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Hi. I'm Regina King,
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And welcome to The Graham Norton
Show!
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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
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Hello, good evening, Happy New Year!
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Hey, just remember, it can't be
worse than last year, right?
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You're all so welcome to the show,
and hello to our lockdown
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audience watching from home!
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There they are! Yes!
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I think I've spotted a few
home-schoolers there...
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The ones sobbing and rocking.
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And did you all do
the Thursday night clap?
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This time, we're cheering
all the key workers.
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NHS staff!
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CHEERING.
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Carers!
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CHEERING.
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Teachers!
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CHEERING.
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And, of course, wine
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CHEERING.
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A grateful nation thanks you.
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Listen, we've got a packed
show for you tonight.
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With me here in the studio,
it's Years and Years
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frontman-turned-actor
Olly Alexander!
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CHEERS AND APPLAUSE.
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Comedian and actress,
the wonderful Mel Giedroyc is here.
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CHEERS AND APPLAUSE.
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And star of Peep Show
and Would I Lie to You,
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it's the brilliant David Mitchell!
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CHEERS AND APPLAUSE.
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Shortly, we'll be joined
by the star of the global hit
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The Queen's Gambit -
Anya Taylor-Joy.
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Host of the biggest talk show
in the world, Jimmy Fallon
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will be dropping in...
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And she's the Oscar-winning
star of Watchmen and
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If Beale Street Could Talk -
Regina King will be here.
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Plus, we'll have music right
here in the studio from one
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of the break-out stars of 2020 -
Yungblud.
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APPLAUSE.
Yes, he is here! Here, ladies and
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gentlemen! Thank you very much for
leaving their houses. We are so
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happy to be here! I know! I have
never known the guests to be happy!
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I am so giddy, the best party I have
ever been to. Olly, you are excited
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to be here...
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You're excited to be here,
but I don't think as excited
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as you were the last time
you were here?
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No, that's true.
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It's good to be back where I had
the greatest night of my life!
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Wow!
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It was here when I met Rhianna
and I was very, very excited.
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I actually blacked out.
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I don't even remember
the experience at all,
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coming on here, on the sofa,
meeting her in front
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of all the people.
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I just remember launching myself
across Helena Bonham
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Carter to touch Rhianna!
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Just not even thinking
about how that would look.
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I watched it back and
I was so embarrassed.
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And we are not in the same...?
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Right now I can't even reach you.
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Don't try.
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Often people say, I'm such a fan
of someone who is on the show
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and they come on and go "Hi".
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No - proper fan.
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Not just for telly,
this is them backstage.
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Look how happy Olly is.
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Look at that.
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He's exploding out of his face!
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Look at that.
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Back when people just stood
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What a time!
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It's like they're married!
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Was she lovely?
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She was, she was.
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She was so nice.
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And I gave her the album
after the show.
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I was like, "You can put this
straight in the bin if you want to".
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And she looked at me and she was
like, "I would never do that".
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And she hugged me and it was
the best experience ever.
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She smelled amazing.
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She didn't put it in
the bin, she just left it
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in the dressing room.
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She has she has people!
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She has people to put
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Could you...?
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Thanks.
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That's fine, I'm happy.
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So lots to do tonight,
let's crack on with David Mitchell -
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he's reunited with Robert Webb
in a second series of Back.
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It's on Channel 4
Thursday 21st at 10pm.
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So, remind us of the set-up
and where we left you last series.
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It is about... I play a
disappointed, unhappy man called
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Stephen. And what self-esteem he has
is derived from the fact that he has
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a sense of belonging in his family
and the family owns and runs a pub
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and he is managing the pub, although
not very well. Anyway... And his
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father's funeral, the character
played by Robert turns up, and
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basically he claims to be his
brother. It turns out that his
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character, Andrew, was fostered with
the family at some point and
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suddenly there is an impostor and
the only thing Stephen cares
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about... In the first series,
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breakdown so at the beginning of the
second series he is in an
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institution where they were trying
to help him and he sort of doing OK
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and planning to try and launch
himself back into his family, the
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pub and trying to reassert his
existence and get his life back from
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this weird imposter, Andrew, who
Stephen thinks is the devil and
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everyone else seems to really like.
You have a plan and this is a clip
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of you in the institution, talking
to your ex-wife, played by Olivia
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Pillay. I'm still mad. You don't
seem to be. I'm so bad I look
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normal, just a guy and a residential
facility being helped by a regime of
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appropriate medication and therapy.
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Nothing. It is genius. Mad genius!
Maybe stop saying mad. Useful
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shorthand. If your therapist thinks
you are progressing out he does
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nothing, we disagreed over the
correct plural form of copper soup,
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he thinks it is cup as soups, it is
quite clearly cups as soup, a
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multiple number of cups of soup.
