October 7, 2024 • 8 mins
We all know and love The Graham Norton Show, from the various panels of celebs to Graham's witty humour. We spoke with Graham today about some behind the scenes showbiz secrets and goss that surprised us... it's not all as it seems! Have a listen for all the juicy info...
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Clean everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's the Kyle and Jacki Josho this morning here at KISSFM.
World famous Graham Norton. You know the show, The Graham
Norton Show. You know they're handsome fellow on the couch.
He has all those celebrities on Channel ten. Well, he's
coming to the country for an evening with Graham Norton. Gays,
get ready, it's an easy with Graham and it's not
that sort.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Of a evening That evening sounds romantic. How are you, Graham, I'm.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Very well, very well, yeah, no, it's not that sort
of it'll finish before any of that.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Graham. Great to see you. This show has been doing
game busters, not just in the UK, but you export
it to other countries. It's just a real great show
where you get a lot of different types of celebrities
on the couch and they all interact with each other.
That must be quite hard to dance around because I
know sometimes just the one prickly celebrity they can make
(01:01):
it quite a difficult show, right.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
I Mean, that's the beauty of what we do is
if you get the one prickly one, you can kind
of just you can hide them amongst the others. And
also I feel like there's two things. So I think
one they like to behave when they're on a coach
with their peers, people they think are as famous as
they are. But also because we've got people sitting in
the audience, you know, the wanting to be liked gene
(01:27):
is strong with these people. So once there's an audience,
they tend to behave a little bit better.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
That's what we need to do, Kyle, bring in a
live audience.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
So they're like super I mean, to be honest, they've
been pretty good here.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
People who have we had that's prickly, that's big, can't
They're all pretty good.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
An they do tend to turn it on, you know,
once they come in here.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
But sometimes we'll get producers say, oh, they were nice
to you, but they weren't so nice to us, Like
do you Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I get that a lot here. After the show, I'll
go they were nice, and someone will go to you.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
That's what we get, And I'm always surprised as to
who that is.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
You know, sometimes you think you've just met the.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Nicest celebrity Mirror's Street times.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Have you ever had a celebrity kind of say I'm
not going on if that person's on the couch, like,
has there been an issue.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Not on the night, Like we've never got to kind
of like they're all waiting backstage. You're going, wait a minute, No,
it's never got they never got that far. But yeah,
you do kind of. We what we tend to do is,
you know, usually there's one person who's more famous than
the other people. Yeah, what we do is we check
(02:47):
with the most famous person, are you okay with these
other people on the couch, and then if they're not,
we'll dump. We'll dump one of the losers and replace them.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I don't know what. Because I spa one night New
Year's Eve on a boat and Jay I bring this
up a lot because it was it was a great night.
Nicole Kidman, keithur and Hugh Jackman's things things, wife Sting's kids,
and Anthony Lapuglia. That was the greatest chat and they
we all sung. I was horrible. They were fantastic. But
(03:20):
they are quite nice people out of the showbiz scene,
just like normal folks.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I think if they feel safe, then they are I
think you know what I mean, If if they feel
like they're in a space where it's all gonna be cool,
and I think they're they. I mean because I think
a lot of these people, you know, they've been if
you've been famous for that long, and like those people
you just mentioned, they've been famous for years. I think
you can't quite be like Joe Ordonary because you're not
(03:49):
Joe ordinary, but you can still be a nice human being.
You still you know how to talk to people, you
know how to do interact. You know, someone like Taylor Swift,
who is arguably, you know, the most famous woman in
the world or she I don't know if it's an act,
but she appears to be so close to normal. Yes,
(04:10):
it's weird. It's like you can change the economy of
a country just by showing up. How can you be
this normal? And yet she's so lovely and normal and
just fantastic.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
She always has been super sweet, Like she went from
the gangly giraffe teenage country girl into a mega stuff.
But it's been the same from the beginning to the end.
