Mr. X wrote:
I never watched it, because I can't imagine Mr. Wick hosting his own show. I always expect a really zany, off-the-wall guy that you can't really control and is better suited with other forms of comedy. What kind of host is he, Archie?
In the interviews and monologue he's down to earth and comes across as a regular guy. He does do some zany off the wall stuff as you can see in these skits here :
http://www.cbs.com/latenight/latelate/comedy/
But mostly it is him talking about things that bug him about every day life, like shopping in a supermarket or reading a tabloid.
I was suprised to see that he's not English, he's Scottish, he just put an English accent on for the Drew Carey show, so he comes across really different from his Carey show to me.
He reminds me of early David Letterman. Letterman used to be the no-b.s. guy who just said what was on his mind and called executives empty suits and mocked the head of NBC and stuff like that. Letterman is now very corporate himself but Ferguson still has that spunk.
It's mostly just him talking, almost like a good radio show. It's still rough around the edges though, even if you didn't know it, you could tell it's a new show, the credits are cheap and barely there, and the set is small. But it has potential, I think Letterman made a good pick.