig Ferguson does the same thing every night, Rambles On For 2 Minutes, Monologue, Emails, Crappy Unknown Guest, Crappy CBS Star Guest being forced on the show, End. Theres no Wow Factor to it. Craig Kilborn would come out every night and do something new, not the same old sketches day after day after day. He spiced things up and he always looked like he was enjoying the show and liking what he was doing. I think it was stupid for him to leave Late Late Show, and even more stupid for him to go to The Kilborn File. He can not hold a job for that long and i don't know why. He has the Daily Show for 4 or so years, he thinks thats too Low Class so he bails on the first time he gets to go to the Late Late Show for 5 years, and the minute he gets to renew his contract for a multi-year deal, he bails on CBS and leaves and abandons that show too. I don't kno what was in his new contract that he didn't agree with, but it must have been something big to leave that show and completely disappear from show bisnuess.

Does Anybody Know What Was In That Contract That Kilborn for some reason Didn't agree too???

[Retro4Life]

Nope, never liked Kilborn a bit. Smarmy, self-impressed and so convinced he was the coolest thing around, I could never warm to him even a little bit. Never seemed like there was the slightest bit of sincerity there.

Sorry.

[70s show watcher]

i cant stand kilborn so nope i dont miss him in the least

[dakert]

I liked Craig when he was on the Daily Show

[R.jsheedy]

Show of hands, how many kilbys would want him to replace that awful big jaw leno on the tonight show!!!!!

[AKA]

I'd like to see just about anyone replace Jay Leno.

As for Craig Kilborn, I enjoyed him on The Daily Show and The Late Late Show; I really did. But in both instances, he was replaced by someone far more talented and funnier -- both of whom took their shows to awesome new heights.

When Jon Stewart and Craig Ferguson replaced Craig Kilborn, it was like ordering from Pizza Hut all your life only to find out they've closed and been replaced by a New York-style pizzeria.

Oh, as for The Daily Show, he was only on for about 2.5 years, not 4 (Summer of 1996 through the end of 1998). Tension on the set was pretty high after he was suspended for making disparaging remarks about TDS co-creator Lizz Winstead in Esquire (late 1997).

Originally Posted by Craig Kilborn

"To be honest, Lizz does find me very attractive. If I wanted her to blow me, she would.

"Class," indeed. Winstead left the show over these remarks, never to return.

[R.jsheedy]

Originally Posted by AKA

I'd like to see just about anyone replace Jay Leno.

As for Craig Kilborn, I enjoyed him on The Daily Show and The Late Late Show; I really did. But in both instances, he was replaced by someone far more talented and funnier -- both of whom took their shows to awesome new heights.

When Jon Stewart and Craig Ferguson replaced Craig Kilborn, it was like ordering from Pizza Hut all your life only to find out they've closed and been replaced by a New York-style pizzeria.

Oh, as for The Daily Show, he was only on for about 2.5 years, not 4 (Summer of 1996 through the end of 1998). Tension on the set was pretty high after he was suspended for making disparaging remarks about TDS co-creator Lizz Winstead in Esquire (late 1997).



"Class," indeed. Winstead left the show over these remarks, never to return.

How was the behind the scenes relationship with Kilborn and CBS??? Why did he leave Late Late Show???

[AKA]

I read about it in Bill Carter's book. I'll look it up tonight.

[TV Knowledge Fan]

...that six week series Craig did for the Fox television stations last summer, "THE KILBORN FILE"? No? I do....in New York, it was on WNYW, weeknights at 7pm. And when the six weeks ended, the decision was made not to bring the series back in the fall because it didn't generate enough ratings or "buzz" to merit another season.

[R.jsheedy]

Originally Posted by AKA

I read about it in Bill Carter's book. I'll look it up tonight.

I read the book. I don't remember it saying much about Kilborn. The only vivid memory i have about it talking about Kilborn was when CBS said to Jimmy Kimmel that they would "talk" about giving him Kilborn's 12:35 show following Dave when he decided to leave. But besides that it didn't talk about kilborn at all i think...

[R.jsheedy]

Originally Posted by TV Knowledge Fan

...that six week series Craig did for the Fox television stations last summer, "THE KILBORN FILE"? No? I do....in New York, it was on WNYW, weeknights at 7pm. And when the six weeks ended, the decision was made not to bring the series back in the fall because it didn't generate enough ratings or "buzz" to merit another season.

Does Kilborn have any existing deal with 20th Televison??? I think, personally, that if FOX Brodcasting wants to launch a late night series of their own, Kilbron's just the guy for the job to get one started hosted by HIM!!!! I would love to see him back at late night. He's a natural.

[TV Knowledge Fan]

....a late night show would be out of the question, 'R.jsheedy'.

I also recall that Conan O'Brien was in negotiations with Fox to appear weeknights on their network after NBC showed him the door. That might have happened, had the affiliates agreed to it. They didn't- because the syndicated programming they schedule locally between 11pm and 12am(et) is too profitable for them to give up even a half-hour to carry a Fox network show. When Fox officially began network operations in 1986, they had no trouble convincing their local stations to schedule "THE LATE SHOW STARRING JOAN RIVERS" at 11pm(et) because that was their first daily network program (their "beachhead", so to speak)....and the first of several late night series to come and go from 1986 through '88. The last time the Fox stations carried anything nationally, Monday through Friday at 11pm, was "THE CHEVY CHASE SHOW" in the fall of 1993...all seven weeks of it. Since then, Fox stations usually air syndicated sitcom repeats at 11pm {"SEINFELD", "THE OFFICE", "THE SIMPSONS", et. al.}...and the revenue they get from those kind of shows overrides ANY attempt by Fox to convince them to carry another talk show at that hour, network or syndicated.

So Craig Kilborn would have to settle for a daytime or early evening time period- and considering the unsuccessful run of "THE KILBORN FILE" last summer, ther's not much chance of him doing that kind of show again for Fox, is there?

[dlemond]

Originally Posted by AKA

I'd like to see just about anyone replace Jay Leno.

As for Craig Kilborn, I enjoyed him on The Daily Show and The Late Late Show; I really did. But in both instances, he was replaced by someone far more talented and funnier -- both of whom took their shows to awesome new heights.

I agree.
I liked Kilborn on The Daily Show -he was responsible for the show's inital success (along with the writers, of course).
But Jon Stewart put in on the map.