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Hello, my lovelies!
I'm addicted to Craig Ferguson.
Remember him? Mr. Wick, the sleazy boss from The Drew Carey Show?
"He is best known in the U.S. for his role on The Drew Carey Show, where he played Nigel Wick, Drew Carey's boss.
Of his over-the-top English accent on the series, Ferguson noted that plenty of English actors had used bad Scottish accents in the past, so it was time for a Scottish actor to use a bad English accent." (Wikipedia)
I couldn't stand him in that actually, but I'm loving him as a late night talk show host. No stupid band (he sings the happy, bouncy opening song himself,) and the man actually knows how to do a monologue, not just string a bunch of one-liners together.
"Ferguson's first show aired on January 4, 2005, with reasonably successful results since then. Initially, Ferguson opened each show with a scripted monologue and prepared jokes, as done on most late night talk shows. However, as the show progressed, Ferguson (who introduces himself as "TV's Craig Ferguson") began improvising, to the point of using only an outline one year later." (Wikipedia)
Wonderful Scottish accent, great sense of humor, and is perfectly able to talk to a guest without sounding like he's interviewing off the staff-prepared talking points.
"While appearing on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" (1993), he had host Conan O'Brien laughing so hard that he couldn't continue with his show and Craig ended up doing all the talking." (IMDB)
Ferguson now garners 2.0 million viewers nightly, as compared to O'Brien's 2.5 million. He was nominated for an Emmy in 2006, largely due to the strength of his monologues, especially one paying tribute to his father the day after he died.
No stranger to controversy, Craig used to go by the stage name, "Bing Hitler". He royally pissed off the entire city of Toronto by joking that he'd rather stay on a crashing plane than get off in Toronto. He stopped wearing a tie on the air, (horrors!) to CBS' great consternation, and laughs that he makes up news just like Fox News does.
His show's on right after Letterman. ::sob:: He does wear a tie these days - quite a wayward tie, if truth be told - but don't dare suggest he wear a tie tack!
Dump Leno, Letterman, the guy that whines about his golf game, and that red-headed idiot, whatever his name is... give me Craig Ferguson for late night tv!
That wicked Scots accent. How can you resist?
This funny column appeared in the Washington Post. Pictured, Craig Ferguson as Tom Cruise.Ewan McGregor interviewed April 28, 2008
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"Ewan McGregor" - ESPN UK Skit April 28, 2008
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Host Craig Ferguson of The Late Late Show reenacts the wide-spread Tom Cruise Scientology video
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Go behind-the-scenes as host of The Late Late Show passes his official U.S. citizenship test
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The Late Late Show follows host Craig Ferguson as he is sworn in as an official United States citizen.
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"The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson"Craig Ferguson (born May 17, 1962) is a Scottish-American comedian, television host, actor, and writer. He is the current host of CBS's The Late Late Show, a role which earned him an Emmy nomination in 2006. He became an American citizen on February 1, 2008.
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White House Correspondent's Dinner
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White House Correspondent's Dinner
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TONIGHT!Bill Maher and guests discuss Mormons and religion in general compared to politics.
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the lovely craig ferguson plays the harp!
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From Publishers Weekly: A gallery of grotesques slogs through the sewers of the entertainment industry toward redemption in this exhilarating debut novel from the host of The Late Late Show. Leading the pack are Fraser, a Scottish "phony TV evangelist... drunken, selfish media prick... gossip and sot" who has been disgraced in a sex scandal; his cancer-stricken boyhood pal, George; vapid sit-com star Leon; and Leon's 300-pound, sexually perverted Svengali brother, Saul....
Imagine a Cheech and Chong pothead comedy, only instead of two scruffy lowlifes, the movie is about an aimless Scottish gardener and a middle-aged British widow with a green thumb. Grace has just discovered that her recently deceased husband has left her with an enormous debt when her gardener Matthew asks her to help him tend to his small, personal-use marijuana crop.
A British camera crew follows Crawford Mackenzie (Craig Ferguson), a Scottish hairstylist, as he travels to Los Angeles to take part in the Platinum Scissors Competition, put on by the World Hairdressing International Federation. Unfortunately, it turns out that Crawford misread the invitation, which was only to be in the audience. But he refuses to let that stop him, and works his way through the L.A. social world. In the process, he befriends Sean Connery's agent (Frances Fisher), who helps him finally get a chance to show the world his hairstyling genius.
This low-key, thoroughly delightful comedy is the product of Scottish comic/actor/writer/director Craig Ferguson's goofy and sweet imagination. Ferguson plays retired rock star Paul Kerr, a 1980s sensation whose whiskey-fueled antics in a Welsh mansion land him, involuntarily, in a psychiatric hospital. In short order, an old bandmate (Ralph Brown) turns up to help Paul get sober, and a long-lost love (Jemma Redgrave) introduces the mortified musician to an adolescent daughter (Charlotte Church) he never knew he had.
Craig Ferguson: Do you do therapy?
What a great quote in this article:
Interview with the St. Petersberg Times, in which Craig hints he might leave The Late Late Show at the end of his six year contract:Craig Ferguson brings us a clip of JK's newest show.
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I didn't even know he was looking!
In a Scottish opera, it ain't over 'till the fat lady bitchslaps you.Will Yahoo bother to filter their feed, or will they slap everything up here just to get their name on the page?
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