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Frequently, I will stay up late enough to see Craig Ferguson’s monologue, but I’ve had to get up early several days this week, and so I missed the following. Luckily, Bad Bad Ivy (at whose home I have played Wii bowling) posted it at Love Shak, Baby.

It’s passionate, angry and non-partisan, and everyone should see it. Obviously, Craig — who became a U.S. citizen earlier this year — has a keen grasp of his duty to his new homeland, and of the way that so many of us overlook it. The video is in two parts; the second is after the jump.

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I thought Craig Ferguson was very funny at the White House Correspondents’ dinner tonight. He had plenty of barbs to go around, from the administration to the New York Times. He displayed his pride at his new U.S. citizenship but wasn’t afraid to aim a few well-placed barbs.

I watched last night’s episode of “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” and it was both funny and touching. The cold open was footage of Craig, during the citizenship ceremony, saying the Pledge of Allegiance (the actual citizenship oath was shown, too, but later in the show). Ferguson revealed that his employer, David Letterman, sent him an assortment of fine aged beef from Lobell’s as a gift to celebrate the occasion (Letterman used to brag on Lobell’s whenever he would play “Know Your Cuts of Meat” with the studio audience on his own show. Don’t ask.) He also announced that he’s been chosen to speak at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and joked that it’s now too late for President Bush to deport him if he gives offense that night.

His new citizenship really does seem to mean something to Ferguson, and I think that’s nice — especially on a day like today when many of us are exercising our rights under American democracy.

Yes, I wish I had a TiVo. Tonight, after my bedtime, Craig Ferguson will have his citizenship swearing-in ceremony from last Friday on his show.

But Conan — according to the promo I just saw on NBC — will have a comedy bit with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, a backstage fight relating to their mock feud about who is responsible for Mike Huckabee’s presidential campaign.

Both shows air at the same time. I can’t tape both, and in order to watch one and tape the other I would have to stay up past my bedtime.

Congratulations to the very funny talk show host (and novelist) Craig Ferguson, who passed his citizenship test last week and will soon be sworn in as a U.S. citizen!

It’s now official: on Wednesday, the night when Jay and Conan and Jimmy will return to the airwaves without their writers, Dave and Craig will return to the airwaves with their writers. Should be interesting.

Well, I had long complained because the local ABC and CBS affiliates didn’t show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” or “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” respectively, in their proper time slots. WTVF had been delaying Craig by a half an hour, while WKRN had been delaying “Nightline” and Jimmy Kimmel by an hour.

I celebrated a couple of weeks ago when WTVF began airing Craig Ferguson in his proper time slot. Among other things, this now meant that I could tape both Craig and Jimmy, and watch whichever monologue I was in the mood for while getting ready for work in the morning.

But this morning, looking at the tape, I discovered that now, two weeks later, WKRN has changed its schedule and is running Jimmy Kimmel 30 minutes earlier than it used to (but still 30 minutes later than the network schedule). This means it now airs at exactly the same time as … Craig Ferguson.