Actor, talk show host, comedian, author.
Craig Ferguson is the current host of
The Late Late Show on
CBS and the author of the books
American on Purpose and
Between the Bridge and the River. He has appeared in
Saving Grace,
The Big Tease,
I'll Be There, and
How to Train Your Dragon. Besides his current post behind (and in front of, and sometimes on top of) the desk of
The Late Late Show, he is best known as
Drew Carey's evil boss Mr. Wick on
The Drew Carey Show. He also provided the voice of Owl in the 2011
Winnie The Pooh animated feature and Lord Macintosh in
Brave.
Craig was born in
Scotland, and thus began his career in the UK doing stand-up comedy under the name Bing Hitler. (He is now a naturalized American citizen, and self-identifies as American rather than Scottish or British.) In a "
Hey, It's That Guy!" moment, he was in an early episode of
Red Dwarf in 1988 ("Confidence and Paranoia") as Confidence, who killed himself by trying to breathe in space. He also appeared on the UK panel game
Have I Got News for You and the American game
Million-Dollar Password.
Besides having a bit of a love affair with the
MythBusters (Grant Imahara built him a robot skeleton sidekick), Craig was the 2010 host of
Shark Week for the
Discovery Channel.
He's also a bit of a Doctor Who fan, and a toy TARDIS has been prominently displayed on his show's desk for several years. He shares great chemistry with
Kristen Bell, to the point where she's made so many appearances on his show she's openly lobbied to become co-host. He has also hosted the Boston Pops' Fourth of July show for the past three years, and has even done an
HBO comedy special (
Does This Need To Be Said?). You can also
follow him
on
Twitter.
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