Craig Ferguson 👍👽

Life is Short with Justin Long

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Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 9.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Craig Ferguson (The Late Late Show) and Justin talk about what made his late night hosting style so unique, how he found sobriety at age 29, why he has continued to do standup comedy over the years and how the punk rock era of the '70s and '80s influenced how he approaches life.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to Life is Short, add free on Amazon Music.
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0:13.9	Staying up late when we were kids was always so exciting, it was rare, and it was different.
0:19.9	I mean, late to us was 9 o'clock.
0:23.5	I remember when we'd be allowed to watch those specials on CBS.
0:27.1	I remember the graphic of the CBS special coming toward you on the screen was so exciting.
0:34.6	You know, if there was like a holiday special, like, oh, you know, if there was a holiday
0:40.0	special, like how the Grinch stole Christmas or something like that, and we were allowed
0:45.6	to be up a little bit later, and then, and then as we got older, our bedtime was pushing
0:49.6	a little bit at a little bit, but still, it was not what we would now consider late
0:54.2	night.
0:55.2	And as teenagers, we were kind of allowed to be up, I think, to whenever.
0:59.8	I just think the idea of staying up late has had an interesting journey throughout our
1:05.2	lives.
1:06.2	It's gone from restrictive when you're kids, even though we wanted to stay up as late as
1:10.4	possible, but we weren't allowed to.
1:12.7	And then once we were allowed to, we did for several years stay up way too late and
1:17.1	had a lot of fun.
1:18.1	But now as we've gotten older, whether I want to or not, I can't do it.
1:22.4	You can't do it.
1:23.4	I can't do it.
1:24.4	It's not good now.
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