You may be successful yet. That’s really the inspirational story told every day on Howard Stern‘s show, not that Stern is trying to inspire. But he talks to such a wide collection of funny, dedicated people who never stop trying that mass exposure to Stern’s show gives people hope — even if they don’t realize it during the fart jokes. Craig Ferguson is one of those funny freaks who never quit — well, Ferguson quit some stuff he had to quit, like booze and coke, but you get what we mean.
This week on Stern’s show Ferguson said, among other things, that he wet the bed until he was 13, used to get his ass kicked constantly, and escaped from being a fat kid to being sort of a coke fiend. Ferguson’s career — he’s most famous for hosting The Late Late Show after making his face familiar on the Drew Carey Show — is a happy hilarious accident, to hear him tell it. But, as the adage said, he just kept showing up. (He’s also a pretty brilliant raconteur, whose monologues were among the best on TV for a long time. ) When Ferguson first got the late night gig, Stern admitted asking: “Who the F%$* is Craig Ferguson?” He knows now: Ferguson’s new gig is a daily show on SiriusXM.
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