Craig Ferguson, host of "The Late Late Show" on CBS, has been made an honorary citizen of South Dakota.

Ferguson, who has applied for U.S. citizenship, is campaigning to speed the long, slow process by becoming an honorary citizen of towns across the United States "one town at a time." (Ozark, Ark., agreed to his request.)

Moving state by state would be faster.

Tuesday night, Ferguson read a letter from South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds granting Ferguson honorary citizenship but warning the late-night host "not to let the title go to his head," a CBS spokesperson said.

"In South Dakota, we hunt our official state bird, the pheasant, and our official state animal, the coyote," Rounds wrote.

Rounds might have added, for further ego control, that South Dakota also has a "state dirt." (Houdek loam.)