Photograph: Francis Specker/Alamy Stock Photo With Desmond Tutu on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, 2009. “This is just another case of immigrants taking jobs Americans don’t want,” he told the dinner guests. And then there’s a roll-call of standup specials and movie credits (he wrote and starred in the charming Saving Grace with Brenda Blethyn), not to mention one of American comedy’s highest accolades: addressing the White House correspondents’ dinner. He stepped down in 2014 and James Corden took over, while Ferguson went on to win two Emmys with his new gameshow for the same network. He did after all spend nine years presenting CBS’s Late Late Show, which at its peak topped the ratings of both Jimmy Fallon and Conan O’Brien. The pally familiarity is not surprising: despite basing his career in the US for the past 25 years, Ferguson’s broad frame and hairily handsome features are pretty recognisable. From the taxi driver who deposits him at the city centre cafe, to the waitress who reserves our table, to the punter who stops him for a selfie as he’s walking across George Square, there a buzzy warmth and a no-arguments sense of ownership to how Ferguson is received on the street. Each story is strung together in a colorful tapestry that ultimately reveals a complicated man who has learned to process-and even enjoy-the unusual trajectory of his life.Available for purchase at:AmazonBarnes & NobleBooks A MillionHudson BooksellersIndieBoundPowell'sTargetWalmartApple BooksGoogle Play StoreKoboĬraig is great! I listened to him for the 10 years he was on the air.O n the morning we meet, Glasgow seems especially delighted to have Craig Ferguson back in town. Craig discusses his deep love for his native Scotland, examines his profound psychic change brought on by fatherhood, and looks at aging and mortality with a perspective that he was incapable of as a younger man. In Riding the Elephant, there are some stories that are too graphic for television, too politically incorrect for social media, or too meditative for a stand-up comedy performance. In Craig’s candid and revealing memoir, readers will get a look into the mind and recollections of the unique and twisted Scottish American who became a national hero for pioneering the world’s first TV robot skeleton sidekick and reviving two dudes in a horse suit dancing as a form of entertainment. The fact that he is neither dead nor in a locked facility (at the time of printing) is something of a miracle in itself. He has failed when he should have succeeded and succeeded when he should have failed.

Craig Ferguson has defied the odds his entire life. From the comedian, actor, and former host of The Late Late Show comes an irreverent, lyrical memoir in essays featuring his signature wit.

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