Both these and the Paris shows were made the same way, obviously. Shoot a bunch of intros. Shoot a show in a venue, then cut it up into nightly segments. Shoot a dinner party (or tea with crumpets) and cut that up into segments. Shoot a bunch of random set-pieces that can be inserted anywhere. Shoot some featured interviews on location. Shoot b-roll of the horse. Bring it all home for editing.
It's not how other talk shows visit other cities, obviously. The whole thing has the feel of a video blog on a local access channel, as parodied by Monty Python.
More than that, it's what you get when a show isn't trying to *be* anything except itself. Impossible to pigeonhole; sans categorie.
Not always successful, not always funny. I didn't like the band, for example, and wished for more variety in the music.
But it's ultimately about Craig himself, and his innate charm, intelligence, inquisitiveness, and profound sense of the absurd. That's what shines through in these location shows, and I find it to be fascinating.
