{"id":516914,"date":"2010-04-05T13:30:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T17:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=13466"},"modified":"2010-04-05T13:30:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T17:30:18","slug":"your-late-night-talk-shows-giff-dem-to-me-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/516914","title":{"rendered":"Your late night talk shows. Giff dem to me. | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am a big fan of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson<\/a>, and I’m also a fan, bordering on a man crush, of the Mythbusters (Kari Byron, of course, is not a man, so my crush on her is purely — OK, mostly<\/a> — platonic). Adam, of course, has been relegated to My Close Personal Friend™ status, but still. <\/p>\n

As it happens, Craig is a big Mythbusters fan as well. When he came up with the idea of having a robot skeleton sidekick, he turned to the one man who could realize his dream: Miles Dyson. I mean, Mythbuster Grant Imahara. <\/p>\n

\"grantimahara_rssk\"<\/a>Grant has been working feverishly on the auto-sidekick for weeks, and tonight it will be unveiled on the show! I’m really squeeing over this, and can’t wait to see it.<\/p>\n

I love The Late Late Show for many reasons, but the biggest is Craig himself: he’s very funny, and extremely smart. He’s self-taught in many ways, and has had a rough life — he’ll be the first to say it was self-inflicted, but the bottom line is he’s pulled himself out of the muck and turned it all around. His humor is whip-crack fast, and he’s clearly a big fan of science, so of course I am powerless not to like him. Did you see his 5 minute rant about Copernicus<\/a> (starting around the four minute mark)? I mean, seriously, Copernicus?<\/em> Craig, I less-than-three you.<\/p>\n

And as part of his Robot Skeleton Army — as he calls his Twitter followers<\/a> — I am very pleased that he’s using this occasion to raise money for Lollipop Theater<\/a>, a way to get movies and TV shows to sick kids. If you see the hashtag #lollipoptheater in my own tweets today, that’s why.<\/p>\n

You can read more about Craig and Grant’s excellent adventure on NPR’s Monkey See blog<\/a> (where I got the picture of Grant above) and in a great post by my friend Erin McCarthy<\/a> at the Popular Mechanics site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And check your local listings for Craig’s show tonight. It’s on CBS, and is usually at 12:35 a.m. (11:35 p.m. central) though it may be delayed by basketball. And remember: it’s a great day for America everybody.<\/p>\n

Image credit: Grant Imahara.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

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