Give me an awkward pause any day, PLEASE!

I'm not impressed with Jay Leno and I thought Conan O'Brien was funny, sure, but I couldn't concern myself too much with the late night wars when my favorite late night host was conducting business as usual. Maybe my humor is a little low brow — okay, for CERTAIN it is a little low brow — but I have had more tear inducing laughter in the past year of Craig Ferguson than I ever had watching Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien combined.

I'm a couple of weeks behind on my recorded Craigs, so I haven't even seen the new Robot Skeleton sidekick yet. What I did just see, though, was John Cusack's awkward pause. I have never laughed so hard at people doing nothing than I do with Craig Ferguson's awkward pauses. This one was especially funny because John Cusack wanted to do it in the middle of the interview [gasp], not at the end. Kind of threw Craig for a loop there. I may have to rank this awkward pause right up there in the top four, along with those of Kristen Bell, Simon Helberg, and Adhir Kalyan. The shoe-tying bit was good with Cusack, but Simon Helberg did the almost-leg-cross followed by the awkward smile. Then again, the entire interview with Adhir Kalyan was hilarious, including the awkward pause at the end. Yeah, good stuff.