Hello, did you find your phone? It
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was in my coat pocket all the time.
No, I think you're lying. Only
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joking, I totally believe it was in
your pocket! Thanks!
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There's nothing there. Oh, I swallow
them! Funny, funny! Lots of people
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have been affected by lockdown but
you had more than lockdown to
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contend with, I took a lot to get
this over the wire? We started
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filming in October last year and it
could have been on... I say October,
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I mean October the year before last.
We were thinking, that wasn't very
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long! 2019. And then the insurance
medical for the show, Robert Webb
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was diagnosed with quite a serious
heart condition. And he had to have
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open heart surgery. Is he all right?
He is now dead.
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You had to bring us down! He is
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fine. It went brilliantly. Better
than ever. And then he had to get
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better from that and then we
remounted the shoot and got going
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again at the end of February 2020.
Then there was the small issue of
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the global pandemic... We had to
stop for a while again. We finished
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finally in September and then it was
edited and it is going to be on
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television. Except so many things
have gone wrong I would not be
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surprised if on the 20th of January
it is announced that television
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spreads Covid! It will be radio from
here on in! We have to mention the
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last sitcom that you did, Peep Show,
which was so successful. It was so
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successful, and you both have done
well, but not as well as some people
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associated with that show. I mean,
it is crazy... And Oscar winner?
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Yes... Have you won an Oscar? Not
that I'm aware of. I have turned my
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phone off for this so maybe there is
news... She is currently the first
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of the Oscar winners from Peep Show.
Olivia Coleman. When you watched,
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obviously you can be pleased for her
being nominated, when you watched,
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could you still be pleased when she
won? Do you know, I am an extremely
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mean-spirited person... And usually
I am not keen on other people
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succeeding. But she is so nice...
And I've known her so long... I was
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surprised how thrilled I was when
she won. It was brilliant. It felt a
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bit insane, seeing somebody that you
had done things at college with and
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there she is winning an Oscar. Does
she still get back to you quickly
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when you text her, for example? Or
is there bit more... Well, I'm not
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allowed to have her number any more.
Yes... She treats me like I'm a
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human of equivalent significance.
Wow! Guest out and I cannot promise
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I would do the same to her if the
roles were reversed. Everyone has
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humble beginnings. And Mel Giedroyc,
we find a little clip of you, your
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very first foray into comedy. Do you
know about this, what I'm talking
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about? I think you are aged eight
years old, untouched by time, you
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will notice. Even the hair is
similar. Eight years old, you are on
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the wild and wacky magpie. Magpie
was the cool version of Blue Peter,
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it was slightly bohemian, early much
like that... The presenter could be
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propping up a wall in Shoreditch as
we speak. And this is you trying out
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some material. We had the goodies on
the programme and we invited you to
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send in your favourite jokes. We
have some of these successful
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drugmakers in the studio. We will
hear these jokes today but we will
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assess how funny these particular
jokes are with a very special and
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select panel we have invited into
the studio so I want to introduce
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you to them. Starting off with the
laughing policeman... Melanie, your
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joke? What do you get when you cross
a kangaroo with an elephant? I don't
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know, what do you get? Big holes all
over the street!
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Aww!, it was funny then and it is
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funny now. That was brilliant! And
you are selling that gag! Always.
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Something quite bad happened
afterwards. I was so obsessed with
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the Goodies, I had a migraine, I was
so excited. Like you with Rihanna!
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It was like that for me, I went up
to Bill Oddie afterwards. After the
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recording. And I said, I really love
the Goodies, I watch you all the
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time and he said, what, even when we
are not on? That's a bit like an
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album going into the bin! I was
crushed! The journey back to
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Leatherhead was seriously... Worse
than normal!
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Right, time to meet our first
remote guest tonight.
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She's the star of the huge Netflix
hit The Queen's Gambit -
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say hello to Anya Taylor-Joy.
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APPLAUSE.
It is Anya Taylor-Joy! Hello! Where
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are you? I am in LA right now. Of
course you are! Tell me, what is
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acai? You are not just the start of
a hit, the star of the most
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successful television show in the
world! I mean... I will tell you
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what it is now, after I completed my
quarantine, I'm still very
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jet-lagged and I went for a walk at
four o'clock in the morning. Where
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do I know? Sunset Boulevard, I will
walk there. I walked up there and
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there is a giant billboard of my
face. And I had never experienced
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that before in my life. And I
probably turned around and walked
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back because it was too much! I
don't know if you do this, Netflix
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don't normally talk about viewing
figures but they have said that 62
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million households have watched The
Queen's Gambit! She is amazing,
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that's why!
APPLAUSE.
