As Olbermann’s Tweet Promised, CBS’ Craig Ferguson’s Monologue Is About Him

One of the best parts of Craig Ferguson’s Late Late Show on CBS is that…well, he pretty much does whatever he wants. If he wants to open his show with puppets, he does it. If he wants a permanent “sidekick” that also happens to be a robot, he’ll get it. And if he wants to structure his entire monologue around Keith Olbermann’s departure from MSNBC, we found out tonight that he’ll do that too.

Olbermann urged his Twitter followers to watch Ferguson’s show tonight, and Ferguson delivered with an outstanding performance that managed to focus on Olbermann without really focusing on Olbermann. Ferguson both lampooned the intense focus a specific segment of the population placed on the Olbermann drama (“People on the right are saying, ‘Hooray, he’s gone!’ People on the left are going, ‘Oh no, he’s gone!’ And most people are saying, ‘Did you see the Jets game?! You believe that?”), while also musing on the nature of voicing strong opinions in a prominent broadcasting position:

“What are you, some kind of opinionated broadcaster? You’ll end up getting fired, or leaving, or getting your contract voided, or whatever the [expletive] happened to Keith.”

If that’s not enough, along the way he mixed in, um, creative new meanings for ‘CBS’ and ‘MSNBC,’ a Brett Favre penis joke, and of course, his robot sidekick Geoff Peterson. Video, via CBS, below.

Olbermann’s Tweet:

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