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125-497: Craig Ferguson (born 17 May 1962) is a Scottish-American actor, comedian, writer and television host. He is best known for hosting the CBS late-night talk show The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005–2014). He is the winner of a Peabody Award for his interview with South African archbishop Desmond Tutu in 2009. After leaving The Late Late Show in December 2014, he hosted
250-640: A 2014 Grammy Award nomination for Best Comedy Album . Ferguson was awarded the Peter Ustinov Comedy Award by the Banff World Media Festival on 11 June 2013. In December 2004, it was announced that Ferguson would succeed Craig Kilborn on CBS 's The Late Late Show . His first show as the regular host aired on 3 January 2005. The show was unique in that it had no "human" sidekicks such as Ed McMahon on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson or Conan O'Brien 's Andy Richter . He had
375-552: A BAFTA Scotland nomination in the TV actor category, though he was beaten by his co-star Jayd Johnson ; and Randall Brown on the BBC Two drama The Hour in 2012, receiving a BAFTA nomination for the role. Minor roles on television included Sid 's dad Mark Jenkins in the E4 teen comedy drama series Skins in 2007, though his character was killed off in the second series; King Charles I in
500-666: A Comedy Central special entitled A Wee Bit o' Revolution , which aired on 22 March 2009. British television comedy drama Doc Martin was based on a character from Ferguson's film Saving Grace – with Ferguson getting writing credits for 12 episodes. On 6 November 2009, Ferguson appeared as himself in a SpongeBob SquarePants special titled SpongeBob's Truth or Square . He hosted Discovery Channel 's 23rd season of Shark Week in 2010. Ferguson briefly appeared in Toby Keith 's " Red Solo Cup " music video released on 10 October 2011. In September 2013, Ferguson guest-starred on
625-525: A World Health Organization doctor in World War Z . Capaldi also directed several episodes of the BBC Four sitcom Getting On . He portrayed Cardinal Richelieu in an adaptation of The Three Musketeers on BBC One the next year, though with his casting, he was killed off-screen to avoid clashes with Doctor Who . In August 2013 during a special event titled Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor, Capaldi
750-513: A mockumentary about a fictitious film studio, which tracks real developments and trends throughout the history of British cinema. Capaldi voiced various roles during this period, all on BBC Radio 4, with the major roles including Alistair in the 2005–2006 situational comedy Baggage , the Armourer in an adaption of Dr. No in 2008, and one of the presenter Jim Tweedledee in the 2009–2010 satirical comedy The News at Bedtime . These years saw
875-424: A rear admiral and computer scientist , was the oldest officer and highest-ranking woman in the U.S. armed forces on her retirement at the age of 80 in 1986. Isabella Cannon , the former Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina , served as the first female mayor of a U.S. state capital. The Scottish-born Alexander Winton built one of the first American automobiles in 1896, and specialized in motor racing . He broke
1000-709: A Bing Hitler monologue ("A Lecture for Burns Night ") appears on the compilation cassette Honey at the Core. After enjoying success at the Edinburgh Festival , Ferguson appeared on television as 'Confidence' in Red Dwarf , on STV 's Hogmanay Shows , and on the 1993 One Foot in the Grave Christmas special One Foot in the Algarve. In 1990, a pilot of The Craig Ferguson Show , a one-off comedy pilot for Granada Television ,
1125-515: A TV series titled They F**k You Up , though it remained unsold, in 2022. Capaldi married Elaine Collins in Strathblane near his home city of Glasgow in 1991. Together they have a daughter, and two grandchildren born in 2021 and 2023. Capaldi and Collins live together in Muswell Hill , London. Singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi is his distant cousin, and the two have worked together on one of
1250-579: A cash prize by answering a series of trivia questions presented by Ferguson, while one of the contestants is secretly designated as the Hustler beforehand and given the answers to all the questions. By the end of the game, two of the honest contestants have been eliminated; the other two must correctly choose the Hustler in order to stop the Hustler from winning the entire prize. The series premiered on 4 January 2021, before moving to its regular timeslot on 7 January 2021, airing on Thursdays at 10 p.m. In April 2022, it
1375-476: A character in her book, Don Verona, was based on Ferguson because she was such a fan of him and his show. Ferguson wrote a short story for In Sunlight or in Shadow (2017, Pegasus Crime), an anthology edited by Lawrence Block and featuring works inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper (1882–1967). Block is a favorite writer of Ferguson's and appeared multiple times on The Late Late Show . His third book, Riding
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#17328848058281500-647: A common heritage. The majority of Scotch-Irish Americans originally came from Lowland Scotland and Northern England before migrating to the province of Ulster in Ireland (see Plantation of Ulster ) and thence, beginning about five generations later, to North America in large numbers during the eighteenth century. The number of Scottish Americans is believed to be around 25 million, and celebrations of Scottish identity can be seen through Tartan Day parades, Burns Night celebrations, and Tartan Kirking ceremonies. Significant emigration from Scotland to America began in
1625-484: A crime, in the BBC drama series Mr Wakefield's Crusade in 1992. He also featured prominently as the spy chief Mr. Vladimir in the drama miniseries The Secret Agent , also in 1992, and the protagnist's nemesis Dr. Ronnie Pilfrey in the comedy-drama Fortysomething in 2003. He has been part of the regular cast on many shows: the protagonist's uncle Rory in the television adaptation of Ian Banks 's The Crow Road , and
1750-513: A drummer for Nico during a few gigs when she toured Scotland. After a nerve-wracking first comedy appearance, he decided to create a character he described as a "parody of all the über-patriotic native folk singers who seemed to infect every public performance in Scotland," using the name "Bing Hitler" borrowed from Peter Capaldi. Ferguson first performed as the character in Glasgow, and was subsequently
1875-478: A drummer for the post-punk band Ana Hausen, which released a single for Human Records in 1981. Following that, he joined punk band The Bastards from Hell, later renamed the Dreamboys, and fronted by vocalist and future actor Peter Capaldi . They performed regularly in Glasgow from 1980 to 1982. Ferguson credits Capaldi for inspiring him to try comedy. When Ferguson was 18, he worked as a session musician and performed as
2000-404: A hit at the 1986 Edinburgh Festival Fringe . However, by the end of the year, Ferguson was already discussing his intention to retire Bing. At the press launch for an alternative pantomime of Sleeping Beauty (which he co-wrote with Capaldi), he said, "You can't write for just one character forever." A recording of his act as Bing Hitler was made at Glasgow's Tron Theatre and released in the 1980s;