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For anyone who does not know, The
Queen's Gambit, very stylish show,
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set in the 60s, a chess prodigy who
has addiction issues. It does not
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sound like an obvious hit. How do
you explain it? Why do you think it
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has gone so gangbusters? A couple of
different things, I think for one it
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is a story of redemption. And it is
nice to know that you can overcome
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your demons in that way. But also,
Passion is just exciting, from the
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minute you see how passionate she is
about chess, it draws you into it in
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that way. And it is very pretty to
look at, that never hurts.
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Apparently, all those chess
matches... Games? They were
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accurate? You could follow them if
you could follow them? Absolutely,
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anything we are playing on the
screen is legitimate. And most of
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them are based on historic games.
That was fun. What about the other
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Bishop? It will be a porn once the
night trades, can't you see that? I
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cannot find that fast. I wish you
could. You are too sharp for me.
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APPLAUSE
Do you know how hard it is to be
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that mean to Harry Manning? He is
like the sweetest individual in the
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world. He played Harry and his name
is Harry. That was exciting for you
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to do a scene with Harry. That was
her Rihanna! Tell us why he meant so
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much to you. I learned to speak
English reading the Harry Potter
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books, so as lame as it sounds,
those characters were my best
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friends. I am a huge fan of the
Harry Potter franchise. Look at him!
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Not an obvious one, presumably
people don't come up to him all the
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time? He is still part of the
universe! What language where you
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speaking when you learned to speak
English through Harry Potter?
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Spanish. Oh, OK. When did you come
to London? When I was six but I only
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learned English when I was eight
because I was convinced if I didn't
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speak the language, my parents would
have to take me home and that failed
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miserably! So, yeah, I had to learn.
Chess set sails all over the world
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have gone up. Mel Giedroyc, you have
got into it? Yes, I have to say, we
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have now started playing chess
regularly in our household because
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of you. My daughters are really
involved, it's fantastic. I have to
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tell you this, this is going to
sound really random but being in
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Beth's headspace all the time is
quite a strange experience was that
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I had never seen Bake Off before so
I clung to it whilst I was filming
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The Queen's Gambit the whole time.
You are right there with me. I am
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not in it any more. I started from
the bed very beginning because I
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haven't seen it before. Not series
one with the hair dos the styling!
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There was one lady... Classic Bake
Off. It gets better, series three.
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Public service Bake Off. It jumps up
about series five. Do you like
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chess, do you play? You seem like
you word? I know the rules of chess.
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I must say, I don't play chess. I
learned the rules of chess as a boy,
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I wasn't very good at it and I
thought it was a boring game. I
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thought The Queen's Gambit was a
brilliant show, by the way, and I
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loved it but one of the things that
were so exciting as you didn't have
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to say that much of the actual
chess. She is playing a bit of
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chess, she's going to win, she's
great at chess. You don't have to
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watch it blow by blow and whatever
the pawn is to do. Going to win the
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chess, yes! Who won the chess?
Oddly, do you play chess? I have
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played a Lego chess, that was a game
I had once on my computer. He played
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Lego. One of our younger guests,
Anya. They don't leave anything
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alone, there has to be a Lego
version of everything. You do have a
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big chess board, don't you? I do.
Netflix sent me the mother of all
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chess boards whilst I was working or
not at home, which means I had to
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travel back with said chessboard and
that didn't make me look like a tool
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at all! LAUGHTER
Down-to-earth, clearly. Anya, it's
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been lovely talking to you.
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The Queen's Gambit is available
to stream on Netflix.
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Anya Taylor-Joy, everyone!
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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Thank you so much. The chess. What
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is wrong with the definite article,
the chess? It's just wrong. It
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sounds a bit wrong! You might say
I'm going to watch the tennis. The
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tennis might refer to the coverage
of Wimbledon. I'm watching the
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chess. Let's move on.
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Olly Alexander -
singer-turned-actor in the new drama
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serial from Russell T Davies,
It's A Sin.
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It's an extraordinary programme.
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It's starting on Friday 22nd January
at 9pm, on Channel 4.
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This is Russell T's great opus
about gay life in the 1980's.
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And the Aids epidemic.
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Who do you play?
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Tell us about it.
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I play a young lead called Ritchie,
born and bred on the Isle of Wight
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had moved to London at 18 and tells
his family he will be studying law
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and will come back as an
accomplished lawyer but as soon as
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he gets there, he falls in with a
group of friends and they become
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really tight knit and he changes to
drama and wants to become an actor.
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The show really follows this group
of friends who kind of grow up
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together and they fall in and out of
love, they are figuring out who they
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are and then there is the arrival of
this mysterious illness that turns
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out to be HIV and Aids and it
changes all their lives forever. I
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was that age in the 80s in London,
so watching this, I found it so
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lovely but also really upsetting.
It's an amazing kind of... Because I
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was there, you'd think you remember
it but then Russell remembers it so
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much better. It's extraordinary. How
did this happen, was he a fan of
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yours? Well, when I met him, I
heard... He was making a show and he
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asked to meet me. I walked in and
I'm a really big fan of Russell.
