Graham Norton - Live At The Roundhouse

Starring: Graham Norton Original UK Premiere: 2001 Dvd Release: 19th November, 2001 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Graham Norton is a celebrity personality best known for his evening television chat shows in the United Kingdom. He is the openly gay host of chat shows including So Graham Norton, V Graham Norton & The Graham Norton Effect. His shows are devoted to interviews of celebrities & raunchy conversations ensue. Everyone stand up. Now sit down if youve never had a sexual experience with an animal. He often phones authors of eccentric websites live on the show; often when they are fans of his guest. However, the addresses of the sites are no longer given out, as some of the owners have received hate mail & abuse in the past. In 2003, he caused a national outcry among the more sensitive area of the media when, on his British show on Channel 4, he made a comedic reference to the recent death of Bee Gees singer Maurice Gibb. one in the form of a caption slide before the show, another from Graham in person. Also in 2003, he was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest people in British comedy.

Although Graham Norton does warn of impending rudery at the start of Live at the Roundhouse, he never really plunges into the murky world of blue comedy. In fact, much of Nortons stand-up is cheeringly similar to his routine on the Channel 4 series The Graham Norton Show. He chats with audience members with a cutting yet strangely inoffensive manner. Hes deliciously insincere, shallow & vain, about himself & the world at large . And hes best when hes riffing off the top of his head like a Variety Gala Eddie Izzard. The pre-prepared routines dont quite have the charm & sparkle of the Norton we know & love for sheer spontaneity, but theres still lots to cherish; the difference between gay & straight lager, clothing crises & extracts from a diary hed written at sixteen are particularly hilarious. Best of all is the atmosphere that Norton generates at the Roundhouse, which transfers perfectly onto the small screen. Waves of hilarity ripple through the crowd, especially when he gets out Kittyphone to call a personal ad with everyone happy to be in on the joke.

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