Update: Tour stop added in Minnesota
Craig has added a tour stop at the Woman’s Club Theatre in Minneapolis on Thursday, November 12 at 7:00pm. For detailed information including a link for tickets, visit our Live Comedy Tour page. Thanks to the RSA’s @whyterose713 for the heads up!

We Said Regina
Craig Ferguson‘s New Deal Tour resumes in the mystical land of Can-uh-daah this week, with stops in Regina, Edmonton, Calgary, Red Deer, and Winnipeg before returning to the states for shows in North Dakota and Wisconsin. You can see the full listings, including links for tickets on our Live Comedy Tour page. Comedian Mark Forward will be opening for Craig on both sides of the border. In a piece with several spoilers, West Virgina University’s student newspaper reviewed the October 26th show in Morgantown.

One Hobo’s Experience
The RSA’s @chandlersdame had a chance to attend Craig’s show in Richmond, Virgina and wrote a fun piece about her experience. Thanks for sending it to us! Have you seen Craig perform live? Please tell us your story and we’d be happy to share it with the rest of the robot skeleton army. You can submit it using our Contact Us page, or just tweet us a link.

Friends on ‘Name Game’
Fans of the show Friends enjoyed a mini-reunion of sorts, when Lisa Kudrow teamed up with Celebrity Name Game Executive Producer Courtney Cox for a taping of the game show. Zap2It.com, Entertainment Weekly and Access Hollywood. Meanwhile, Access Hollywood Live hosts Billy Bush and Kit Hoover have also appeared on the game show, and did an extended interview with Craig. And for our readers in Australia, some great news: Celebrity Name Game is now on Arena every weeknight. Check your local listings for the air time “in your region.” Thanks to the RSA’s @bec_giddy for spreading the word!

Ready For Prime Time
Josh Robert Thompson says post production has wrapped up on the pilot episode of his self-titled variety show, and he’s working hard to get the show picked up. He was interviewed recently on WGN Radio in Chicago about the show, as well as his film Nowhere Girl. He also did an interview about the film with StarryMag.com.

‘Join or Die’ Tapings
The RSA’s @bgrhubarb notes four more tapings have been scheduled for Craig’s upcoming History Channel show Join or Die. Craig will tape the shows in Los Angeles during the next short break in the stand up tour. If you’re in the greater Los Angeles area on November 18th and 19th and want to attend, you can get tickets here. The show is taped at RED Studios Hollywood on Cahuenga Boulevard.

Adorable Whore
Meet Craig Ferguson, adorable whore, on Celebrity Name Game:

Video courtesy: Celebrity Name Game

Tour To Return To Canada
Craig Ferguson is on a short break from his New Deal Tour this week. When he goes back on the road, he’ll have six shows in Canada, followed by seven more in the north central United States. And for the Canadians in Western Ontario, take note: Craig has added a new show in Thunder Bay on Friday, February 5th. It will be held at the Thunder Bay Community Auditorium, located at 1 Paul Shaffer Drive… yes, the street is named after that Paul Shaffer, who grew up in Thunder Bay before a long career in music which included more than three decades as David Letterman‘s music director.

Reviewing the Show
As Craig makes is way from town to town, wandering the Earth and solving crimes, he gets covered by the local newspapers. Some interview him ahead of time, while others review the show. Our favorites this week were both uncovered by the RSA’s @bgrhubarb, who mines the interwebs for Craigy nuggets. In this review by The Buffalo News (which Craig tweeted about), the Craig gets high marks, amid some mild spoilers. They have a nice photo gallery as well by Sharon Cantillon. In another positive review from RVAmag.com in Richmond, Virginia, be aware of the bigger spoilers (don’t read if you don’t want to know about some topics covered in the show). And Craig pops up in a different kind of article this week, in which Yahoo News features a “haunted” hotel in every state. Check out their source for the ghost story in Nebraska.

Punk Days
The website PunkNews.com has been posting a series of articles that highlight punk music that might fit together on an imaginary compilation album. In their most recent post, take a look at the photo on top of the article, and track number seven on their list.

Storytelling Event
Craig’s sister Lynn Ferguson, an excellent storyteller, has been building a business teaching others about the art of storytelling. And now, she’s producing events where some of those stories can be heard. The first event will be held in Burbank on October 29th, with another show on December 10th. Lynn herself will be hosting, and if you’ve ever heard her monologues (including on public radio’s The Moth) or her one-woman shows, you’ll know you’re in for a powerful evening.

Twitter Banter
Craig’s been active on the tweety this week, congratulating the Mythbusters on their upcoming final season, and chatting away with Larry King on Sunday night while riding the bus. We stitched together their conversation.

