10 of the Best Moments from Late Night’s Outgoing Cheeky Monkey, Craig Ferguson

Stephen Colbert ended his amazing nine-year run on The Colbert Report last night, but with all the excitement over his star-studded finale, let’s not overlook one of the most underrated voices in late night: the Scottish-American cheeky monkey Craig Ferguson.

It’s possible many of you may not be intimately familiar with Ferguson or The Late Late Show, so here’s a quick summation: his sidekicks are a talking robot skeleton called Geoff Peterson and the pantomime horse Secretariat, there’s always time for tweetmails, four dings means we talk like Italian Bill Clinton (“whassacommidago”), and it is always a great day for America. And he had the best damn theme song of any late night show on television.

Oh, and do we have a picture of Paul McCartney?

There we go.

Like Colbert, Ferguson also got the chance to speak at the White House Correspondents Dinner

Ferguson’s last show airs tonight on CBS at 12:37 am EST (though it was taped yesterday), and in honor of the occasion, we’ve assembled ten of the best and enjoyably weirdest moments from Craig Ferguson’s 10 great years behind the Late Late Show desk:

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