Markus Persson on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

[Pretty Obscure]

If you guys honestly think that was a bad or awkward interview, then you clearly don't watch The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. And you really should.

[Crest]

Yea they aren't really interviews. He takes "Talk show" to a real new level. It's just them chatting about whatever. I find his stuff the most fun to watch.

[C O Y O T E]

[QUOTE=qwea00;42799280]Well, he's swedish so I can understand if he's not comfortable enough with his english to speak longer sentences.

Still funny though.[/QUOTE]

If anything it's less about knowing the language and more that us Swedes are awkward as fuck socially to begin with

[Mud]

[QUOTE=geogzm;42798560]Being interviewed really seems like a hard thing to fuck up and yet most of the minecraft devs seem pretty fast to do it.

"You're from Sweden?"
"Yes."
"You've been to America before?"
"A few times."

It's like this guy's the protagonist of a Fallout game or something. He could easily say "Yes, it's pretty nice over there" or something to give the interviewer something to play off of, or "Unfortunately, yes" for the America question to make a little joke about the country or something.

basic conversational skills are dumb[/QUOTE]

Actually it's pretty clear both of them have the same style of comedy. Notch is just being straight-faced to Craig's questions. The awkward tone feels more like being played for laughs if anything. You're gripping at straws right now.

[Zuimzado]

Feel like some context needs to be added for people to understand Craig Ferguson:

His sidekick is an animatronic robot skeleton voiced live by a guy backstage, his other sidekick is two guys dressed like horse, everything, from his monologue to the "read the tweets" segment is mostly imrpovised (to the point there are times he does little sketches in the read the tweets segment and then has to read all emails in, like, 1 and a half minutes) and if you look closely, when Notch sits down, Craig rips his notes to pieces, something he does before starting every interview. He almost never talks about what they're there to promote, and it often ends up being funnier than almost everything out in the late night talk show world.

[Sgt. Napalm]

[QUOTE=Killer900;42802654]Let's put all of you on a national talk-show being watched by hundreds of thousands of people and see how well you do in conversation. (Probably worse than Notch I'd reckon, who actually handled it pretty well, so be quiet)[/QUOTE]

I blame it more on Craig. Usually he's good at making conversation but I felt like he obviously didn't know about videogames so he didn't know what to ask.

[Lukeo]

I remember the Stephen Fry episode he did where they just had a chat, was great.