on larry king now craig ferguson aka the on the retire and well you know that was that was the thing that really got me was that like when i said i'm done doing this show and i was and you know in the end that stuff a good season does this retirement it's not fun no i didn't i didn't it was my retirement as it was still doing the show a little quad ten years so i you know i think of it more like a marriage now imagine it was a marriage right then i'd be out of my what would you be doing do you think the day after walking the earth so from crying. plus would you ever do another talk show yeah yeah i would but know right away you know i would do another what i like i'm back oh yeah i just want to do this one any more by yes of course. all next on larry king now.

well as a result larry king now we're at a very famous set with a man who needs no introduction school light introducing and he's one of the most talented men in comedy stand a high rate larry the late late show with craig ferguson airs weeknights on c.b.s. and we're shooting right at his set i'm going to guess so many times so i'm enjoying the role the all the way i had to like it both ways. craig now does that that's not an internet thing he really does like a book and craig you're seeing 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 ten years is why are you slayers galahad twenty five one c n n yeah i'm talking life think of it more like a marriage now imagine it was

a marriage right then i'd be out in. a marriage less seventeen years seventy years let's see that's that's like a proper one yeah like a real was about time yeah why you're leaving it's time for a change man it's time for a change i don't want to stand doing the same thing over and over again but sure i want to do something the same thing over and over again somewhere else and is it true yeah true that have they given you the letterman show you the state i don't think i would of 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 don't i mean we knew that before dave became you know before dave announced that he was gone i had we'd already sent position and you know going really well yeah i was out so he signed a ten year got it going to matter you know i mean what the only reason the mine

kind of moved around i mean because you know less than i have been doing business for twenty years it's not you know what this business is like it's not that big a deal like you do you think well look i want to do this i want to do that and so we just tied a bow in me get out of here a business wise and then and then i got a call that holy crap they've just announced he's going to retire and so then everybody we all had to shut up and let the dust settle. down first yeah the marital rape yeah and then i saw les moonves the night and he said don't say anything right but my face is is you know he's like he was ninety's cool it's you know 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 it's not true where did that how did that start. but it's not true it wasn't five. oh you got more oh i don't talk about money larry for goodness sakes no it's not you know all these years you worked for

letterman how did that work dormice i mean that really understood it we worked in this it worked in the sense 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 we were checks from worldwide pants for the first five or six years and then it was all c.b.s. so i mean c.b.s. and one way parents were i worked for and then worldwide pants and c.b.s. did a deal didn't involve me but involved whatever business they were doing and then i worked for c.b.s. you confer with dave a lot there's no not at all dave and i all the conversations i think all the conversations i've had with dave are available on you tube you know that we don't really it was no secrets and holiday dave's. dave's account of is a private man. and i'm on the west coast and he's in the schools and you know he does is that what will become of jeff just you know i played him yeah i know i was

a day i was geoff wherever i go ga over thompson the comedic genius behind that character so many others on the show he and i will stay working together we work and figuring out some new stuff to play and what are you figuring out well we're still figuring that out so it can i will know one of these people that would tell you that you know you want to but if he's going with you yeah you know i mean if you are going to do other things well yeah no retire and no you know that was that was the thing that really got me like when i said i'm done doing this show and i was and you know in the end that stuff goes he's announced his retirement and so forth no i didn't i didn't that's my retirement as a stop doing the show you know you still have the question you've got a quiz show yeah i got a game show that we've we've show about twenty five thirty. the episode what is it called celebrity name game and. courtney cox and david arquette got the rights to the show and they came to me a couple of years ago and we did

a pilot and we messed around with finally we did a deal with tribune broad road as g.m. and sinclair and those station groups when you start september twenty second you shut the hell yeah it's prime time you shut the whole been a real short thirty i think and we got another hundred and fifty two to go you do the c.b.s. now we should. send severance to people when money yeah it's a game show you think you know what it's like that there's some celebrity game shows with his limo no no no the celebrities on it but those good people into like you know regular folks can you know a lot of money you could win twenty grand if you play your cards right you like hosting you crucially i do actually it's i was surprised that never really done it and i was surprised at how much fun it is because i get invested in the thank you want to when did you ever do it no but i would love to i think that's what it is it was on why when i went to oversee the episode of the mary tyler moore show where

