Hey, it's Rebel Wilson, and I would like to welcome
you to the Graham Norton Show.
Hello, good evening.
We're great.
You're all so welcome to the show.
And hello to our virtual audience, watching from home!
Hello!
Oh, there you all are.
In case any of you are wondering, I am allowed to be
here in the studio - it's seven miles from
my home and I cycled.
Yes, Boris was spotted cycling seven miles from Downing Street.
And you think why would he cycle so far from home?
Oh, that's right, he's got a new baby.
Here's Boris, out riding - a bike.
Not wearing a safety helmet in that picture.
Just to be fair, can we please see a picture of Boris with a helmet?
There he is.
The helmet, see?
The helmet.
So, who have we got on the show tonight?
With me here in the studio, it's Scottish comedian gone global,
Daniel Sloss is here.
Bafta-winning actor and director Noel Clarke is here.
And she's the reigning queen of British television, Keeley Hawes.
Shortly, we'll be joined by the director of The Sixth Sense,
Split and Unbreakable, M Night Shyamalan will be here.
Fresh from their Mexican adventure together, SAS hard man Ant Middleton
and Hollywood star Rebel Wilson will be joining us.
Plus we'll have music right here in the studio from the fabulous
Jake Bugg everyone.
It must be the hardest gig of their lives, just
the four of us going "Vvery good, very good."
Listen, lovely to have you all.
A couple of first timers.
You've been here before, Keeley, obviously.
I have, I can't stop.
I know, you're dizzy, been round the block so many times.
But we always look for connections between the guests, and I don't know
if you know this, but Keeley and Noel are both Doctor Who survivors.
But not at the same time, right?
No, no, I think I was there before.
Who was your Doctor Who?
Chris Ecclestone and then David Tennant.
Oh, OK, no.
Peter Capaldi.
Oh, Johnny come lately.
Yeah, yeah.
Because you were Billie Piper's boyfriend, but then you
survived her demise.
Yes, the wonderful Mickey Smith.
Oh, God, you remember your name.
Just about.
That's very good.
And you have a daily reminder you were in
Doctor Who in your house, have you not?
Yes I do.
I have a Cyberman helmet.
I think you posted a picture of the Cyberman helmet.
There it is.
So is that hanging on a wall or something?
No, I literally was on my hands and knees, with my bum in the air
like The Truman Show, trying to get that picture.
Was that to put it on eBay?
"I want a nice no shadow shot."
100%, you know.
Lockdown's tough on everyone.
Lockdown's tough on everyone so I'm just preparing my eBay picture.
Is it wearable?
It is wearable.
It's the proper helmet.
They did an extra one for my birthday, or so they say,
of the original run, and that was it, so it
is actually wearable.
Have you ever answered like the door with it, or like worn it
during sex or something?
I've only ever wore it for the Mrs but we won't talk about that.
Whose cyber now?
Delete.
Because you were proper big baddie.
I was a big brief baddie, yes.
Did you nick anything?
I think, I nicked a, a little name plate,
that I just had on my desk.
I don't know where it is any more.
I know, the bin I imagine.
Yeah.
Daniel, you haven't been in something like Doctor Who,
but you do have nerd merch in your house.
Yeah.
Was it your grandfather started you young?
When I was 13 my grandparents had this thing like once you're 13
you're an adult so we'll buy you an adult present
and like my cousins asked for like charm bracelets
and I was heavy into Lord of the Rings, so they bought
me one of the swords.
But like, here's a picture of the sword.
It's a real sword.
That's metal, right?
Yeah, yeah, oh, yeah, like it's not sharpened on the sides,
but you could definitely stab someone with it, and they gave
it to a 13-year-old.
Like just with glee on their face, like it's what he wanted.
Like we're from the Highlands, this will suit him perfectly.
You weren't in Washington DC last week, by any chance were you?
No comment.
LAUGHTER.
But that's not the only thing you have in your house,
tell us what you have?
I have a life-sized replica of a velociraptor.
I believe we have a picture of you with the velociraptor.
Now that has a whiff of charity auction to me.
Drink taken and a charity auction.
He is a rescue.
There was a theme park in France that was going to bin it,
and I was like, I can't, that's the most upsetting thing I've
heard so we had him brought over and he's in our garden now.
Thankfully he's been tagged and spayed.
No, he is quite tame, because he's handy round the house,
here he is doing a bit of light cleaning.
And then there's something like this picture,
I love you got him to do this.
This is clever.
Look at that.
We saved him from France, he has to...
Of course he does.
Very good.
Now we begin tonight with the new drama thriller
from Keeley Hawes, Finding Alice.
It kicks off this Sunday on ITV1 at 9pm.
