Craig Ferguson: Tickle Fight

If you enjoy Ferguson's weird brand of humor, you will want to watch Tickle Fight, his latest stand up performance. Having departed the Late Late Show, Craig is again free to use words and ideas banned from broadcast television.

Now, I wasn't familiar with Craig Ferguson in a stand-up comedy sense, as I had only seen him in "The Drew Carey Show". But I found the show on Netflix, and decided to give it a chance, because I was somewhat familiar with him from the sitcom.

It turned out that he is actually a very funny man, and he has some talent for standing on the stage performing and telling jokes. His material was rather good, and very diverse as he got around many different topics.

Craig Ferguson certainly has a great on-screen charisma, which definitely works to his advantage.

"Tickle Fight" is a good hour of fun and laughs, and I can warmly recommend you take the time to watch it if you haven't already seen it.

If you enjoyed Craig Ferguson's stand-up routines that began his CBS Late Late Show for 10 years, you will probably like this Netflix special. The tone of this show is similar to the TV show routines-- sly, original, mocking yet somehow gentlemanly. (Maybe it's the accent?)

Many of the topics covered are standard--politics, culture, and self- deprecation. But the wit and disarming delivery are Ferguson's alone, and if some of the topics are familiar, others are new, and the humor itself is fresh--in two senses of the word.

Personally, I was a fan of the opening monologues of Ferguson's Late Late Show, and I found this special even funnier.

It never really gets you to roar from laughter, but he's charming and funny and you smile and chuckle a lot. Good range of jokes, although some points drawn for certain topics. This stand-up works fine for any low range humour- you don't roar, as I said, but you smile and chuckle, and honestly, that's fine.