I am cheating on Craig Fergeson

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BBC television, Graham Norton, Great Britain, postaday2013, Scotland, T.v, talk show

I have written previously about my newfound favorite talk show host Craig Fergeson. His antics coupled with his delightful Scottish accent make me burst out in laughter every evening when I watch him on TiVo. Craig’s sidekick is a gay skeletal robot voiced by someone who has a gift of mimicry and voice impersonations. The gay skeletal robot’s name is Geoffrey Peterson and he does a mean Morgan Freeman, a hilarious Liam Neeson and Craig Fergeson responds to these impersonations with a few of his own; Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Jason Straham and David Bowie. You never know what is going to come out of these two and they often behave like cheeky monkeys which suits me very much.

However I have started to go astray lately. I stumbled onto the Graham Norton show on the BBC and his talk show is fantastic. He brings his guests out all together and as a viewer, you get the added bonus of seeing how they interact together and it makes them so much more human and ordinary. Often I find myself thinking that this format shines a better spotlight on the movie stars because you get to see why you really like their work. I would imagine that it would be hard to enjoy the work done by a horrible, uninteresting person and being on the couch with two other stars would be difficult to hide that type of character flaw. Graham Norton’s personality is very infectious, he gleefully engages the audience and eagerly welcomes his guests, he never fears teasing his guests and has a wonderful tongue in cheek manner about him. He is as much the reason to watch as are the stars on the show. He isn’t as risque as Craig Fergeson but you are still going to laugh and be entertained. This week’s guest list was Billy Connelly, Dustin Hoffman and John Bishop. The movie promoted was The Quartet, a movie directed by Dustin Hoffman and is about retired opera singers living at a retirement home designated solely for opera singers. It seems to be a very different and interesting movie.

So Craig I’m sorry but I have found someone new; not to replace you, no one ever could, but I am going to share my attentions with another talk show host, but don’t worry I will always make time to watch you on TiVo.

Three Doors

In a nightmare, you’ve encountered three doors. Choose one, and let us know what you find on the other side.

I don't often have nightmares so I'm trying to think of what would scare me while I'm dreaming. I have dreamt of falling and that always scares the dickens out of me. The sensation of falling isn't the scary part; it's the complete lack of control and the anticipation of a very painful death, that is what is so terrifying.

I have had two distinct nightmares, both involving my mother. The first one was when I was five years old. I dreamt that my mother and I were on a boat and this man took my mother, killed her and cut her up into pieces and I jumped over board trying to glue her back together. That was terrifying and I can still see the images in my mind to this day.

The other nightmare that I had involving my mother was when I was fourteen. I dreamt that my mother and I were out with her friend at a restaurant and my mother said that we had to go back home because she had forgotten something. We walked down the hallway in our apartment towards my room and the moonlight was streaming in through the window and my mother turned to me with a big knife in her hand, the moonlight caught the blade and made it glisten. She stabbed me again and again while I was falling down and then I woke up.

Other than those three nightmares; I don't dream of bad things. I usually dream of good things like my family in France and I haven't had a nightmare involving my mother since those two, so that's good. I don't like nightmares.