Film Finally Released
It’s been a while, but we have Craigy-related news to pass along! Craig Ferguson‘s latest film, Then Came You, in which he co-stars with Kathie Lee Gifford, is finally being released. The film was shot in the summer of 2018, and after a long search for a distributor, the film will come out in theaters in limited one-day release on Wednesday, September 30, 2020 and then move to streaming platforms on Friday, October 2. Tickets for the theatrical release are available from Fathom Events. Just type in your zip code to find the theater nearest you that will be showing the film. Craig and Kathie Lee did several interviews about the film in the past week, including one with Extra and Manny the Movie Guy.

Craig Appears as Podcast Guest
Craig recently appeared on the UK-based podcast My Time Capsule. The premise of the show, hosted by actor/comedian Michael Fenton Stevens, asks guests to place five items in a time capsule; four to be preserved and one to be forgotten. In this case, the host and guest didn’t quite stick to the format but had a wide-ranging discussion about Craig’s life and career that is well worth a listen. Craig also appeared on Adam Carolla’s podcast and Larry King Now late last year, along with Bert Kreischer’s show and Ben Mathis’s Kickass News earlier in 2020.

Josh Appears as Late Night Show Guest
Josh Robert Thompson, who provided the voice for robot skeleton sidekick Geoff Peterson on the Late Late Show, was recently interviewed by Aaron Ross on his web-based late night talk show WHO’S the ROSS? where they talked about Josh’s role on the show and how he and Craig created such memorable moments.

Hobo Fabulous
If you haven’t seen it yet, Craig’s most recent comedy special Hobo Fabulous is available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Dish, Spectrum and more of your favorite streaming platforms.

Movie Trailer
Check out the trailer for Then Came You.

Video courtesy: YouTube

Email Problems
Our automated email system had some problems shaking off the cobwebs this week. Some people got an email with a link to a post from last December, and a few people even accidentally got more than one email. We were able to cancel most of those from going out, and re-sent an email with the correct post which should reach the full mailing list soon. Our apologies for the misfire.

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Craig Returns With New Game Show
Craig Ferguson will be back on American television screens in 2020, hosting a new game show on ABC called The Hustler, reports Deadline.com, Vulture, TV Week and Broadcasting and Cable. The format of the show is based on a similar game show in the UK called The Mole. Five contestants answer questions to build a prize pot. But one of the five contestants secretly already knows the answers and must remain undetected to have a shot at the money. Two contestants are eliminated during play, leaving three. The remaining three have to decide who the Hustler is. If they guess right, the two remaining contestants win the prize. If they guess wrong, the Hustler wins. Production is to begin soon with an air date to be announced. We’ll update you when we hear more.

New Special Is Out
Craig’s latest stand up special Hobo Fabulous is now available on multiple streaming outlets including Apple TV/iTunes, Amazon Prime Video, DirecTV, Dish, Spectrum, Google Play and more. Craig talks about the tour and the special with UpRoxx and Vanyaland.com. See a preview here.

How To Train Your Dragon 3 Wins Awards
The animated film How To Train Your Dragon 3 featuring the voice of Craig Ferguson won a pair of awards at the VoiceArts Awards, including Outstanding Voiceover for a Cast/Ensemble, reports AWN.com. Meanwhile, a special called the How To Train Your Dragon Homecoming will be available on DVD starting today and on Hulu starting December 5, according to Cinelinx.com.

Jay Leno Restores Craig’s Old Ford Bronco
Years ago, Craig bought an old, roached out Ford Bronco from Danny Bonaduce. Craig tinkered with it, and when Jay Leno retired from the Tonight Show, Craig gave him the Bronco as a parting gift. Leno and his team fixed it up and debuted it an auto show to rave reviews, as mentioned in Car and Driver, Motor Illustrated, Motor Authority and many more.

See The Bronco
Jay Leno gives us a preview of the restored Bronco and promises a more complete look in the future.

Video courtesy: Jay Leno’s Garage

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Final Leg Of Tour
The final leg of Craig Ferguson‘s Hobo Fabulous Tour runs October 4-13 as Craig makes his way from south to north. He’ll start in Atlanta, move through Nashville, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Maryland. He’ll pop up to Niagara Falls, then head to New Jersey and wrap up at the Playstation Theater in New York City. Incidentally, the Playstation is closing at the end of the year. You can see all the tour venues, dates, times and links to tickets on our Live Comedy Tour page.