And this is the perfect Sunday night drama.
It's got kind of all those things you want.
Let's hope.
So tell us about it.
You're Alice, the rest.
Yes, I play Alice, Finding Alice, and basically,
we start our story the first night in this dream house,
dream smart house, which has been built by Alice's husband Harry,
for her and their daughter, Charlotte.
And on the first night in this house, Harry tragically falls downs
the stairs and dies.
Did you do it?
Pardon me?
Did you do it?
Saved hours, hasn't it.
So, and it's basically the unravelling, you know,
that happens after something like that, a sudden death
occurs, and so, yeah.
We have a clip, this is the morning after said fall on stairs,
and you're talking with your parents and parents-in-law.
It's very dark in here.
Curtains.
Open.
They're stuck.
I'll figure it out.
It's a smart house.
Not that smart.
What is a smart house?
Have you thought about the funeral?
They get very booked up.
The sooner you can organise it, the better.
You're probably right.
We can't do anything until the postmortem
and the probable inquest.
What?
Why?
Because they think I killed him.
No, they don't.
It's normal for an accidental death.
So he just fell down the stairs?
Oh, don't you start!
Oh...
He must have lost his bearings.
No bannisters, which is ridiculous.
Why didn't you have bannisters?
Harry didn't really like them.
APPLAUSE.
Very good.
And now, Keeley Hawes, that is worth the price
of admission alone, but no, because you are sort of one
of the co-creators of this, you're one of the producers of this.
I am, I am.
It's been quite a journey, with Covid thrown into
the middle of shooting.
You nearly done it and I think was it five weeks?
We were five weeks away from shooting, from wrapping.
So is it just like lots of long shots because the camera couldn't
do close ups any more.
It's like this, it's basically like this,
every drama from now on is like this.
So we had five weeks left to shoot, which we were on location,
happily because it is easier to shoot outside and, you know,
in bigger areas obviously with more room, but we managed
it, so we locked down in March, along with everybody else and then
we picked up at the end of last year and turned it around.
But didn't you have to do some intimate scenes?
I mean, people have, I don't know if you guys
have done any filming...
Yeah, I have.
During lockdown.
And a lot the soaps I think have used perspex screens
which I think must be very odd.
We didn't do that, we, one thing we did do,
was I did have a scene, we were outside, happily,
and I had a kind of scene where I had to get a little bit,
it is a bit spoilery, but I had to get a little bit
intimate with another character and get closer than you're really
able to, and someone had the brilliant idea of bringing
in this actor's poor wife, and putting a wig on her,
and doubling her for me, so I, so I go up to this
point in the scene, where I have to move closer.
And then he kisses his wife.
And I step to the side and his wife steps in,
and I just stand there at the side, like this.
Just looking, you know, really awkward, and so they have
this moment and then I just step back in and carry
on shooting the scene.
Yeah, we didn't do that, on mine they just tested us rigorously.
And they tested us.
Like every second day, you know, so I was literally gagging
and by the end of it I was like typing away
on the laptop, finger up the nose.
Just like so many, it didn't bother me by then.
Constantly, everybody's constantly being tested.
You know, they really feel like...
Plus I'm a different race to the person's partner so that
probably would have been an issue.
More than a wig.
Can you imagine that.
Something odd just happened.
Continuity, very odd.
Do you know think that was a bit gutting for him?
Like he gets to go on set and he's like today's the day I get to kiss
Keeley fucking Hawes, this is great.
And then it's "Your wife's here."
She's what?
For the whole scene?
And you know damn well his wife didn't want to kiss him as well.
APPLAUSE.
What is good is acting filming is getting up and going,
stand up is a much bigger challenge in these times but you have managed
to do some very strange gigs.
Yes, there was like, January, February I managed to go
to America, do some shows there and I was looking forward
to going on tour and then obviously this all happened,
and then my first gig back was in a car park.
These are the drivein...
The drivein gigs, and I think what they did was, you know,
they look at the American
drive in cinemas where it is big pick-up truck, it's a big cinema,
it's a sunny day, like it's night, the sun setting
and people open up their wine boxes in the back and we are from
Brent Cross, between two motorways with 300 cars.
And we've got a picture of the car park.
LAUGHTER.
Is that your audience, you're playing to that?
You can't tell from this photo but I am smashing that gig.
Like I am, it's, it's...
It's like someone's putting their bags in the boot there.
LAUGHTER.
Because obviously it's big, like it's into the radios
and from inside the car people were really enjoying it,
because it's you, your mum, your dad and your friends,
and you're just drinking together, not the driver obviously.
No.
But you're listening to the radio and it's like a live sort of podcast
but the only way they can laugh or show their approval
is by honking their horns.
