Shirley Manson on Craig Ferguson

It’s no secret that I think Craig Ferguson has been the biggest gold mine of late night comedy that’s come our way in a long long long time. Garbage’s Shirley Manson is playing a rather humorless robot on Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I’ve seen the behind-the-scene clips and it’s been apparent that being that serious on set takes real acting on Shirley’s part.

So, when you put these two Scots together (excuse me, one Scot and one American), there’s bound to be so many laughs that nothing could dampen the mood, not even if a dreary Scottish rain gave it a good go. Then again, maybe it wasn’t them. Perhaps it was the magic of Tom Selleck and Barry Manilow.

In any case, pull up a couch and enjoy this detour from The Late Late Show:

And since they made several references to what they’d talked about the last time, here’s a clip of that as well: