Craig Ferguson (host of the Late, Late Show) is one of my favorite talk show hosts. To me he is a completely unique and wonderful blend of emotion, honesty, integrity, and class. He never hides his faults and admits his vulnerabilities openly, creating an incredible rapport with his audience. His loveliness lies not in his comedy, but in his relations with the rest of humanity:
Craig talks about his father
Craig talks about his mother
"I am standing upon that foreshore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength and I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other. Then someone at my side says, "There! She's gone!" "Gone where?" "Gone from my sight, that's all." She is just as large in mast and spar and hull as ever she was when she left my side; just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of her destination. Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at that moment when someone at my side says, "There! She's gone!" there are other eyes watching her coming and other voices ready to take up the glad shout, "Here she comes!" And that is dying."
Victor Hugo, from Toilers of the Sea
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A comedic great. A great man.