20 with Craig

I don't know what it is with Playboy magazine -- you do something ordinary like an interview with TV's Craig Ferguson, and it just turns out better. Maybe it's the same reason I can't imagine what "The Sopranos" would've looked like had Fox actually picked it up.

Anyway, the Craig Ferguson interview to end all Craig Ferguson interviews is in April's issue, the one with the bizarrely bronzed, hooterrific picture of WWE wrestler Candice Michelle on the cover. Here's just one of several brilliant (or should I say, brilliant!) exchanges from the "20 Questions" piece:

PLAYBOY: When you play Larry King, Prince Charles or any other celebrity in a skit, what's with the hairpieces?

FERGUSON: I am so uncomfortable in a makeup chair. The last movie I did before I came here was Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. I was almost completely cut out of the movie -- that was one of the unfortunate events. But the other thing was the makeup job we had to endure, for which the makeup people subsequently won Oscars. It took two and a half hours every ... day. I hated it. When I came here and they said, "We want to try a sketch with Larry King," I grabbed the nearest wig, threw it on and said, "That'll be it." They said, "No, no, that's terrible." I said, "Hey, they know it's me anyway. If they're going to like or not the sketch because of the wig, that's atrocious." They know it's me dressed up as Larry King or as a cartoon of Larry King. That desire not to sit in a makeup chair became our style.