Craig Ferguson Opens Up About Moving On & Dave Letterman's Gig

on Larry King now Craig Ferguson ha ha yeah I'm not retiring well you know that was that was the thing that really got me is that like when I said I'm done doing the show never to you know on the internet stuff of course he's announced his retirement I know right then I didn't notice my retirement I said I was gonna stop doing this show why ten years all I think of it more as like a marriage now imagine it was a marriage right then I'd be out what will you be doing do you think the day after uh walking the earth solving crimes Plus will you ever do another talk show yeah yeah I would but not right away you know I would do another one I like I'm back oh yeah yeah I just want to do this one anymore bye yeah of course all next on Larry King now welcome to Larry King now we are at a very famous set with a man who needs no introduction so i am i introducing it he's one of the most talented men and comedy dad Larry Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson it airs weeknights on CBS and we're shooting right of his set I've been a guest so many times so I'm enjoying the role the other way I heard you like it both ways Craig and I said that's not an internet thing he really does like it both way and Creager see Craig was there for some of it he announced that he's leaving his post as the Late Late Show host to pursue other endeavors why 10 years are useless guy I did 25 one CNN yeah yeah yeah I'm total I think of it more as like a marriage now imagine it was a marriage right and then I'd be out haha no it's so a my I'm marriages less than 17 years 17 years man see that's that's like a proper one not like a real one about time yeah why are you leaving it's time for a change man it's time for a change I don't want to stay and keep doing the same thing over and over again picture I want to do something the same thing over and over again somewhere else yeah is it true yeah that have they given you the Letterman Show you to state I don't think I would have I don't think I don't think I would have I maybe maybe that it kind of I don't they didn't and I didn't and I didn't I mean we knew that before Dave became you know before Dave announced that he was gone I we'd already set in position and you know gonna leave well yeah I was owned so if he signed a 10-year card it wouldn't matter you know I mean what might the only reason that they're mine kind of moved to Ryan I mean cuz you know lads and I have been doing business for 20 years it's done it's you know what this business is like it's not that big a deal like you gue you think but look I want to do this I want to do that and so we just tied a bow and me gettin outta here business-wise and then and then I got a call that holy crap Dave's just announced that he's going to retire and so then everybody we all had to shut up and let the selenite a movie first yeah the man rental Reagan - and then I saw Les Moonves connection alright and he said don't say anything right but good fezzes is you know he's like he was neither a school it's yeah he's not one of them you know is it true you got five million not to get the gig no that's not true it's not true is not true where did that how did that start I don't know I know but it's not true it wasn't five million oh you got more oh I don't talk about money Larry for goodness sakes no it's not I you know all these years you worked for Letterman how did that work sorry miss I mean that we really understood it we we worked and it worked in the sense the UH that I was given autonomy I was like he gave me the greatest gift you could give a comedian which was a room you know what I mean were your checks from worldwide pants for the first five or six years and then it was all CBS so I mean CBS and worldwide pants were I worked for and then worldwide pants and CBS did a deal then involve me but involved whatever business they were doing and then I worked for CBS did you confer with de Ville on TV yeah no I not at all Dave and I know all the conversations I think all of the conversations I've had with Dave are available on YouTube you know there's like we don't really it was no secret singing Oh Dave's a thieves are kind of he's a private man oh and I'm on the west coast and he's on the East Coast and you know he doesn't say what will become of Jeff jasmine oh I played him yeah yeah I know that was a great day I was Jeff wherever I go George Robert Thompson the the comedic genius behind that character and so many others on the show he and I will stay working together we're working figuring out some new stuff to plan what are you figuring out well we're still figuring that out so it can't I'm not one of these people that would tell you that you know you won't talk but if he's going with you yeah he's means you are gonna do other things yeah I'm not retiring no you know no that was that was the thing that really got me is that like when I said I'm done doing the show and everything you know on the internet stuff he's a known as retirement and no no I didn't I didn't notice my retirement I said I was gonna stop doing this show now you still have the quiz sure you got a quiz show I got a game show that we've shot about 25 30 episodes