Fatherhood Quote by Craig Ferguson

Ferguson turns a shaving commercial into a quiet indictment of how masculinity gets sold: as a montage of uncomplicated intimacy. The Gillette jingle is almost a national lullaby, promising that “the best a man can get” is available off the shelf, prepackaged with father-son hugs, wholesome motion, and sunlit competence. By naming the ad’s props - sailing, biking, guys embracing their dads - he exposes the bait. It’s not the razor; it’s the fantasy of being the kind of man who naturally belongs in those images.

The joke is that he doesn’t just feel inadequate; he feels geographically exiled from the ideal, “a long way from” it, as if manhood were a destination with a zip code. That phrasing gives the line its sting: masculinity as a place you can be denied entry to, then charged admission to re-enter. Coming from Ferguson, whose public storytelling has often brushed against addiction and self-reinvention, the moment reads less like self-pity than a sober flash of self-awareness: the realization that cultural scripts can diagnose you in thirty seconds.

Then he swerves into something unexpectedly tender: “it would be nice to get from there to the best.” Not “be the best,” not “win,” but travel - progress rather than perfection. Under the comedy is a refusal of the ad’s binary (you’re either the best or you’re not). He’s sketching an alternative masculinity built around aspiration without shame, and improvement without the need to pretend you were always in the montage.