{"id":26430,"date":"2014-01-14T02:15:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T02:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/?p=26430"},"modified":"2014-01-13T23:27:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T23:27:52","slug":"craig-ferguson-travel-canada-shorty-bird-flip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/new\/craig-ferguson-travel-canada-shorty-bird-flip\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: large;\"><strong>Winter Tour<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Craig-Tour-Avatar.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-26013\" alt=\"Craig Tour Avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Craig-Tour-Avatar-150x150.jpeg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2013\/08\/Craig-Tour-Avatar-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2013\/08\/Craig-Tour-Avatar-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2013\/08\/Craig-Tour-Avatar-600x600.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2013\/08\/Craig-Tour-Avatar-250x250.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2013\/08\/Craig-Tour-Avatar.jpeg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span>\r\n<strong>Craig Ferguson<\/strong> will soon kick off the winter leg of his <em>Hot and Grumpy Tour<\/em>. He&#8217;ll open in Toronto on January 23rd (<strong>Rob Ford<\/strong> joke, anyone), and travel to Hamilton, Montreal, Ottawa, Kitchener, Halifax and finish up in London, Ontario on January 30th. Craig&#8217;s next American tour stops are in Austin, Texas on Valentine&#8217;s Day, followed by shows in Dallas and Atlanta. You can see complete details, including venues, dates, times and links for tickets on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/live-comedy-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\">Live Comedy Tour<\/a> page. We have not heard about further tour dates for 2014, but we&#8217;ll keep you posted.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: large;\"><strong>Shorty Award May Fall Short<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Shorty-Awards.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-26431\" alt=\"Shorty Awards\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Shorty-Awards-150x150.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2014\/01\/Shorty-Awards-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2014\/01\/Shorty-Awards.jpg 300w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2014\/01\/Shorty-Awards-250x250.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a>Last week, we mentioned that nominations are now open for the Shorty Awards, which recognize the best people and groups on social media, including a category for <a href=\"http:\/\/shortyawards.com\/category\/6th\/comedian\" target=\"_blank\">Best Comedian<\/a>. However, as of Monday, Craig only had 17 nominations, as compared to the Australian YouTube comedy group <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Janoskians\" target=\"_blank\">The Janoskians<\/a><\/strong>, who have already racked up nearly 2500 nominations, which pretty much puts this one out of reach. Well played, Aussies, well played.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: large;\"><strong>Ferg Gets the Bird<\/strong><\/span>\r\nIn case you missed it on Friday, Craig explains to <strong>Bob Saget<\/strong> why a lady flipped him off as he drove through Hollywood the other day:\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Video courtesy: CBS<\/span>\r\n<object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/can.cbs.com\/thunder\/player\/chrome\/canplayer.swf?pid=NDsK8NsUPxzZ&amp;partner=cbs&amp;gen=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed width=\"560\" height=\"315\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" 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