what does it call celebrity name game and it's it's Courtney Cox and David Arquette I got the rights to this show and they came to me a couple of years ago and we did a pilot and we messed around and we finally we did a deal with Tribune broadcast Rodian right and Sinclair and those station groups when does that start uh September 22nd you shot the early access primetime what you shut the whole pin right no no I've short thirty I think and and we got another hundred and fifty two to go you do it at CBS now we should a sunset bronze do people win money yeah it's a game show what you think no one's like there's some celebrity game shows with a slope oh no no no the celebrities on it but those good people in a to like you know regular folks can you win a lot of money she can win 20 grand did you play your cards right yeah do you like hosting you cliche yeah do actually it's yeah I was surprised I had never really done it and I I was surprised at how much fun it is cuz I get invested in in the thing you want him to win yeah did you ever do it no but I would love to Ibiza fun they why the way I win did you ever see that episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show for Ted Baxter gets a job as a game show and it's hilarious cuz Ted Beck's was the worst broadcaster ever ever and then he gets the the game show gag and he's great and that's why cuz he really loves it and I think that's why I that's how I approach that I want to be Ted Baxter in the miry I don't host a game for once in Miami called race to riches they showed horse races and the people had a guess is that game sure was that when you were working with the mob one of the anxiety uh what can we expect from the final week of The Late Late Show when is the final night uh December 19th I think before Christmas yeah that's right yeah uh do you have plans for the guests no I don't have plans for the final because there's gonna be a blasting big week made your guests I would move back you'll be friends which you know yeah you'll be in that week I hope you know lb it'll be friends who have been friends of the show over the years some of whom are very big stars and some of whom you or not but I think the vibe of this show has always been you know it's about who you are know you know where are you great shows of all time we'll be back with Craig Ferguson we're all gonna miss him but we'll see a lot of them don't go away we're back with the great Craig Ferguson we are all gonna miss him but what is this the one that you had a CNN yes well it's actually yours yes oh yeah it's mine I think it's the one with they're very hard to get this microphone yeah was when I started no when I started in radio in 1957 yeah this was the mic of Joyce at every American radio station I see those were the days now you got them little bit was harsh where Victor number them RCA Victor I don't remember anything you didn't know you were drinking it they were a big company anyway first I want to quote something National Public Radio said this about you yeah Ferguson busted up the rigid formula of late-night-tv wherever he could producing a show that could split side's one moment and leave you wondering if you stumbled on a celebrity-studded acid trip the next is that what you set out to do you know anybody that's taking acid would say the celebrity stutters you don't need to say that because you pretty much get anybody you want an acid trip I've had acid trips where you know dead celebrities I'm Jonah it's not I didn't say that what was acid like acid yeah what was not it's not good to be honest to me that jhulka but if I didn't I don't like it at all you know you go on this you start and things get strange and then stranger and then much stranger and then you laugh and then it's eight hours later you like when will that's hilarity and what was this strangest thing that ever happened to you an acid yeah um I think well I talked about this before I got chased by killer ducks in Kelvin Grove Park and Glasgow Oh duck yeah I think they're I mean they're probably no they were ducks but they the Rachel ducks they're they catch you know well if it caught me I wouldn't be here tell you about it buddy all right let's get the other thing who would you like if you could pick your replacement and we don't know what CBS is gonna do no I have no idea I don't think they do either to be fair I think that you know they're they've get other you know fires to put out before delimit so Nina Tassler you know her oh she's lovely yeah she said we're looking not only from the comic world but maybe there's the political world with keeping a very open mind and we want to be very thorough I think it's a good idea I think the political world might be a good idea for them cuz it'd be something a little different you know I mean cuz it seems like to me there's a kind of log jam of middle-aged white guy gone against Nightline though right yeah well you know maybe that's a good thing maybe a better competition for Nightline I don't think I would be a bad idea who is the Primo guy in late-night now well I started has got to be Jimmy Fallon hasn't that really I mean he's doing the The Big Show and and he's doing that anything very well I think it's got to be him don't you