He was later a bouncer at the nightclub Save the Robots before returning to Scotland. When he moved to New York City in 1983, he worked in construction in Harlem. His first visit to the United States was in 1975, when he was 13, to visit an uncle who lived on Long Island, near New York City. At age 16, Ferguson left high school and began an apprenticeship to be an electronics technician at a local factory of American company Burroughs Corporation. Ferguson attended Muirfield Primary School and Cumbernauld High School. They lived there as Cumbernauld was rehousing many Glaswegians away from the poor housing conditions and damage to the city from World War II. When he was 6 months old, he and his family moved from their Springburn flat to a Development Corporation house in the nearby New Town of Cumbernauld, where he grew up "chubby and bullied". In animated film, he had provided the voices of Gobber in the How to Train Your Dragon film series (2010–2019), Owl in Winnie the Pooh (2011), and Lord Macintosh in Brave (2012).įerguson was born in Stobhill Hospital in the Springburn community district of Glasgow, to Robert, a post office worker and Scottish Nationalist and Janet Ferguson, a primary school teacher on. He has written and starred in three films, directing one of them, and has appeared in several others. He holds both British and American citizenship. Ferguson has written three books: Between the Bridge and the River, a novel American on Purpose, a memoir and Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations & Observations. Īfter starting his career in the UK with music, comedy, and theatre, Ferguson moved to the US, where he appeared in the role of Nigel Wick on the ABC sitcom The Drew Carey Show (1996–2004). In 2017, he released a six-episode web show with his wife, Megan Wallace Cunningham, titled Couple Thinkers. He also hosted the syndicated game show Celebrity Name Game (2014–2017), for which he won two Daytime Emmy Awards, and Join or Die with Craig Ferguson (2016) on History. He is best known for hosting the CBS late-night talk show The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005–2014), for which he won a Peabody Award in 2009 for his interview with South African archbishop Desmond Tutu that year. Host of Join or Die with Craig FergusonĬraig Ferguson (born ) is a Scottish-American comedian, actor, writer, and television host.Host of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
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