Craig Has A Hippo
Craig has fun during an interview on the set of Celebrity Name Game, which the RSA’s @bec_giddy says will soon be available to viewers in Australia on the Arena channel at 11:30pm. Thanks to her and to @bgrhubarb for the heads up!

Video courtesy: AfterBuzz TV

On The Road
After a short stay in Los Angeles to record some episodes of his new show Join Or Die, Craig Ferguson is back on the road for the latest round of the New Deal Tour, complete with the tour bus. Craig tweeted:

I love this tour bus. Its understated. Like a @GuyFieri shirt.

After shows in Virginia, Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania to start things off, Craig will be in New Jersey, back in Virginia, Ohio, upstate New York and West Virginia in the week ahead. You can see the full listing of appearances on our Live Comedy Tour page.

Forward Thinking
Want to hear more from Canadian comedian Mark Forward, who has been opening for Craig on the New Deal Tour? Check out his podcast, which can be found on iTunes.

Josh on Periscope
As he has been working on his self-titled variety show pilot, Josh Robert Thompson has been providing updates on Periscope. In case you’ve missed any of them, he recently posted a collection of his recent Periscope videos.

Set List
Twitter user @ajympton recently posted a photo of a napkin filled with song titles from Craig’s early stand up days in the UK and tweeted:

@CraigyFerg I stole your set list after a gig at Manchester Uni in Nov 1989. I’m sorry!

Thanks to the RSA’s @bgrhubarb for spotting it!

‘Name Game’ Time
In a clip posted by the RSA’s @chandlersdame, Craig talks about Celebrity Name Game in a local television interview, alongside Executive Producer Courtney Cox.

Video courtesy: chandlersdame

Behind The Scenes
Taping is wrapping up in Los Angeles for Craig Ferguson‘s new History Channel series Join Or Die. The show will be edited over the next several weeks and is expected to debut in January. We’ll pass along the starting date as soon as we hear it. In the meantime, Craig heads back out on the road for the New Deal Tour, starting in Richmond, Virgina on Saturday, followed by stops in Wilmington, Delaware; Frederick, Maryland and Glenside, Pennsylvania (near Philadelphia) in the coming days. You can see the full schedule with dates, times, venues and ticket links on our Live Comedy Tour page.

Who’s Next
A new Doctor Who spin-off called Class is in the works, to be penned by author Patrick Ness. The BBC broke the news and Entertainment Weekly followed up with more details, saying the show would be geared toward a young adult audience. The show is scheduled to debut in 2016.

HTTYD3
How to Train Your Dragon 3, featuring the voice of Craig Ferguson, was at first expected to arrive late in 2016, but will more likely appear in late 2017 or early 2018, according to director Dean DeBlois. In this article containing mild spoilers from Vine Report and this article containing MAJOR plot spoilers [we’re not kidding – don’t read if you don’t want to know the ending – seriously] from Venture Capital Post, indications are that recent layoffs at Dreamworks could push the project to 2018. And while the film is planned to be the final part of a trilogy, the director is keeping open the possibility of future spinoffs. We’ll keep you posted on developments. Thanks to the RSA’s @bgrhubarb for spotting the articles.

Josh’s Movie Now Online
The feature film Nowhere Girl, staring Josh Robert Thompson, is now available on iTunes and video on demand. Check out the trailer:

Back in LA to Tape ‘Join Or Die’
Craig Ferguson‘s New Deal Tour made a run through Canada this past weekend and will be on a short break while Craig heads back home to Los Angeles to tape several episodes of his new History Channel show Join Or Die, (get tickets to tapings here) which is expected to begin airing in January. The tour resumes on Saturday, October 17th in Richmond, Virginia with many more stops in the Mid-Atlantic region and the Midwest ahead in October. Venues have been set for some shows in California that were recently added to the schedule, including Redwood City, Chico and Turlock, California. We have updated the Live Comedy Tour page with dates, times and links to tickets. Book now to avoid disappointment!

Covering Craig
As Craig makes his way from town to town, roaming the earth solving crimes, he has been doing a bunch of interviews along the way, including a preview mention from Chicoer.com, a podcast interview with The Todd Shapiro Show on Sirius XM, the Hamilton Spectator (both a print interview and a great audio interview), and Out and About Now. Also, exclaim.ca reviewed the show in Toronto, including some spoilers! Thanks to the RSA’s @bgrhubarb, @whyterose713, @chandlersdame and more for keeping us up to speed on all of the coverage.