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I've been a fan of his for ages. Did
you do a Rihanna? A little bit but I
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said why did you call your TV show
Years and Years because that is the
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name of my band. He said, because
I'm a fan. I thought, OK, I will
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allow it. We have a clip. This is
your character sort of voicing an
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opinion that was kind of prevalent
at the time, just that thing where
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people didn't want the party to
stop. It's not fair, every time we
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go out it's like this, a pack of
lies. But that man who met this
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man... He said, they said, do you
know one that know the truth? Aids
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is a racket, a moneymaking scheme
for drugs companies. Do you think
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there is seriously only an illness
that kills gay men and it can
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calculate and kill you but no one
else? What about bisexuals? They say
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it's a cancer but you can't catch
cancer, it's not what you can catch.
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It doesn't transmit. Imagine it, gay
cancer. How is a cancer gay? What
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does it look I like, is it pink?
What does it look like? For god
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sake! You hear all these stories,
rumours and nightmares because
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that's what they want you to think,
that lot. They want to scare us and
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stop us having six and make us
really boring because they can't get
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laid, that's the truth. -- McGrath
stop having sex. Isn't it weird how
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timely that has become? We think
misinformation is a new thing but it
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was always there. I know. We
finished filming a year ago and then
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when the pandemic started happening
and people were saying things, all
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these crazy rumours about where it
came from, where it was made,
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honestly, my character was saying
the same lines. This is a period
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show about the 80s, it blew my mind.
It is so interesting how history
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repeats itself like that and how
misinformation is so prevalent
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and... It's a problem. But how do
you combat misinformation question
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mark is there a way to do it, I'm
turning to you, David. The thing
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that feels like made misinformation
more of a problem is the Internet.
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It seems like it is designed to make
it easier to order pizza and for the
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truth to die. Those are the two
things it does. Remember the pizza,
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as the truth dies, remember the
pizza. Yeah, maybe. I really don't
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know. We are still really early days
with the Internet and social media
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and I think people will get a bit
wiser about it and understand that
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just because a lot of people are
suddenly saying something, that
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doesn't mean that that is the new
truth you need to latch onto. And we
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need to have faith in established
news sources. Dave, you should be
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Prime Minister. You have had enough,
young lady! Sorry! LAUGHTER
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Taxi the Mel Giedroyc! You should,
you should. I try not to use the
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Internet, gang. I know. That's
great, we don't want all the shops
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to close forever, do we? Don't use
the Internet. Turn it off, just
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don't use it. How would you order a
taxi? I miss a land line, using my
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landline because of do you know what
the landline is? With the big wire.
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I am 30! LAUGHTER
He doesn't know what a landline is.
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I looked over and I keep thinking
you are in your pyjamas. He is up
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late. He is here to tell us about
his programme! Olly's news show It's
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A Sin starts on Channel 4.
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22nd January on Channel 4.
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OK, let's meet our next guest -
he's a very funny comedian
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and the host of the legendary
Tonight Show -
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please welcome Jimmy Fallon!
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Hello, Jimmy! I'm so excited to be
on the show, honoured, I'm a big
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fan. We love you here, we love you.
Do you know who I am there? Yes! I
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have been on your show. Oh, yes, hi,
buddy. It is Olly Alexander. Mel
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Giedroyc is here and David Mitchell.
You are in the studio? I am in the
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studio now, yes. Just us by
ourselves, sorry, me and robots. Can
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you show... That is me, there. I
don't know if you can see that. It
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is a wide shot. It is very lonely,
no audience. Join the club. At least
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I have some guests! British
audiences, although they know you
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and the Tonight Show, they may not
understand it's kind of legacy. How
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long has a Tonight Show been
running, it's been on the air a long
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time? The Tonight Show has been an
institution here. It's probably been
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on 66 years. I have hosted for six
years. It's something I never
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thought would be a job. I almost
thought it was something that came
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with your television set when you
bought a TV set. Like, that's part
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of the thing, I didn't know was a
job. It is on every night Monday to
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Friday at 11:30pm for an hour of
fun. We have celebrity guests,
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musical guests, comedians, it's
really fun. You are brilliant at it,
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you've brought such an energy to it
and revitalise the whole thing. It
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is extraordinary how you do it five
nights a week I don't know. I want
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to be the Graham Norton of America.
Wow. Wait about 20 years! You will
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be exhausted and grey as well. Here
is the thing about you, Jimmy. I
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love that you persevered with being
a talk show host because, I believe
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this is right, your first ever guest
was Robert De Niro? Wow. Yes. He
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came on, he was great. I was
sweating because I was asking
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questions and it's all one word
answers. Are you from your might
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yes. LAUGHTER
Do you ever want to move anywhere
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else? No. He was just kind of sit
there and I was running out... I was
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battling by the end. What is a
movie? LAUGHTER
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You have had people that we sadly
missed along the way.
