Friday Funday: Craig Ferguson
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we talk anything and everything and pretty much run with it. Today's
blog is on the comedian Craig Ferguson.
Ferguson
was born in Stobhill hospital in Glasgow to Robert and Janet Ferguson
on May 17th 1962. Ferguson attended both Muirfield Primary
school and Cumbernauld High school before beginning an apprenticeship
to be an electronics technician at the local factory owned by
American company Burroughs Corporation at aged 16. Feguson's first
experience with entertainment was as the drummer in a rock band
called Exposure before joining a punk band headed by Peter Capaldi
called The Bastards from Hell later renamed Dreamboys. They regularly
played in Glasgow from 1980-1982, Ferguson credits Capaldi as his
inspiration for going into comedy.
In the
later 1980's Ferguson worked in comedy and spent several years
attending the Edinburgh Fringe Festival particularly being a hit in
the '86 Fringe. In the early 1990's Ferguson starred on both stage
and screen in the likes of One foot in the grave, Red Dwarf, Friday
at the dome, The Rocky Horror show and Bad Boy Johnny and the
Prophets of Doom. Ferguson moved to the US in 1994 when his
soon-to-be agent Rick Siegel saw him in Edinburgh and suggested the
move, this had been his second move to America after living in NYC
for a year in the '80's.
Ferguson
his hit breakthrough as Mr. Wick on the Drew Carey show a role he
played from 1996-2003, he used an over-the-top posh English voice “to
make up for many generations of English actors doing crap Scottish
accents”. During this time Ferguson wasn't idle and spent his off
time writing, he wrote and starred in three movies: The Big Tease,
Saving Grace and I'll be there, he also directed and for which he won
the audience award for best film at the Aspen, Dallas and Valencia
film festivals. Ferguson's other acting credits include Niagara
Motel, Lenny the Wonder dog, Leminey Snicket's A series of
unfortunate events, chain of fools, Born romantic, the ugly truth,
Kick-ass, and as a voice actor How to train your dragon 1 and 2,
Brave and Winnie the Pooh.
Ferguson
succeeded Craig Kilborn on CBS's The late late show. His first show
as regular aired on January 3rd 2005. By April 28th
2014 Ferguson announced he would be leaving the late late show with
his final episode airing on December 19th 2014, in this
time Ferguson had made his mark as a talk show host, implementing a
Robot sidekick called Geoff Peterson (voiced by Josh Robert Thompson)
and a pantomime horse called Secretariat. Ferguson's contract was set
to end in June 2014 but was extended until the end of the year to
ease the transition whilst the studio found a replacement who ended
up being English Comedian James Cordon.
Ferguson
married three times, Ferguson has two son's one with his second wife
Sascha Corwin and the other with his third wife Megan
Wallace-Cunningham. Ferguson had become an American citizen in 2008
broadcasting the taking of his citizenship test and his swearing in
on the late late show having been made an honorary citizen in several
states in 2007. After The Late Late Show Ferguson went onto host
Celebrity Name Game which ended after 3 years and ended up hosting a
historical talk show called Join or Die with Craig Ferguson.
I
love Craig Ferguson he's been one of my favourite comedians since I
was a teenager and as such I love most of his work I didn't really
like him on The Drew Carey Show but I LOVED him on The Late Late
Show.
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