Name: Benedict Cumberbatch can't say "Penguins" - The Graham Norton Show: Series 16 Episode 5 - BBC One
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Now Benedict, every time you're on the show, we get so many messages and tweets and emails from your...

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Now, they're not Cumberbitches anymore, are they?

Cumber People Collective. Bunches. Brands. Babes.

I think there's definitely some splintering going on.

Okay, so there's a bunch of questions that I'm contractually obliged to ask you.

So, obviously, when will we see more Sherlock?

I heard a rumour you were seen around the set.

I mean, it was like walking through my childhood, and Harrison, whose place I am honoured enough to be in on the sofa, it was... Yeah, he wasn't there.

The point is, I walked to the Millennium Falcon,

I probably shouldn't be saying this on television.

We know when that did it, cos it fell on his foot.

That's right, that's right, that's already been spoiled.

But did you not ask to be a Stormtrooper or something?

Are you at the back of one of those people?

At the back of the Troopers, we'll just leave him alone like that.

Actually, last time, as you say, you were here with Harrison Ford before, you did an incredible Chewbacca, but I'm told you also do a Jar Jar Binks.

You don't make much money out of doing a good Jar Jar, let me tell you that.

The most eroded character of any franchise ever.

And I read that as a voice, but there isn't...

I mean, obviously, it's put through treatment and things, but actually, it sounds very like what you did.

Oh, God. Do you want me to do that as well?

I don't know whether it was aroused or not, but it's arousing and terrifying in equal measure.

But explain this, explain this, Benedict Cumberbatch.

Of all the questions we had, the one that came up most often was, ask Benedict to say the word penguin.

Well, apparently, I got it wrong repeatedly in a documentary.

It wasn't a documentary about said animal.

It was a documentary about, I think, about the South Pacific in general, and now I'm completely terrified of the word.

I thought, or I'm sure they're making it up, but we actually looked at this documentary.

The documentary is called Strange Islands.

The first one, you sort of get away with, and then after that, you lose all sense of what it is.

And the last thing you might expect to see here...

These are Fjordland crested penguins, named after this corner of South New Zealand.

So why are these woodlands so attractive to penguins?

A fresh water stream through the forest makes a handy highway for a parent penguin heading home from the fishing trip.

The funny thing is, you don't do this in isolation.

You have a team of, you know, natural history experts based in Bristol, funded by you, the taxpaying public.

It's not just me sitting there at a booth going,

I think I know how to say penguin, I'll say pengwings.