Craig Ferguson Humiliates Ben Silverman

COMMENTS (34)

• Letterman used to pull few punches back in the NBC days, especially when he’d have Howard Stern on, glad to see Ferguson keepin’ it real…

  Comment by Dr. Kenneth Noisewater — Friday December 12, 2008 @ 11:39am PST  Reply to this post

• I do know Ben. He is actually a very nice guy. He’s got a lot of hangers on but Ben has never done anything really bad to anyone that I am aware of.

  Thank you.

  Comment by anhonestAnswer — Friday December 12, 2008 @ 11:54am PST  Reply to this post

• Omi. That sure sounds like a high-laff to me (remember that guy in DIE HARD? U know what I mean…). and agreed with DMS’s comment above: we can say whatever we want about Silverman, but bottom line is that he’s traveling the world, partying his ass off, getting paid a boatload of $$$, his job is seemingly made of teflon… yeah, I’d be giggling too.

  Comment by F. — Friday December 12, 2008 @ 12:22pm PST  Reply to this post

• To the person that Knows Ben… nice guy, that’s great. He’s sinking the ship at NBC with Zucker. How does this make him a nice guy? He’s managing to make the company look really bad, hurting the employees because of the decisions that HE makes.

  He’s taking us all down with him. I can’t help to feel bitter about it.

  Also, I don’t see them pushing back to G.E. very much. Between G.E. revamping production and post to meet their business model, and then having Silverman and Zucker driving the boat at Universal, we’re crashing hard.

  When is the relief coming to actually put good programming back onto NBC? NBC had a good couple of seasons until Silverman came on board.

  If he’s such a good guy, why doesnt he step down and get someone creative into his spot, so he stops hurting all the employees?

  Comment by I do not know Ben — Friday December 12, 2008 @ 1:47pm PST  Reply to this post

• @retired: your CBS exec pal might have been pissed that Ferguson killed the smoking area on the roof, but those of us who actually work near that area were thrilled. Having to walk through a haze of smoke to get anywhere was gross, and we applauded CF for making it happen. (Others had tried and failed.) Perhaps your exec friend found it really hard to walk an extra 30 feet away to the other part of roof where the smokers moved after Craig’s coup.

  In any case, I loved that Ferguson had the guts to go there.

  Comment by Mer — Friday December 12, 2008 @ 2:32pm PST  Reply to this post

• Yes, Craig is a nice guy. One of the few actors to actually say hello and engage PA’s on the set of a show I worked on. You just got the feeling that he was raised right, and hollywood hasen’t changed that. And Silverman could be a nice guy, but that laugh, and his douchey embrace of celebrity make him seem like a dick. He is successful, but I think that is more of an accident and luck.

  Comment by Hamm — Friday December 12, 2008 @ 2:34pm PST  Reply to this post

• what is so brilliant or “Classy” about a mean spirited personal attack on anyone? This is pretty much Talk Soup level humor. All these kudos make me a little bit sick.

  Comment by Louis — Friday December 12, 2008 @ 4:29pm PST  Reply to this post

• u make me laugh louis haha wake up!!! how was that a personnel attack?!? he was just pointing the truth…like if i said bush is an idiot or obama is full of sh!t…chill, it is comedy, I’m sure you were laughing along w/ all the other retards at leno’s corny jokes about everybody else

  Comment by dog — Friday December 12, 2008 @ 10:02pm PST  Reply to this post

• Dog, The point I”m making is that it’s a weak joke and it’s base. And the reactioin here is that somehow he did something “Brilliant” and someone took the opportunity to say what a classy guy he is. I agree with you but there’s certainly nothing great about what he did here. It was cheap and boring.

  Comment by Louis — Saturday December 13, 2008 @ 9:45pm PST  Reply to this post