Just for laughs, I checked out a few comics who are performing in Vegas, or soon will be. I experienced a wide range of humor: earthy Vinnie Favorito, family-friendly "Redneck Comedy Live!" and hilarious stand-up comic Craig Ferguson.
The host of CBS' "The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson" will be at the Orleans in November. The Glasgow, Scotland, native made his Las Vegas debut in March at the Tropicana, and he sold out three shows at the Orleans in the summer. I caught the final performance and understood why.
He becomes an unleashed madman onstage. The audience has no idea where his twisted mind is going to take it during the evening. Ferguson doesn't know either.
"I can never tell you what my act is going to be," Ferguson said during a recent telephone interview from his office in Los Angeles. "The way I work is I respond to the audience. If the audience is naughty, I'll be naughty.
It sets itself up. "I don't go out and recite a bunch of gags, it's not my thing." But there is a structure to the show.
For example, at one point early on he expresses a dislike for Belgians.
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