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Sedgwick on Ferguson

Kyra Sedgwick said that in her part in _The Closer_ she "bosses men around." Craig Ferguson asked if she liked that and she gave a big yes. "Do you have an outfit for that?" Ferguson asked.

That sort of off the wall stuff makes Ferguson second only to Jimmy Kimmel in the late night wars. Ferguson adopts the persona of a suave dufus when the show comes back from break, greeting the audience with something like "hello my merry chickens", giving off an approximation of an animal sound and smiling flirtatiously. The guy is hysterical.

Conan seems to have diminished with age -- he tries so hard and is likable and no doubt will be a positive change from Leno, but Ferguson, if he inherited the Letterman show, would be real competition for Kimmel.

Sedgwick @ Wiki:

Sedgwick was born in New York City to Henry Dwight Sedgwick V and Patricia Rosenwald.[2] She is a descendant of Judge Theodore Sedgwick, Endicott Peabody, the founder of the Groton School, William Ellery, signer of the Declaration of Independence, Rev. John Lathrop, and Governor Thomas Dudley, first cousin once removed of Edie Sedgwick, a star of Andy Warhol's early films, niece of the writer John Sedgwick, and half-sister of jazz guitarist Mike Stern[3]. Sedgwick's father was an Episcopalian and her mother was Jewish. Kyra considers herself Jewish,[4] and she starred in the Emmy Award-winning [5] 1992 made-for-TV film Miss Rose White as a Jewish immigrant who comes to terms with her ethnicity. A 1996 interview referred to her as "an all-American Jewish WASP actress".[6] Sedgwick graduated from the University of Southern California.