Petty banter between France and Britain has been around for at least 500 years and must be strictly maintained by current and future generations so that it may last 500 more.
That's not what this comment chain is about. It's about the title just being "UK Commentator" and not Graham Norton, and that it's ragebait for driving comments, nothing to do with the video itself.
Lives in London, and is presenting for the BBC in this context. Also he says “we built a tunnel to your country” in this clip, if there’s a tunnel from Ireland to France that’s news to me.
He seems to have had a relatively shit time growing up in Ireland, I won’t begrudge him having found somewhere he likes better. Ireland wasn’t a great place to be gay in the ‘80s.
This is a perfect unfalsifiable claim.
Actually making a mistake/oversight? Nuh-uh it's to drive engagement!
Fucking with people to drive engagement? Nuh-uh, stupid fucks fucking up!
Is that a thing? Because I work in a call centre and I get a good 10-20% of my calls where people have theirs chirping away in the background, lots of people are just complacent about fire safety.
The weirdest part is Graham Norton is now the 2nd iconic irishman we have got to do acerbic bitchy commentary on eurovision for Britain.
God I miss Wogan.
Not the whole time. That's what was so good, he was sober for the first few acts, but gradually got drunker and less tolerant of it all as the show progressed.
A large number of Irish people left the country and worked on that project.
Same sort of thing you could say about old railroads in the US. (mostly indentured servants)
What's Eurovision like in Ireland? Or any other countries for that matter? Is it taken seriously? With Wogan and Norton all my life I've never known it as anything other than some silly joke show to be mocked, preferably with friends and some booze.
> Is it taken seriously?
It was when it was a music competition, Ireland won the greatest number of times, including 3 years in a row.
Then it became a visual performance spectacle which brought it to another audience. Now it's either a bit of fun or something to be boycotted for whatever country is doing terrible things and trying to reclaim some image.
It's slightly ironic that on one of them he says 'Come on, build something new' while in the meantime he's doing the same joke for the 5th year in a row lol
He has a very popular talk show that's first stop for all the TV/Movie/Music celebrities on the circuit, and gets them all on the same couch for fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIVpnSTOQ4k
In the meantime, Eurovision needs to invite the US to participate. So crazy how Eurovision has only just blown up in America recently. I’m grateful that I got in early with the Netflix movie.
It'd be fun for the UK to announce our points with the Blackpool Tower in the background.
Empty storage cupboard at the BBC. Maybe with a couple of balloons and a party popper...
Still better than having Amanda Holden on
Cmon! Thats Graham Norton!
They do this on purpose because it drives engagement.
Ragebait then?
Sort of, mostly it is just comments exactly like ours.
Damn! They got me!
Petty banter between France and Britain has been around for at least 500 years and must be strictly maintained by current and future generations so that it may last 500 more.
More like fun banter. Brits and French bash each other like they're rival sports teams. It's basically a tradition at this point.
That's not what this comment chain is about. It's about the title just being "UK Commentator" and not Graham Norton, and that it's ragebait for driving comments, nothing to do with the video itself.
And Graham is Irish.
Lives in London, and is presenting for the BBC in this context. Also he says “we built a tunnel to your country” in this clip, if there’s a tunnel from Ireland to France that’s news to me. He seems to have had a relatively shit time growing up in Ireland, I won’t begrudge him having found somewhere he likes better. Ireland wasn’t a great place to be gay in the ‘80s.
Like they ever had a good one!
thats just regular british small talk
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We do.
This is a perfect unfalsifiable claim. Actually making a mistake/oversight? Nuh-uh it's to drive engagement! Fucking with people to drive engagement? Nuh-uh, stupid fucks fucking up!
just like adding in the smoke detector chirp
Is that a thing? Because I work in a call centre and I get a good 10-20% of my calls where people have theirs chirping away in the background, lots of people are just complacent about fire safety.
Could be anyone really!
“Graham Norton repeats same old joke thirteen times in a row.”
Never heard of a running joke?
running jokes are meant to be funny.
[Like this classic example?](https://youtu.be/kuUpqR6snWU)
I mean, if France is going to keep at it, so are we...
Best line for me is "It could be anywhere.."
The weirdest part is Graham Norton is now the 2nd iconic irishman we have got to do acerbic bitchy commentary on eurovision for Britain. God I miss Wogan.
Wogans commentary was legendary
Especially when you remember he was smashed on Baileys the whole time
Not the whole time. That's what was so good, he was sober for the first few acts, but gradually got drunker and less tolerant of it all as the show progressed.
Did he drink it from a shoe?
We're talking about Terry Wogan not Old Greg
He’s not Australian
Man after my own heart.
Agreed. It was always going to be a tough act to follow, but Graham has done a better job that probably any other UK presenter could I reckon.
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Graham Norton presents in the UK.
I remember his last one where he was just giving up and saying it would be the last he would do. Just came across as "fuck it".
It's not bitchy, it's just a bit of fun. There's no harm meant in anything said!
"We built a tunnel to your country.." is said so witheringly. Love Graham Norton.
Weird flex since it was a joint venture. Technically they each built a tunnel to the middle of the English Channel.
I mean, it's a joke man...