think how what do you think it's gonna be like for Dave well after he retires yeah I don't know I don't really know Dave that well that's good what do you think it's gonna be like from you know I don't know he he'll do some stand-up I think yeah I don't really you gotta miss it a little stand-up ah he was a good stand-up yeah yeah no I know he hasn't done in a long time yeah Leno is doing it everywhere yeah later I've never missed a beat you run to him all the time he's like hey hey Dave the fire yeah did it is it over here he's great no under something always bugged me all of us have I always bugged you some - no a bug no every day every talk show host says blue card sometimes I use them sometimes I don't yeah there's our verb and I never we I never in the past on radio ever did pre interviews right they pre-interview here they pre interviewed on CNN sure show pre-interviews right why because you never use it yeah I don't know I'm doing it you don't want to cook you love a job so why was your jackass you know I put somebody's prints somebody's people have got kids let him do the pre-interview that's fine it's not my money so in other words you're holding these people around just to give them some kook your your bet yes featherbed Larry's American okay what's wrong with you but they're so sincere when they pre-interview yeah well there are nice folks there they were a good man I do my best you know I try I feel like other people what will you be doing do you think the on December 20th the day after a day after uh walking the earth solving crimes really yeah that's what I want to do solve cross off crimes yeah I want to be a detective you weren't that would be a great yeah why not I won't be a detective I'm gonna get a van and I'm gonna go from town to town with my dog and my stoner buddy and we're gonna solve crimes and that could be a television show no no no enough at eyes just Jed you wanna be real-life salt yeah yeah real life so feet are you friends or scary ones just ones like hey who moved that jar are you fascinated with crime I'm fascinated by human beings I'm fascinated by their failings my own failings in theirs I'm fascinated by the idea that people are greedy enough to risk everything or or desperate enough to risk everything I'm fascinated by people yeah I mean a crime in particular no not really I used to be more with Craig Ferguson the great Craig for a good I love him who leaves us December 19 look stop saying that I'm not making my way to mother I have a quiz show yeah it's gonna have he's gonna do other things we'll explore maybe that after this my back with Craig Ferguson the last time you were on the show mr. Ferguson you said that you're miserable inside nearly all the time were you jesting oh it's probably miserable that day I know I'm no specialist or an optimist I think I'm a pessimist probably I wrestle with it but I think I'm I'm frightened to be optimistic because disappointment frightens me it I don't like the idea or Ted Turner used to say what Ted Turner you went into his office don't give me bad news please don't bring me baby I understand that yeah I don't I don't like bad news it makes me sad it might tell me yeah piss me off with Lenny Williams you didn't know but the great lawyer one of the greatest lawyers ever I asked him once if he was an optimist or pessimist he said of course I'm a pessimist um smart well income there may be something and i i i don't know i think really smart people though are neither you know i mean like really spiritually advanced people i don't think they connect to it i think they're just fine yeah no matter how it comes down they're like no spiritually connected me you gosh sometimes you know after a hall bath maybe on celebrity name game have you had in your tapings thus far any stupid contestants yeah yeah how do you deal with a stupid qatar you handle it as host well stupid contestants just like a stupid celebrity you know it's just like and of course very does that's a very rare thing as you know Larry that's right yeah it's very rare to get someone who's successful at your business is dead from the neck up but you give me the premise of celebrity name game yeah yeah it's what do I have to it's you know it's a little like password but not at all for legal reasons but you know they you like you you're like you a name appears above my head right it's the name of a celebrity you give me clues I try and guess who as there you are that's it and I'm the guest tries to guess that yeah the celebrity gives the clues or the gay or those it's always a name and the little team I might be one you you've already been one of them I thought huh yeah yeah yeah you've been on many ask questions yeah you gotta be on it you gonna be one of the Culebra dudes and I would do it I would regret it would you ever do another talk show yeah yeah I would but not railway you know I would do another one I'll come back oh yeah yeah I just don't want to do this one anymore bye yeah of course as a kid this I is this true in your memoir that you dreamed of becoming the first Scottish astronaut I wanted to be and I was seven years old when they landed on the moon and I want it to be must be an astronaut yeah than you know a true you when you