Geoffrey Rush on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson

[mooncove]

OMG, I've been so consumed with news and other stuff this week, I had no idea ...

Geoffrey Rush is on the Craig Ferguson show tonight!!! Continuing in his tradition of getting great guests on the show, like Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Forest Whitaker ... Geoffrey!!! :D Thank goodness I watch this show every night anyway.

Psst! A couple of

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[scarlett_0]

What was the deal with the nipple rub in the beginning???

I didn't get the reference. Or was it a reference to anything at all???

Or was Geoffrey slightly inebriated? XD

[mooncove]

You know, I rewatched the first half of the show over again, and I'm still not really sure. I thought it might have been a reference to something Craig had done in the monologue, but I just watched it again with my eyes actually on the screen, and he doesn't do the nipple rub himself. However ...

Besides pirates and showing likealike photos of Paul McCartney/Angela Lansbury and kangaroo testicles (etc.), Craig loooooves to do impressions from the movie Silence of the Lambs. His favorite is imitating that naked dance the serial killer does in front of the mirror while saying "put the lotion in the basket," which he did again last night. But lately, he's taken to referencing Anthony Hopkins when he unnerves a senator by asking her if she breastfed her child. "Toughened your nipples, didn't it?" he keeps saying in a perfect Anthony Hopkins impression. He must have said it three or four times before Geoffrey came out

[mooncove]

PS: We also have no idea what Chunky, the warm-up comedian, might have done before the show! Or what happened during the commercial breaks for that matter. It definitely seemed like Geoffrey was playing to the studio audience (after all these months he's spent performing on stage), perhaps forgetting there was a camera on him!

[mooncove]

Go back to the very beginning of the first part of the interview, just before Craig interviews him sticking his chest out into the camera and talking about his physical.

Oh! And regarding how the prostate exam came up, he spent a good part of the monologue talking about having had a physical that day, including the prostate exam. (When he doesn't get too silly, Craig can be a really good interviewer/conversationalist, and the way he makes eye contact with his guests, I think he gets many of them to let their guard down to the point where they feel like they're having a private conversation with him, and with the audience howling with approving laughter, that's gotta just add encouragement!)

Darn it, I need a Columbo userpic, with his famous catchphrase, "Uh, just one more thing ..."!

[scarlett_0]

See I never watch the show so I know nothing about Ferguson's style. And I just skipped through the monologue and went straight to Geoff.
So what you're saying make sense.

I did rewatch the beginning right before Geoffrey comes out and I saw Craig do something silly with his hands and that "Geoff" robot said " he was turned on". So I thought maybe Geoffrey was turning toward the robot and doing it?????

Who knows??? I liked it though because it seemed like Geoffy's kinky side was coming through!

[mooncove]

For anybody who hasn't seen Silence of the Lambs, that "weird thing [Craig] was doing with his hands" is an exaggerated conflation of two scenes from that movie. Warning, they are disturbing (beyond kinky!) as it's a disturbing horror movie about a psychotic serial killer (played by Ted Levine) and the even more deranged but superintelligent serial killer/cannibal, Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), to whom Jodie Foster, an FBI agent, goes for help in catching him. Also, these come near the end of the movie, so they are spoilerish (not to mention the second one has, um, I'm not sure if you call it "nudity" or not):

* Here's the "put the lotion in the basket" scene.

* And here is the infamous dance Craig keeps imitating (which gets less and less like the original every time he does it). To minimize spoilerage, skip straight to 2:15.

BTW, I think Silence of the Lambs is the only horror film to date to win an Oscar for Best Picture! At least, I recall it was the first.

[mooncove]

PS: Just watched Geoffrey's entrance again, and he is turned sort of towards the robot, but I'm pretty sure the robot is more back against the wall than where he's looking; he'd have had to almost turn his back to the audience to look at it. It looks more to me like maybe he's responding to the superenthusiastic screaming fans on that side of the audience. Or ... perhaps he's doing it for "Lesbian Row." *sigh* Another one of Craig's long-running jokes (he's got a million of them; in fact, after six years, he's gotten very predictable, which is why he keeps adding more and more absurd things to his repertoire ... but if the audience laughs, he uses them over and over and over). Anyway, the front row on that side is supposedly reserved for lesbians (you know the typical male fantasy kind), although I don't think most of the women who sit there really are lesbians. They just have to say they are (and usually be attractive) in order to get the best seats. (He often expresses suspicion. Haha.)