2125-517: A lesser extent, during the twentieth century, when Scottish heavy industry declined. This new wave peaked in the first decade of the twentieth century, contributing to a hard life for many who remained behind. Many qualified workers emigrated overseas, a part of which, established in Canada, later went on to the United States. In the nineteenth century, American authors and educators adopted Scotland as
2250-415: A local factory of American company Burroughs Corporation . Ferguson has two sisters (one older and one younger) and one older brother. His younger sister, Lynn Ferguson Tweddle , is also a comedian, presenter and actress, who voiced Mac in the 2000 stop-motion animation film Chicken Run . She was a writer on The Late Late Show until July 2011. His first visit to the United States was in 1975, when he
2375-442: A model for cultural independence. In the world of letters, Scottish literary icons James Macpherson , Robert Burns , Walter Scott , and Thomas Carlyle had a mass following in the United States, and Scottish Romanticism exerted a seminal influence on the development of American literature. The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne bear its powerful impression. Among the most notable Scottish American writers of
2500-559: A number of notable Scottish Gaelic poets active in the United States since the eighteenth century, including Aonghas MacAoidh and Domhnall Aonghas Stiùbhart . One of the few relics of Gaelic literature composed in the United States is a lullaby composed by an anonymous woman in the Carolinas during the American Revolutionary War. It remains popular to this day in Scotland. More than 160,000 Scottish emigrants migrated to
2625-444: A performance at Radio City Music Hall on 6 October 2012. He has performed two stand-up television specials on Comedy Central , both released on DVD: A Wee Bit o' Revolution in 2009 and Does This Need to Be Said? in 2011. His third comedy special, I'm Here to Help , was released on Netflix in 2013, garnering positive reviews of 4 out of 5 stars on Netflix and peaking at number 6 on Billboard top comedy albums. It also received
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#17328848058282750-454: A punk rocker, dancer, bouncer and construction worker as well as the rise of his career in Hollywood as an actor and comic. It went on sale 22 September 2009 in the United States. On 1 December 2010 the audiobook version was nominated for a Best Spoken Word Album Grammy . In July 2009, Jackie Collins was a guest on The Late Late Show to promote her new book Married Lovers . Collins said
2875-577: A remotely operated robot skeleton named Geoff Peterson and two silent performers in a pantomime horse costume that were added in 2010. His monologues were conducted within a few feet of the camera versus the long distance Johnny Carson kept from the camera and audience. The Late Late Show averaged 2.0 million viewers in its 2007 season, compared with 2.5 million for Late Night with Conan O'Brien . In April 2008, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson beat Late Night with Conan O'Brien for weekly ratings (1.88 million to 1.77 million) for
3000-570: A response, was a form of musical worship initially developed for non-literate congregations and Africans in America were exposed to this by Scottish Gaelic settlers as well as immigrants of other origins. However, the theory that the African-American practice was influenced mainly by the Gaels has been criticized by ethnomusicologist Terry Miller, who notes that the practice of " lining out " hymns and psalms
3125-526: A son together, who was born in 2011. Ferguson wrote in his book American on Purpose that he and actress Helen Atkinson-Wood were in a romantic relationship prior to his going sober in 1992. The relationship lasted five years. He acknowledges that she changed his life "beyond recognition" by improving his health and his career. Ferguson has stated that his comedy influences include Monty Python , Marx Brothers , The Three Stooges , Laurel and Hardy and David Letterman . He has five tattoos which include
3250-501: A three-guest panel of comedians and historians conduct a humorous discussion of a different topic on each episode, such as the most doomed presidential campaign, greatest Founding Father and greatest invention, with viewers invited to share their opinions via Twitter. Between January 2021 and April 2022, Ferguson hosted the American game show The Hustler , which aired on ABC . The show followed five contestants who collaborate to build up
3375-508: Is said to be largely, if loosely, based upon Tony Blair 's right-hand man Alastair Campbell , although Capaldi has said that he based his performance more on Hollywood power players, such as the often abrasive Harvey Weinstein . A film spin-off from The Thick of It titled In the Loop was released in 2009. Capaldi reprised his role for the movie. The role of Tucker was met with acclaim and won Capaldi several awards. From 2006 thorough 2010 he
3500-583: Is writing a sequel to the book, to be titled The Sphynx of the Mississippi . He also stated in a 2006 interview with David Letterman that he intends the book to be the first in a trilogy. As of February 2019, Ferguson has produced no further novels, although he has published non-fiction. Ferguson signed a deal with HarperCollins to publish his memoirs. The book, entitled American on Purpose : The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot , focuses on "how and why [he] became an American" and covers his years as
3625-707: The Encarta encyclopedia and co-created the popular board game Cranium . Peter Capaldi Peter Dougan Capaldi ( / k ə ˈ p æ l d i / ; born 14 April 1958) is a Scottish actor and director. He portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction series Doctor Who and Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It , for which he received four British Academy Television Award nominations, winning Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010. Capaldi won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film and
3750-528: The BAFTA Award for Best Short Film for his 1993 short film Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life . He went on to write and direct the drama film Strictly Sinatra and directed two series of the sitcom Getting On . Capaldi also played Mr Curry in the family film Paddington and its sequel Paddington 2 , as well as The Thinker in The Suicide Squad . He appeared as Professor Marcus in
3875-587: The Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular on 4 July, broadcast nationally by CBS . Ferguson was the featured entertainer at 26 April 2008 White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, DC. Ferguson co-presented the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama with Brooke Shields in 2008. He has done voice work in cartoons, including being the voice of Barry's evil alter-ego in
