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Craig Ferguson says he used to drop acid with Doctor Who

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Craig Ferguson is on the exit path from his CBS late night show and moving on to his new game show, “Celebrity Name Game.”

But during a visit to Seth Meyers’ “Late Night” on Tuesday, he spent time looking back. Specifically, at his youth in Scotland when he played in the band Dreamboys with Peter Capaldi, who is now the star of “Doctor Who.”

Looking back at that time, Ferguson said he had no idea how he ended up in late night.

“When the rest of the guys were at Emerson or Harvard or doing stuff like that, I was taking acid in the back of a van with the guy who ended up playing the Doctor,” Ferguson said.

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The Dreamboys was a Glasgow-based punk band that featured Capaldi on lead guitar and vocals and Ferguson on drums. According to the BBC, the band released a three-song vinyl album in 1980, but the group didn’t remain together for long.

As Ferguson notes, the band unfortunately, shared a title with the most successful male stripper act in Britain.

“We didn’t strip,” Ferguson said. “We should have, but we didn’t.”

Now, Capaldi is gallivanting around the cosmos in his TARDIS and Ferguson is juggling his new game show and an in-the-works early evening talk show for Tribune Media.

Maybe it’s a good thing he didn’t strip.

Though as he warned Meyers of the talk show hosting gig, “I really hope you’ll enjoy a good, long happy run. But you’ll go crazy.”

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