I love it and.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Also so switched on. Like a member said to her,
you know, because she's going on the long tour, And
I said to her, are you worried about, you know,
keeping your voice and and she went, no, I write
songs that are easy to sing. Oh, I love that,
and it's it's a thing. She literally decided, I will
write easy to sing songs and therefore I need never
worry about my voice because I'll be find and also
(04:56):
now sing all of them.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yes, and we can sing along. That's smart.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Yeah, so even weaken sing them. That's how easy they.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Are, ye, so Graham.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
In the talk show world, there's been a few people
who have had like bad rumors about them, like Ellen
a toxic workplace, Kelly Clarkson, You yourself have never had those,
not to my knowledge.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Anyway, He gets out in front, he tells everyone, it's
shit working here.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
It gets intense.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
You obviously don't like you have a good relationship with
your staff. Do you know all of your staff members' names?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I'm like, are here?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Oh no, God, thank god he does it, and neither
he should.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
I know, I know, I know the kind of the
core people. But you know, there's people who you know
work on my show, and they've worked on the show
for twenty years, and once you don't know their name
for a year, it's too late to us then. So yeah,
(06:02):
I think I would do very but if somebody kind
of stopped the show went right spot is what's the
name of that guy who's worked on your show for
thirteen years? I probably would not know.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
I love so you and car are quite similar in that, sir,
we like.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
It hopefully, but hopefully that guy doesn't hate me. Hopefully
I'm so nice. I'm nice to him. I just never
used his name.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Buddy, buddy, all that sort of stuff. So in the
live show, are we seeing very similar to the TV
show or is it just you up there on account?
Because if it was a Night with me, I'd just
be watching cable TV smoking read That would be very boring.
So what's the Night with you?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Like already? That sounds like a better show. Listen, this
is it. It started in the UK. It was supposed
to be a book tour, but then I found I
wasn't talking about the book at all. I was just
show telling stories about the chat show, showing old clips
of ancient old episodes, sharing stories about how I got
started and stuff, and it's mostly funny, and then the
(07:05):
bits of it are interesting, and then there's a bit
of chatting with the audience, a bit of red chair chat.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And by the.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Time I'd finish it here. I kind of thought, oh,
this is like a show, This is like a show
that I could do. And so I've been meaning to
go back to Australia for whenever I was there. I
think I was there forty years ago, and I've never
been in New Zealand. So this is my moment.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I got it.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
All right, I've got a show. Let's take it there.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Oh wow, I don't believe it's been that long since
you've been here.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Do you think much has changed in forty years?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Oh? I think.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah, we all have. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Oh we're looking forward to you getting here, Graham.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Such right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Twenty twenty five tickets are on sale this Friday, October
eleventh at Dainty dot com. Are you with the Big two?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Right?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
The big Fella always quite the Big two? Income Your
people have done.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
The posters in color.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yes, they're all in color. They've spent the big Graham Norton.
A Night with Graham. Get your tickets to stay on
sale from Friday. Great the chad mate, thanks for taking
the time.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Hey, lovely to talk to you. I have a great
rest of your show.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Thank you, mate, Graham Norton. This morning here we keeps
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Cayle and Jackie Oh.
Clean everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's the Kyle and Jacki Josho this morning here at KISSFM.
World famous Graham Norton. You know the show, The Graham
Norton Show. You know they're handsome fellow on the couch.
He has all those celebrities on Channel ten. Well, he's
coming to the country for an evening with Graham Norton. Gays,
get ready, it's an easy with Graham and it's not
that sort.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Of a evening That evening sounds romantic. How are you, Graham, I'm.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Very well, very well, yeah, no, it's not that sort
of it'll finish before any of that.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Graham. Great to see you. This show has been doing
game busters, not just in the UK, but you export
it to other countries. It's just a real great show
where you get a lot of different types of celebrities
on the couch and they all interact with each other.
That must be quite hard to dance around because I
know sometimes just the one prickly celebrity they can make
(01:01):
it quite a difficult show, right.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
I Mean, that's the beauty of what we do is
if you get the one prickly one, you can kind
of just you can hide them amongst the others. And
also I feel like there's two things. So I think
one they like to behave when they're on a coach
with their peers, people they think are as famous as
they are. But also because we've got people sitting in
the audience, you know, the wanting to be liked gene
(01:27):
is strong with these people. So once there's an audience,
they tend to behave a little bit better.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
That's what we need to do, Kyle, bring in a
live audience.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
So they're like super I mean, to be honest, they've
been pretty good here.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
People who have we had that's prickly, that's big, can't
They're all pretty good.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
An they do tend to turn it on, you know,
once they come in here.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
But sometimes we'll get producers say, oh, they were nice
to you, but they weren't so nice to us, Like
do you Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I get that a lot here. After the show, I'll
go they were nice, and someone will go to you.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
That's what we get, And I'm always surprised as to
who that is.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
You know, sometimes you think you've just met the.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Nicest celebrity Mirror's Street times.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Have you ever had a celebrity kind of say I'm
not going on if that person's on the couch, like,
has there been an issue.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Not on the night, Like we've never got to kind
of like they're all waiting backstage. You're going, wait a minute, No,
it's never got they never got that far. But yeah,
you do kind of. We what we tend to do is,
you know, usually there's one person who's more famous than
the other people. Yeah, what we do is we check
(02:47):
with the most famous person, are you okay with these
other people on the couch, and then if they're not,
we'll dump. We'll dump one of the losers and replace them.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I don't know what. Because I spa one night New
Year's Eve on a boat and Jay I bring this
up a lot because it was it was a great night.
