Join or Die with Craig Ferguson

2016
Join or Die with Craig Ferguson

Seasons & Episodes

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EP1 History's Biggest Political Blunder Feb 18, 2016

Jimmy Kimmel, Jen D'Angelo and Howard Bragman discuss history's biggest political blunder.

EP2 History's Worst Medical Advice Feb 18, 2016

Chris Hardwick, comic Jordan Carlos and scientist Bob Pflugfelder discuss history's worst medical advice.

EP3 History's Biggest Frenemies Feb 25, 2016

Courtney Cox, comedian Dan Soder and author/comedian Michael Ian Black debate and discuss history's biggest frenemies.

EP4 History's Most Doomed Presidential Campaign Mar 03, 2016

Guests Elijah Wood, comedian Bryan Callen and Professor Dan Schnur discuss history's most doomed presidential campaign.

EP5 History's Worst Tyrant Mar 10, 2016

Julie Bowen, Dan Levy and Laila Lalami discuss the worst tyrants in history.

EP6 History's Craziest Cult Mar 17, 2016

Jack Black, Tymberlee Hill and Stephen Prothero talk about crazy cults.

EP7 History's Greatest Invention Since 1950 Mar 24, 2016

Trace Adkins, Kate Flannery and Lori Greiner talk about great inventions of the past half century.

EP8 History's Most Influential Band Mar 31, 2016

Lars Ulrich, Tom Papa and Alan Light talk about great rock bands,

EP9 History's Most Influential Drug Apr 07, 2016

David Eisenbach, Maria Bello and Derek Waters talk medicine.

EP10 History's Biggest Fall from Grace Apr 14, 2016

Jay Leno, Mark Forward and Howard Bragman

EP11 History's Greatest Man-Made Structure Apr 21, 2016

Adam Goldberg, Noel Wells and Ty Pennington talk great modern mysteries

EP12 History's Most Plausible Conspiracy Theory Apr 28, 2016

Judd Apatow, Kurt Braunohler and Mike Massimino don tin foil hats.

EP13 History's Biggest Presidential Bad Boy May 05, 2016

Angela Kinsey, Heather McDonald and Joel Stein talk bad boy presidents.

EP14 History's Dumbest Mistake May 12, 2016

Dan Riskin, Ian Abramson and Tim Meadows talk about the dumbest mistakes in history.

EP15 History's Greatest Unsolved Mystery May 12, 2016

Michael Ian Black, Josh Wolf and Jason Biggs channel Robert Stack for a look at famous unsolved mysteries.

EP16 History's Greatest Gangster May 19, 2016

Derrick Pitts, Thomas Dale and Joel McHale talk about the greatest gangsters to ever have lived.

EP17 History's Greatest Unexplained Phenomenon May 19, 2016

Mike Massimino, Megan Amram and Larry King talk about the greatest known unexplained phenomena.

EP18 History's Most Defiant Moments of the Last 75 Years May 26, 2016

John Avlon, Yvette Nicole Brown and Lisa Kudrow talk about big mmoments where people still revolt.

EP19 History's Best Founding Father May 26, 2016

Joel Stein, Jo Koy and Fred Willard discuss the founding fathers.

EP20 History's Biggest Fraud Jun 09, 2016

Joel Stein, Russell Peters and Michael Sheen talk about history's frauds.

EP21 History's Biggest Badass Jun 09, 2016

Evy Poumpouras, Mark Forward and Regis Philbin talk about the badasses of history.
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Released: 18 February 2016 Ended
Producted By: New Wave Entertainment
Country: United States of America
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Official Website: http://www.history.com/shows/join-or-die-with-craig-ferguson
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Featuring comedian Craig Ferguson debating provocative and timely topics in his unorthodox and iconoclastic manner. Each episode features a panel of guests which will include celebrities, comedians and experts, as well as the American public through social media. History is back on the History Channel.

