{"id":3748,"date":"2011-01-30T03:15:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T03:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/\/?p=3748"},"modified":"2011-02-11T22:29:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T22:29:56","slug":"craig-ferguson-herald-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/new\/craig-ferguson-herald-interview\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4287\" href=\"http:\/\/\/craig-ferguson-herald-interview\/02-craig-ferguson-5\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4287\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"02 Craig Ferguson (5)\" src=\"http:\/\/rsanews.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/02-Craig-Ferguson-5-108x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"108\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2011\/01\/02-Craig-Ferguson-5-108x150.jpg 108w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2011\/01\/02-Craig-Ferguson-5-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2011\/01\/02-Craig-Ferguson-5.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 108px) 100vw, 108px\" \/><\/a>For those fans who watch <strong>Craig<\/strong> &#8220;live&#8221; on the Googly-web, Friday night was disappointing.\u00c2\u00a0 The station used on the east coast feed was running CBS soap operas which had been pre-empted earlier in the day by news coverage of Egypt&#8230; and then went straight to paid commercial programs, skipping the Late Late Show altogether.\u00c2\u00a0 They were for some sort of hair product, not Shamwows.\u00c2\u00a0 Fortunately, the RSA&#8217;s General @<strong>Malinky2Stoatir<\/strong> comes to the rescue, making the episode available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wJ1Qe1i1wo4\" target=\"_blank\">FaceTube<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Thanks, Mal!\r\n\r\nBack in 2009 when Craig was promoting his autobiography, he did many newspaper interviews including one for the Scottish newspaper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/home-news\/craig-ferguson-binge-that-saved-my-life-1.921096\" target=\"_blank\">The Herald<\/a>, where he recalled the time his life turned around.\r\n\r\nIn 2005, Craig celebrated his 100th show by talking about earthquakes.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Veranda; font-size: x-small;\">Video courtesy: HeidiDeidiDei<\/span>\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" 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:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fjQL_wyl0D4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fjQL_wyl0D4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object>\r\n\r\nFeeling revolutionary?\u00c2\u00a0 Saturday, January 29th is Thomas Paine Day.\u00c2\u00a0 Not feeling revolutionary?\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s also Curmudgeons Day.\u00c2\u00a0 Sunday, January 30th is the birthday of the 32nd US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Inane Answering Machine Day.\u00c2\u00a0 When you call ours it says, &#8220;Hi. 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