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4000-525: The Cape Fear valley of North Carolina were centers of Loyalist resistance. A small force of Loyalist Highlanders fell at the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in 1776. Scotch-Irish Patriots defeated Scottish American Loyalists in the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780. Many Scottish American Loyalists, particularly Highlanders, emigrated to Canada after the war. Uncle Sam is the national personification of
4125-573: The Charles Gormley film Living Apart Together . Starting in 1983, Capaldi received many more roles, appearing in diverse mediums as movies, television, and theatre; he appeared as Beatles member John Lennon in a performance of John, Paul, George, Ringo ... and Bert at the Young Vic , and the same year had a significant role in the film Local Hero as Danny Oldsen. The early years of his career saw him primarily acting in movies - on both
4250-590: The Civil War , and a monument to their memory was erected in Edinburgh , Scotland, in 1893. Winfield Scott , Ulysses S. Grant , Joseph E. Johnston , Irvin McDowell , James B. McPherson , Jeb Stuart and John B. Gordon were of Scottish descent, George B. McClellan and Stonewall Jackson Scotch-Irish. Douglas MacArthur and George Marshall upheld the martial tradition in the twentieth century. Grace Murray Hopper ,
4375-555: The Disney film Christopher Robin , and the next year he narrated audiobook version of Watership Down and Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth , winning a AudioFile Earphones award for his narration on both books. He also narrated an audiobook version of Nineteen Eighty-Four in 2021, and voiced the recurring character Seamus McGregor in the Netflix series Big Mouth in 2022. Capaldi's live-action projects have included playing
4500-493: The Edinburgh Festival and suggested that he come to America. His first US role was as baker Logan McDonough on the short-lived 1995 ABC comedy Maybe This Time , which starred Betty White and Marie Osmond . His breakthrough in the US came when he was cast on The Drew Carey Show as the title character's boss, Mr. Wick, a role he played from 1996 to 2003. He played the role with an over-the-top posh English accent , explaining it
4625-676: The Glasgow School of Art . He was a fan of Doctor Who as a child, and met Tom Baker during the production of Genesis of the Daleks . Capaldi displayed an early talent for performance by putting on a puppet show in primary school. While in high school, he was a member of the Antonine Players theatre group, who performed at the Fort Theatre in Bishopbriggs. As an art student, he was
4750-658: The Join, or Die political cartoon on his right forearm; a Ferguson family crest with the Latin motto Dulcius ex asperis ("Sweeter out of [or from] difficulty") on his upper right arm in honour of his father; and a Celtic cross with the Ingram clan motto Magnanimus esto ( Be great of mind ) on his upper left arm in honour of his mother. He has often said that his Join, or Die tattoo is intended to signal his American patriotism. Ferguson became an American citizen on 1 February 2008 and broadcast
4875-459: The New World were a man named Haki and a woman named Hekja, slaves owned by Leif Eiriksson . The Scottish couple were runners who scouted for Thorfinn Karlsefni 's expedition in c. 1010, gathering wheat and the grapes for which Vinland was named. The controversial Zeno letters have been cited in support of a claim that Henry Sinclair, earl of Orkney , visited Nova Scotia in 1398. In
5000-573: The Scottish Borders . His son Adam II and grandson Adam Abraham (b. Cumberland, England) left for the colonies in the 1730s settling in Pennsylvania. Other Scottish American moonwalkers were the fourth, Alan Bean , the fifth, Alan Shepard, the seventh, David Scott (also the first to drive on the Moon), and the eighth, James Irwin . Scottish Americans Howard Aiken and Grace Murray Hopper created
5125-559: The Scottish Enlightenment contributed to the intellectual ferment of the American Revolution . In 1740, the Glasgow philosopher Francis Hutcheson argued for a right of colonial resistance to tyranny. Scotland's leading thinkers of the revolutionary age, David Hume and Adam Smith , opposed the use of force against the rebellious colonies. According to the historian Arthur L. Herman : "Americans built their world around
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5250-571: The United States , and sometimes more specifically of the American government , with the first usage of the term dating from the War of 1812 . The American icon Uncle Sam, who is known for embodying the American spirit, was based on a businessman from Troy, New York , Samuel Wilson , whose parents sailed to America from Greenock , Scotland , has been officially recognized as the original Uncle Sam. He provided
5375-424: The syndicated game show Celebrity Name Game (2014–2017), for which he won two Daytime Emmy Awards , and Join or Die with Craig Ferguson (2016) on History . In 2017, he released a six-episode web show with his wife, Megan Wallace Cunningham, titled Couple Thinkers . In 2021, he hosted The Hustler , television game show that aired on ABC from 4 January to 23 September 2021. After starting his career in
5500-788: The " With Friends Like Steve's " episode of American Dad! ; in Freakazoid! as Roddy MacStew, Freakazoid's mentor; and on Buzz Lightyear of Star Command as the robot vampire NOS-4-A2. He was the voice of Susan the boil on Futurama , which was a parody of Scottish singer Susan Boyle . He makes stand-up appearances in Las Vegas and New York City. He headlined in the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal and in October 2008 Ferguson taped his stand-up show in Boston for
5625-557: The 1700s, accelerating after the Jacobite rising of 1745 , the steady degradation of clan structures, and the Highland Clearances . Even higher rates of emigration occurred after these times of social upheaval. In the 1920s, Scotland experienced a reduction in total population of 0.8%, totally absorbing the natural population increase of 7.2%: the U.S. and Canada were the most common destinations of these emigrants. Despite emphasis on
5750-668: The 1730s. Unlike their Lowland and Ulster counterparts, the Highlanders tended to cluster together in self-contained communities, where they maintained their distinctive cultural features such as the Gaelic language and piobaireachd music. Groups of Highlanders existed in coastal Georgia (mainly immigrants from Inverness-shire) and the Mohawk Valley in New York (from the West Highlands). By far
5875-453: The American colonies was finally regularized by the parliamentary Act of Union of Scotland and England in 1707. Population growth and the commercialization of agriculture in Scotland encouraged mass emigration to America after the French and Indian War , a conflict which had also seen the first use of Scottish Highland regiments as Indian fighters. More than 50,000 Scots, principally from
6000-531: The Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations which released 7 May 2019. He holds an FAA private pilot certificate , issued in 2009. Ferguson has been a vegan since 2013. A recovering alcoholic , he has been sober since 1992. During his early career, Ferguson resided in St John's Wood , London . Ferguson has been married three times and divorced twice. His first marriage