ted baxter gets a job is a game show. and it's hilarious because ted bags is the worst broadcaster ever and then he gets the game show gig and he's great. and that's why because he really loves it and i think that's what that's how i approached i want to be ted baxter in the mary as opposed to doing for once in miami called race to riches the short horse races and the people i guess is that game show or is that when you're working with the mob. sort of the. world going to expect from the final week of the late when is the final night december nineteenth before christmas. do you have plans for the guests no i don't have plans for the final i is going to be a blasting b. week major guess i wouldn't be friends with she was delighted to come back yeah you'll be in that week i hope you know it will be gone be friends been friends of the show over the years some of them are very big stars and some of them there are

no i think the vibe of this show has always been no it's about who you are not. what you originals of all time is this one that you had to c.n.n. yes it's well it's actually yours yes it's mine i think it's the one with the very hard to get this microphone yeah it was when i started you know when i start in radio in one nine hundred fifty seven yeah this was the mike of choice every american radio station i see those were the days there you got them little that was ours where to turn on by them r.c.a. victor remember anything you didn't know you would drink and then. they were big company anyway first i want to quote something national public radio said this about you ferguson busted up the rigid formula of late night t.v. where ever he could produce a show that could split sides one moment and leave you wondering if you stumble on the celebrity stunt of acid trip the next is that when you set out to do. you know anybody that's taken acid would say the celebrity studded you don't need to say

that because you pretty much get anybody you want in the passage of avid acid trips where you know dead celebrities i'm sure it's not i didn't set out what it was and said like acid you know what it is no it's no good to be you want to be nigel but i didn't i don't like at all you know ego and as you start and things get strange then stranger and then much stranger and then you laugh and then it's eight hours later you're like when will this elaborate and what was just strangest thing that ever happened to you on acid. i think when i talked about this before i got chased by a killer ducks and kelvin grove park in glasgow ducks yeah i think they're i mean they're probably no they were ducks but they were actual ducks there they can't you know well if you caught me i would be here today to tell you about it all right let's get the other thing who would you like if you could pick your replacement and we don't know what c.b.s. is going to do no i have no idea i don't think they do either to be fair i think

you know there are other you know fires to put before dealing with this and even a tussle you know this is lovely she said we're looking not only from the comma grow but maybe there's the political world with keeping a very open mind and we want to be very thorough i think is a good idea i think the political world might be a good idea for them because it be something a little different you know i mean because it seems like to me there's a kind of log jam of middle aged white on against nightline though right now yeah well you know maybe that's a good thing maybe a bit of competition for nightline i don't think i would be a bad idea who is the primo guy in late night now or stuck it has got to be jimmy fallon and really i mean he's doing the big show and and he's doing and he's doing very well i think it's going to be him do you think what you think is going to be like for dave. well as to retire i don't know i don't really know dave well. what do you think it's going to be like from you know i don't know if he can do some stand up i think i did i don't really you got to miss him

a little stand up he was a good stand up yeah yeah doa i know of a he hasn't done in a long time leno's doing it everywhere yeah little i never missed a beat one of them all the time he's like a day dave the five yeah he did a good he's great no i know something always bugged me a lot of us have been i always bugged some to know but no i really every talk show host says because sometimes i use them sometimes i don't yeah those are over and i never we i never in the past on radio ever did three interviews they pre-interview here they previewed on c.n.n. show show pre-interviews why because you never used i don't want to really know you know what you know what i think he will have a job so why was your i jack as you know why bush nominees bring somebody people go kids let them to pre-interview that's finest on my money. so in other words you're holding these people around just to give. you a bit you know feather bed larry's american tradition was wrong with you but there's so sincere when they preinterview yeah well they're nice folks they were

a good man i do my best you know i try i feel like other people what would you be doing do you think first on december twentieth the day after day after walking the earth's over and crimes really want to solve crimes of crimes i want to be that sex you want this i would be a great dad you know i don't think i want to be the tag if i'm going to get a van and i'm going to go from town to town with my dog and my stoner buddy and we're going to solve crimes and that could be a television show no no no enough that i just jad you want to be real life solve yeah real life so if you find all the scary ones just ones like hey who moved. are you fascinated with crime i'm fascinated by human beings i'm fascinated by their failings my own failings and there's a fascinated by the idea that people are greedy enough to risk everything or

desperate enough to risk everything i'm fascinated by people yeah i mean i have a craving particular no not really i used to be all with craig ferguson the great great virgo and good i love them leaves us december nineteenth listen i'm saying that i'm no i make my way to mother have a quiz show yes it's going to have he's going to do other things that will explode maybe that after this. i'm happy martin the stories we cover here we're not going to be hearing right after a big star and i answered headlines and time there's a reason they don't want to know. that i know that we should all be completely outraged and let's break the set.

crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. we're back with craig ferguson the last time you're on the show mr ferguson you said that you were a miserable inside nearly all the time where you just stayed in the house probably miserable that day no i mean you a sense of is there an optimist i think i'm a pessimist probably ira i wrestle with it but i think time i'm frightened to be

optimistic because disappointment frank. i don't like the idea or to turn it is to say well ted so if you went to his office don't give me bad news please don't bring me then i understand that yeah i don't i don't like but use it makes me sad in my tummy first you know if we're going to williams you didn't know but the great lawyer one of the greatest was i asked him once if he was an optimist or pessimist he said of course i'm a pessimist i'm smart well into my head and there may be something and 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. comes down they're like i should like to meet you gosh sometimes you know after the whole bath maybe. on celebrity name game have you have been doing tapings thus far and these stupid contestants yeah yeah how do you deal with the stupid how do you handle it as host well stupid contests is just like

a stupid celebrity you know it's just leg and of course very does that's a very rare thing as you know larry. is very rare because someone is successful in show business is dead from the neck but you give me the promise of somebody's name game in a way odds what i have to do you know it's a little like password but not all for legal reasons but you know the you like you're like a name appears above my hand right it's a name of a celebrity you give me clues or train guess who has their u.r.l.'s. and the guests tries to guess the good the celebrity gives the clues or the gay or the isn't as old as the name and the little team and i might be one of them you've already been one of them i thought yeah you've been to me ask questions that you're going to be on or you can be one of the can celebrate doods and i would do it again as i have always thought i would be aware that it would you ever do another talk show yeah yeah i would but no railway you know i would do another what i like i'm back oh

yeah i just want to do this one any more by yeah of course as a kid this this is true you remember that you dreamed of becoming the first scottish as for not i wanted to be and i was seven years old when they landed on the moon and i wanted to be was be an astronaut on the news page or you know whether the minute a federal issue that i'm will build the thing said yeah that kind of open space yeah well i didn't realize that had risks involved not you know i was seven years old i thought everything was really you go up now they're going to have this now. with celebrities and virgin virgin galactic will go half way up and this guy and find i'm sitting next to miley cyrus no i don't want to do that. how about if you went by your so well that it therefore with an astronaut with an astronaut would you go to the moon. yeah yeah i would yeah i know all right now with the kids go bow down tell me about that just in case you have

a home two boys and also some children see the dead sea with a dead old thirteen and three what is what people ejaculate once every ten years. whether or not the somebody in the room what kind of like these plants you know these plants just go there every day and years if you're around me your average you know you spend a dollar you know. not another now because you say that your pants off nothing can stop what is a very let me tell you it's like the flu virus pollen you just. got it is it must be an explosion yeah you would say you know i've yet to hear a complaint what kind of father are you and never asked you this i don't know i think it's really asking the wrong guy as your thirteen year old want to be. he wants to be for the most part left of my conversations on television this way wow they're all that yeah he said don't talk to me don't talk about me in t.v. so i'm going to respect that even though this is why are you that way my son is

a hell of a ballplayer you know both of you i take them to the angel game as if you albert pujols were his dog that i don't want to name and walk him in the says don't say don't mean and you about me don't say well the baseball act as if i'm not here trying not to introduce me yeah what do you know if when i was a teenager i was embarrassed all the time is just it's a state of being you know your parents embarrass you you know everybody around him barrass you you're so it's a delicate time of life what your three year old. life league. he's i think i get two kids. one spoke and one kirk. do they speak with an accent no no well yeah a little bit you know it was said it sounds like elitist scots accent is a wonderful thank you i've found a very successful and. in certain areas of my life you know i did some bits when you went back to scotland i did yeah i know you were very popular in scotland they

worship you is their kind of they love me you want to do your impression of me. ah you think we have some say. my son does that and we have some social media questions for you and phoebe phone tweets what are the differences between the late late shows craig and celebrity name games craig is it a different viruses you know it's me what the hell was wrong with you you know what are you going to do not even use on the game show yeah well you know i will 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 of the level and you know that colleen byrne via twitter what about the i love science show oh yeah that's a good show no that isn't your that's from a facebook page is very popular. it's called love science is the name of the facebook page and it's the sandra does this very good kind of very populist approach to fascinating areas of science and i'm doing and producing and