So, like, it's the weirdest noise in the world.
You do a joke and there's like blah, blah, blah, blah.
But by the end of it, when we were with driving back up
to Scotland the next day, any time we got honked
I was like "Thanks, man."
LAUGHTER.
Right, time for our first remote chat tonight.
They're the unlikely pairing in the latest episode
of Straight Talking - it's Royal Marine-turned-interviewer
Ant Middleton and the Hollywood star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids,
Rebel Wilson.
APPLAUSE.
There they are.
You're so lazy, Ant.
You're so lazy.
I know.
Do you know what I feel like I haven't put the
effort in now.
I feel really bad.
Thanks Rebel.
You have to be exercising and you've also got to be
hydrating.
LAUGHTER.
I love 2021 so far.
So reassuring.
This is to you, Rebel.
Cheers guys.
Cheers.
Whoa!
Rebel, we've seen all the pictures in the papers, but it's
clearly true.
You look fabulous.
I mean, yeah, thanks.
I'm just having a really healthy lifestyle.
It's just every time I turn on the news I'm just like, yeah.
Life is great.
It's what you want.
OK.
I feel like Ant's hand is going to come into the side and rip it out.
I feel like he's just doing kegels off camera.
The other way, the other way.
There you go.
So, you are here together because Ant Middleton and
Rebel Wilson: Straight Talking.
It's sort of a long form interview in the
wilds of Mexico.
Is that the best way to describe it?
Yes, what it's designed to do, it's designed to
take them out of their comfort zone, take them out of their bubble,
especially someone like Rebel, the paps on them 24/7, she can't go
anywhere without being hassled, so this is the prime,
the prime time to
really take her out into the wild...
Yeah.
I've got her for three days, now three days is a long time to
interview someone.
Oh yeah.
So I've got enough time to really dig
deep and find out who she really is.
Because Rebel, being interviewed is one thing but Ant is trained
in interrogation techniques and thing, were you going into it
seriously were you nervous he would kind of worm things out
in interrogation techniques and things, were you going into it
seriously, were you nervous he would kind of worm things out
of you that you never intended to say?
Well, Graham, I never knew about that before.
They only told me that when I got into
the Mexican wilderness and I'm like what, he's trained
in interrogation techniques, should I have practised
Water Boarding or like, I was down for the adventure, really, and then
I found out about the interrogating and, you know, all the dangerous
stuff later.
It was too late by then Rebel, wasn't it.
It was too late.
You were like, listen, it's done, three day just went and you gave up
all your secrets.
Because, Noel Clarke here, you've been doing SAS
training, haven't you?
I did a tiny little bit of SAS training, because I've got a movie
coming out called SAS Red Notice, yeah.
I recognise the face.
Hi, mate.
It's an Andy McNab film.
He said young guys were quite soft and weren't as tough as his lot.
Listen, they're past it, mate.
They're past it!
Don't shoot the messenger.
Don't take out the messenger.
I'm just saying.
I'm glad this is a Zoom.
I think, if Ant was here, you wouldn't be saying that.
No, because Andy told me I could probably take Ant out as well.
No, wait, it's what Andy told me.
I'm just saying.
Ant's backstage!
The challenge is on now.
He's frozen now.
He's terrified, oh!
Keeley, you've played loads of detectives.
Have you learnt skills?
Well, I suppose I have done lots of running
around in high heels.
I can do that.
I can run really, really fast in a pair of high heels.
That's a skill.
That's a skill for sure.
I tried it.
I fell right over.
I can do it.
Graham knows what I'm talking about.
Listen, we've got a clip.
Ant Middleton and Rebel Wilson: Straight Talking - it's available
now on Sky On Demand and NowTV.
Here's a clip.
Ant, that was you.
That was you.
Jesus!
Don't do that, Ant.
I can't see any sharks.
I know.
Shall we go back to the boat?
Yeah, let's do it.
Come on.
After 45 minutes, it's 1-0 to the sharks,
but I'm not giving up.
I really want Rebel to have this experience,
so all we can do now is wait...
and wait...
and wait.
LAUGHTER.
How long did you have to wait?
We waited for three hours, but it was quite funny
because myself and Rebel fell asleep on the back of the boat,
and it was quite surreal.
They didn't manage to catch this bit, but I remember waking up
and you know when you fall asleep and you sort of get in a comfy
position, and we had both got into this position.
I looked over and Rebel was spooning me.
I think I woke her up with my snoring.
I just looked around to make sure there were no cameras
and I sort of shot up and was, right, the shark's here,
acting all cool and hard.
But two minutes ago, we were spooning together, fast asleep.