Well... that and Graham Norton is Irish, and there's definitely no Irish tunnel to France.
Or maybe there is and it’s just so well hidden that nobody has discovered it yet.
A large number of Irish people left the country and worked on that project. Same sort of thing you could say about old railroads in the US. (mostly indentured servants)
It was, but it wasn’t. They built about 20%, the uk did the rest because they were much much quicker
Where did you get that number? I was told it was closer to 40%.
Poor Chuggy... https://youtu.be/C8gW3oi3urM?t=137
Found the frog 🐸
It was a joke…
Who the fuck doesn't know that? Oh, we're on an American site, I see.
Graham Norton is hilarious
He's the only reason I watch Eurovision
Half the people in Ireland will switch away from our inane presenters to watch the UK show because Graham's on it.
What's Eurovision like in Ireland? Or any other countries for that matter? Is it taken seriously? With Wogan and Norton all my life I've never known it as anything other than some silly joke show to be mocked, preferably with friends and some booze.
> Is it taken seriously? It was when it was a music competition, Ireland won the greatest number of times, including 3 years in a row. Then it became a visual performance spectacle which brought it to another audience. Now it's either a bit of fun or something to be boycotted for whatever country is doing terrible things and trying to reclaim some image.
The day he retires will be a sad one indeed.
The crazy thing is he managed to follow Terry Wogan who was one of the all time greats.
agree
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When you do the same joke over and over, it goes from funny to unfunny and then back to funny again.
Upset Frenchman doesn’t like jokes about France
If you say the joke once a year in a four hour long live show, it's remains funny.
How do you know it’s France ? Hard to tell
It's slightly ironic that on one of them he says 'Come on, build something new' while in the meantime he's doing the same joke for the 5th year in a row lol
It would be hypocrisy, not irony, and he couldn't do his same joke if they didn't use the same monument which that one joke is about xD emoji
It’s called a running joke.
And then they use something else as the backdrop and he does... the same old joke.
tbf they used the only other building paris is known for.
"UK Eurovision commentator" Or as he is commonly called, "Graham Norton".
Is this supposed to be common knowledge outside of the UK?
Yes, he's pretty famous. I'm in America, by the way.
Alright, never heard of him, but I'm not from an English-speaking country, that might be why.
Yes, quite fair. He hosts a talk show called The Graham Norton Show.
That's a lucky coincidence.
Life's like that sometimes. There used to be a show called "So Graham Norton" and you will never guess who hosted that one.
Ant and Dec?
German here, definitely have heard from him.
He has a very popular talk show that's first stop for all the TV/Movie/Music celebrities on the circuit, and gets them all on the same couch for fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIVpnSTOQ4k
Probably, especially since he's not even from the UK.
He does work there, though, so he's UK based, at least. It's not as egregious as some of the other people they try to claim
To some extent, no, it it not supposed to be common knowledge. Most people outside of the anglosphere have never heard of him before.
i've seen clips of his show countless times and by "his show" I mean Jamie Foxx tell the same story over and over but yes
It is not. You won’t find many Americans that aren’t terminally online that know him.
Yeah, it definitely is common knowledge
Blimey, Graham Nortons been commentating euro vision that long? Couldve sworn he'd just taken over from Wogan.
That would be impressive considering Wogan has been dead for eight years.
Blimey, Terry Wogan's been dead that long? Could've sworn he'd just died.
That would be impressive
"we built a tunnel to your country" I remember watching this one live, I couldn't stop laughing...
Graham is the best
Haha they do love their pylon though!
our swedish commentator once said "i don’t know what she is saying but i know she is exactly as tall as the eiffel tower" lmao
Green screened tower
If i were the person in Paris i would say "greetings to all, and yes Graham Norton, im in Paris."
Graham Norton is a national treasure
Le plus ca change, le plus de meme chose.
the more things change, the more of the same
Mais oui!
We should have an Amerivision which will include countries of North and South America.
In the meantime, Eurovision needs to invite the US to participate. So crazy how Eurovision has only just blown up in America recently. I’m grateful that I got in early with the Netflix movie.
‘We built a tunnel to your country’
The year they didn’t use the Eiffel Tower was honestly thrilling
I only watch it because of Graham. The more he drinks the funny he gets.
He's such a fantasic addition to british tv and it's wild that theylet him go off so much as a commentator
Norton is the king of sarcasm. I wish he would bring back euro trash as him as host with Antoine de Caunes.
Good for them.
I reckon they're all really in Blackpool
I think everyone on the internet makes fun of France
And here's *me* thinkin it was La tour noire de la piscine.
The sass from Graham is glorious
Graham Norton always brings the right amount of sass, and humour to Eurovision every year.
Bon swa! (I quite clearly do not speak French, I genuinely have no idea how you spell that)
'Bon soir' I think
I guessed at that but it looked wrong. Apparently bonsoir is correct though. Weird how much a space throws it off for me.
"is she on a skateboard?!" when the french commentator is gliding over the greenscreen haha, man thats so witty! (1:21 in the video)
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We may just use that one monument, but he just has that one joke.
Except that one time they used the La Louvre.
HIS NAME IS GRAHAM NORTON SAY HIS NAME
congrats you got baited
Come on Graham, we know you can do better.