6125-741: The German filmmaker and author Wim Wenders in Emotion Pictures , airing on BBC Radio 3 in 1996; and Chief Petty Officer Grieves in the BBC Radio 7 (now BBC Radio 4 Extra) comedy series Our Brave Boys between 2002 and 2005. Before taking over the lead role in Doctor Who , Capaldi was best known for playing spin doctor Malcolm Tucker in the Armando Iannucci-written BBC sitcom The Thick of It , which he played from 2005 to 2012. Tucker
6250-476: The Los Angeles Festival of Books, as well as other author literary events. "This book could scare them", he said. "The sex, the violence, the dream sequences and the iconoclasm . I think a lot of people are uncomfortable with that. I understand that. It was very uncomfortable to write some of it." The novel is dedicated to his elder son, Milo, and to his grandfather, Adam. He revealed in an interview that he
6375-669: The Scots-Irish (or Scotch-Irish) in North America, were descended from people originally from (mainly Lowland) Scotland, as well as the north of England and other regions, who colonized the province of Ulster in Ireland in the seventeenth century. After several generations, their descendants left for America, and struck out for the frontier, in particular the Appalachian mountains, providing an effective "buffer" for attacks from Native Americans. In
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#17328848058286500-467: The Scottish American communities in which they were embedded. Psalm-singing and gospel music have become central musical experiences for African American churchgoers and it has been posited that some elements of these styles were introduced, in these communities, by Scots. Psalm-singing, or " precenting the line " as it is technically known, in which the psalms are called out and the congregation sings
6625-454: The TV series The Devil's Hour and the Apple TV+ crime thriller series Criminal Record respectively, the latter of which he also produces. Capaldi said that he was a fan of crime shows, but that often there is not much character development over the course of the show; therefore, they created a show where the plot changes the character and has a real impact on their life. As such, the show
6750-884: The U.S., American statesmen of Scottish descent in the early Republic included Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton , Secretary of War Henry Knox , and President James Monroe . Andrew Jackson and James K. Polk were Scotch-Irish presidents and products of the frontier in the period of Westward expansion . Among the most famous Scottish American soldier frontiersmen was Sam Houston , founding father of Texas . Other Scotch-Irish presidents included James Buchanan , Chester Alan Arthur , William McKinley and Richard M. Nixon , Theodore Roosevelt (through his mother), Woodrow Wilson , Lyndon B. Johnson , and Ronald Reagan were of Scottish descent. By one estimate, 75% of U.S. presidents could claim some Scottish ancestry. Scottish Americans fought on both sides of
6875-586: The UK with music, comedy, and theatre, Ferguson moved to the US, where he appeared in the role of Nigel Wick on the ABC sitcom The Drew Carey Show (1996–2004). Ferguson has written three books: Between the Bridge and the River , a novel; American on Purpose (2009), a memoir; and Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations & Observations (2019). He holds both British and American citizenship. He has written and starred in three films, directing one of them, and has appeared in several others. In animated film, he had provided
7000-616: The US for many years, in 2017, it was announced that he would return to UK television for the first time in 25 years in a guest role in BBC Scotland 's comedy Still Game , to be shown in 2018. In 2022, an adaptation of Ferguson's film Saving Grace (2000) was announced as a stage musical aimed for a 2023 run in West End , in which Ferguson will portray a "villainous banker". It was adapted by April De Angelis from Ferguson's and Mark Crowdy's screenplay, with music by KT Tunstall . Ferguson moved to Los Angeles in November 1994, after his soon-to-be agent Rick Siegel had seen Ferguson during
7125-432: The United States. American bluegrass and country music styles have some of their roots in the Appalachian ballad culture of Scotch-Irish Americans (predominantly originating from the "Border Ballad" tradition of southern Scotland and northern England). Fiddle tunes from the Scottish repertoire, as they developed in the eighteenth century, spread rapidly into British colonies. However, in many cases, this occurred through
7250-435: The Wonder Dog , Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events , Chain of Fools , Born Romantic , The Ugly Truth , Kick-Ass , and, as a voice-over actor, How to Train Your Dragon , How to Train Your Dragon 2 , Brave , and Winnie the Pooh . Ferguson has been touring the United States and Canada with a comedy show since the late 2000s, including a performance at Carnegie Hall on 23 October 2010 and
7375-417: The absurdist play Absurdia in 2007 in the Donmar Warehouse ; and Professor Marcus in The Ladykillers at the Liverpool Playhouse and Gielgud Theatre in London in 2011. Capaldi wrote and presented A Portrait of Scotland , a documentary detailing 500 years' history of Scottish portrait painting in 2009; and in 2012, Capaldi and Tony Roche co-wrote, directed and performed in The Cricklewood Greats ,
7500-452: The angel Islington in Neil Gaiman 's BBC Two gothic fantasy serial Neverwhere , both in 1996. His minor and guest roles have included: a TV producer named Tristan Campbell in two episodes of the sitcom The Vicar of Dibley in 1994, and an appearance as a university professor in the sitcom Peep Show in 2004. He auditioned for the role of Benjamin Sisko in the sci-fi series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in 1992, though he lost
7625-444: The army with beef and pork in barrels during the War of 1812. The barrels were prominently labeled "U.S." for the United States, but it was jokingly said that the letters stood for "Uncle Sam." Soon, Uncle Sam was used as shorthand for the federal government. Trade with Scotland continued to flourish after U.S. independence. The tobacco trade was overtaken in the nineteenth century by the cotton trade, with Glasgow factories exporting
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#17328848058287750-433: The big screen and television. Some of his major roles on the big screen include the archaelogy student Angus Flint in The Lair of the White Worm , and Azolan, a valet in pre-Revolution France in Dangerous Liaisons , both in 1988. His roles in television movies include playing another Beatle George Harrison in John and Yoko: A Love Story in 1985, and Robert McRae in Chain in 1990. He portrayed roles in theatre such as
7875-468: The colonial era, they were usually simply referred to as "Irish," with the "Scots-" or "Scotch-" prefixes becoming popular when the descendants of the Ulster emigrants wanted to differentiate themselves from the Catholic Irish who were flocking to many American cities in the nineteenth century. Unlike the Highlanders and Lowlanders, the Scots-Irish were usually patriots in the Revolution. They have been noted for their tenacity and their cultural contributions to