I thought to myself, thank God the cameras
didn't capture that.
Yeah, but I will say, Graham, the only reason
I got in that water...
That water was disgusting, because Ant was chumming it up,
putting in all these dead fishes and guts and everything in the water
to try and attract the sharks.
Then I got desperate to go to the toilet because it had been
hours, and that was the only reason why I got in that water.
OK.
That might be why the sharks didn't show up.
There you go.
Daniel Sloss, are you an outdoorsy person?
Would you do this?
No, I'd go swimming with sharks.
I like the fact that Ant considered 1-0 to the sharks
when they didn't turn up.
1-0 to the shark is when you've got no legs leg!
But, Rebel, you clearly went for it.
You posted this picture of a very serious injury.
It does look slightly like your nipple has
slipped out, but that's...
LAUGHTER.
OK, no, basically, with Ant, we did all these crazy,
dangerous things, but basically that injury in that photo happened
the day after we'd finished filming.
When I left her.
I was very safe with Ant but then what happened is I had to go
to the beach to take some hot photos for Instagram.
It's not every day you're in Mexico.
So I went and then a freak wave came up and knocked my friend's
handbag into the air, which had her passport
and her wallet, so I went running in Baywatch-style
to save the handbag, and I got hit against the rocks.
So that injury you can see is I got all scraped down my left-hand side
and all bruised ribs.
Basically, Ant protected me and we were totally fine,
even though we did the most dangerous things, but taking
hot Instagram photos on beach was my downfall.
Were you able to at least get the passport?
Yeah, we got the passport and we put paper towels
in between the pages and it was fine.
Survival expert Rebel Wilson.
Very good.
Rebel and Ant, it's lovely to talk to you both.
I'm glad you're still good friends.
Good luck with your episode of Straight Talking.
Ant Middleton and Rebel Wilson, everybody!
Thanks, guys.
APPLAUSE.
Talking of fitness, Noel Clarke here, you were a personal trainer.
I was, yeah, an instructor and personal trainer.
Indeed, yes, for many years.
And you were kind of spotted in that gym?
I was.
That's how I got into acting.
I mean, I always wanted to do acting, but I was in that gym just
scrubbing the sweat off machines like a diligent worker,
because in between training people you have to keep the gym clean.
And that's sort of where I was found, as it were.
I think this is amazing.
So, you get some jobs and do some stuff for Channel 4,
you're doing other jobs, but like lots of actors
you're struggling a bit.
Lots of people do that, but then you wrote a screenplay...
Yeah.
Kidulthood.
Yes.
But you got it made!
I mean, where did the inspiration for that script come from,
and where did the gumption and drive come from to get it actually made?
The gumption and drive kind of just came from working in the gym.
I've always had that sort of personality of just, like,
you know, wanting to work hard and wanting to achieve stuff,
and when I was working in the gym, people would come in in the morning,
I would make sure the machines were the cleanest.
I'd make sure...
I used to teach spin cycling.
For those who don't know, forget peloton, it was Clarke-oton.
I was on the bike, come on, come on!
I used to teach the spin cycle and, to this day, I get messages
saying my classes were the best, so shut up.
That's where the gumption came from.
But I lived in Latimer, Ladbroke Grove, near Grenfell Tower,
which is Kensington and Chelsea, which is Notting Hill.
And so, you know, I loved my area, and one day this film comes out
called Notting Hill - by the way, I love the movie -
but I'm like, oh, a film about my area, about me!
It represents me!
I go and watch it...
Ooh, this is going to be good.
The girls next to me, I'm like, you're going to see my area.
It's just a little bit different to my experience, ever so slightly.
There was a moment when the camera panned and I was like,
they're going to show my estate.
And it just stopped.
It was like, well, I lived there.
That's not my experience.
So I said, well, I'll write my experience and see how that
plays out, and it became Kidulthood.
Do you think Hugh Grant did the same thing when Kidulthood came out?
He was like, wait till you see my area.
Wait till you see my wonderfully posh house.
They said that our film did one thing that that film didn't -
it put a cap on house prices in Notting Hill.
I was proud of that, because people were suddenly like,
I don't know if we want to move there any more.
That is an achievement.
Yeah!
That's when I bought, by the way.
That was clever.
Straight in.
Or was it insider dealing?
Yo, bruv, buy, buy, buy!
One of Noel Clarke's most successful creations is back.
This is yourself and Ashley Walters returning in Bulletproof.
Yes.
It's out on Sky One this Wednesday at 9pm.
Also available on NowTV.
And, I mean, this is your baby.
You created it, you got it made again, but you must be thrilled.
This is a huge hit for Sky.
