FUNNYMAN -- America's newest

Craig Ferguson is seen on "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" on Wednesday, Jan. 2. (AP photo/CBS, Francis Specker / February 2, 2008)

February 2, 2008

Craig Ferguson left Glasgow for Los Angeles in 1995 after ''Braveheart'' was released, figuring the film's producers would need Scottish actors for a sequel to Mel Gibson's bloody historical epic.

''I should have stayed for the end of the movie,'' quips the 45-year-old performer during a brief interview from Los Angeles.

That line, drolly delivered with a perfect combination of learned-the-hard-way earnestness and self-mockery, is indicative of just how charming the newly minted U.S. citizen -- Ferguson was to officially take the oath of citizenship on Friday in Los Angeles -- can be.
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