8000-555: The colonies was 250,888, of whom 223,071 (89%) were white and 3.0% were ethnically Scottish. Population estimates are as follows. The number of Americans of Scottish descent today is estimated to be 20 to 25 million (up to 8.3% of the total U.S. population). The majority of Scotch-Irish Americans originally came from Lowland Scotland and Northern England before migrating to the province of Ulster in Ireland (see Plantation of Ulster ) and thence, beginning about five generations later, to North America in large numbers during
8125-557: The colony from Scotland, including prisoners taken in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms . By the 1670s Glasgow was the main outlet for Virginian tobacco , in open defiance of English restrictions on colonial trade ; in return the colony received Scottish manufactured goods, emigrants and ideas. In the 1670s and 1680s Presbyterian Dissenters fled persecution by the Royalist privy council in Edinburgh to settle in South Carolina and New Jersey , where they maintained their distinctive religious culture. Trade between Scotland and
8250-400: The comedy film Bean in 1997, and the French poet and director Jean Cocteau in the biographical film Modigliani in 2004; investigator Luke Fitzwilliam in a stage adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel, Murder Is Easy at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1993; and as journalist and art critic Robbie Ross in the stage play The Judas Kiss at the Almeida Theatre in 1998, with
8375-439: The day before transmission. Ferguson also found success in musical theatre. Beginning in 1991, he appeared on stage as Brad Majors in the London production of The Rocky Horror Show . In 1994, he played Father MacLean in production of Bad Boy Johnny and the Prophets of Doom at the Union Chapel in London. That year he appeared again at the Edinburgh Fringe, as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple . After living and working in
8500-502: The descendants of emigrants, often Gaelic-speaking, from the Maritime Provinces of Canada , from the 1880s onward. Americans of Scottish descent outnumber the population of Scotland, where 4,459,071 or 88.09% of people identified as ethnic Scottish in the 2001 Census. The states with the largest populations of either Scottish or Scotch Irish ancestral origin: The states with the top percentages of Scottish or Scotch-Irish residents: The metropolitan and micropolitan areas with
8625-451: The early years of Spanish colonization of the Americas , a Scot named Tam Blake spent 20 years in Colombia and Mexico . He took part in the conquest of New Granada in 1532 with Alonso de Heredia . He arrived in Mexico in 1534–5, and joined Coronado 's 1540 expedition to the American Southwest . After the Union of the Crowns of Scotland and England in 1603, King James VI , a Scot, promoted joint expeditions overseas, and became
8750-432: The eighteenth century. In the 2000 census, 4.8 million Americans self-reported Scottish ancestry, 1.7% of the total U.S. population. Over 4.3 million self-reported Scotch-Irish ancestry, for a total of 9.2 million Americans self-reporting some kind of Scottish descent. Self-reported numbers are regarded by demographers as massive under-counts, because Scottish ancestry is known to be disproportionately under-reported among
8875-494: The end of 2014, with the final episode airing on 19 December. His contract was set to expire in June 2014, but a six-month extension was agreed on to provide a more graceful exit and give CBS more time to find a replacement host. He reportedly received US$ 5 million as part of his contract because he was not selected as the replacement for David Letterman 's Late Show . Ferguson made the decision prior to Letterman's announcement but agreed to delay making his own decision public until
9000-427: The finished textiles back to the United States on an industrial scale. Emigration from Scotland peaked in the nineteenth century, when more than a million Scots left for the United States, taking advantage of the regular Atlantic steam-age shipping industry which was itself largely a Scottish creation, contributing to a revolution in transatlantic communication. Scottish emigration to the United States followed, to
9125-488: The first American in orbit, John Glenn , and the first man to fly free in space, Bruce McCandless II , were Scottish Americans. The first men on the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin , were also of Scottish descent; Armstrong wore a kilt in a parade through his ancestral home of Langholm in the Scottish Borders in 1972. Armstrong's ancestry can be traced back to his eighth paternal great-grandfather Adam Armstrong from
9250-565: The first automatic sequence computer in 1939. Hopper was also the co-inventor of the computer language COBOL . Ross Perot , another Scottish American entrepreneur, made his fortune from Electronic Data Systems , an outsourcing company he established in 1962. Software giant Microsoft was co-founded in 1975 by Bill Gates , who owed his start in part to his mother, the Scottish American businesswoman Mary Maxwell Gates , who helped her son to get his first software contract with IBM. Glasgow-born Microsoft employee Richard Tait helped develop
9375-784: The first machine capable of flight, the Bell-Langley airplane , in 1903. Lockheed was started by two brothers, Allan and Malcolm Loughead , in 1926. Douglas was founded by Donald Wills Douglas Sr. in 1921; he launched the world's first commercial passenger plane, the DC-3 , in 1935. McDonnell Aircraft was founded by James Smith McDonnell , in 1939, and became famous for its military jets . In 1967, McDonnell and Douglas merged and jointly developed jet aircraft, missiles and spacecraft . Scottish Americans were pioneers in human spaceflight . The Mercury and Gemini capsules were built by McDonnell. The first American in space, Alan Shepard ,
9500-461: The first time since the two shows went head-to-head with their respective hosts. In March 2009, Craig Ferguson topped Jimmy Fallon in the ratings with Ferguson getting a 1.8 rating and Fallon receiving a 1.6 rating. By 2014, Ferguson's ratings had faltered, trailing those of Late Night with Seth Meyers with an average of 1.35 million viewers versus 2.02 million. On 28 April 2014, Ferguson announced he would leave The Late Late Show at
9625-452: The founder of British America . The first permanent English settlement in the Americas, Jamestown , was thus named for a Scot. The earliest Scottish communities in America were formed by traders and planters rather than farmer settlers. The hub of Scottish commercial activity in the colonial period was Virginia . Regular contacts began with the transportation of indentured servants to
9750-502: The frontier. Tobacco plantations and independent farms in the backcountry of Virginia, Maryland and the Carolinas had been financed with Scottish credit, and indebtedness was an additional incentive for separation. Most Scottish Americans had commercial ties with the old country or clan allegiances and stayed true to the Crown . The Scottish Highland communities of upstate New York and
