From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. You will probably know the voice of my guest today, Craig Ferguson. You can't see him, but he's wearing a Drew Carey T-shirt.

That's right, yeah. Many of us know him from the Drew Carey show where he was Mr. Wick.

He also wrote movies including Saving Grace,

and his first novel is just out between the bridge and the river.

It's an amazing book, Craig, because what it is, to me,

it feels like it's got that kind of that combination of sort of anger,

wit, and compassion that kind of fuels your monologues and your

sense of humor, I would think. I thank you and I think I think that's the truth. I mean,

I can't stay married to one particular tone. I can't stay angry. I can't stay happy. I can't stay,

you know, sad. I'm a human being, you know, so, um, so moods and emotions

ebb and flow in, in the monologues, in the book, and anything I've done. Movies actually

are particularly good for that because you're always looking for a mood to change. So they encourage it.

But yeah, I think that's right. I think it's in order to be truthful, you have to, I have to keep changing the

shades. Well, it's interesting too, because the book itself is also kind of aggressive.

Yeah, I have, I think it's become fashionable to say ADD, but I like to think I had ADD before

it was fashionable. I like, I think it's a mind, a restless mind.

I find myself fascinated and drawn with details

so that if, for example, in a scene in the book,

a waiter comes in to deliver a sandwich,

then giving a little bit of backstory in the waiter somehow is interesting to me.

Do you ever remember, do you see that movie Run Lola Run a few years ago?

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