Yeah, I mean, a massive hit.
We are very proud.
Ashley and I sort of bumped into each other one day
at an event and was like, we should probably work together.
And then we went to a coffee shop the week after,
shooting ideas around, and came up with this.
I just heard today that series four has been commissioned
and will be happening.
APPLAUSE.
All aboard the Clarke express!
Buy, buy, buy!
Very proud.
So this is Bulletproof 3, and this takes you to South Africa.
Yeah.
How does that happen and what happens?
Well, the characters go through a lot in season one and two,
for those people that have seen it, and so we decide that Pike's family,
Ashley Walters's character, decides they are going to take
a family holiday, and my character, being the character he is,
is like, well, I'm coming.
If you're going on holiday, I'm coming.
So he tags along, and they are on the beach, chilling out,
and something happens on the beach and they can't help but get
involved, and that takes them on an adventure
for the next three episodes.
Was it Rebel Wilson running in to get a passport?
It was, actually.
Now, your description of it there, that will get bums on seats,
for sure, but I believe this picture may also draw an audience.
This happened.
LAUGHTER.
That actually happened.
That does actually happen.
It's the Clarke-oton.
Yeah, that does actually happen, not that particular moment.
That was for the Gram, obviously.
A very unusual free kick wall, that.
Just Messi-style defending.
Well, you know...
Was that why you had to get into shape?
For Bulletproof, you do get into shape.
Yes, we do get into shape, and we did get into shape.
That isn't the reason we got into shape.
It's a good thing we did though.
What happened, it was in season two, we were shooting season two
and Ashley and I were there, chatting away one day, and we did
a take and we were just laughing, and I was laughing and I looked
at the footage after, and I had, like, four Hobnobs
at the back of my neck.
And I was like, what are those?
And Ashley was like, yeah, didn't they tell you?
I'm like, mate, you need to stop talking, Shrek,
because you're like this.
And then we both looked at each other and were like,
we're out of shape.
And we went on this health kick and so, during season two,
for those that have watched it, I start season two at 13 and a half
stone and I ended at just under 11.
Like a backwards lockdown.
Yeah.
The costume lady, it was a nightmare for her because, by the end,
I looked like I was my son wearing my clothes.
They were just hanging off.
But I literally lost all that weight during season two, and Ashley did,
and we got six-packs, and now it's lockdown,
so it's back to a keg, but I'll get it back.
Let's watch a clip.
This is yourself and Ashley as Bishop and Pike,
and you are tracking down a suspect.
Welcome to our church.
Thank you.
Yeah, actually, we were looking for this guy.
Wondered if you recognised him.
Please, this is really important.
Maybe we can give you something in return.
Hmm, Bish?
Yeah, here.
No.
I want your shoes.
You want my shoes.
LAUGHTER.
This kid wants my shoes, yeah?
I know, I know.
Give them to him.
What?
Give him the shoes.
Give him the shoes?
You want me to punch up this kid in the church?
Want to get arrested for beating up a boy over trainers?
Please...
Give him the shoes, man.
Can I just have the shoes?
No problem, I don't care what I have to do.
He ain't getting my shoes.
Baller!
LAUGHTER.
Is it after that scene the kid also manages to get
all of your clothes off, and that's why you're both nude?
We chased the ball and mates are waiting round the corner,
and they take them.
OK, time to meet our final remote guest.
He's the iconic director of films such as Unbreakable,
Split and, of course, The Sixth Sense.
Please welcome M Night Shyamalan.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.
Hey, guys.
How are you?
We are very well.
So nice to see you.
Now, I believe I call you Night.
Is that right?
That's correct, yeah.
That's great.
The M is silent, OK.
Yes.
It's lovely to have you on the show finally.
As I'm sure you know, we've had lots of stars
of your movies on the show, and I wasn't sure whether you knew
this or not, but apparently you do, that Matthew Perry was on the show
and told this extraordinary anecdote involving him thinking he'd
spent a night with you, but apparently you do know about it
and there is an M Night Shyamalan twist to this anecdote.
Yeah, so he went on your show and he tells the story of being out
with me all night and he is having the greatest time and at the end
of the night he meets one of his friends, and his friend
is like, how's it going?
And he says, it's the greatest night of my life.
I've been hanging out with M Night Shyamalan.
And then the guy turns and says, that's not M Night Shyamalan,
and he's been hanging out with a random Indian
dude all night long.
That's the story that Matthew told when he was on your show.
Yeah.
But then I'm watching it and here's the twist.
We did actually hang out.
That's what is actually so astonishing.
So I've pieced it together, and I have an amateur sleuth
answer for what happened.
We were hanging out, and we were having fun,
and then Matthew was like, let's go to another place.
