I think every H/W fan should watch the Leno interview because it is TRULY AMAZING given that the TPTB are trying to market HL's character House as a sex symbol that no woman can resist. After that interview I just totally fell in love with HL all over again. Remembering that interview............. :wub: ....then there's Jay's slip of the tongue....That's sounds so dirty :oops:

The only ones that were genuinely cringeworthy were because the hosts were so utterly self-absorbed (the dreadful Dennis Miller), I really enjoyed the Dennis Miller interview- it was a chance to hear Hugh's opinions on things other than the showbiz questions he is always asked. Regis on the otherhand was just embarressing..

I don't know if they worked together, because I'm not familiar with Ferguson's UK career. When Hugh was on his show he just mentioned being a big fan of Hugh's comedy, how famous Hugh was in the UK, etc. and didn't mention any personal relationship. Doesn't mean there couldn't be one, of course, but just going by their interaction on the show neither mentioned being friends.

Hugh and Craig Here you go, DrS

I don't know if they worked together, because I'm not familiar with Ferguson's UK career. When Hugh was on his show he just mentioned being a big fan of Hugh's comedy, how famous Hugh was in the UK, etc. and didn't mention any personal relationship. Doesn't mean there couldn't be one, of course, but just going by their interaction on the show neither mentioned being friends. I have no idea if they're actually friends or not, but they've worked together and they've known each other for a long time. They'd be social and work aquaintances at the very least. I also have no idea if Hugh and Dennis are really friends, but I do love the image that the brief mention of the two of them hanging out, drinking martinis and seeing "Waiting for Guffman" conjures up and I've always wondered what other interesting people were with them at the time. While HL was certainly embarrassed about the Polaroid commercial, I found it funny. He seemed to have a sense of humor about it, cracked a good joke about it and they moved on with the interview. He's a big boy, and it didn't look like he was about to slit his wrists because he saw himself onscreen. I certainly agree with the fact that he's a grown up and I'm not going to feel too sorry for someone because they walked onto a chat show and the host dared to actually mention something that they did earlier in their career. I mean, c'mon...he's not walking into these shows blindly. He knows there could be clips, he knows that they could stray from the script and he knows that he's dealing with, by and large, comedians who are looking for him to give them some laughs. I will admit, though, that the second Ellen interview is the only time that I've ever felt bad for him for the moment that it was happening. He did seem to freeze and while I agree that he didn't look like he was going to slit his wrists, he did very much look like, had the option existed, he would have pulled the lever and disappeared through a trap door. He recovered quickly, though. Because he's a professional who's been doing interviews for 20 years and knows the drill.

The one time I remember HL and CF performing together is in the condom language sketch. They don't seem like close friends to me, but rather guys who have been in the same UK showbiz circles and, perhaps, being in the US, have more in common as outsiders here than they ever did in the UK. But I have nothing to base that on, it's all ymmv. Interesting to see the different interpretations of those interviews. As I recall the Dennis Miller one, HL barely got to say a word while DM ranted on about his story, and HL looked extremely uncomfortable about what DM was saying: but then seems that others didn't see that at all. Memory may be unreliable. So, yeah, best to see them yourself and make up your own mind. None of us has a clue what he's really feeling anyway since he's so adorable at being flustered: he is always interesting to watch, and every now and then he says something genuinely fascinating. Or just laughs exquisitely (see Pracatan's Mama Mia).

Here's the Dennis Miller interview. Toward the end, there's a pop up ad for Jose Canseco The Big Idea with Donny Deutsche Tonight 10pm ET Canseco was on that show on July 14, 2005. If it were a repeat of The Big Idea, the interview was probably at the beginning of S2. DM says "The last time I was with you we got blitzed on black pepper martinis and we went to Santa Monica and saw Waiting for Guffman." Waiting for Guffman was released in 1996. If they hadn't seen each other in 9 years, I don't think the friendship is too close.

I don't think they were ever close friends either, just a couple of guys who have hung out socially because their respective circles overlapped. That said, I do have a friend who *is* a close friend of mine and I haven't seen her in person in 12 years. It happens. The interview is from March 14, 2005, towards the end of season one when Zucker was pulling some strings to get Hugh out there for some promotion. Coincidentally, it's sitting two feet from me on a (miraculously) labeled VHS tape that I can't bring myself to toss out in spite of having dubbed it to DVD and downloaded a copy for "safe keeping". If I ever got a real vacation I'm afraid that I'd waste it just forcing myself to clean out crap that I don't need.

I wish I could say what prompted me to listen to the audio commentary of Maybe Baby again--(I don't even really like that movie very much)--but it had been years and I was bored this afternoon and.... Oh well, enough introduction. I had totally forgotten how damn hilarious parts of it were, particularly when Ben & Hugh are talking about how annoying it is to have facial hair glued on when and then stand around under the hot lights all day long. At some point they realize they sound like a bunch of whining prima donnas and then liken that facial hair torture to what Japanese POWs had to go through. Hugh: How would we have survived in a Japanese POW camp with this kind of talk? Ben: I don't know Hugh: It was terrible, they made us wear a false beard and so eventually I told them the date of the Normandy landings. I just couldn't take it any longer, everybody cracked. Ben: You told the Japanese? Hugh: The Japanese, well, they weren't interested. Normandy? Cracked me up. But I still don't like Maybe Baby.

There are some new pictures here if you want to see. They're supposedly taken yesterday (the 24th).

He's and looking quite hot, if I dare say so. (And even the daily mail might not be able to spin a misery story around them.) Thanks for the link! edited because I'm stupid