Name: Graham Norton Asked His Celebrity Guests to Stop Gushing Over Lockdown
Uploaded: 2020-12-16T18:16:13.000Z
Duration: 8 min 25 s
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which airs Fridays at 11:00 p.m. on BBC America.

Normally, we -- Our time difference, we --

There was no way you can come here and I would go there.

It's one of the few things of lockdown, is I get to talk to --

it's weird that there are so few of us who do the same job,

but we never really get to talk to each other.

And just like me, you, as well, hosted your show from home

for a period of time during the pandemic.

I did not get into show business to put my own mike on.

I'm not joking. It took seven hours to do,

and that was kind of all me, all my fault.

-Yeah, because what -- you were screwing up,

or you just didn't know where to look or pausing or...?

-Oh, it's like, "Are you recording it in HD?"

-Did you get the thing where you had to tell the celebrities

to stop talking about how much they enjoyed lockdown?

Where they're going, you know, "Oh, I'm so loving it.

It's like, "What gym? The gym is closed."

And then they have movies in their movie theater.

and they said something that was very important,

and they didn't realize that their Zoom cut out.

And they're going like, "Well, I just want to say that w--"

And then I'm just sitting there, going like,

"Do I nod, or do I shake my head 'no, this is bad or good?'"

And then I feel so bad, but I'm like, "Hi.

Do you mind just doing that one more time,

And they're crying. And they're like, "Oh, no."

-And also, I like the bits of their house

they choose to show you, like the people who look like

they've been kidnapped are about to hold up the newspaper

We have a couple of writers that still have that

as their background, and I'm like, "Just move anywhere else."

we can get away from our kids and whatever."

But, yeah, you go for, I don't know, good lighting.

At one point, there was a good shot that I would have to, like,

Isn't it odd though also not having an audience?

You have a audience normally around 600 people?

-Yeah, we're lucky. We have a really big audience.

And that's amazing. As you know, like, walking out

to that cheering, that applause, I mean, we are a vortex of need.

But we -- I don't know what you have now.

We have a thing where we get a social-distanced audience.

So it's about 100 people in the audience.

I mean, no offense to them, but it's awful.

You know, it sounds like they're emptying

-But you also do a great thing on your show called

"Red Chair Stories," and I think it's hilarious.

Can explain what this is and where the idea came from?

-So, it's a thing where people from the audience

sit in a chair, and they try to tell, like,

the story they tell down the pub with their friends.

If it bores us, I've got a lever, and I flip them.

And basically we built -- we -- -You flip the chair back.

-Honestly, we should sell them for Christmas.

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Graham Norton Asked His Celebrity Guests to Stop Gushing Over Lockdown

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