Craig Ferguson 10/27/11Dpt1 Late Late Show Kunal Nayyar XD

[@moes_film]

i love the entrance riff. .

[@sonablom]

06:21 i've had to watch over and over again. hilarious!

[@elliem93]

Thanks Mal for the great job you do for all us robo skellies who cant watch the show on TV!!! I do love me some G.P and the Fergs

[@mrwitzigwitzig]

I don't mean to be obnoxious but across the Mid-East to East Asia, showing your feet to someone is a grave insult. Remember the Iraqi throwing his shoes at Bush... not so much the shoe but the fact that the shoe is the vessel for (morally) 'dirty' feet. Or see the Green Revolution across N Africa & Middle East at the moment: People stamp on posters/pictures specifically because of this notion. Remember Iraqis stamping on Saddam's statue?! Or across S-E Asia you sit w your feet pointing away.

[@ayshay9000]

i was drinking water when craig got his foot out, now my laptop screen is completely covered with water ..

[@mabr20]

pls does any 1 know the tune playing when kunal walks in? what song is it? too short for sound hound to detect

[@mrwitzigwitzig]

@mysterychemistry What a Freudian slip: "Asian lover"... U really prove to define Ur surroundings through Ur lense on the world. I've lived & worked 37 years on 4 continents in all major religions (save Judaism) & don't feel at home anywhere but love it everywhere. I'm married w a very self-confident lady from a continent different than where I was both born & the continent I was raised. I don't need lectures from a want-to-be cosmopolitan. So yes, watch Kunal on Lopez. It might open Ur mind.

[@mrwitzigwitzig]

@KornerCut This isn't about Craig. I never attacked him and referred to him as The Fergasm. You live in the US, define yourself as "Asian" but ignore Kunal's situation instead focussing on Craig. Kunal is British Indian, if you had any idea about the tight British Indian community, had follwed eg. Kunal's comments on his connection with 'Indian culture" (on eg. Lopez) you'd apply a little empathy to what is actually going on in this 'foot scene'. I do realise I'm responding to people from US.

[@mrwitzigwitzig]

@mysterychemistry Many Asian cultures have 3 division principle. An early eg. would be Hinduism & its cosmology. This principle is repeatedly found in the idea of water - earth - air (heaven/sky) or architecture or body (feet - torso - head) or immediate world (holy mountain - land - water) or caste system. Principle: Sacred-mundane-undesirable Apart from 'undesirable feet', ever noticed that in SEA you 'knee walk' in holiest part of a Buddhist temple & don't touch another's head ('sacred')?

[@klimmtjaques]

I wish I had a foot fetish.

[@mrwitzigwitzig]

@mysterychemistry It isn't artificial when the Indian starts crying whe you step on him & the Thai Buddhist is existentially insulted when you walk in the holiest part of his temple. (An existential insult is very different than if I walk with my shoes in your living/bed room... assuming that's the rule in your house). So when someone 'dangles their toes in your face' you can make a physical, an intellectual joke etc. but Kunal is pinned in his seat. He doesn't change a bit the whole time.

[@SuperHiddenaccount]

@mrwitzigwitzig don't know about other places in SE Asia but in Vietnam, there's nothing insulting about the feet pointed in certain directions

[@mygirlfanatic]

kunal seems like a sweetie pie!!!

[@ryanb9304]

YAAAAAAAAAS!!! Craig Ferguson!!! LOVE FEET!!!!!!!!

[@mrwitzigwitzig]

@TVsCraigFerguson2 Look I love The Fergasm too :-) But do take a close look at how uncomfortable Kunal is, despite his talk of 'ugly feet'. Notice how he never, not even once decides to make a physical joke with Craig's feet... which would have been the obvious thing to do with the foot just a .... foot away ;-) Doesn't take a psychologist to see & sense that there's more going on with Kunal. He really is uncomfortable.

[@VieShaphiel]

I do agree that he seems seriously uncomfortable but if that was because of what @mrwitzigwitzig said I think he would have explained so, or at least mention something about cultural difference. To a Taiwanese like me the theory sounds unfamiliar, by the way, if anybody cares.

[@VoodooGypsy]

@meshzy13 In some cultures showing the bottom of your foot/feet is disrespectful. Not sure if that is in play here, but just another thing to know about the world. :)

[@Kanza535]

wut? I'm indian and have never heard that.

