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. ... http://www.squidoo.com/tvscraigferguson Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:47:05 -0600 FeedCreator 1.7.2 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:59:17 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/tvscraigferguson 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! Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:59:17 -0600