You may not have heard about this, but Craig Ferguson, a Scottish nerd, has a late night show on CBS, called The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. The show follows The Late Show with David Letterman.

Unfortunately, Craig announced that he will leave the show in December 2014.

But what’s so special about Craig and his show? I will try to sum up some of his greatest moments as a host, but most importantly as a human being.

— Craig doesn’t actually prepare for the show.

Yep. That’s right.

Craig doesn’t prepare any kind of sketch comedies with him, he always goes with it, and he’s always funny as hell.

The Scottish old man doesn’t promise you much, because you’re not going to watch special sketches or funny shorts, that’s why he often says this:

“I’m very excited about this particular upcoming commercial break.”

— Craig gets some help from a horse called Secretariat, which is basically two guys in a costume, and Geoff, an awesome dead gay skeleton robot (yep).

— Before coming to the United States, Craig was an alcoholic, and he couldn’t stop. On a Christmas day, he gave up and decided to kill himself by jumping off the Tower Bridge in London. As he was walking out of the bar, a bartender stopped him and offered Ferguson a glass of sherry for the holiday. Of course, Craig couldn’t say no and he ended up drinking sherry till he forgot that he was going to kill himself.

Craig is now 23 years sober.

— The Scottish nerd always begins his show with choosing random people out of the audience and starts to ask them questions. “When I tap you on the shoulder, please state your name and where you from”, says Craig.

Craig chose once an Indian guy and started asking him the usual questions, where from, what he’s doing in Los Angeles, etc…

The young guy mentioned that he came to LA for studying and he hasn’t made many friendships since he came there, and you could sense that he was struggling to feel comfortable with the new surroundings in the U.S.

Craig sensed what the Indian dude was going through, after all the guy is smart. They sat together on the stage as Craig started asking him some questions about life in LA and how he spends his time.

After a 4 minute conversation, (which was an actual part of the show) Craig said to him:

“You know I’m not originally from here either. I used to come here and feel a little outsourced and stuff but, you know, Americans are very friendly, man. Just don’t be too rough on yourself because it takes time, you know. I gotta get on with the show man, nice talking to you.”

— Craig Ferguson is also a brave man, and he is deeply convinced that there is something wrong with our culture, because of television and movie companies.

Here’s a snippet of what he said in an old episode that goes back to 2008

What happened is youth became more important and became more important. Society started to turn on its head. Because youth has a byproduct — inexperience. By the nature of youth you don’t have any experience. It’s not your fault. You’re just kind of stupid.

So the deification of youth evolved, and turned into the deification of imbecility. It became fashionable to be young and to be stupid. And that grew, and that grew, and that grew, and now that’s what all the kids want to be. “I just want to be young and stupid!” But you know what? That’s not what you want to be. You do not want to be young and stupid.

You can watch the full message here, Craig tells us why everything sucks:

— The man who once described himself as “a sad man” during an interview with Larry King, is a big loss to late night shows, especially that he was the only one who totally counted on an improvised sense of humor during the whole show.

Craig witnessed failure many times since the beginning of his career. He was a “horrible” punk rock musician, as he describes himself, a construction worker, a bouncer, and, tragically, a modern dancer. After several years of frustrating mess-ups, he finally made it when he was chosen to be a part of the hit sitcom The Drew Carey Show, and later as the host of CBS’s Late Late Show.

I guess we can all learn a lesson or two from this unbelievable success story of his.

Thank you, Craig Ferguson. We will miss you.