He’s not illegal so far as I know, but Craig Ferguson is still an alien in America. A native of Scotland who’s lived here for years, the late-night host has been pursuing U.S. citizenship with both real-life vigor and comedy-routine humor. One of the standbys of “The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson” has been him begging, pleading and stunting for honorary citizenship around the country -- his web site today boasts he’s obtained it from 16,109 towns (none in New York?), with 34,802 to go. [CBS photo above shows Ferguson updating which places he's got.]
An easier method would be getting the whole country in one fell swoop, and that’s what Ferguson talks about tonight on “Late Late.” At 12:35 a.m. the night of Monday Jan. 28/early Tuesday Jan. 29 (depending how you look at it), Ferguson relates what happened last Friday, when he went to the Los Angeles district office of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for his citizenship interview.
We love it to be funny, but we’d love it to be real, too. Good thing Ferguson’s good at both.
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This has the promise of a Can't Miss moment from a man whose given us Can't Miss moments in the past few years, for both fans and non-fans alike. He's worked at this for so long I can imagine this will be an emotional experience. Hopefully those who don't normally watch the show will tune in tonight.