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thelastthoughtwasnone After reading the reviews posted I'm a bit surprised that fans of the show and of Craig Ferguson seem to forget is that it is meant to promote discussion yet the focus seems primarily on the format and how the topics are approached. Rather then point out flaws that don't meet the standards by which you judge the way it should be presented, why don't you get your own friends and have a conversation about the same topic. More then likely someone is going to go for the joke or just try and be funny for the sake of being funny. Even the actual Experts that go on the show have a laugh about it not because its expected, but because there are times in history that are that stupid, even they can have a laugh about it. As far as talking about more major historical events going back thousands of years, get your own friends and discuss it among yourselves, don't expect a TV show to do that for you. Craig said it very clearly but I'll just repeat whats already been said. "Its just a stupid TV show, calm down."
rzajac Not giving this more than a 5 'cause I'm a snooty, snot-nosed elitist wannabe who expected a show like this to be more grounded, exacting, and informative. While being funny and warm and endearing, as one rightfully expects from Ferguson, Join or Die seems too mired in its limitations-on-behalf-of-format.He has one actual expert and two funny people as guests. The premise identifies 6 exemplars of the theme (e.g., biggest political blunder), and has to winnow them down to one. The panel of experts gets it down to two and the audience executes the coup de grace.Y'know, the composition of the panel doesn't bother me so much. The problem is that the token expert tends to get seriously short shrifted. Half the nuggets of insight into the rubric are already known to me; I'm appreciative of the other half; but I'm dismayed that some other serious considerations of the subject don't get raised, and niggle at the thought that they weren't raised because the time it would take to raise them "has to be" spent springing middle-brow quips.For instance, it grated my sensibilities when Ferguson himself asked a question of the expert, only to derail an actual answer to the question asked in deference to an impulse to curry a bubbling, barely humorous inanity.I was rather touched and dismayed in the first episode when the expert mischievously took a poke at the paper-thin political blunders theme by mentioning that "blunders" like the O'Donnell campaign diminish to nothingness next to real, monumental, and arguably made-to-order blunders like the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Craig immediately went into a sort of mini-damage-control mode, as he fully understands the parameters and range of his format and needed to nip this heresy-against-format in the bud, toot sweet.Well, that about says it, right? If you find the format to be in your comfort zone, then you'll love Join or Die. I just sort of think it sad that Craig is accepting a status quo that obviates the addressing of very real issues--so real that they threatened to take down the very country to which he has sworn his fealty.The rather stilted format decision to keep it a bit too light takes a bite out of Join or Die, in my book. Perhaps a good way to highlight this shortcoming in my mind is to size it up against very, very decent infotainment products, such as "Adam Ruins Everything" and "Drunk History". I understand that the difference is that these two shows are produced artifacts, and Craig's new addiction--the live show format--may well limit his ability to create a firehose-of-info effect.But... There's got to be a way. I just feel that these first two installments of Join or Die are NOT THAT WAY.I'll continue to watch, in hopes that he finds... that way. 'Til then, I can't give it very high marks.
Christopher Smith Craig Ferguson is the most underrated comedian in America. "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" provided the best late night entertainment had to offer for a decade, and he remains the funniest comic I've ever seen perform live. Needless to say, I'm a huge fan. His new show, "Join or Die with Craig Ferguson", is likely to please those like me who are fans of Ferguson's, as it seems like a natural extension of "The Late Late Show." The show has Ferguson doing a bunch of his usual jokes and accents in a monologue that introduces the topic of the given episode, then the show transitions to the discussion period with three celebrity guests. The three celebrity guests and Ferguson then discuss the historical topic of the episode with various side stories and lots of crude jokes. At half an hour, there are times when this second part of the show seems to go on a bit too long, though the majority of each episode is highly entertaining and occasionally hilarious. Ultimately, the success of the series will depend on how interesting/funny the celebrity guests of each episode are. Ferguson makes for a perfect host, but the three guests do most of the talking during the panel discussion, for obvious reasons. As long as the topics and guests remain engaging, the show should be able to remain as enjoyable as it is now. The format and content of "Join or Die" may not be ground-breaking, but the show itself is very funny and well worth checking out. 7/10
nickbrockdorff Craig Ferguson is still one of the funniest people on the planet.But, this format is terrible.It started well, with a familiar feeling cold open, that made everyone laugh.But, enter the panel, to discuss "the biggest political blunders in history"..... and apparently that doesn't really mean "history" - it rather means "within the past 20 years, because nobody remembers further back".Add to that, that the short format means you never really get any in-depth discussion, because you need to hurry it along, to the rapidly approaching end of the short show.It leaves you with a feeling, that it might as well be a TMZ panel discussing the latest Kardashian story..... shallow, mildly entertaining and quickly forgotten.I hope the format changes.... both in length and in depth, because otherwise this will be a one-season run, for one of my favorite comedians, unfortunately.