TLLS with Craig Ferguson aired on the following stations around the world:

Australia: Eleven TV as of Jan 11, 2011

Canadia: Omni.

Japan: AXN as of 10 May 2014.

Know of another network outside the US that aired TLLS? Let me know!

Craig is on Twitter? Where? How can I follow?

Just pop on over to The Tweety, and sign up for a free account. Then visit Craig's tweety page (@CraigyFerg) and click the "Follow" button. That's all there is to it!

How do I send a tweet to Craig?

In the update box on twitter, just start your tweet with @craigyferg. You can also include his user name with the @ symbol anywhere else in your tweet. This is known as "tagging" someone. Any time a tweet starts with or includes @craigyferg, it'll show up in Craig's "@ replies" area.

Please remember, having the ability to send a tweet to Craig also comes with great responsibility. He attempted MySpace, back in the day, and lasted FOUR DAYS, thanks to mean, rude, nagging "fans." (See The MySpace Experiment below) Don't let Twitter be a repeat of that. (Again.) Please understand:

1) Craig is very good at giving things up, and

2) When Craig leaves, we ALL lose.*

With that in mind...

• Don't be a dick.
• That's right, I've invoked Wheaton's Law. Originally a suggestion regarding sportsmanship in online gaming, it also applies to life in general.
• Don't be rude!
• Craig is a regular person, just like you (but with a really AWESOME job). Negative or sarcastic tweets may not be as well received as you intended.
• Craig does know how to block people and exercises this option frequently.
• Learn it. Live it. Love it. Craig has said several times on the show that he blocks people; that if you send him a tweet with even the SLIGHTEST bit of negativity, he will block you. Take heed... he is a man of his word on this subject. *Craig does not lie about things that are important.* Just try to be your best self. Treat him the way you would want others to treat you. Nobody -- not even "Hollywood stars" -- should be expected to allow needless negativity to come into their lives, when there's the handy "block" button right there.
• Try not to tag him in your tweets to excess.
• If you're directing a question or comment to him, that's one thing. If you're pointlessly tagging him just for the sake of it, while tweeting about what you had for lunch today, you may want to reconsider. If you want to discuss him in your tweet, but it's nothing that he really needs to read (And honestly... that's 99% of the tweets right there.), just use his name without the @ symbol, or use the hashtag version of his user name instead. (#craigyferg). People will still know who you're talking about, and Craig's @ replies aren't loaded down with junk. Everybody wins!
• Excessive flattery will get you nowhere
• Craig has been in show-biz a very long time, and has had people kissing his ass for years. He's not stupid, and he's not perfect. Assuming he's either, will only annoy him.
• Don't nag, beg, or tell him what he MUST or NEEDS to do.
• Craig is not your trained monkey, just waiting to perform on command. Gentle suggestions are okay... IF you word it nicely. Constructive criticism is okay... again, IF worded nicely (though perhaps going the "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all" route would be best). Just understand that Craig is perfectly capable of thinking for himself and figuring out what works and doesn't work, and who he does and doesn't want on the show. Nagging tweets may backfire and get you blocked, or get the "unknown artist" you're hoping to have on his show put on the "Oh, hell no!" list, or the "Sin Bin," as Craig calls it. (Remember, Craig does not want to be Robot Skeleton *Married*)
• Don't beg for re-tweets or to be followed
• See above regarding nagging and begging. Requests for either of these fall into the same category. And as someone wise once said, "Before asking a witty celebrity to follow you, you might read your own feed first. Would YOU follow you?"
• PS: If you do get hit with the dreaded Craigy Ka-Block, keep in mind there is no appeal process and no undo. Don't be a douche and whine about it. Just take a look at your tweets to him and see if you can figure out what you might have said that maybe wasn't an example of you being your best self. It's usually pretty obvious. Figure out what that thing was, and take note. Then, if you want, start a new tweety account and follow him again, but play nice this time. :)
• Remember: "Intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism." (And by "romance," he's talking about this. Chivalry is not dead.)

Still thinking about tweeting him something rude? First watch this rant on harsh and stupid tweeters, from June 28, 2012:

*Harsh, stupid and annoying tweeters have already lost us the excited and open Craig that first joined Twitter. If tweeters continue to push him too far, we'll even lose what little we have left. To illustrate, here's a snapshot of Craig's tweet frequency since he first joined until early 2013. Sad.

Is there anyone else I should "follow" on Twitter?

Yes! Craig is involved in several projects, so here are some tweeters who will keep you up to date and entertained with Craigy Goodness:

• @CFergTour: This is Craig's official tour account tweety, run by magical elves.
• @RSA_News: Weekly rundown of Craig news.
• @CelebNameGame: The official tweety account for Celebrity Name Game, which Craig has been hosting since 2014
• @JoinOrDieHIST: The official tweety account for Join or Die with Craig Ferguson, which airs Thursday nights on HISTORY

Follow at will... If you do, please remember that these accounts are run by actual people, just like you and me. (Craig, too! He's people!) And none of these people are our trained monkeys, or are only there for our amusement. (Though they do amuse on a regular basis!) So feel free to ask them questions, or send comments, but please do so in a respectful manner. Do what you can to make their experience on the tweety as fun and as interesting as you would like it to be for yourself.

How can I find others on The Tweety who enjoy Craig Ferguson?

Several ways...

Check out the "Followers" lists of the "essential" tweeters above, and see if anyone looks interesting to you. If they do, click the follow button. Don't be afraid to jump into somebody's tweety "conversation" with a question or a comment. That's how connections are made. When you find a new tweety friend, check out who THEY follow, and so on.

