Sign of the Apocalypse: Poetry discussed on late-night TV.
So, for anyone who missed this, Craig Ferguson and Stephen Fry got together for a special audience-less taping of Ferguson’s show– mock at will, but I so rarely watch any late-night, and Ferguson is the only late-night host I actually enjoy these days– and they managed to talk about Robert Graves, Twitter, substance abuse, Emma Thompson’s huge crush on Hugh Laurie, tattoos, W.H. Auden and Lady Gaga.
Dana Stevens discusses the show at Slate’s Brow Beat– the link in her post goes to two clips of the episode hosted at CBS.com. Here’s the CBS clip of the show:
The full interview is also available (in 6 sections) at this YouTube account.
If you enjoy Fry’s sort of humor, he wrote a stupendously clever book on formal poetry:

Enjoy!