9875-513: The global refugee crisis. He subsequently appeared with them and others in the video "What They Took With Them" , which saw the actors reading a poem, inspired by primary accounts of refugees and part of UNHCR's #WithRefugees campaign, and which included a petition to governments to expand asylum and to provide further shelter, integrating job opportunities, and education. In October 2022, he voiced his support for Scottish independence . He told The Daily Telegraph : "It used not to be something I
10000-538: The historical fiction The Devil's Whore in 2008, and Balthazar in the drama series The Nativity , based on the Nativity of Jesus in 2010. He also only held minor roles in movies and stage-acting during this time: priests in the horror film Wild Country and comedy film The Best Man , both in 2005, and a small role as therapist Peter VanGellis in the comedy film Big Fat Gypsy Gangster in 2011, written by and starring his Getting On co-star Ricky Grover ,
10125-575: The largest Highland community was centered on the Cape Fear River , which saw a stream of immigrants from Argyllshire, and, later, other regions such as the Isle of Skye . Highland Scots were overwhelmingly loyalist in the Revolution. Distinctly Highland cultural traits persisted in the region until the 19th century, at which point they were assimilated into Anglo-American culture. The Ulster Scots , known as
10250-575: The latter, for which he won the Audience Award for Best Film at the Aspen, Dallas, and Valencia film festivals. He was named Best New Director at the Napa Valley Film Festival. These were among other scripts that, "in the great tradition of the movie business, about half a dozen that I got paid a fortune for but never got made." His other acting credits in films include Niagara Motel , Lenny
10375-486: The lead singer and guitarist in a punk rock band called the Dreamboys, whose drummer was future comedian Craig Ferguson . The pair also performed a cabaret act together as Bing & Dean Hitler and wrote an alternative pantomime of Sleeping Beauty . The first few years of Capaldi's acting career were marked by sporadic appearances, beginning in a 1974 performance of the play An Inspector Calls ; his first onscreen appearance occurred in 1981 as Joe Edwards in
10500-656: The majority of mixed ancestry, and because areas where people reported "American" ancestry were the places where, historically, Scottish and Scotch-Irish Protestants settled in North America (that is: along the North American coast, Appalachia , and the Southeastern United States ). Scottish Americans descended from nineteenth-century Scottish emigrants tend to be concentrated in the West, while many in New England are
10625-417: The medium of print rather than aurally, explaining the presence of Highland-origin tunes in regions like Appalachia where there was essentially no Highland settlement. Outside of Gaelic-speaking communities, however, characteristic Highland musical idioms, such as the “Scotch-snap,” were flattened out and assimilated into anglophone musical styles. Some African American communities were influenced musically by
10750-766: The next four years. In 2015 he voiced the Doctor in crossover video game Lego Dimensions In 2016, Capaldi reprised his role as the Twelfth Doctor in the Doctor Who spin-off programme Class , written by young-adult author Patrick Ness . Besides Doctor Who , he appeared as Paddington Bear 's neighbour Mr Curry in the family comedy film Paddington in 2015 and reprised the role two years later film's sequel Paddington 2 , and as King Kinloch in Maleficent in deleted scenes. He also appeared as himself in various short films and documentaries. On 30 January 2017, in an interview with BBC Radio 2 , Capaldi confirmed that
10875-552: The nineteenth century were Washington Irving , James Fenimore Cooper , Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville . Poet James Mackintosh Kennedy was called to Scotland to deliver the official poem for the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn in 1914. In the twentieth century, Margaret Mitchell 's Gone With the Wind exemplified popular literature. William Faulkner won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949. There have been
11000-614: The play subsequently moving to the West End of London and then to Broadway in New York City as well. These years marked the beginning of Capaldi's occasional writing and directing career: he wrote and starred in the comedy movie Soft Top Hard Shoulder in 1992, which won the audience award at the London Film Festival ; and directed the short film Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life , which starred Richard E. Grant and which
11125-523: The principles of Adam Smith and Thomas Reid , of individual interest governed by common sense and a limited need for government." John Witherspoon and James Wilson were the two Scots to sign the Declaration of Independence, and several other signers had ancestors there. Other Founding Father like James Madison had no ancestral connection but were imbued with ideas drawn from Scottish moral philosophy. Scottish Americans who made major contributions to
11250-418: The reaction to Letterman's decision (announced 3 April) had died down. CBS Entertainment Chair Nina Tassler said, following the announcement, that in his decade as host Ferguson had "infused the broadcast with tremendous energy, unique comedy, insightful interviews and some of the most heartfelt monologues seen on television." CBS continued the franchise with James Corden as the new host. In October 2013, it
11375-622: The rest of his ancestry is Scottish and Irish. His parents ran an ice cream business in the Springburn district, where they were neighbours and acquaintances of the family of Armando Iannucci , creator of The Thick of It , although the two men did not know each other as children. He was educated at St Teresa's Primary School in Possilpark , St Matthew's Primary School in Bishopbriggs , and St Ninian's High School, Kirkintilloch , before attending
11500-629: The revolutionary war included Commodore John Paul Jones , the "Father of the American Navy", and Generals Henry Knox and William Alexander . Another person of note was a personal friend of George Washington, General Hugh Mercer , who fought for Charles Edward Stuart at the Battle of Culloden . The Scotch-Irish, who had already begun to settle beyond the Proclamation Line in the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys , were drawn into rebellion as war spread to
11625-606: The rise of Capaldi to worldwide fame with his casting in the role of the Twelfth Doctor in the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who , becoming the oldest actor since the first incarnation to star as the Doctor and the third oldest to portray the character, at the age of 56; Capaldi stated that he had to seriously consider the increased level of visibility that would come with the part. He had portrayed characters in Doctor Who before he
11750-685: The role of Mr Micawber in The Personal History of David Copperfield , a comedy-drama film based on the novel by Charles Dickens , in 2019 and the writer and soldier Siegfried Sassoon in the biographical romantic drama Benediction in 2021. He starred in the 2021 DC Extended Universe superhero film The Suicide Squad as the Thinker . While filming, Capaldi wrote and recorded rock music for his debut solo studio album St. Christopher , released through Monks Road Records that year on 19 November. Starting 2022 and 2024, he has been starring in