Nicole Kidman, keithur and Hugh Jackman's things things, wife Sting's kids,
and Anthony Lapuglia. That was the greatest chat and they
we all sung. I was horrible. They were fantastic. But
(03:20):
they are quite nice people out of the showbiz scene,
just like normal folks.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I think if they feel safe, then they are I
think you know what I mean, If if they feel
like they're in a space where it's all gonna be cool,
and I think they're they. I mean because I think
a lot of these people, you know, they've been if
you've been famous for that long, and like those people
you just mentioned, they've been famous for years. I think
you can't quite be like Joe Ordonary because you're not
(03:49):
Joe ordinary, but you can still be a nice human being.
You still you know how to talk to people, you
know how to do interact. You know, someone like Taylor Swift,
who is arguably, you know, the most famous woman in
the world or she I don't know if it's an act,
but she appears to be so close to normal. Yes,
(04:10):
it's weird. It's like you can change the economy of
a country just by showing up. How can you be
this normal? And yet she's so lovely and normal and
just fantastic.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
She always has been super sweet, Like she went from
the gangly giraffe teenage country girl into a mega stuff.
But it's been the same from the beginning to the end.
I love it and.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Also so switched on. Like a member said to her,
you know, because she's going on the long tour, And
I said to her, are you worried about, you know,
keeping your voice and and she went, no, I write
songs that are easy to sing. Oh, I love that,
and it's it's a thing. She literally decided, I will
write easy to sing songs and therefore I need never
worry about my voice because I'll be find and also
(04:56):
now sing all of them.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yes, and we can sing along. That's smart.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Yeah, so even weaken sing them. That's how easy they.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Are, ye, so Graham.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
In the talk show world, there's been a few people
who have had like bad rumors about them, like Ellen
a toxic workplace, Kelly Clarkson, You yourself have never had those,
not to my knowledge.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Anyway, He gets out in front, he tells everyone, it's
shit working here.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
It gets intense.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
You obviously don't like you have a good relationship with
your staff. Do you know all of your staff members' names?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I'm like, are here?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Oh no, God, thank god he does it, and neither
he should.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
I know, I know, I know the kind of the
core people. But you know, there's people who you know
work on my show, and they've worked on the show
for twenty years, and once you don't know their name
for a year, it's too late to us then. So yeah,
(06:02):
I think I would do very but if somebody kind
of stopped the show went right spot is what's the
name of that guy who's worked on your show for
thirteen years? I probably would not know.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
I love so you and car are quite similar in that, sir,
we like.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
It hopefully, but hopefully that guy doesn't hate me. Hopefully
I'm so nice. I'm nice to him. I just never
used his name.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Buddy, buddy, all that sort of stuff. So in the
live show, are we seeing very similar to the TV
show or is it just you up there on account?
Because if it was a Night with me, I'd just
be watching cable TV smoking read That would be very boring.
So what's the Night with you?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Like already? That sounds like a better show. Listen, this
is it. It started in the UK. It was supposed
to be a book tour, but then I found I
wasn't talking about the book at all. I was just
show telling stories about the chat show, showing old clips
of ancient old episodes, sharing stories about how I got
started and stuff, and it's mostly funny, and then the
(07:05):
bits of it are interesting, and then there's a bit
of chatting with the audience, a bit of red chair chat.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And by the.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Time I'd finish it here. I kind of thought, oh,
this is like a show, This is like a show
that I could do. And so I've been meaning to
go back to Australia for whenever I was there. I
think I was there forty years ago, and I've never
been in New Zealand. So this is my moment.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I got it.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
All right, I've got a show. Let's take it there.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Oh wow, I don't believe it's been that long since
you've been here.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Do you think much has changed in forty years?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Oh? I think.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah, we all have. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Oh we're looking forward to you getting here, Graham.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Such right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Twenty twenty five tickets are on sale this Friday, October
eleventh at Dainty dot com. Are you with the Big two?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Right?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
The big Fella always quite the Big two? Income Your
people have done.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
The posters in color.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yes, they're all in color. They've spent the big Graham Norton.
A Night with Graham. Get your tickets to stay on
sale from Friday. Great the chad mate, thanks for taking
the time.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Hey, lovely to talk to you. I have a great
rest of your show.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Thank you, mate, Graham Norton. This morning here we keeps
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Cayle and Jackie Oh.
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