Graydon Carter

Well, it was a major success because it began a whole... It became enormous, yes.

I mean, we had got everybody at a certain point, but I remember one year I was trying to have interesting, unexpected guests or groups of guests.

So one year I decided to invite all the men who had played James Bond up to that point.

But Sean Connery was playing golf in the Caribbean and Roger Moore was in the south of France and didn't want to leave.

Anyway, Timothy Dalton was doing something.

We wind up with George Lazenby.

who your older listeners will recognize as a sort of ruggedly good-looking Australian actor who was in this sort of forgotten Bond film.

Yes, it is.

Under Her Majesty's Secret Service.

And so that's the Bond we get there.

I realize there's going to be no photo shoot, but during the party, I was sort of... That was your one Bond.

Yeah, that nobody knew who he was.

Okay.

Anyway, he's very nice looking.

So I see him over by the bar and I was making my rounds and I go over to him and I tap him on the shoulder and say, excuse me, Mr. Lazy Me.

I just want to introduce myself.

I'm Graydon Carter.

I'm your host.

And he kept looking straight ahead with his drink and he just turned to me and went, fuck off.

So that didn't work out too well.