Craig Performs at Edinburgh
After a 25-year absence, Craig performed a stand up show at the Edinburgh Fringe in August. As you might expect, he got a lot of press, including articles from the Guardian, the Herald Scotland, the Scotsman, the Scottish Sun, the Sunday Post, BBC Scotland and The Times.

A New Craig Chat Show?
The Sun newspaper reports Craig could host a new chat show in the UK. The paper speculates the network ITV needs a show fill the void left by the now-cancelled Jeremy Kyle Show, a sort of Jerry Springer equivalent. The paper says Craig has been working this summer with the production company that produced Kyle’s show and could pitch the show to the network. As always, there’s no guarantee a show will be picked up, but this would be exciting news for fans if it pans out. We’ll keep an eye on it.

Corden Re-ups With CBS
James Corden, the host who took over as host of The Late Late Show in 2015 has extended his contract to host the program through August of 2022, the Irish Examiner reports.

New Stand Up Trailer
This was supposed to be the tour that would never be recorded. And yet, it turns out we’ll have a chance to enjoy it in video form. Directed by none other than Joe Bolter, and produced by the Czech vampire Tomas Zakopal, Craig Ferguson presents Hobo Fabulous will appear on the Comedy Dynamics Network via Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video, Comcast, Dish, Google Play, Spectrum and more on November 12, 2019. Take a look at the trailer:

Video courtesy: Comedy Dynamics

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Hobo Fabulous Tour Resumes in October
Craig Ferguson will be back on the road for the latest leg of his Hobo Fabulous Tour beginning October 4. Craig is returning to the Southeast United States after a four-year absence, with stops in Atlanta, a favorite tour stop at the TPAC in Nashville, Charleston, Durham and Norfolk, before heading further north to visit Bethlehem, PA; Niagara Falls, Montclair, NJ and New York City. We have all of the venues, dates times and links to tickets on our Live Comedy Tour page.

Stand Up in the UK
Craig will be performing his first stand up show in the UK in 25 years, with an August 11th show at the Edinburgh Fringe. He’ll appear at the Gilded Balloon. Tickets are on sale now, and we’ve included the details on our Live Comedy Tour page. He spoke with festival organizers about returning to Scotland. A planned show in Dublin, Ireland in August has been canceled.

Craig in the News
Craig has been promoting his book, his upcoming film with Kathie Lee Gifford, and talking about his life in several interviews. The spoke with The Scotsman newspaper, the Scotsman again, tour sponsor SiriusXM, Chris Hardwick‘s podcast, People Magazine, People again, People again, People again (somebody at People must like him), CBC Radio in Canada, National Public Radio, the Washington Post, and The Fix. He also appeared on ABC’s The View, CNN, Nikki Glaser, Rachel Ray, Larry King Now, NBC Access, BuzzFeed News, the Build Series, and was interviewed by Steve Varley. Thanks as always to the RSA’s @bgrhubarb, @NancyInTampa, and some anonymous roboskelles (you know who you are) for keeping track of all things Craigy-related online and keeping us up to date.

Fan Favorites
Voice of the Late Late Show‘s robot skeleton sidekick Geoff Peterson, Josh Robert Thompson, continues to be in demand for voice acting gigs in animated series and commercials, and appears regularly on stand up comedy stages. Former Late Late Show production assistant and comedy writer Bridger Winegar made a short called A Night at the Horse Symphony, which is surreal and hilarious. And former half of Secretariat and Craig’s radio pal Joe Bolter has a new podcast called Joe Bolter Reads the News.

Craig Comic Memories
Longtime Craig fan Jo Whitby has put her Craig Ferguson/Doctor Who-themed web comic back online. For those who missed it or haven’t had a chance to see what might happen if Craig and the famous British sci-fi show converged, it’s worth a look.

Memoir in Audiobook Form
Want to hear Craig’s famous Scottish tones as he reads his memoirs to you? Look no further than Audible.com.

Gratitude
In this interview about his memoir for Talk Stoop, Craig talks about what he considers the key to happiness.

