Craigy Ferg Leaving Late Late Show - Print Topic

He's been at it for 10 years, and arguably is more popular than ever. Sadly Craig Ferguson has announced he'll be leaving The Late Late Show at the end of this year. http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2014/04/29/307994790/how-craig-ferguson-unmade-the-late-night-talk-show

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"It wasn't contentious," Ferguson tells Variety of the upcoming split. "I was just like, 'I feel like I'm done.'" In fact, Ferguson claims that he had begun working out the details of his CBS departure before Letterman even announced his own retirement earlier this month. "It's an inevitable thing when David announced his retirement, people are going to say, 'Oh he's leaving because of that.' No matter what I say or what I do, they're gonna say that."

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"I had no desire -- none -- to do that job," Ferguson tells the trade. "I could barely keep it together at 12:30, never mind 11:30. Nobody wants to hear [that though]. It's so bizarre. People want it to be Jay and Dave or Jay and Conan or some kind of big story. That's not me, that's not what I want."

Source: http://www.vanityfair.com/vf-hollywood/reasons-why-craig-ferguson-leaving-cbs

From the horse's mouth (not Secretariat): http://youtu.be/aQwVFChjtY8

David Letterman's comments: http://youtu.be/aHdHWtAbdrI

During his announcement, he also mentioned that he had originally decided to leave the show two years ago, but the network convinced him to stay for two more years by offering him things like a bigger studio, etc. As sad as this news makes me, it sounds like it's been in the works for a while, and it really is what Craig wants.

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