He was also the sidekick in the new Jackie Chan movie, Skiptrace -- it didn't get much of a release here, but it's one of Chan's biggest hits in China.

He had some good points, but I think his constant fall back to sexual inuendo and or former drug use was annoying.

I also think his sidekick was funnier than him. Craig's basically a prop comedian.

Couldn't watch it, this manic glibness works for sitcom sidekicks but is annoying in this context.

It's a bullshit term but i think it's just a sign of the times. There have always been moronic fads that gained traction with a certain type of person. Only now we exist in a time when these imbeciles are on the net broadcasting their gullibility and enthusiasm for buzz topics. Which means more people (and internationally) jump on the bandwagon and before you know it you have entire communities of insular, fact-resistant cliques (*cough*Tumblr*cough*), confirming each other's opinions in the perfect echo chamber.

It's as though they overhear a decent point about something, it gains popularity with others and they get a bit carried away in the furor of it all and black out. The next thing they remember is physically attacking and harassing some poor dude with dreadlocks, laughing at his discomfort and attacking someone peacefully filming it. Does she realise she was bullying someone? Is she laughing because she knows he's male and therefore can't physically defend himself from a female, allowing her to shove and grab him with impunity?

Exactly whose rights are being trampled on here? What kind of equality is she and her sidekick promoting?

Nobody here understands 'for shits and giggles'.
I like saying that. A lot.

But they don't know what a 'sidekick' is either.

These people are dutch. The Dutch don't dub movies or TV shows, so these guys are pretty much marinaded in american vernacular.
I'm german and I have to explain the word 'sidekick' everytime I use it. Thank god for Batman and Robin.

Ugh, I hate this "absurdist" "comedy".

Just reinforces the idea that doing stupid shit will make you famous somehow.

Wish that old man had taekwando sidekicked the SHIT out of him, right in the chest.

Definitely rummaging around the bottom of the barrel. On the other hand, I understand that's how we got 'Guardians of the Galaxy' and I thought that turned out great.

I've never heard of Ant Man before, but I take it that his super power is that he can shrink himself down to the size of an ant and, I dunno, probably communicate with insects. That could be interesting, although it's definitely more of a 'useful sidekick' sort of character than a lone hero.

My take on the Craig Ferguson show is that it would be a lot better if he was funny. When your sidekick is funnier then you , that's trouble. And if you take out the gay insinuations, references to past drug problems, and hamming it up to the camera, there's little content left at all.

Full interview also quite funny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX8no3GqjyM

Actually great chemistry, I wish she was his sidekick

This has been around for awhile, the Keystone Kops were more subtle than this nonsense. I was waiting for the silent movie title card "And along comes his sidekick to the rescue".

Constantine had a fair number of sidekicks and associates over the years, the ones who didn't end up dead think he's a right bastard most of the time; and the dead ones think even less of him. At least it looks like it follows the source material more closely than the movie did, even found an actor that actually looks like him. I had never ever heard of this before now so I'm curious to see how it turns out but I'm not optimistic about how long it will last.

I am left-handed and I part from left to right. Also, I'm not a "bad-guy" or goofball sidekick.

I actually thought the kid sidekick was one of the better kid sidekicks in movies and arguably, even a subversion.

and a fantastic line....
"Dads leave sometimes, you don't have to be a pussy about it."

What I don't get is how Hollywood has apparently ignored the lesson of Spiderman 3 where they simply tried to do WAY too much in one movie and unsuccessfully tried to pull off 3 villain plots.

Iron Man 3 was just all over the place, The extremis plot, the Mandarin plot, Tony's little mental breakdown thing, the kid sidekick thing. It was so unfocused. Instead of doing one story well, they tried to pull of 3-4 stories poorly.

Maya Hansen was pretty crucial to the comic book Extremis story, but in the movie she was completely useless and was nothing but another woman for Tony to flirt with.