And I'm like, you know what, I'm a little tired, I'm
going to leave here and you can go to the other place.
Meanwhile, there's this kind of fan has been hanging about,
and he's also Indian, and he's been a big fan.
He's come over a couple of times and wants to hang out
with us and we're like, hey, it's OK, brother.
And he's over there.
And what I think happened is that Matthew went on to continue partying
and this other Indian dude joined him, and then later that
evening his friend came over and said, that's not
M Night Shyamalan, and then Matthew thought he second-guessed himself
that we actually had this evening together.
So all these years later, I had to see him because I'm
like, we did hang out!
We had a great time, and he was very fun.
I love that.
As an anecdote and anecdote part two, that's fantastic.
But it's really you, I'm told, so you are here to tell us
about your latest hit TV drama.
This is Servant.
It's on Apple TV+ from today.
This is the second series, so if people don't know,
where do we find the characters at this stage?
Oh, wow.
The show is about a couple that have tragically lost their child,
and the wife was doing a very kind of controversial therapy
where she pretended her child was still alive by this doll,
pretending this doll was her child, and this is actually a fringe
therapy that actually exists.
And she believes it so much that she hires a nanny for the doll.
And then, in the first season, out of nowhere, the nanny
is taking care of the doll, and then suddenly there
is a real child there.
And we don't know where the child has come from.
Is it the nanny's?
We don't know anything.
And at the end of season one, the nanny leaves and the child
leaves and the beginning of season two is her thinking that her child
has been kidnapped, and the husband realising that this lie he's been
perpetrating with his wife may get exposed.
Mr Night, Sir.
Question from Noel Clarke.
I feel like Fiona Bruce on Question Time.
Yes.
Mr Night, sir, I've actually watched the show.
Big fan, by the way, not a suck up.
LAUGHTER.
Are we going to find out more about the nanny's so-called parents,
no spoilers but you know what I'm going talking about?
Will we find out a bit more about that?
Yes, you will.
The second season you get a lot of wonderful answers
on the mythology, one of the positive things that happen
in this quarantine is I could just go in my library and work out
what was going to happen in the series and where
we were going to go to, so I laid out every episode,
all the way to the end of the finish of the show and what information
you are going to get, so it's a mystery and you get
to kind of tell those things so this second season your going
to kind of tell those things so this second season you're
going to get to know stuff.
Does a handsome, 40s English Blackman turn up
at the end of season two, beginning of season three?
You know what?
I'm getting an idea, I'm getting some ideas right now.
I could sense, I had a sixth sense as it were.
Oh very good.
He just lost it.
I ruined it.
Damn it.
Night, you have brought us a clip of season two of Servant,
what are we going to see?
This is from the opening of the second season,
so the very beginning of this moment when she realises, the wife realises
the wife realises that the child is gone and the nanny's gone
and then she does something which you'll watch and the husband's
reaction of realising that, everyone might find out he's
been duping his wife.
Here it is.
9780 Spruce Street.
It's an emergency, it's life-or-death.
He's gone.
So is Leanne.
Can you hear me?
They've taken Jericho.
Who did you call?
The police, who do you think?
Don't just stand there, do something.
APPLAUSE.
Ooh, good.
You are such an extraordinary storyteller, and you've made so many
films over the years, Daniel, you are a fan
of a particular one, I know.
Yeah, but I had no idea it was one of your movies.
Did you write Stuart Little?
Yeah, I did.
Amazing.
How did you not know that?
It's like finding out that Martin Scorsese did Tellytubbies.
How creepy is that mouse, how creepy is the mouse?
Oh, it's adorable.
I think at the centre of all my movies, there is a family
going through something extraordinary, and coming
out on the other side.
It fits into the oeuvre.
So it's fun for me to write and write about families
and in Stuart Little I got to do more comedy, which is something that
really I love to do.
I genuinely love it.
Me too.
Night, it's been a real pleasure, if it really is you.
Best of luck with Servant.
M Night Shyamalan, everyone!
APPLAUSE.
We turn to Daniel Sloss - and, Daniel, we're lucky
to have you here tonight, because it's rare this
happens to stand-ups, but I guess it's because of Netflix,
but you are properly international.
You play everywhere.
Yes.
My last show, X, came out just after my two
Netflix specials came out, and things went wild.
But it meant my last tour was about 18 months,
and we got to do places like Russia, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong,
Estonia, Iceland, America, Lithuania, places that I'd never
expected I'd get the chance to go and perform, and you go
there and it was insane.
I mean, I lost my mind.
Because you're not just doing it...
I think some comics go and they do it to five people
and it's for the experience.