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You had the great
Prince on your show.
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I have a great Prince story.
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One time Prince was coming
on the show and his manager
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calls and says that Prince
would to play ping-pong on the show.
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I go, OK.
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We'll get a ping-pong
table, no problem.
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So he comes on the show,
we have the...
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Never never brings up
ping-pong, doesn't talk
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about it, never brings it up.
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Doesn't even mention it.
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I go, whatever.
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And he crushes, he's awesome.
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He's great, that's the end of that.
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A month later, I'm at dinner
and I get a text and it
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says, hi, this is Prince's manager,
Prince wants to meet you right now
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at a club called Spin
in New York City.
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It's a ping-pong nightclub.
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Wow!!
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So I go to my friend,
I've got to go.
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Prince wants to play
me in ping-pong.
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So he goes, what?
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He wants to meet me
on 23rd - I've got to go.
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So I get in the cab, I go to this
place, go down the steps.
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Down the stairs.
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I go, hi, I'm here to see...
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And the girl goes, Prince?
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Yeah.
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He's in the private room back there,
behind the curtain.
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I go, OK.
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So, I go in.
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I open this curtain and who is
standing there but Prince in
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a double-breasted crushed velvet
suit and he's holding a ping-pong
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paddle and he goes,
are you ready for this?
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And I go, yeah.
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This is so surreal.
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There is no one else in the room.
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Just me and Prince.
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So I go, I guess.
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Do you want to warm up?
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It doesn't matter, I'm not even
good at ping-pong but
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I'll play with you.
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He's like, here we go.
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So he serves and he gets a point
on he goes, one zip.
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And I go, oh, are we
going to talk smack?
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Here we go.
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Let's play.
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Now I am ready to play Prince.
Let's go.
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I'm trying to play, I'm
not good at ping-pong.
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Long story long...
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He's crushing me.
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So he's like, game point.
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I go, OK.
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And he hits this serve
and it's like...
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It's one of
those perfect ping-pong things,
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it's spinning, the flames are coming
off the ball and it's coming...
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And it hits the one
corner of the ping-pong
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table that you know
is impossible to hit back.
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And he hits the thing and he goes...
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I go, oh, my gosh, you won, you won!
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Let me go...
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I go over to pick up
the ball and I come back...
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And he's gone.
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He's gone.
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And I go...
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And I don't know him that
well, so I'm like...
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Prince?
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Is he hiding under the table?
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Prince?
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It was so weird.
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And I walk out and there is like
a velvet rope and it was kind
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of swinging back and
forth a little bit.
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It was almost like Batman
was there or something.
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And then Questlove, who is our band
leader here, from The Roots.
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He heard about this
ping-pong game and
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he took a cab over and he actually
saw Prince's limo outside and he
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went up to it and he goes, wait,
did you guys already play?
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What
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happened?
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And Prince rolls his window
down and he goes...
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Ask your boy.
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And then they just peeled off!
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And I never saw him again.
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APPLAUSE.
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I love that you're in a ping-pong
basement like you're calling a dog,
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just going Prince, Prince!
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Come here, Prince!
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I didn't know if he was hiding.
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It was just bizarre!
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Jimmy Fallon, it's been a treat
to have you on the show.
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Here in the UK, you can see Jimmy
on The Tonight Show on Sky Comedy.
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Thank you, Jimmy Fallon!
447
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:34,200
APPLAUSE.
Good night! Thank you so much,
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00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:47,680
everybody! Isn't he so nice? Nice
man! Mel Giedroyc, you have a David
449
00:30:47,680 --> 00:31:00,000
Bowie story? It doesn't involve
ping-pong! Yes, I was 18. And I was
450
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:09,040
working as a waitress. Not in a
cocktail bar...! Working in a very
451
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:16,920
poncy underground place. It was
legitimate? It was legitimate. And
452
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:20,880
it was frequented by 1980s pop
stars, a lot of whom will be on your
453
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:31,360
soundtrack, Olly! In its sin. We had
Holly Johnson, Adam Faith, Sade, a
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00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:40,040
lot of the royalty. David Bowie, big
excitement, plus his entourage,
455
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:43,840
coming into the place. I was a girl
from Leatherhead and I was
456
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:49,120
absolutely beyond excited. Only 18,
the youngest waitress. You bounced
457
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:55,040
back from that Bill Oddie
incident... Anyway... I thought I
458
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,920
will serve him and this will be my
big occasion. I was not allowed to
459
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:03,640
because I was the youngest waitress
on the block. So the old waitresses,
460
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:12,320
the real old waitresses. Those hags!
Yes, the hags got to serve him.
