克雷格·费格斯

克雷格·费格斯（英语：Craig Ferguson，1962年5月17日—），又译克雷格·费格森，苏格兰出身的美国CBS晚间娱乐节目《深夜秀》的主持人，他另外还是喜剧演员、电视制片人和电视剧本作家。他目前是CW电视台游戏节目《拼字游戏》（2026年起）的主持人。

2014年12月离开《深夜秀》后，他主持了联合播出的游戏节目《名人猜名游戏》（2014-2017），并凭借该节目荣获两项日间时段艾美奖。他也主持了历史频道的《加入或死亡》(2016）。

弗格森的演艺生涯始于英国的音乐、喜剧和戏剧领域，他于1983年移居美国纽约，后在ABC情景喜剧《德鲁·凯瑞秀》（1996-2004）中饰演奈杰尔·威克（Nigel Wick）一角。弗格森著有三本书：小说《桥与河之间》、回忆录《美国人的使命》以及回忆录《骑象：争吵、羞辱、幻觉与观察》。他自编自演了三部电影，并执导了其中一部，此外还在其他几部电影中客串演出。在动画电影方面，弗格森曾为《驯龙高手系列电影》（2010-2019）中的戈伯、《小熊维尼》（2011）中的猫头鹰以及《勇敢传说》（2012）中的麦金托什勋爵配音。

Craig Ferguson (born 17 May 1962) is a Scottish and American actor, comedian, writer and television host. He hosted the CBS late-night talk show The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005–2014), for which he won a Peabody Award for his interview with South African archbishop Desmond Tutu in 2009. He is currently the host of Scrabble (2026–present) on The CW Network.

After leaving The Late Late Show in December 2014, he hosted 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, a television game show that aired on ABC from 4 January to 23 September 2021. In August 2023, Ferguson began broadcasting his own podcast Joy on iHeartMedia.

After starting his career in the United Kingdom with music, comedy, and theatre, Ferguson moved to the United States, 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 has written and starred in three films, directing one of them, and has appeared in several others. In animated film, Ferguson voiced Gobber in the How to Train Your Dragon film series (2010–2019), Owl in Winnie the Pooh (2011), and Lord Macintosh in Brave (2012).

Early life and education

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 (née Ingram) Ferguson (1933–2008), a primary school teacher. When he was six 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 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 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.

Career

British career

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 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 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 a drummer for Nico during a few gigs when she toured Scotland.