You're doing this in proper, big venues.
Yeah, Russia was 3,000 seats in an old aircraft hangar,
and I go on tour with my best friend and fellow comedian Kai Humphries,
and we have toured together for years and years,
and there's so many places we've gone to where I'm about to get
the accolade first English-speaking comedian in that country,
but because he opens for me it's his accolade every time!
We get to Lithuania and they're like, you're going to be
the first English-speaking comedian in Lithuania.
I'm like, brilliant!
And Kai is like, no, you're not!
LAUGHTER.
But I am single-handedly responsible for global warming,
and I do have to apologise at this point.
At what point did the audience become cars?
Just during this pandemic, and also most Russians
are actually Transformers.
So, we must talk about one of your specials, Jigsaw,
which has led to this kind of extraordinary thing.
You would see it on stage, when you're on stage,
you could see it having an effect on your audience.
Yes, so the show is essentially a love letter to single people.
I think there is nothing wrong with being single.
We live in a society where we convince people that
if they are not in a relationship they are not enough,
and I don't think that's true.
So it was originally just meant to be talking about, you know,
the shitty relationships that people post about on Instagram,
where they're like, look at us, we're so happy!
And you're like, you are not happy.
I got so bored of that, and my dad had told me this
analogy when I was younger, and I started doing it on stage,
and we started noticing contention amongst couples in the audience.
And I started getting tweets a couple of days afterwards being,
I just broke up with my partner because of you, me and my boyfriend
of five years have just broken up, so I started keeping a tally,
because that's hysterical.
I had no idea it was going to have that impact.
And then it went on Netflix, and it's now, I think,
120,000 break-ups, 350 cancelled engagements and 300 divorces
that the show has caused.
APPLAUSE.
That's fantastic!
That's awful.
No, that's fantastic.
They weren't right for each other anyway.
I applaud you, man.
Yeah, breaking up...
If you sit down beside the love of your life, you're
not going to break up.
If you sit down beside the love of your life, you're going to watch
it and you're going to agree with it, because you're
in the right relationship, but what it does is,
for people in abusive relationships, bad relationships, relationships
where they are taken advantage of...
No, that's very good.
Delayed from me.
THEY SPEAK OVER EACH OTHER.
Not many people will go to your next show on a date, I'd have thought.
If you and your partner are having a rough time during lockdown,
I thoroughly recommend it.
I really do.
I won't be watching that.
Thanks though.
Daniel, I would be talking to you tonight about your new book,
Everyone You Hate Is Going To Die, but...
It's a positive book.
How is that not a positive message?
Great title.
Yeah, it's a crowd pleaser.
But it's been delayed, and it's not because of Covid, the delay, is it?
It was originally a Covidy delay because obviously it's
being released in America first and we want to combine it
with a book tour out there, but we also want to not die
while doing that, either via pandemic or general Americans.
And then I also decided to add a chapter about mental health,
because I lost my mind last year.
Because of the amount of work or because of corona?
Because of Covid, so I'd gone from 18 months
of constantly touring, every day getting my confidence
and my self-worth from a roomful of strangers, and it was just
suddenly me, and my girlfriend loves me,
but not as much as 3,000 Russians.
Every day, I was like, babe, you need to up this,
because I'm really missing this type of infection.
So I then had to do a lot of self-reflection, so I was like,
I'm going to add that in as well.
Good luck to you.
Daniel Sloss, everybody.
APPLAUSE.
Right, it's time for music.
This singer-songwriter shot to fame in 2012 with the hit
single Lightning Bolt, and he's here tonight
performing All I Need.
Please welcome Jake Bugg!
# Call me cynical but original
# Trying to fit into a world that's so digital
# Came to let you know, left the pigeonhole
# Now I got to find the next one, let it go
# I don't think twice
# Cos I know my mind
# This could be our time
# Tonight, it feels so right
# All I need
# It don't let me down
# All I need
# And it don't let me down
# It don't let me down
# Tell me where the fight is
# Tell me where the high is
# Can you hear me now?
# Tell me where the fight is
# Tell me where the high is
# Can you hear me now?
# I know who you are And I'm never wrong
# And I believe you're nothing if you think you are someone
# Just try and realise that you don't have to lie
# Everybody is trying to live just one day at a time
# I don't think twice
# Cos I know my mind
# This could be our time
# Tonight it feels so right
# All I need
# It don't let me down
# All I need
# And it don't let me down
# It don't let me down
# Tell me where the fight is
# Tell me where the high is
# Can you hear me now?
# Tell me where the fight is
# Tell me where the high is
# Can you hear me now?
# I don't think twice
# Cos I know my mind
# All I need
# It don't let me down
# All I need
# And it don't let me down
# It don't let me down
# Tell me where the fight is
# Tell me where the high is
# Can you hear me now?
# Tell me where the fight is
# Tell me where the high is
# Can you hear me now?#
Hooray.
