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It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne. Craig Ferguson is Scottish. He was born and raised in Scotland.

That's probably not a big surprise to hear if you have ever heard him talk. Like, for example,

on the Late Late Show on CBS, which he hosted for about a decade. I remembered that I had $50 on my desk.

I keep money on my desk in case I have a bad guest.

Like, that would ever happen.

I keep, usually I have $50 in singles on the desk.

CBS is money. It's not my money. I don't have that kind of money. But the CBS, and there's $50 in singles on the desk. CBS is money. It's not my money. I don't have that kind of money.

But they, uh, CBS and there's,

there's $50 in singles.

And if there's a bad guest and they're like, you know,

I'm saying like, what is it like on the movie?

Have you met George Clooney?

And they're like, I don't know.

I don't know.

Then I give them a dollar. Then, you know, show business people are doing anything for money. They're like carnies, but with less class.

I didn't know we had a lot of carnies in tonight.

Craig Ferguson is also American.

He's lived here for over 40 years.

He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2008. Ferguson, and I do not think that I am overstating this, loves being an American. He loves to talk about America,

American history, about what it means to be an American, so much so that he has a new TV show

about exactly that. It's called Craig Ferguson American on

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