landed on him in about professor yeah we'll build the thing I'll send ya yeah I'm not gonna go up in space yet yeah well I didn't realize their inherent risks involved no you know I was seven years old I thought everything was will you go up now they're gonna have snap go up with celebrities in virgin the Virgin Galactic no go halfway up into this guy and find them sitting next to Miley Cyrus no I don't want to do that yeah how about if you went by yourself that's definitely an astronaut yeah with an astronaut would you go to the moon um yeah yeah would ya know all right now if the kids get bolder tell me about the kissed in case well what do you have at home I two boys and also some children see what I did see what I did uh old 13 and three what is watch people ejaculate once every 10 years yeah whether or not there's somebody in the room we're kind of like these plants you know these plants just go live in ten years if you're around me your hair is you only spend a dollar you know nothing else you say they've got pants off nothing can stop its virulence I'm telling you is like the flu virus palm you just got eight years it must be an explosion yeah you would said you know I've yet to hear a complaint what kind of father are you I've never asked you this I don't know I think you're probably asking the wrong guy where's your 13 year old wannabe uh he wants to be for the most part left out of my conversations on television that's what you want they're all that yeah yeah you said don't talk to me don't talk about me on TV so I'm gonna respect that even though there's why are they that way my son is a hell of a ballplayer yeah you both are I take him to the angel game you say gotta interview Albert Pujols great star yeah no and what a name and we're walking in he says don't say don't mean anything about me don't say well my baseball actors if I'm not here and try not to introduce me yeah why well you know you when I was a teenager I was embarrassed all the time it's just it's a state of being you know your parents embarrass you you're you know everybody remembers you embarrasses you you're so it's a delicate time of life what's your three-year-old like Lively he's uh I think I got two kids I got one spark and one Kirk ha ha ha do they speak with an accent no no well yeah a little bit you know who said it sounds like la the Scotch accent is a wonderful exit thank you I've found it very successful in in in certain areas of my life and I did some bits when you went back to Scotland I did ya know you were very popular in Scotland they worship you is their candle they love me Craig will answer your questions in our final segment and the hell I will the hell I'll play a game of if you only knew maybe we'll be right back Craig Ferguson don't forget celebrity name game starts in September you'll see it everywhere you will you will slow times sake you want to do your impression of me haha there you go from okay we have some ah my son does that Kenan we have some social media questions for you at Phoebe phone tweets what are the differences between the Late Late shows Craig and celebrity name games Craig as are the different guys with you know it's me what the hell is wrong with you yeah what are you gonna do nutty things on the game show yeah well you know I don't do what I say I'll do things you know I don't have a plan you know me long enough to know I don't have a plan a plan you know at Colleen Byrne via Twitter what about the I effing love science show oh yeah yeah that's a good show no that's not sure that's from our Facebook page it's very popular and is called a high love science is the name of the Facebook page and it's a Lisa Andrew does this the very good kind of very populist approach to fascinating areas of science and I'm doing a I'm producing and working a little bit on camera with the the Science Channel to do that you voice over soon yeah this voice before you so yeah you're not still not going away at all by God when you know I'm not doing this shake man at Baron Liz via Instagram wants to know how you pull off the German accent well depends on who you talk to I mean if you talk to Germans it'd be like he doesn't peel off a German accent but I I think this is for many years watching Hogan's Heroes reruns on television oh gun oh god you must be very proud you won the World Soccer Cup yes yeah a BG rhubarb tweets what makes you have rhubarb PG rubra okay what makes you happy who makes you laugh if you could would you change anything in your past well that's a lot of questions drink there I mean that's that's not one question that's a whole bunch of stuff drinking you change no no I wouldn't you do it again I neither regret the past nor wish to close the door on it uh what makes you happy uh my wife and kids make me having my family what makes you laugh that [ __ ] robot makes me laugh now that Joyce Robert Thompson and that robot guys and all the other stuff he makes me laugh he's very funny many social media questions ask this question okay cozy hobo is the one we quote okay what makes you so darned adorable if that's you this asking that no I swear to god it I don't think you can ask that about someone you know I think that that's like saying right do you think you're a