Today most of us here in the US know Scottish comedian Craig Ferguson as the host of his own frequently wonderful late night show on CBS. Before that he portrayed the nefarious British boss Mr. Wick on The Drew Carey Show. But before that, way back in the '80s, he had a memorable guest starring role on the long-running UK sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf. In the episode Confidence and Paranoia, the show's protagonist, Dave Lister, contracts a form of mutated space pneumonia that makes his fevered hallucinations come to life. Ferguson appeared as the bellowing, hucksterish personification of Lister's confidence. Young, husky and sporting a magnificently broad American accent, Ferguson is all but unrecognizable in the clip above. (The clip is just a segment of the episode, and the whole thing is worth tracking down if you've never seen it before.)
"Science fiction plucks from within us our deepest fears and hopes, then shows them to us in rough disguise: the monster and the rocket." - W.H. Auden
Who is he, this one who is called "Greg Stacy"?
Greg Stacy began the MONSTERS AND ROCKETS blog in April of 2009. Prior to that, he was editor of the popular sci-fi/horror news website DARKWOLDS.COM. He has also written for LA WEEKLY, OC WEEKLY, UTNE READER and LOS ANGELES CITYBEAT. He always feels weird writing about himself in the third person.
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