Video courtesy: YouTube

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Craig on TV and in Person
Set those DVRs. Craig Ferguson will be making some television appearances to promote his new memoir Riding The Elephant, which goes on sale May 7th. He’s scheduled to be on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert May 3rd, and Live with Kelly and Ryan May 10th. He appeared Monday on ABC’s Good Morning America. He’ll also be appearing on a future episode of Ora TV’s Larry King Now, on a date to be announced. Thanks to the RSA’s ever-vigilant @bgrhubarb for keeping track of the TV guest appearances.

He’ll also be appearing in person to promote his book, beginning May 7th at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, where he’ll be on stage in conversation with Kathie Lee Gifford. On Wednesday the 8th, he’ll be at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Thursday the 9th, it’s on to Boston to the Coolidge Corner Theatre, and on Friday the 10th he’ll appear at a bookstore called An Unlikely Story in Plainville, MA (about halfway between Boston and Providence, RI). He’ll wrap up the book tour on Saturday, May 11th at the Mohegan Sun Caberet Theatre, just outside Norwich, CT. We’ll list all the details on our Live Comedy Tour page.

Stand Up in the UK
UK and European Craig fans rejoice! Our fearless leader will be performing his first stand up show on his home turf in 25 years, with an August 11th show at the Edinburgh Fringe. He’ll appear at the Gilded Balloon, where he broadcast his live radio show a couple of years ago. Tickets are on sale now, and we’ve included the details on our Live Comedy Tour page.

Scottish Slang
Craig recently sat down with his How To Train Your Dragon co-star Jay Baruchel, to teach him some Scottish slang.

Video courtesy: Vanity Fair

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Craig To Release Comedy Specials
Remember at the start of the Hobo Fabulous Tour, when Craig Ferguson sent out a press release announcing the tour dates, he said he wanted each of his stand up comedy shows to be a unique experience in each city, and that the tour would quote, “never be recorded for any form of broadcast or streaming outlet”? That news release was dutifully reported by BroadwayWorld.com, and echoed in newspapers in Indiana, the Daily News in Los Angeles, and the Register-Guard in Oregon, which he pointedly told, “I also think there are too many stand-up specials,” he continues. “It’s not special if everybody does it. It’s not special if it’s done too often. I want each show to be unique and special. Special in the sense that is has no agenda other than to exist in the moment that it does. One and done.”

Not so fast.

As Deadline reported today, some of the tour was indeed recorded and will be available on all kinds of streaming platforms soon. But instead of being a typical hour-long stand up special, it will be in a documentary form, split into six half-hour episodes, titled simply Hobo Fabulous. The article says it’s being called a “new kind of stand-up special;” a mixture of a stand up show and a behind-the-scenes rock tour documentary.

The series will be distributed by Comedy Dynamics, the company that helped produce Craig’s previous special I’m Here To Help and his History Channel show Join Or Die, and distributes shows for a wide variety of comedians. The channel will be available on iTunes, Amazon Prime Video, Google Play, Comcast, Spectrum, Dish and other platforms.

We’re excited about the series because although Craig has toured extensively in North America, he has many fans in the U.S. and around the world who aren’t able to easily travel to see him in person. Now, they’ll have a chance to get a taste of what the tour was like. The series is directed by Craig’s radio sidekick and erstwhile front end of Secretariat the pantomime horse, Malibu Joe Bolter, and produced by Czech vampire and tour road manager Tomas Zakopal.

So far, a release date for the series has not been announced but we’ll be sure to let you know as soon as we hear.

 

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Book Tour
Craig Ferguson will make several appearances to promote his new memoir, Riding the Elephant, which comes out Tuesday, May 7th in bookstores and online. He’ll get things started at the 92nd Street Y in New York City on Tuesday the 7th, where he’ll be on stage in conversation with Kathie Lee Gifford. On Wednesday, he’ll be at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Thursday, it’s on to Boston to the Coolidge Corner Theatre, and on Friday he’ll appear at a bookstore called An Unlikely Story in Plainville, MA (about halfway between Boston and Providence, RI). He’ll wrap up the book tour on Saturday, May 11th at the Mohegan Sun Caberet Theatre, just outside Norwich, CT. We’ll list all the details on our Live Comedy Tour page.

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