Use the little search box on the tweety and search for Craig-related tweets. If anyone talking about him sounds interesting to you, follow. Some suggested searches on the tweety:

• Craig Ferguson
• craigyferg (or just @craigyferg -- this search is helpful if you only want to see the messages people are sending to Craig)
• You get the idea! Whatever method you use, please remember to keep common internet safety in mind -- not everyone you "meet" online is who they say they are. Don't give out your personal information unless you're comfortable with the entire world seeing it.
• PS: For searching, it works best if you use a non-Tweety app, since Twitter's search function is nearly entirely useless these days.

Is Craig Ferguson on Facebook or Myspace? There's a guy on the myfacetube who says he's Craig Ferguson. Is it?

NO. I can't stress this enough:

NO!

Craig Ferguson does not use any social networking website except Twitter. Craig himself posted about this on 7/20/2010 on his twitter page here:

http://twitter.com/CraigyFerg/status/19030054499

"There is somebody on myspace pretending to be me. How sad. It's bad enough being the real thing."

That same day, Craig also retweeted a post stating:

So please remember, if you're interacting with someone claiming to be Craig Ferguson, and you're anywhere other than Twitter (the @CraigyFerg account, to be specific) , that person is a fraud. Do NOT make arrangements to meet this person for any reason. Just report them, block them, warn others, and move on. If you know someone who thinks they are interacting with Craig Ferguson, please point them to this FAQ, or to Craig's tweet linked above.

And once again, just so it's clear, Craig Ferguson is on Twitter. Period. He does NOT use MySpace, FaceBook, etc., either openly or using a pseudonym. It's a dangerous world out there on the intergooglewebs, Skeletons. Use the common sense you were born with, and don't be duped by charletons and frauds.

Sticky Cares /\

Still don't believe it? Check out his own words in this May 21, 2012 monologue about Facebook:

And here's Craig mentioning again that he doesn't have a facebook page, during a 4/22/2013 interview with Kat Dennings (about 8 1/2 minutes in):

And here's yet another instance of Craig stating that he does NOT have a Facebook account, and never has had one, during the big Facebook Birthday Monologue of 2/4/2014. (Video will be added when available.) Quote:

"I'm not on Facebook. I've never been on it. There ARE people on Facebook who claim to be me. And to these people, I say: Aim higher."

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson Theme Song

For information about the LLS Theme, please see THIS PAGE.

The MySpace Experiment

Long before Twitter, there was MySpace. Craig did, very briefly, have a MySpace account -- for a whopping six days (active for four), but quickly became turned off by the experience, when "fans" ceaselessly hounded and nagged him for replies, friends/follows, or other attention.

Craig's MySpace page was created around October 25. 2006, (and was gone by November 3, 2006), and was located here: http://www.myspace.com/officialcraigferguson

After six days, Craig made a decision to shut down his MySpace page for good. Luckily, a quick thinking and thoughtful Craig Peep had the foresight to snap up Craig's MySpace account name, preserve his final message for posterity, and prevent imposters from using the account to trick people.

Craig discusses his extremely short-lived MySpace experiment, in this March 7, 2008, interview with Shanna Moakley:

"I had a MySpace page for four days. I did. Four days. What I realized was that the computer world/the internet had become so super-efficient that I could piss off more women in four days using computers than I could with two marriages! They got so mad... SO mad. And you know what they were angry at? They were just angry because I didn't get back [to them]."

Also, here's Craig talking about Craig Ferguson impostors on MySpace, from October 4, 2006:

What are those blue cards and why did Craig rip them up each night?

The blue cards had "suggested questions" that staff had prepared, in case Craig needed help with the interview. He started ignoring the questions very early on in the show, but first tore one up in this interview with Alec Baldwin from Jan 11, 2008.

Why does Craig call himself TV's Craig Ferguson?

You may have noticed that at the very beginning of each Late Late Show monologue, while the audience is still clapping, Craig (almost) always said: "Welcome to Los Angeles, California. Welcome to the Late Late Show. I am your host, TV's Craig Ferguson." (He continues to use a variation of this on Celebrity Name Game and Join or Die!) Buy why does he call himself "TV's Craig Ferguson?" Are there other Craig Fergusons?

Well, the answer is YES. Not counting other actual real-live people with the same name, calling himself "TV's Craig Ferguson" differentiates the persona that you see on television from who Craig Ferguson is in the various aspects of his real life. What you see on TV is the exuberant cheeky monkey vaudevillian, whose purpose is to entertain you for an hour (or half-hour, currently). However, that is just one facet of Craig Ferguson. There's also Craig Ferguson the author, Craig Ferguson the actor, Craig Ferguson the musician, Craig Ferguson the humanitarian, Craig Ferguson the philosopher, Craig Ferguson the geek, Craig Ferguson the imperfect human being with the same ups and downs as "regular" people, and Craig Ferguson the private family man.

What the heck is this Irn Bru stuff Craig has mentioned?

Irn Bru is a Scottish specialty, a carbonated caffeinated soft drink with a vanilla citrus-y kind of taste, that's been around since 1901. Or so they say. Irn Bru is readily available in Scotland, where it is one of the best selling soft drinks. For folks elsewhere, it may be more of a challenge to find. For US dwellers, check out the US Irn Bru manufacturer's website, where you can order online, or look for a distributor near you. The US version differs a bit from the Scotland version, to adhere to FDA regulations.

What is this "Robot Skeleton Army" business?

The "Robot Skeleton Army" (RSA) is the name that Craig initially used to refer to his followers on Twitter (and, really, anyone that watches and enjoys the show). The origins of the RSA concept actually come well before Craig's joining the tweety (and if I could find what's thought to be the first mention of it, I'd link it here), but the most notable mention of it was the day he announced that he had joined the tweety. He said:

Craig announced April 28 that he would be leaving TLLS at the end of the year. Read up on that (as well as all the previous Letterman Speculation) HERE.