As previewed on Monday, Craig Ferguson celebrated his 1000th Late Late Show episode last night, and it was chock full of puppety goodness. Wavy the Crocodile hosted and participated in the hottest cold open the talk show has done (scroll down). But the highlight, as we predicted, was Jason Segel with Dracula puppet singing "Dracula's Lament," complete with The Broken West backing him.
The band helped turn what was an intimate charmer in the movie into an E Street Band crowd-pleaser. By the end, we're all bellowing along with Segel's Dracula:
The "hot" cold open, with Wavy the puppet miming "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk":
Closing, with all the puppets (and MST 3000's Joel Hodgson) swaying to James Taylor's "You've Got a Friend" (credits are worth watching too):
This Tuesday marks the 1000th episode for Craig Ferguson as host of The Late Late Show, and to celebrate the occasion the musical guest is actor Jason Segel singing "Dracula's Lament" from last year's comedy hit Forgetting Sarah Marshall (scroll down for a refresher video).
To make things even more interesting Segel will be operating Dracula the puppet and will be backed the L.A. indie rock band The Broken West. Throw in an appearance by fellow Sarah Marshall star (and frequent Late Late Show guest) Kristen Bell along with Wavy the crocodile puppet acting as host and you've got the makings of appointment television. (The kids are still into vampires, right?)
While Ferguson is celebrating his 1000th episode, the experimental daytime talk (and tweet) show It's On with Alexa Chung is getting the plug pulled by MTV after only one full season. What started out as a one hour pop culture variety show hosted by British model Alexa Chung was retooled as a 30-minute show when it came back for it's second season back in October. Its last week kicks off with the soulful Robin Thicke (Monday), but unfortunately ends with (an) All Time Low. Probably not the best way to go out, but I predict we haven't seen the last of the dynamic (and, dare I say, twig-legged) Alexa Chung.
Elsewhere, Spectacle brings back the Johnny Cash-style guitar pull again, this time with singer/songwriters Neko Case, Ron Sexsmith, Jesse Winchester and Sheryl Crow. (Which of these is not like the other?) If you saw the season two premiere with U2's Bono and The Edge, you'll be struck this time by how little time Costello has to spend with each artist in comparison. Poor Neko Case looks lost half the time, with nothing much to do for most the hour -- except threaten to use her brightly colored tambourine.
Finally, you may notice that Snoop Dogg is everywhere this week in support of his new album Malice 'N Wonderland. He starts the week on The Colbert Report (Monday), chats with the ladies of The View (Tuesday) and ends the week in the wee hours with Carson Daly. All the while, he's in your car, helping you get to your destination as the voice of your GPS navigation system. I told you... Snoop Dogg is EVERYWHERE:
As previewed on Monday, Craig Ferguson celebrated his 1000th Late Late Show episode last night, and it was chock full of puppety goodness. Wavy the Crocodile hosted and participated in the hottest cold open the talk show has done (scroll down). But the highlight, as we predicted, was Jason Segel with Dracula puppet singing "Dracula's Lament," complete with The Broken West backing him. 