sex symbol no no not at all you're a very handsome man let's who are you Larry I'm attracted to you but I'm Erin I'm attracted to you when I'm night yeah so it's okay okay uh yeah I think if we go three miles uh office oh sure fine yeah um that's true I mean yeah that's all right no I don't think I think if you think about yourself like that that way madness lies I don't think that's a healthy way to I don't watch myself on TV I don't I've been no longer you do myself I don't want to know no not it I don't Google it all oh no forget it okay uh we play a game of if you only know you're ready first person you kissed who's the first girl you ever kissed I think Karen Cameron how old you uh I guess there's about nine of ten she used to always do that I don't know if kids a girls in America do this but little girls in Scotland in the schoolyard they would do handstands against the wall when they were wearing their school uniform so you would see their underpants and they would all just go up and practice doing handstands against the wall which I found at nine years old intensely fascinating it's a it's a shame that women grew out of that actually I got yourself couple actress I didn't kiss her while she was doing that kind of stuff where did you kiss her the what well who edited the car what are mouth no I know that but where the building outside oh I don't know I think he was on the way back from school man you're sending a little pervy right did you fight as you'll find out whatever happened to her yeah yeah yeah she still lives in my own TAS or a few years back yeah who's your all-time favorite comedian I think Billy I think Billy Connolly Billy Connolly our Stan Laurel Billy Connolly is hysterical he's amazing and and see Billy to me is kind of like he's kind of like Jackie Robinson you know I mean like before belly there was nothing for guys like me there was no like guys there was nobody sounded like me no one there was not that's right you know there were maybe it just wasn't the same and Billy I changed the game he's number 42 you know and Stan Laurel my Stan Laurel was as hard even well that's a fine Jam you know that guy has I mean I think Stan Laurel died in the seventies maybe right and and he was working in the twin he really is heyday twenties and thirties so almost you know it's certainly 90 years ago and you can look at that stuff and still make you laugh oh I mean that's amazing question you're sick of being asked about Scotland um what does the Scotsman wear under his kill and you answer the lipstick lipstick what characteristic do you loathe most in other people um judgmentalism fundamentalism a lack of humor I'm a civil servant mentality net peckers pen-pushers people who just want a play by the rules and never been broken rules for a mitigating circumstance you know disloyalty those people yeah ma'am get up with a head because you could bend the rules for me a little bit yeah we'll leave it in that well word has become oh you can say that yeah on internet yeah do you say it I I don't say it well I say it off the way because you come from a more genteel ear I come I started in 1957 right eighty years old no way not many 80 year old performers use that word no it was a taboo thing to do that that's right yeah describe yourself in the phrase complicated yeah that's a word describe me in a phrase beautiful guess you'd most like to interview that about interview and animals I'll take whoever leap in front of me person you wish is so you don't care who you missed or anything there's no oh no I look III be kind and internet look anybody who's on this show is worthy of my attention you know I I'll treat them like a guest I really want to hear what they have to say i Jane you do I know that you know I'm like you I mean I'm interested but I'm not like oh if only I could talk to you know yeah sometimes the last time you were afraid um that's deep I saw I saw a guy it's an odd thing fear that comes and goes in very odd ways you know that you're a parent right so here's what I the last time I was afraid on the way work today I saw a guy an le douche bag driving and text and he went straight through a stop sign and I suddenly felt a pang of fear because I write around in cars with my kids and that douches around and that's the ho for your spikes with me well said if you could be anywhere else in the world right now where would it be Scotland tell me something we don't know about you I smell a bit like mint on that wonderful note Thank You Craig I will be on your show tonight oh you will yes I will I have to ask you all this that you asked me thanks to my guests the inevitable read that see that again inimitable thanks to my guest the inimitable Craig Ferguson The Late Late Show airs weeknights 12:35 a.m. 11:35 central and CBS and celebrity oh for God's sakes I am here September 22nd don't miss it and remember you can find me on Twitter who tell you good on the Tweety yeah falling you wanna you're good you understand it I try and are you good we'll be back we'll see you next time see you guys say goodbye see you next time goodbye you

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Length: 27min 55sec (1675 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 24 2014