Geoff Peterson
| Geoff Peterson | |
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| The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson character | |
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| First appearance | April 5, 2010 on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson |
| Last appearance | December 19, 2014 on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson |
| Voiced by | Josh Robert Thompson |
| Designed and built by |
Grant Imahara |
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| Species | Animatronic human skeleton |
| Occupation | Talk show sidekick |
Geoff Peterson is an animatronic human skeleton that served as the sidekick on the late-night talk show The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. He is voiced and operated by Josh Robert Thompson and first appeared on The Late Late Show on April 5, 2010. Often referred to as a "robot skeleton", Peterson is a radio-controlled animatronic robot puppet designed and built by Grant Imahara of MythBusters. He has glowing blue eyes, a metal mohawk (which is sometimes covered by a Santa Claus hat in December) and wears an oversized suit with his name scrawled on a contestant's name tag from The Price Is Right on his jacket, as well as Mardi Gras beads and a Super Bowl XLVII press pass around his neck. He serves as a co-host of sorts and Ferguson refers to him as "my gay robot pal". He is most visible during the first half of the show (the cold openings, monologues, and Tweets and Emails segments) and the final segment, "What Did We Learn on the Show Tonight, Craig?".
The idea came from Craig Ferguson's repeated complaints that his show suffered due to its lack of a house band or sidekick and his expressed desire to have his own "Robot Skeleton Army". Robot Skeleton Army is Ferguson's name for his Twitter followers, a reference to the cybernetic creatures from the Terminator franchise.MythBusters' Grant Imahara volunteered to create the robot if Ferguson could get him 100,000 Twitter followers, which he achieved within 24 hours. On the idea and development of Geoff:
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