Backstage Tour Antics
Comedian Mark Forward, who has been opening for Craig on the New Deal Tour, tweeted a photo from backstage in which Craig had creatively altered a sign.

.@CraigyFerg added an important level of hazard.

Craig himself has been tweeting, including responding to fan @Rachel321 that all profits from tour merchandise will help the United Nations deal with the ongoing refugee crisis in the Middle East, and a note that his tour mustache has gone away for now (we suspect because he’ll be taping episodes of Join Or Die).

Making it work, Girl. Plus all tour merchandising profits go to @Refugees so well done you.

I have some bad news about the mustache. #shavedbutnaughty. <—don’t google that.

Fun on ‘Name Game’
In this clip, Craig is interviewed about the second season of Celebrity Name Game.

Video courtesy: PacificRimVideoPress

Tour Moves North
As Craig Ferguson departs Maine on Tuesday evening, he’ll be starting one of the Canadian legs of his New Deal Tour, with stops in Kitchener, Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton and London, Ontario. Then after a short break for some television tapings in Los Angeles, he’ll be back on the east coast and Midwest to round out the month. Are you seeing Craig live and in person? Please share your stories and non-flash photos with us! We’d be delighted to pass them along to the rest of the robot skeleton army. Just use our Contact Us form, or a tweet us a link to your blog. Please, no video, no Snaps and no Vines allowed at the shows.

Craig has been doing a bunch of radio, television and newspaper interviews about the tour (as well as promoting his television shows), including a backstage interview at Hofstra University, the Troy Record newspaper, a great interview with Northeast Public Radio, a Westhampton online news site, a fun visit with the Bill and Suzy radio show near Troy, and silive.com on Staten Island, plus exclaim.ca and the Ottawa Citizen previewed his visit. Thanks to many skellies for links to stories about Craig this week and to @bgrhubarb, who notes that Troy Walker, Chris Voth, Phil Palisoul and Sam Adams opened for Craig in Denver, and Mark Forward is up front through at least October 4.

More Tour Stops
Craig has continued to add stops to the tour, including a bunch in the west in December: Chandler, Arizona (near Phoenix); Eugene and Medford, Oregon; along with Redwood, Thousand Oaks, Chico and Turlock, California. A few of those dates are simply listed on the tour website but have no venues, times or ticket links quite yet. We’ll add them to our list as soon as we hear more details. In the meantime, you can see all of the confirmed venues, dates, times and ticket links on our Live Comedy Tour page. Thanks to the RSA’s @Whyterose713, @ChandlersDame, @bgrhubarb and more hobos for keeping an eye on the ever-growing list of dates.

Join Or Die
The media has been buzzing about Craig’s new television show, coming in January to the History Channel, called Join Or Die. Craig tweeted that he’s excited about the show, which will feature freewheeling conversations about American history and contemporary issues. Will you be in the greater Los Angeles area in October and want to attend a taping of the show? It’ll have a studio audience. Contact our friends at 1iota, who used to book audiences for the Late Late Show. They’ll hook you up. The History Channel picked up 16 episodes to start. Among the outlets covering the story are Deadline.com, the Associated Press, UPI, Uproxx, Entertainment Weekly, Splitsider, the New York Post and CBS. Thanks to the RSA’s @Mark_ca, @JBrianCoyle and other skellies for tweeting more news about the show and tickets for tapings.

Words Matter
Craig is among the celebrities lending a hand to the United Nations, to help address the ongoing crisis in the Middle East. Take a look at the video they produced:

Video courtesy: UNHCR

Tour Gets Rolling Eastward
Craig Ferguson got his New Deal Tour started with six shows at the Comedy Works in Denver this past weekend. And now that he’s built the elements of a brand new show, he’ll be heading to the east coast for the next week, appearing in Ridgefield, Connecticut; Staten Island, Westhampton Beach and Troy, New York (with a stop for a show at Hofstra University along the way); Rutland, Vermont and Orono, Maine before making his way further north into Canada. For complete listings of the shows and how to get tickets, see our Live Comedy Tour page.

Forward Progress
Canadian comedian Mark Forward, who has opened for Craig in the past and has appeared on the Late Late Show, will be back on the road with our fearless leader for several stops on the New Deal Tour, including every show between now and October 4th. We’ll let you know if he is added to more dates on the tour.

Greatest Hosts
New York Magazine’s Vulture (culture) team has put together a list of the 32 best talk show hosts of all time. Guess who made the list at number 11? Thanks to the RSA’s @bgrhubarb for spotting the list!

Making A Good Impression
The new season of Celebrity Name Game, gets rolling, Craig is tuning up his best impressions:

Video courtesy: CelebrityNameGame