don larry king now. welcome to larry king now we are 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 off right larry the late late show with craig ferguson and 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 other way i had to like it both ways. craig and how does that that's not an internet i think he really does like you both like it and create your scene craig was there for some of it. he announces 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 not. a my a marriage list is seventeen years seventy years let's see that's that's like a proper one you know like a real what about time yeah why you're leaving it's time for a change when it's time for a change i don't want to stay and keep doing the same thing over and over again for 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 did 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 had we'd already sent position and you know going really well yeah i was out so he signed a ten year condit who no matter you know i mean what the only reason the mind kind

of moved around i mean because you know less than i've been doing business for twenty years is you know what this business is like it's not that big a deal like you go you think well look i want to do this i want to do that and so we just tied a bow in me gain i hear it in business wise and then and then i get 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 that's not true is 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 the 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 being involved whatever business they were doing and then i worked for c.b.s. you confer with dave a lot of 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 the really cute was no secrets and how dave's. dave's a kind of it's 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 yes you know i played him yeah noise i was a day i was jeff wherever i go george 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 you're a tyrant now 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 it's my retirement as a stop doing the show now you still have the question you got a quiz show yeah i got a game show that we show about twenty five thirty episodes of 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. we did a pilot and we messed around with finally we did a deal with tribune broad kiss road as g.m. right and sinclair and those station groups when you start september twenty second you shut down the united states primetime one you shut the whole been a real short story i think and we got another hundred and fifty two to go if 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 islam oh no no no the celebrities on it but those good people wanted to like you know regular folks you know a lot of money you could win twenty grand if you play your cards right do you like hosting your question yeah 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 one of the ways that you have to do it no but i would love to i think that's all it is of on why we went to oversee the episode of the mary tyler moore show

where ted baxter gets a job as a game show. and it's a larry is 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 and the mary hosted influence in miami called race to riches show the horse races and the people i guess is that game show or is that when you're working with the mob. sort of they. weren't going to expect from the final week of the late late so when is the final night december nineteenth before christmas yeah that's. true you have plans for the guests no i don't have plans for the final night is it going to be a blasting be with 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 friends and 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 know. what you originals of all time which is this one that you had a c.n.n. yes it's well it's actually yours yes it's one i think is the one with the very hard to get this microphone yeah i 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 go then little that was awesome where victor number 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. wherever he could produce a show that just split sides one moment and leave you wondering if you stumble on a celebrity stunt an 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 said it wasn't said like acid you know what it is no it's no good to be honest i mean i joke but i didn't i 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 eight hours later you're like when will this elaborate the and what was just strangest thing that ever happened to you on acid. i think while 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 dogs but they said there 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 i mean the tassel you know her she's 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 guy on against nightline though right now yeah well you know maybe that's a good compensation for nightline i don't think i would be a bad idea who is the primo guy in late night now so i 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 after we 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 about i don't know if he can do some stand up i think i did i don't really got to miss him

a little stand up he was a good stand up yeah yeah oh 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 fag and the data. he's great no i do something always bugged me all of us have been i always bugged some to know but no i really every talk show host says because sometimes they use them sometimes i don't yeah those are verbs 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 don't want to you know want to live a job so why was your i'm jack as you know why bush nominees bring somebody people go kids lead them to the pre-interview that's fine it's not my money. so in other words you're holding these people around just to give. you a bit you know featherbed larrys the american tradition was wrong with you but

there's so sincere when they pray and of yeah yeah well they're nice folks there 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 on december twentieth the day after day after walking the earth so from crimes really want to solve crimes of crimes i want to be that you want someone to be a great dad you know i don't think i want to be the tags 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 of that 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 our. 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 by the crime in particular no not really i used to be all with craig ferguson the great great for go good i love the leaves us december nineteenth listen i'm saying that i'm no. mother of a quiz show yet it's going to have he's going to do other things we'll explore maybe that after this. well. it's technology innovations all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered. but you like me you want your comedy news from t.v. what your comedy used to be a bare fisted no holds barred fight to the dad. like a truth vampire biting into the next in the corporate elite billionaire freaks