461
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:18,920
Really annoying! I have got to
somehow make contact with David
462
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:24,120
Bowie, this is my icon and he
ordered a cake and I saw that being
463
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:28,960
prepared backstage. I thought, how
can I connect with Bowie? I will not
464
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:42,160
serve him so I licked cake...! I
give it a really good old, worked up
465
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:49,120
in the gob, one of the waitresses
came in, got the cake and... And I
466
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:54,560
won because that will be ingested by
David Bowie, some of my saliva will
467
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:58,960
have gone into him. And how many
times does this happen to David
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00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:06,240
Bowie? What percentage of his diet
was strangers' saliva? That saliva
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00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:11,920
story might come useful in your new
panel -- panel game, it is called
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00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:18,360
Unforgivable... And it starts on
Dave on Tuesday the 2nd of February
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00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:23,440
at 10 o'clock. Tell us all about
this. Right, basically, it is on
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00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:27,360
Dave, which is quite a cool
channel... Isn't it? Is it quite
473
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:36,760
cool? Yes... Yes, it is a bit like
that! We look to the young
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00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:43,120
demographic... Unconvinced. Isn't
it? I might have confused it with
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00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:52,920
MTV... I was a big fan of UK
history...! Anyway, it is on Dave.
476
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:56,960
And basically we have three guests
that come on each episode. And they
477
00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:02,280
have to compete with each other to
get the lowest score possible,
478
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:07,320
little bit of a twist, not going for
the highest score, the lowest score,
479
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:13,280
as to who can be the most
Unforgivable? Who has got the worst
480
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:17,120
stories about themselves? That paint
them in a really, really bad light?
481
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:22,720
We have a club, this is Richard
Bacon, I wonder what he is going to
482
00:34:22,720 --> 00:34:29,080
talk about...?! 25th Blue Peter
presenter. The 24th... You never
483
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:35,960
forget. Sorry about that. Why did
you leave? What happened?
484
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:44,480
LAUGHTER
Judy... Richard, if you could just
485
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:52,040
explain?
APPLAUSE.
486
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:59,720
I got fired for punctuality. Because
if you take a lot of coke, you're
487
00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:06,320
always liked... Very good! -- you
are always late.
488
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,000
So that's Unforgivable
with Mel Giedroyc -
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coming soon to Dave.
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00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:11,200
Right, my final guest
is an Oscar-winning actor who's
491
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:12,240
now turned director.
492
00:35:12,240 --> 00:35:13,680
Please welcome
the great Regina King!
493
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:21,080
APPLAUSE.
So lovely to see you. How are you?
494
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:26,080
So lovely to see you but I wish I
was getting a hug. Having a cocktail
495
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:37,160
over there with all of you. Well...
Cheers! Yes, I'm having a cup of
496
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:41,960
tea, because it is known over here.
We know you as a brilliant actor.
497
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:50,360
You are here as a director, the
debut
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00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:53,160
debut feature is One Night in Miami,
available next Friday on Amazon
499
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:57,400
Prime, it is about three historical
figures but the actual night is
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00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:02,360
imagined or could it possibly have
happened? This night actually
501
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:07,720
happened with Malcolm X, Cassius
Clay, who the next day announces he
502
00:36:07,720 --> 00:36:16,080
is a Muslim. And we later know
503
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:18,400
is a Muslim. And we later know him
as Mohamed... This was after he
504
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:25,320
became heavyweight champion of the
world. And it is a dramatisation of
505
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:30,320
what those conversations may have
been that night. Let's watch a clip.
506
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:36,920
This is the group reacting to
Cassius Clay's victory on the night.
507
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:41,640
Cassius Clay is a new heavyweight
champion of the world! And I don't
508
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:47,960
even...
509
00:36:47,960 --> 00:37:00,720
My goodness! Are you OK? Why am I so
pretty?! And I'm only 22 years old,
510
00:37:00,720 --> 00:37:04,600
there is no way I'm supposed to be
this great. Alexander the great
511
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:08,560
conquered the world at the age of 30
and I conquered the world of boxing
512
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:13,520
at 22. Without sustaining so much as
a scratch. There he goes! You do the
513
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:19,920
maths. When is this party going
down? What is on the agenda,
514
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:23,760
Malcolm? I thought this would be a
wonderful chance to reflect on what
515
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:27,240
has happened tonight, like our young
brother said, there is no denying
516
00:37:27,240 --> 00:37:36,320
that greater forces were at work.
You mean? No one else is coming?
517
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:39,520
Rest assured you are not missing
anything, my brother.
518
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:46,280
APPLAUSE.