[@mrwitzigwitzig]

@mysterychemistry Thanks for proving my point. U are so caught in Ur own limited view of things (ontology) & range of abilities to self-reflect (epistemology) that U can't empathise. Ur view of things constantly gets in the way. Now U defensively threaten me? Impressed. Just watch the whole foot-chapter again & observe Kunal closely - both in his physical/verbal reactions. Maybe at the very least you'll start thinking that there could be something else going on than just Kunal 'playing around'.

[@SueBeaWho]

What is up with the big internet debate? Kunal is just grossed out by feet. Big deal. If you listen closely he even gasps "Gross!!"

[@mrwitzigwitzig]

@mysterychemistry Yes, but it is clearly w their own feet in their own 'private space'. In no way would they do it w implications for someone nearby... very much aware of avoiding a situation that could be misunderstood. The reason for Ur saints etc.: Because they are not considered mere mortals & symbolically reside in a space above us. To show reverance we are literally barely worthy of 'kissing their feet'. So that is what we do; think ourselves blessed to kiss holy feet. (U expect more!!?)

[@anablic]

Craig has LOVELY feet !!!

[@JohnnyRa7]

7:06 did he just say "look at lesbian row right now, theyre salivating" just because theyre a group of women?

[@1yearOLD]

I have the same thing about feet with socks. I can't have any respect for person, when i see his feet with socks. !

[@mrwitzigwitzig]

@mysterychemistry I had 90% of my interaction with you. So is this your way of backing out of a losing argument? And trolls don't go to the trouble of responding constructively to people that answer them. So again, you are as you do with Kunal defining others as you would like to perceive them. You need to learn how to let go of your (pre-)conceptions. Seriously, watch the foot incident again. See if you tell me that you don't realise that there is much more going on within Kunal than 'a joke'?

[@mrwitzigwitzig]

@mysterychemistry And the true lesson one learns from interacting with other cultures is that there are vastly differing ontologies. So you're brushing over of differences plus silly black & white "do as Romans do" is a sad reflection of a person who hasn't truly self-reflected. Reality is full of ambiguity, ambivalency, contingency. That's what theists try to run from but can't. Learn to let go and 'Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster' (Nietzsche).

[@sydandtaytum]

@mrwitzigwitzig if u are from china or taiwan, NOTHING happens, so dont group everyone in the same category

[@garypoet]

i considered the cultural/ religious aspect - but i think feet just gross him out a bit.

[@vida0video]

dr. cutie pie :D

[@mrwitzigwitzig]

@bonwei If you had lived in North Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Indonesia like I have then you'd be aware that all of these countries have clear cultural notions regarding feet. As a student I saw an Indian (male) student start sobbing when after some fun wrestling the Swedish student put one foot on his lying body in a sign of playful victory. Sorry if U are from China, Taiwan, Japan or S Korea... I wonder what would happen if you put your naked foot in front of a guest?

[@mrwitzigwitzig]

@mysterychemistry If you've lived in Asia I'm sad to see you've not learnt to let go. Enough of this pointless exchange as you are essentially trapped by your own ontological & epistemological paradigms. Good luck & next time you travel, try letting go & slip fully into the other. I notice over & over again how outsiders are most of the time not even aware of the many small taboos they break. The 'locals' are just too decent & accomodating to let the outsider know. Let the Fergasm be Fergasm

[@OhWelldoneSherlock]

i dont like feet either, they just gross me out

[@Smokeshowgg]

hes indian.....

[@mrwitzigwitzig]

@bonwei I shouldn't respond to your pityfull political correctness but here goes: Tell me which country you are from and I'll show you how the cosmological 3 layering principle works there too. Feet being the lowest layer will also have cultural significance... so give it a try! :-) Considering the limit of characters a comment can contain I got as specific as I could: N Africa, Pakistan, India, S-E Asia. Want to disagree on any of these? Go ahead, try me. I bet you grew up in the US?!

[@mrwitzigwitzig]

@mysterychemistry "would it count as an insult"... don't ask me, ask the pope. That's where Ur empathy obviously hits on its limits. U keep defining for others what they are & how they think. Ever lived anywhere in Asia? Stupid argument: "half of the people walk w open toes". Again, social norms define when that is perfectly fine & when not. When I sit on the floor in a house in Indonesia, I avoid (like everyone else) pointing my naked feet at anyone. The soles of my feet would be even worse.

[@bonwei]

@mrwitzigwitzig I'm from east Asia and all I am gravely insulted by is the fact that you roped all the cultures in and made an unwarranted generalization about cultures you might not know about.

[@Notownsoad]

@mrwitzigwitzig who cares? its the usa and hollywood. ... youre not his father, and malinky doesn't personally tutor craig on his "mistakes" that you "find". get over it. live. love. laugh, baby