11875-532: The role to Avery Brooks . He was invited, in 1995, to audition for the role of the Eighth Doctor for the Doctor Who television movie , though he declined stating: "I didn't go. I loved the show so much, and I didn't think I would get it, and I didn't want to just be part of a big cull of actors." As he took on more and more roles on television, Capaldi's roles in movies and on-stage mostly included minor or supporting roles, with major titles including Gareth in
12000-694: The season finale of Hot in Cleveland as a priest/tabloid journalist who turns out to be the father of Joy's ( Jane Leeves ) son. The show reunited him with former co-star and frequent Late Late Show guest Betty White . Ferguson reprised the role for several episodes when the show returned in March 2014. In January 2023, Sony Pictures Television (SPT) announced a new, half-hour syndicated late night talk show with Craig Ferguson as host. Channel Surf with Craig Ferguson will be produced by Whisper North and will be distributed by SPT. A pilot for Channel Surf with Craig Ferguson
12125-556: The servant Fabian in Twelfth Night and the protagonist Jonathan Harker in Dracula , in 1983 and 1984, among many others; and appeared in an episode or two for drama shows such as the legal-drama Shadow of the Noose in 1989, and mystery-drama Agatha Christie's Poirot in 1991. Capaldi got his first starring role on television as Luke Wakefield, a strange man who imagines he has witnessed
12250-515: The sons of William C Davidson (1846–1923) who was born and grew up in Angus, Scotland , and Margaret Adams McFarlane (1843–1933) of Scottish descent from the small Scottish settlement of Cambridge, Wisconsin . They raised five children together: Janet May, William A., Walter , Arthur and Elizabeth. Scottish Americans have made a major contribution to the U.S. aircraft industry . Alexander Graham Bell , in partnership with Samuel Pierpont Langley , built
12375-455: The stage play The Ladykillers . He won a BAFTA Scotland award for Outstanding Contribution to Film & Television. Capaldi wrote a rock album titled St. Christopher . He is married to actress Elaine Collins and the pair have a child together. Capaldi was born on 14 April 1958 in Glasgow , Scotland, to Gerald and Nancy ( née Soutar) Capaldi. His paternal grandfather was Italian, while
12500-501: The struggles and 'forced exile' of Jacobites and Highland clansmen in popular media, Scottish migration was mostly from the Lowland regions and its pressures included poverty and land clearance but also the variety of positive economic opportunities believed to be available. The table shows the ethnic Scottish population in the British colonies from 1700 to 1775. In 1700 the total population of
12625-546: The taking of his citizenship test as well as his swearing in on The Late Late Show . In 2011, Ferguson bought Bargany House . Scottish-American Scottish Americans or Scots Americans ( Scottish Gaelic : Ameireaganaich Albannach ; Scots : Scots-American ) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Scotland . Scottish Americans are closely related to Scotch-Irish Americans , descendants of Ulster Scots , and communities emphasize and celebrate
12750-547: The tenth series would be his last. His final episode was the Christmas special, " Twice Upon a Time ", in which he was succeeded by actress Jodie Whittaker . His performance as the Doctor was widely praised; with his Doctor being characterised as one who started out rude and grumpy, with a short fuse, but who grew and mellowed over time, into the perfect embodiment of kindness and love. Capaldi's post- Doctor Who has partially involved voice acting: in 2018, he voiced Rabbit in
12875-603: The top percentage of Scottish or Scotch-Irish residents: As of 2020, the distribution of Scottish Americans across the 50 states and DC is as presented in the following table. The first Scots in North America came with the Vikings . A Christian bard from the Hebrides accompanied Bjarni Herjolfsson on his voyage around Greenland in 985/6 which sighted the mainland to the west. The first Scots recorded as having set foot in
13000-516: The video versions of Lewis' " Someone You Loved ". It was made in partnership with the charity organisation Live Life Give Life , in order to raise awareness for the issue of organ donation. He grew up Catholic but is now an atheist . In 2015, Capaldi alongside Cate Blanchett , Patrick Stewart , and Colin Firth supported the United Nations' refugee agency UNHCR to help raise awareness about
13125-698: The voices of Gobber in the How to Train Your Dragon film series (2010–2019), Owl in Winnie the Pooh (2011), and Lord Macintosh in Brave (2012). Ferguson was born on 17 May 1962 in Stobhill Hospital in the Springburn district of Glasgow , to Robert (1930–2006), a post office worker and Scottish Nationalist , and Janet Ferguson (1933–2008), a primary school teacher . When he
13250-641: The west coast, settled in the Thirteen Colonies between 1763 and 1776, the majority of these in their own communities in the South , especially North Carolina , although Scottish individuals and families also began to appear as professionals and artisans in every American town. Scots arriving in Florida and the Gulf Coast traded extensively with Native Americans . Highland Scots started arriving in North America in
13375-509: The world speed record in 1900. In 1903, he became the first man to drive across the United States. David Dunbar Buick , another Scottish emigrant, founded Buick in 1903. The Scottish-born William Blackie transformed the Caterpillar Tractor Company into a multinational corporation. Harley-Davidson Inc (formerly HDI ), often abbreviated "H-D" or "Harley", is an American motorcycle manufacturer. The Davidson brothers were
13500-413: Was "to make up for generations of English actors doing crap Scottish accents." In his comedy special "A Wee Bit o' Revolution", he specifically identified James Doohan 's portrayal of Montgomery Scott on Star Trek as the foundation of his "revenge". (At the end of one episode, though, Ferguson broke the fourth wall and began talking to the audience at home in his regular Scottish accent.) His character
13625-622: Was 13, to visit an uncle who lived on Long Island , near New York City. When he moved to New York City in 1983, he worked in construction in Harlem . He was later a bouncer at the nightclub Save the Robots before returning to the United Kingdom. Ferguson's entertainment career began as a teenager, drumming for Glasgow punk bands such as the Night Creatures and Exposure. He then had a brief stint as
13750-502: Was 6 months old, he and his family moved from their Springburn flat to a Development Corporation house in the nearby New Town of Cumbernauld , where he grew up "chubby and bullied". They lived there as Cumbernauld was rehousing many Glaswegians away from the poor housing conditions and damage to the city from World War II . Ferguson attended Muirfield Primary School and Cumbernauld High School . At age 16, Ferguson left high school and began an apprenticeship to be an electronics technician at
