{"id":5554,"date":"2011-01-07T19:51:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T00:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=5554"},"modified":"2011-01-07T19:51:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T00:51:35","slug":"more-on-alex-kingstons-appearance-on-craig-fergusons-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5554","title":{"rendered":"More on Alex Kingston&#8217;s Appearance on Craig Ferguson&#8217;s Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed Alex Kingston&#8217;s appearance on Craig Ferguson&#8217;s show last night, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5552\">which I wrote about here<\/a>, here&#8217;s the clip of her segment of the show:<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GzPrNTKa0-4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GzPrNTKa0-4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>That whole &#8220;rabbits&#8221; thing that Kingston and Ferguson go on about?  <a href=\"http:\/\/rampantrabbits.co.uk\/\">It refers to this<\/a>.  Hmm, those things look like the mutanted love child of a saguaro cactus and X-23. :-\/<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I had to look that up myself, what it was.  Like Ferguson, I didn&#8217;t know.  Unlike Ferguson, I&#8217;m totally oblivious.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Morgan Freeman Reads Snooki&#8217;s Novel&#8221; thing was hilarious, though the Morgan Freeman impersonator could have been a little bit better.  Never having seen <i>Jersey Shore<\/i>, I&#8217;m wholly unfamiliar with Snooki, and based on last night&#8217;s show I&#8217;m pretty sure I want to <i>stay<\/i> unfamiliar with Snooki, yet the extracts of her novel remind me of the meth addicts I often see and hear on the morning train to work, and that&#8217;s really enough for me.<\/p>\n<p>One interesting thing about Kingston&#8217;s appearance on Craig Ferguson&#8217;s show last night was that, to record it, she missed the readthrough of episode seven, the mid-season cliffhanger, of the sixth season of <i>Doctor Who<\/i>.  Which could mean that River Song isn&#8217;t in the mid-season cliffhanger.  Or it could mean that, because she commutes from Los Angeles to Cardiff (which she mentioned to Ferguson) she didn&#8217;t <i>have<\/i> to be at the table reading.  (Not all actors make the table reading of the script.  John Barrowman wasn&#8217;t at the reading for <i>Torchwood: Children of Earth<\/i>, but that didn&#8217;t affect his performance any.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.  Kingston.  Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p>God, they were absolutely <i>hilarious<\/i> together, weren&#8217;t they? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed Alex Kingston&#8217;s appearance on Craig Ferguson&#8217;s show last night, which I wrote about here, here&#8217;s the clip of her segment of the show: That whole &#8220;rabbits&#8221; thing that Kingston and Ferguson go on about? It refers to this. Hmm, those things look like the mutanted love child of a saguaro cactus<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5554\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;More on Alex Kingston&#8217;s Appearance on Craig Ferguson&#8217;s Show&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[748,749,784],"class_list":["post-5554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctor-who","tag-alex-kingston","tag-craig-ferguson","tag-postaday2011","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}