Craig Ferguson
comedy shows
Megan Wallace Cunningham

Nothing like a little natural disaster to bring out the funny.

As high-powered winds wreaked havoc in Los Angeles last night, the lights in Craig Ferguson's Late Late Show studio suddenly went pitch-black during the last few seconds of his interview with Alicia Silverstone, to the surprise of host, guest and stagehands and, thanks to the quick-thinking Ferguson, the amusement of viewers.

"Oh!" the suddenly faceless Ferguson cried out. "Oooh, it's getting close to Halloween. This is awesome. We've gone to radio, everybody!"

When prompted by a producer to "keep going" for the last few seconds before the commercial break, Ferguson had a hard time grasping the notion, but like any obliging cheeky monkey, did as he was told.

"Keep going, keep going what? Keep going?! We'll be right back, everybody."

The power managed to come back for Ferguson's second interview, with Salman Rushdie (not even a force of nature would dare come between a man and his fatwa), but conked back out by the end of the show.

Not that that put a crimp in the enterprising (and flashlight-possessing) host's late-night denouement...

"There's a power outage in the whole building—look, look," he said, before finding the proverbial bright side of things.

"But you know why it's awesome, it's kind of like one of these movies that makes a billion, kazillion dollars now," he said, giving the camera a bit of his best Blair Witch.

"You know what I think is worrying? Let's be honest, the lighting has slightly improved."

As Ferguson fans would agree, so did the comedy.

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Craig Ferguson CBS Late Late Show host is a witty funny Scottish comic who has become an American Citizen.

Craig Ferguson is equally funny in person, probably more so - his free wheeling style catches everyone off guard and even those who are eating steak while watching Craig has to pause, forkful on it’s way to mouth to laugh out loud at his whimsy.

He shares his daily thoughts in a late evening monolog that is bound to please everyone and offend someone but he doesn’t care!

If you are in Hollywood, catch the Late Late Show with TV’s Craig Ferguson.  The tickets are free and you only have to log on to his web site to secure them.  Some of Craig’s impressions are some of my favorites; Michael Caine in Space, Sean Connery, The rather late Programe with Prince Charles are hilarious and make me laugh every time.  I really love Prince Charles side kick, but I can’t find out his name.  Anyone know?

Craig Ferguson, like Jay Leno is a workaholic who goes on the road every one to two weeks and does standup comedy all over the U.S.A. He even went to Bahrain to entertain the troops who turned out to be the crew of an Australian battleship. Because of heightened security, American ships were not allowed to come ashore to see his show.

In a laugh out loud monologue, Craig told the tail of the drunkest audience he ever saw, and he knows drunks! It seems like the sailors had been out to sea for 4 months without shore leave and they were ready to party. One guy just stood there and yelled, then took a sip of beer and yelled some more. Another sailor was in a fight with two American Police and fought the entire fight while smoking a cigarette.

Craig Ferguson has been doing comedy and music all his life. He grew up in Glasgow, a Scottish Highlander for sure. He wrote, produced and acted in 3 movies, Saving Grace, The Big Tease and Born Romantic to name but a few. He also wrote a book called Between the Bridge and the River which was a smashing success and I am lucky enough to own a signed copy.

I first saw Craig Ferguson at a comedy club in Pleasanton, California. He was hilarious and oh so nice to sign my copy of his book. A brilliant read you have to wonder how much of it is based on real occurrences in his life in Scotland.

Scotland is a magical place. Yes, it does rain there all the time and it’s so cold and so far north in the northern hemisphere that the sum comes up at 10 AM and sets at 4 PM, at least in the winter when I was there. It doesn’t really rise so much as dances it’s way across the sky in a very low arc. It is never directly over your head.

In the coming months I will be adding photos of my trip to Scotland, one of my very favorite travels and more pictures of Craig.

Janet Ferguson and Craig at the awards.
It was a touching and sad show last night after Craig Ferguson came back from Scotland where he attended his mother's funeral.

He didn't feel like being funny and I don't think any of us wanted him to try.