13875-540: Was announced that Ferguson would host the syndicated game show Celebrity Name Game , produced by Coquette Productions , beginning in late 2014. Ferguson's involvement in the project dates back to 2011, when it was originally pitched and piloted as a CBS primetime series. As of April 2014, the series had an initial order of 180 episodes. The syndicated series began airing on 22 September 2014. Ferguson won Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Game Show Host for Celebrity Name Game in 2015 and 2016. On 2 December 2016, it
14000-692: Was announced that the series would end after three seasons. Ferguson signed in 2015 to play Prentiss Porter in The King of 7B , a comedy pilot for ABC . The show was not picked up. On 18 February 2016, Ferguson began to host a historical talk show on History titled Join or Die with Craig Ferguson . The title is a reference to a Benjamin Franklin political cartoon published in the Pennsylvania Gazette on 9 May 1754, which Ferguson had tattooed on his forearm after becoming an American citizen. Ferguson and
14125-476: Was broadcast, co-starring Paul Whitehouse and Helen Atkinson-Wood . In 1991, Channel 4 asked him to host Friday at the Dome , a 75-minute live music show. In 1992, he was given his own BBC Scotland show, 2000 Not Out . In 1993, he presented a six-part archaeology TV series, The Dirt Detective , for STV , and was given a six-part TV series on BBC One , The Ferguson Theory, a mix of stand-up and sketches recorded
14250-662: Was cast as the Doctor: Lobus Caecilius in the Doctor Who episode " The Fires of Pompeii ". The following year he played civil servant John Frobisher in the third series of the Doctor Who spin-off , Torchwood . The start of 2013 saw Capaldi portraying the editor of The Guardian Alan Rusbridger , in The Fifth Estate , starring in Inside the Mind of Leonardo , a documentary about Leonardo da Vinci and appearing as
14375-410: Was characterised by Scott Roxborough of The Hollywood Reporter as "more interested in contemplating issues such as those of race, gender and other institutional disorders, in an ever increasing, politically polarized Britain." In addition, Capaldi made his return to theatre and directing: stage acting in a revival of Constellations in 2021, acting against Sheila Atim ; and directed a pilot for
14500-549: Was common all over Protestant Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and that it is far more likely that Gospel music originated with English psalm singing. The first foreign tongue spoken by some slaves in America was Scottish Gaelic picked up from Gaelic-speaking immigrants from the Scottish Highlands and Western Isles. There are accounts of African Americans singing Gaelic songs and playing Scottish Gaelic music on bagpipes and fiddle. The civic tradition of
14625-478: Was guest host on the April Fools' Day episode of The Price Is Right in 2014. In 2009, Ferguson made a cameo live-action appearance in the episode " We Love You, Conrad " on Family Guy . Ferguson hosted the 32nd annual People's Choice Awards on 10 January 2006. TV Guide magazine printed a "Cheers" (Cheers and Jeers section) for appearing on his own show that same evening. From 2007 to 2010, Ferguson hosted
14750-595: Was memorable for his unique methods of laying employees off, almost always "firing Johnson", the most common last name of the to-be-fired workers. Even after leaving the show in 2003, he remained a recurring character on the series for the last two seasons, and was part of the two-part series finale in 2004. During the production of The Drew Carey Show , Ferguson devoted his off-time as a cast member to writing, working in his trailer on set in between shooting his scenes. He wrote and starred in three films: The Big Tease , Saving Grace , and I'll Be There ; he also directed
14875-411: Was nominated and won various awards, with IndieWire 's Erik Kohn describing it as " brilliant mix of gothic horror and holiday cheer" and praising the ambiguous nature of the film. Capaldi also wrote and directed the drama film Strictly Sinatra , starring Ian Hart and Kelly Macdonald in 2001. These years saw Capaldi performing in various radio shows and audiobooks, with major roles including
15000-531: Was nominated various times at both the BAFTA TV Awards and Royal Television Society Awards for Best Comedy Actor. He won the 2010 BAFTA TV Award for Male Performance in a Comedy Role . He also won the 2010 and 2012 British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Actor. Other major roles during these years included: Dr Pete in the Scottish crime-drama series The Field of Blood in 2011, for which he received
15125-681: Was particularly drawn to. I've lived in London for most of my life, and always loved Cardiff and Manchester and Belfast . But after the relentlessness of the past 12 years, everything we have been put through, it might just be time to go home and be a part of that." Capaldi holds dual citizenship; following Brexit , he acquired Italian citizenship by descent through his paternal grandfather who hailed from Picinisco . Capaldi has been nominated for various awards including three British Academy Television Award nominations and one win for Malcolm Tucker in In
15250-673: Was reported that the series was cancelled, having aired 19 episodes across two seasons. Craig Ferguson has made guest appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno , Late Show with David Letterman , Late Night with Conan O'Brien , Rachael Ray , Countdown with Keith Olbermann , The Howard Stern Show , The Daily Show , The View , Loveline , Real Time with Bill Maher , The Soup , The Talk , The Price Is Right , Kevin Pollak's Chat Show , The Dennis Miller Show and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert . He also co-hosted Live with Regis & Kelly with Kelly Ripa and
15375-493: Was revealed as the next Doctor, succeeding Matt Smith in the role, and made his first appearance as the Doctor in cameos in the 2013 specials , first in the 50th anniversary special, " The Day of the Doctor ", then the 2013 Christmas special, " The Time of the Doctor ", taking over the role at the end of the episode. Capaldi made his first regular in Doctor Who in the episode " Deep Breath " later that year, leading 40 episodes, consisting of three series and four specials during
15500-683: Was shot in the UK this month at Dock10 studios , and SPT will take the show out to potential buyers in Los Angeles. On 27 February 2017, Ferguson launched The Craig Ferguson Show , a two-hour talk radio show on the Comedy Greats channel and Faction Talk on SiriusXM Satellite Radio . His last new show aired 11 May 2018. Ferguson's novel Between the Bridge and the River was published on 10 April 2006. He appeared at
15625-607: Was to Anne Hogarth from 1983 to 1986, during which time they lived in New York . His second marriage was to Sascha Corwin (founder and proprietor of Los Angeles' SpySchool), with whom he has one child, born in 2001. He and Corwin shared custody of their child, and lived near each other in the Hollywood Hills . Ferguson married art dealer Megan Wallace-Cunningham in a private ceremony on her family's farm in Chester, Vermont in 2008. They have
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