How did this happen? Apparently you
519
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:51,120
were looking for romance? You wanted
to direct a romantic film? I did. I
520
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:58,880
was looking for the film that was a
romance with an historical event as
521
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:07,320
the backdrop. Like Titanic, with the
Black couple. I did not get a
522
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:13,920
romance but I got a bromance. What
was the atmosphere like in that
523
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:19,640
room? As a viewer I was really
struck that those conversations
524
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:25,040
could still be happening right now
between those men? Yeah... The thing
525
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:32,600
about it is that was in 64. And, you
know, 60 years before that those
526
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:40,560
conversations, you know, were
relevant. And so it is just... I
527
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:47,880
don't know. Ken Powers, the writer,
it was a play that he adapted to a
528
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:54,920
screenplay. And I am so honoured to
be able to have been a director
529
00:38:54,920 --> 00:39:04,120
chosen to tell the story. But there
is a kind of sadness that, you know,
530
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:09,600
the reality of how far we have not
come in America. Listen, the very
531
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,800
best of luck with One Night in
Miami. A terrific film. Please come
532
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:20,200
to see us when you can. Regina King,
everyone! Thank you! Goodbye.
533
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:21,400
Right, it's time for music.
534
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,560
This home-grown star
had an amazing 2020.
535
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:26,720
Now he's here performing his current
single Cotton Candy.
536
00:39:26,720 --> 00:39:30,880
Please welcome - Yungblud!
537
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:32,960
APPLAUSE.
538
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,040
# Tallulah knows
539
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:47,440
# That she's not the only
one I'm holding close
540
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,480
# On the low
541
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:55,360
# Get vertigo from body overdose
542
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:56,920
# So tell me your name
543
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:59,000
# And tell me your problems
544
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:03,960
# I got the same and I wanna
get stuck between your
545
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:07,400
teeth like cotton candy
546
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:10,640
# So you remember me darling
547
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:25,760
# I'm losing myself in you, and you,
and you, and you, and you I know
548
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:28,280
# I figured out
549
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:33,320
# That the modern world
is turning the wrong way round
550
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:38,280
# There's something
about the way our bedsheets turn
551
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:41,360
religion upside down
552
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:48,600
# So we just have sex, to solve
all our problems let's do it again
553
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:53,560
# I wanna get stuck between your
teeth like cotton candy
554
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:56,160
so you remember me darling
555
00:40:56,160 --> 00:41:12,200
# I'm losing myself in you, and you,
and you, and you, and you I know
556
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:20,000
# Leave me in the morning
although I don't wanna be on my own
557
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:58,880
# I'm losing myself in you, and you,
and you, and you, and you I know
558
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:06,520
# Leave me in the morning
although I don't wanna be on my own
559
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:14,480
# I'm losing myself in you, and you,
and you, and you, and you I know
560
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:28,520
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
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00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:33,280
Yungblud and his band, everybody.
Over you calm. Thank you for doing
562
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:43,200
that. Have a nice clean chair. There
you go. How are you all? Very well.
563
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:48,960
In conversation, you are Dom don't
call me Dominic, my mum called me
564
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:54,320
that when I've been naughty! You
have been very good tonight. It must
565
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:58,800
be nice to be back on the stage but
how weird to summon up that energy
566
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:06,880
for... To be honest, I'm burning off
my Christmas dinner. Whoa! Normally
567
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:11,440
I do two hours of that but I
couldn't even get through two
568
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:20,520
minutes! I am sweating! So, that is
from the
569
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:28,320
from the album Weird, number one
album. Mental. Mental! APPLAUSE
570
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:35,600
I love your shoes! I like your whole
ensemble. It hurts a bit, keep
571
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:42,360
getting stabbed. If I fall asleep,
it will wake me up. What was that
572
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:46,680
like for you watching someone else
performing? So relieved, I get
573
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:54,680
nervous watching that. I was
nervous. No way. I love being
574
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:58,120
nervous. I love those butterflies
flying around the body.
575
00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:00,760
When the first lockdown hit,
did you get stuck in America?
576
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:02,200
Yeah, I got stuck in America.
577
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:03,880
And I find America
quite hard sometimes.
578
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:06,520
Because I'm very English.
579
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:09,400
And I would just like to say
that you saved my life
580
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:10,600
when I was in America.
581
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:11,640
Seriously.
582
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:14,280
Swear to God, I was missing
fish and chips, I was
583
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:16,800
missing pints of lager.
584
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:18,480
People in Hollywood,
they don't have very
585
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:20,680
British humour, have they?
586
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:27,680
You can't tell someone
in Hollywood their feet stink.
587
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:29,560
They would just look
at your so funny.
588
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:30,640
It's like...
589
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:33,480
Even if someone's feet stank
in America, it's like, "oh, my God,
590
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:34,520
your feet are amazing!"
591
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:35,960
Do you know what I mean?
592
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:39,040
I was sat in the house,
bingeing Peep Show.
593
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:41,640
Getting my mam to send me chocolate
Hobhobs across the ocean,
594
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:44,600
wanting to get home.
