{"id":26236,"date":"2013-12-17T03:15:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T03:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/?p=26236"},"modified":"2013-12-15T23:53:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T23:53:32","slug":"craig-ferguson-gervais-things-kraftwerk-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/new\/craig-ferguson-gervais-things-kraftwerk-books\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: large;\"><strong>Things They Like<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ricky-and-Craig-sl.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-26245\" alt=\"Ricky and Craig sl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ricky-and-Craig-sl-150x86.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"86\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2013\/12\/Ricky-and-Craig-sl-150x86.png 150w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2013\/12\/Ricky-and-Craig-sl-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2013\/12\/Ricky-and-Craig-sl-250x144.png 250w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2013\/12\/Ricky-and-Craig-sl.png 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>After <strong>Craig Ferguson<\/strong> launched a string of tweets last he called, &#8220;Things I Like,&#8221; one of the people who made his list, comedian\/actor\/producer <strong>Ricky Gervais<\/strong> decided to do the same thing. He tweeted:\r\n<br clear=\"none\" \/><p class=\"notea\">Blatantly copying <a class=\"twitter-atreply pretty-link\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CraigyFerg\">@<b>CraigyFerg<\/b><\/a>&#8216;s example, I too am going to do some &#8220;Things I like awards 2013&#8221;. You may suggest categories if you like \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\r\nHe started with some nominations for best tweeter and could add more.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: large;\"><strong>Digging Kraftwerk<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Craig-and-Josh-as-Kraftwerk.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-26228\" alt=\"Craig and Josh as Kraftwerk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Craig-and-Josh-as-Kraftwerk-150x112.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2013\/12\/Craig-and-Josh-as-Kraftwerk-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2013\/12\/Craig-and-Josh-as-Kraftwerk-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2013\/12\/Craig-and-Josh-as-Kraftwerk-600x448.jpg 600w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2013\/12\/Craig-and-Josh-as-Kraftwerk-250x186.jpg 250w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2013\/12\/Craig-and-Josh-as-Kraftwerk-386x290.jpg 386w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2013\/12\/Craig-and-Josh-as-Kraftwerk-290x218.jpg 290w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2013\/12\/Craig-and-Josh-as-Kraftwerk-193x145.jpg 193w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2013\/12\/Craig-and-Josh-as-Kraftwerk.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span>\r\nThe online music magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanyaland.com\/2013\/12\/13\/synthpop-stocking-watch-craig-ferguson-spend-christmas-kraftwerk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vanyaland.com<\/a> is getting a kick of of Craig and <strong>Josh Robert Thompson<\/strong> doing holiday-themed sketches in the personas of <strong>Florian<\/strong> and <strong>Ralf<\/strong> from the band <strong>Kraftwerk<\/strong>.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: large;\"><strong>Book Discussion<\/strong><\/span>\r\nBack in 2009 as he was promoting his autobiography <em>American On Purpose<\/em>, Craig hosted a discussion on C-Span about current books. He starts the event by talking about his own book, then talks with more authors on the panel.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Video courtesy: The Film Archives<\/span>\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3Y_Oc5mRKPk?rel=0\" height=\"420\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size:20px; line-height:1.25em\">Ricky Gervais follows Craig&#8217;s example, Kraftwerk sketches get noticed, plus Craig talks about books.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/new\/craig-ferguson-gervais-things-kraftwerk-books\/\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt 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