{"id":729,"date":"2006-11-01T22:02:25","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T22:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=729"},"modified":"2006-11-01T22:02:25","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T22:02:25","slug":"carrie_fishers_likeness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/11\/01\/carrie_fishers_likeness\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Fisher&#8217;s Likeness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie Fisher was on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/latenight\/latelate\/\"><i>The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson<\/i><\/a> last night. For my money, Ferguson is the best late-night talk-show host we&#8217;ve got &#8212; Letterman and Leno are both way past their sell-bys, and I have never really warmed to Kimmel or Conan. Craig, though, is a hoot with his self-deprecating streak and naughty attitude, and Carrie is much the same; put the two of them together, and it&#8217;s guaranteed entertainment. Most of last night&#8217;s segment consisted of Craig giving her a bad time for having played Princess Leia in <i>Star Wars<\/i> and how, 30 years later, that&#8217;s still what she&#8217;s best known for. Carrie gave as good as she got, though; her funniest line, and the one I want to share with you now, was this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nGeorge [Lucas] owns my likeness, you know. That means everytime I look in the mirror I have to send him a couple of bucks.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah, good times, although I imagine Carrie&#8217;s delivery is better than mine. If I can find a video clip, I&#8217;ll post it up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie Fisher was on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson last night. For my money, Ferguson is the best late-night talk-show host we&#8217;ve got &#8212; Letterman and Leno are both way past their sell-bys, and I have never really warmed to Kimmel or Conan. Craig, though, is a hoot with his self-deprecating streak and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-wars","category-the-glass-teat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}