595
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:46,760
Alan Bennett in 50 years!
596
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:54,720
APPLAUSE.
597
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:57,040
It was just mental to me.
598
00:44:57,040 --> 00:44:58,240
I was just, like, craving...
599
00:44:58,240 --> 00:45:00,640
I'm very, very glad
I was able to help destroy
600
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:01,680
the whole Hollywood vibe.
601
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:02,720
You just burnt it...
602
00:45:02,720 --> 00:45:06,760
It was just, like, I loved it.
603
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:11,400
Listen, that was great. What a great
start to the year on the show. Thank
604
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:17,120
you for that performance, Yungblud!
Thank you so much.
605
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:19,520
Right, that's nearly it,
but before we go, just time
606
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:21,440
for a visit to the big red chair.
607
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:25,120
Once again our virtual audience
are watching from home,
608
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:28,680
so do we have a volunteer to sit
in the chair for them.
609
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:41,040
Do we not? I am slightly worried.
You are doing it?! You have balls.
610
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:44,520
I'm slightly worried because I need
the loo but I think it will make it
611
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:48,760
more exciting. You can't go to the
toilet, you are young and you have
612
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:55,360
only been on a few minutes. LAUGHTER
Live on the edge! After you go. I'm
613
00:45:55,360 --> 00:46:01,920
up for it. Don't say anything too
interesting... Well done, thank you
614
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:08,840
very much. We will meet someone
whilst she settled herself. Who is
615
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:16,240
up first, hello, sir? Hello, how are
you. Very well. Where are you? I am
616
00:46:16,240 --> 00:46:22,240
in USA. What is your name? Chris.
What is that on the wall, art or are
617
00:46:22,240 --> 00:46:28,080
you planning a project? My wife just
moved in a new house. We want to
618
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:32,200
paint the room and those are
swatches of potential colours. I
619
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:40,080
would go second from the... I agree!
I think they will all make the room
620
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:46,640
feel smaller. LAUGHTER
You need to light. It is a bedroom,
621
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:51,800
they want it to be cosy. Chris, Mel
Giedroyc believe it is ready in the
622
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:59,520
chair. Meet Chris. Chris! Wright
hello. Your bladder is safe. Off you
623
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:04,560
go, he's going to try and keep you
safe. When I was in college, I was
624
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:08,720
dating a girl whose parents were
very good friends of my parents.
625
00:47:08,720 --> 00:47:15,440
Both of our parents were very
religious people. Right. One
626
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:18,880
weekend, our parents were out at
some type of religious meeting. I
627
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:26,640
was over at her house. As people our
age do, we were on the couch, our
628
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:30,760
clothes came off, except for my
socks and all of a sudden we had the
629
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:39,480
garage door opening. She gets up,
grabs all her clothes and runs up --
630
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:44,360
mega upstairs to recompose herself.
My socks... I put on my show and
631
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:48,960
then I realised I didn't have time
to put my pants on. So I grabbed my
632
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:53,480
pants and threw them underneath me,
sit down on the couch and there is a
633
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:57,520
blanket draped across the couch
behind me. Grabbed the blanket,
634
00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:04,400
throw it over my lap, cover up the
best I could. Sure enough, the door
635
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:09,520
from the garage opens. I can't, I
can't...! LAUGHTER
636
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:15,680
The show is just not that long. I
know he's from Buffalo, New York. I
637
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:24,480
hope he's OK. Are you OK, Mel? I
have slightly wet myself. The show
638
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:29,720
is over. At some papers in the cab
and send you home.
639
00:48:29,720 --> 00:48:31,880
OK, that really is all
we've got time for.
640
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:34,720
If you'd like to have a go
in the red chair yourself
641
00:48:34,720 --> 00:48:37,120
and tell your story,
you can contact us via our
642
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:38,160
website at this address.
643
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:40,320
Please say thank you
to all my guests -
644
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:41,360
Mel Giedroyc...
645
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:42,400
Yungblud...
646
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:44,280
Anya Taylor-Joy...
647
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:45,720
Olly Alexander...
648
00:48:45,720 --> 00:48:48,920
Jimmy Fallon...
649
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:51,240
David Mitchell...
650
00:48:51,240 --> 00:48:54,640
And Regina King!
651
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:56,120
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
652
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:58,160
Join me next week
with singer Jake Bugg,
653
00:48:58,160 --> 00:48:59,960
director M Night Shyamalan,
comedian Rob Beckett,
654
00:48:59,960 --> 00:49:03,200
actors Noel Clarke and Keeley Hawes,
adventurer Ant Middleton,
655
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:05,160
and Hollywood star Rebel Wilson.
656
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:06,200
I'll see you then!
657
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:09,000
Goodnight!
658
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:13,760
Bye-bye!