working a little bit on camera with the science journal to. to do that you know it's over soon yeah this voice of lawyers say yes you're not going away at all one guy i knew that i'm not doing this segment that i've baron liz via instagram wants to know how you pull off the german accent well it depends on who you talk to mean if you talk to jam and they'd be like he doesn't feel of a german accent but i i think this is. for many years watching hogans heroes reruns on television or gun it's very organized you must be very proud you won the world soccer cup gas. and b.g. rhubarb which would make you have group r.p.g. what makes you happy who makes you laugh if you could would you change anything in your past that's a lot of quest to drink there i mean that's that's no one quest that's

a whole bunch is the drinking you change oh no i wouldn't do it again no i neither regret the past nor wish to close the door that would make you happy my wife and kids maybe having my family will make you laugh that. you know. the joys of a thompson rule book guys and all the other stuff he makes me very funny many social media questions as this question ok cosy hoboes the one we quote ok what makes you so darned adorable. and that's you this asking that you know i swear to god i don't think you can ask that about someone you know i think that that's like saying. you think there is such a symbol you know no not at all you're a very handsome man one so what do you larry i'm attracted to you but i'm married and i'm attracted to you we're not so it's ok ok. yeah i think if we go three miles . of the so sure yeah. i hear.

that's true i mean yeah yeah no. no i don't think i think if you think about yourself like that we madness lies i don't think that's a healthy way to i don't watch myself on t.v. i don't i've been no longer do myself i don't know nervous and you know you know not and i don't google it oh no i get it until. we play a game of if you only knew you really the first person who is the first girl you have to get i think karen cameron will how will you i guess is it nine or ten she used to always do i don't know of kids goes america do this but little girls in school and in the schoolyard they would do handstands against the wall when they were in 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 and it's a shame the women grew up. and there's a couple actors i think because of why she was doing that kind of stuff. the what

we're doing to the curb and i must know i know that but where the building outside of oh i don't know i think he was on the way back from school when you send a little perry right as you fight and you find out whatever happened to her yeah she still lives in my own tasks or a few years but who's your all time favorite comedian i think billy i think billy connolly billy connolly or stan laurel billy connolly is stare at these amazing and see billy to me is kind of like he's kind of like jackie robinson you know i mean like before. really there was nothing for guys like me there was no like guys there was nobody sounded like me no one there was no that's right you know maybe it just wasn't the same and billy changed the game he's number forty two you know and stan laurel i stand or was as i don't even well i'd find jam i don't mean that you know that guy has i mean i think stan laurel died in the seventy's and you know right and and he was workin in the twenty's really is hated twenty's and thirty's so

almost you know it's really ninety years ago and you can look at that stuff and still make love i mean that's amazing question just sick of being asked about scotland. where does this go when they're under his kilt and you answered lipsticks lips what characteristic do you loathe most in other people. judge mentalism fundamentalism a lack of human. civilization mentality nit pickers pen pushers people who just want to play by the rules and never ban rules for a mitigating circumstance you know disloyal to those people yeah. because you could bend the rules for me a little bit you know well even if that were words become or you can say that on

the do that do you sit i will repeat i don't say it was say it all of the way because you come from a more genteel come i started in one nine hundred fifty seven and eighty years old no way not many eighty year old performers use that word though it was a taboo thing to do that's right. describe yourself in the phrase complicated that's a word to describe me in a phrase beautiful. guess you'd most like to interview that or interviewing anybody doubt take the overly friendly person you wish is or you don't care who you mr i think is no no no i look i would be kind and try to look anybody who's on the show is worthy of my attention you know i'll treat them like a guest i really want to hear what they have to say i genuine do i know that you know i love like you i mean i'm interested but i'm not like oh if only i could talk

to you know this. is the last time you were afraid. that's deep i saw i saw a guy it's an odd thing fear that comes and goes in very ordway's you do it as you appear right so he is. the last time i was afraid on the way work today i saw a guy anally douche bag dr and 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 douche is that way and that's the fear spikes of like well if you could be anywhere else in the world right now where would it be scott and 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 have to ask you all the way you asked me thanks to

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