APPLAUSE.
Jake Bugg and his band and his backing vocalists,
come on over, Jake, do.
There's a whiff of showbiz, there's some glitter in that jacket.
He's changed.
He's changed!
Have a seat.
There's a nice clean chair for you.
Thank you very much for that Jake Bugg, how are you?
Yeah, I'm good thanks, man, how are you?
I'm great.
I love your suit by the way.
Mm?
I love your suit.
Oh, thank you very much.
I like your glittery showbiz jacket.
And that is All I Need, that's the single.
That's the single.
Out now.
Out now, yes, that's right.
And that's off a mythical album.
Not so mythical.
Is it happening?
Yeah, it's my fifth record and I'm pretty much there with it,
just waiting for a good time to release it, and yeah,
hopefully by the end of the year.
Just waiting for a good time to release it.
Good luck with that.
Yeah, true, yeah.
And when do you think you might get back to live performances,
or are you not even thinking about that at the moment?
Yeah, it'd be nice towards the second half the year,
but I doubt if it's going to happen.
Mate, I know some car park gigs.
LAUGHTER.
I'm all right, thank you.
Yes, yes.
BEEP, BEEP, BEEP.
The emotional vortex of need has got so deep here.
Well, thank you very much for that performance.
Jake Bugg, everybody.
APPLAUSE.
Right, that's nearly it but before we go,
just time for a visit to the Big Red Chair.
Once again, our audience are watching from home,
so do we have a volunteer to sit in the chair for them?
I'll do it.
No.
Stop.
Fine.
Are you going, Daniel?
Go on Daniel.
There we go.
It'll still be there, I promise we won't nick it.
There he goes.
So while Daniel is getting settled let's meet the first person who's up
for the virtual red chair.
Hello.
Hello, good evening, Graham, good evening everybody.
What's your name, sir?
I'm Annersley.
Annersley, and where are you?
I'm in Pinner, in Middlesex.
Marvellous.
And what do you do in Pinner?
I'm a political communications consultant.
Well, now.
Who knew?
I know, tempting.
No, let's wait.
Let's wait.
Let's see if Daniel Sloss is ready in the chair.
There he is, look at him.
Oh, he's keen.
He's keen.
OK, so you are going to tell a story that will prevent Daniel Sloss
from being tipped in the chair.
Off you go.
So during the first lockdown I was tearing my hair out
trying to find a cleaner because nobody was available.
LAUGHTER.
Yeah, I mean, was the expression tone deaf invented for this?
LAUGHTER.
Sorry Daniel.
But I'm sure you'll agree.
100%.
I was almost certain it was just me throwing myself
back there, in disgust.
OK, let's try another one.
We're just looking into it.
My wine.
Would you like some?
Whoa!
LAUGHTER.
Good game, good game.
Oh, we're good to go.
Hello.
What's your name.
My name is Judith Scott.
Lovely.
Are you very far away Judith Scott.
I'm in Brisbane Australia today.
Today!
Yeah, I'll just let you tell your story because the chatty thing
seems quite difficult.
Tell your story.
OK, well I was on holiday, as a newly wed, with my husband,
in Canada, and we were staying with our in-laws.
After a day out,
we went to an ice-cream shop, to get some ice-creams.
I went to the loo, when I came back out, saw that my husband was bent
over looking at some ice-cream pizzas, he had shorts on and I had
got into the habit of whenever he's got shorts on I would run my hand
up his inside short leg and grab and tug whatever I could find.
So I crept over and ran my fingers up his legs, and pulled
some pubic hair out.
An almighty roar came out of the owner, as I realised
it was my father-in-law's leg, not my husband's, he turned round,
holding his groin, with a...
Good story.
..with a well big mouth and absolutely shocked.
I think you can walk, you can walk, that was a good story.
Yes.
Thank you.
Very good.
Well done.
That is all we've got time for.
If you'd like to have a go in the red chair yourself
and tell your story, you can contact us via our
website at this address.
Please say a huge thank-you to all my guests tonight -
Jake Bugg, everybody!
APPLAUSE.
M Night Shyamalan, Daniel Sloss.
APPLAUSE.
Ant Middleton and Rebel Wilson.
APPLAUSE.
Noel Clarke and Keeley Hawes.
APPLAUSE.
Join me next week with Celeste, James Norton, Camille Cottin,
Ian Wright, Neil Patrick Harris and Carey Mulligan.
I'll see you then.
Goodnight!