The Best of So Graham Norton

Part talk-show host, part comedian, and all-out extrovert, the very Irish and very gay Graham Norton is one of the few people who deserves all the adjectives that are thrown at him: "bawdy," "saucy," "outrageous," and "hilarious" are a few of them. His BBC talk show, So Graham Norton, is something that you just couldn't find in America: a rampant exercise in audience titillation that wallows gloriously in bizarre human behavior. It's like an audience-interactive NC-17 Saturday Night Live, with occasional breaks for celebrity chit-chat. If you ever wanted to see Gillian Anderson, Cher, Sophia Loren, or Dolly Parton break the talk-show mold with bawdy sex talk, then your dreams have come true. And Norton's cringe-inducing yet compulsively watchable audience polls, which ask common folk to relate embarrassing, adult-oriented tales, reveal a European openness (and sense of humor) that just wouldn't fly in the U.S.

• Release date
• October 5, 2004
• Runtime
• 89 min
• Director
• Steve Smith

Cast

Graham Norton Self - Host (archive footage) Pamela Anderson Self (archive footage) Ursula Andress Self (archive footage) Alexis Arquette Self (archive footage) Bea Arthur Self (archive footage) Dan Aykroyd Self (archive footage) Stephanie Beacham Self (archive footage) Jacqueline Bisset Self (archive footage)