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to have you with us here on t.v. today i roll researcher. that was great burgers in the last time you were on the show mr ferguson you said that you were a miserable inside nearly all the time where you just stayed and it was probably miserable that day no i mean was that so much during office i think i'm a pessimist probably ira i wrestle with it but i think i'm frightened to be optimistic because disappointment for me it i don't like the idea were to turn it is to say was said so if you went to his office don't be bad news please don't

bring me that i understand yeah i don't i don't like but use it makes me sad and i tell me to say yes we're going to williams you didn't know but the great lawyer one of the greatest was a i asked him once if he was an optimist or pessimist he said of course i'm a pessimist i'm smart. well intimate that 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 a hot bath maybe. on celebrity name game have you have been do tapings thus far any stupid contestants yeah yeah how do you deal with the stupid could 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 get me to promise of celebrity name game in a way odds what i have to it's you know it's a little like password but not all for legal reasons but you know the you like you're a leg i'm a name appears above my head right it's a name of a celebrity you give me clues or trying to guess who has their u.r.l.'s it. and the guest tries to guess the yeah the celebrity gives the clues or the gay or the as a 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 in me ask questions yeah you gotta be on or you can be one of the can celebrity dude's and i would do it yes i've always thought i would be aware that it would you ever do another talk show yeah yeah i would but no right away you know i would do another what i like i'm back yeah 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 astronaut 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 the new ager you know whether the minute a federal issue that i'm will build but think said yeah i'm the kind of open space yeah well i didn't realize that had risks involved not that you know i was seven years old i thought everything was so you go up now they're going to have this now . with celebrities and virgin virgin galactic you know we'll go half way up into the sky 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 know all right now with the kids get older tell me about that just in case you have a home two boys and also some children see what i did see even at that oh thirteen and three what is what people ejaculate once every ten years.

whether or not the somebody in the room or kind of like these plants you know these plants just go there and every ten years if you're around me your hair is you know you spend a dollar you know. not another now because you say that your pants off nothing can stop with these very let me tell you it's like the flu virus paul he said. got it is it was 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 probably asking the wrong guy is just 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 a that way my son is a hell of a ballplayer you know both of you know i take them to the angel game as if you albert pujols were his dog i don't want to name and walkin in the says don't say don't mean and thing about me don't say well baseball act as if i'm not here try

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 you and biases you your soul 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 just said it sounds like a lady to scotch absence 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 sort. of my son does that and we have some social media

questions for you at phebe 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 there 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 i don't have a lend you know that colleen byrne via twitter what about the i love science show oh yeah that's a good show that is 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 i'm doing and producing and working a little bit on camera with the science channel to. to do that you know it's over

soon yeah this voice of lawyers say you know you're not going to going away at all but god telling you that i'm not doing this with good men and barren lives 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 it gas. and b.g. rhubarb which would make you have a 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 ring game you'd change oh no i wouldn't be doing you know i neither regret the past nor wish to close the door on it makes you happy my wife and kids make me having my family what makes you laugh that makes you know.

the joys of a thompson rule book guys and all the other stuff he makes me laugh it's 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 no i swear that i don't think you can ask that about someone you know i think that that's like saying. you think you're a sex symbol no no not at all you're a very handsome man once sure 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 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 so to myself i don't know nervous and 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's the first girl you ever get i think karen cameron was how were 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 while she was doing that kind of stuff when the kids are in 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 your son the little perry right is you fight and you find out whatever

happened to her yeah she still lives in my own tasks or a few years back who is your all time favorite comedian i think barely i think billy connolly billy connolly or stan laurel billy connolly is just 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 stabbed or was as i don't even well i'd suffer find jav you i don't mean that you know that guy has i mean i think stan laurel died in the seventy's. and he was workin in the twenty really is hated twenty's and thirty's so almost you know it's only ninety years ago and you can look at that stuff and still make oh i mean that's amazing question you sick of being asked about scotland.

where does this go it's when there's kill 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 if i started in one nine hundred fifty seven and eighty years old no

way not many eighty year old performers use that word no it was a taboo thing to do that has right to. 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 a heavily in front of the person you wish is there you don't care who you missed or if it is no no no i look i will 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 jan you 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. the last time you were afraid. that's deep i saw i saw a guy it's an odd thing fear it comes and goes in very ordway's you do this you

have pain right so here's. the last time i was afraid on the way work today i saw a guy anally douche bag drive in and text and he went straight through a stop sign and i suddenly fell upon a fear because i write around in cars with my kids and that douche is over and that's the fear strikes me well 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 one vote 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 my guests the inevitable read that say that again nimitz a bill thanks to my guest the inimitable craig ferguson the late late show is weeknights twelve thirty five in eleven thirty five central and c.b.s.

as celebrity oh for god's sake let you know he really is the twenty second don't miss it and remove it you can find me on twitter. that you did on the t.t. i fall in line and get it you understand that i try and know you guys will be that will see and i just say you know i say the friday see you next thing by.