The Graham Norton Show Is Back: Graham Forgets His Guests' Names...
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Wanging On with Graham Norton and Maria McErlane
41 min
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8 chapters
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What’s new with Graham Norton’s chat show comeback in 2026?
A lot of times, the celebrities are glad to meet kind of unexpected people, people they would never have met. Because, let's face it, June Brown was probably never going to go to a Lady Gaga concert, and certainly not pay extra for meet and greet. Sometimes, I'll be like, I see them coming, and I'm like, who, who the are you? Who are you? I had a convertible for a brief moment, and I would constantly forget that the roof was down, and you'd be doing all your, and then you're, oh, actually, everyone would hear me. Hello, hello, hello. It is time for your weekly appointment with me, Graham Norton, and my trusty pal, Marie McCurlin. And it's Wanging On. It's an advice podcast in the loosest sense of that term.
Why do Graham and Maria love watching Gogglebox and Bluey together?
How are you?
I'm good. I'm ready to wang this
morning.
How should you handle discovering a friend’s partner has a secret porn‑star past?
Are you?
Yeah, yeah.
You're in the right spot, baby.
I'm in wang
mode. Uh-oh. Look out.
I set that on my computer. Wang mode activated.
Email's a go-go. And another thing. That's right. Have I told you?
Now, I'm quite excited by the fact that your chat shows. It feels like it's been away forever.
Is it okay to confront a friend about a “hot Italian” weekend plan?
It's been away for half the year, which is what we do. We're on for half. And what I find so strange, because next year, no, next year? The year after. We started in 98, so 28 will be 30 years. 1898. 1898. Before television,
you were sitting in that studio thinking, when are they going to invent
television? I was going to make a joke about who the guest might be, and then I thought I have no idea who was alive. Charlie Chaplin. Who was alive in 1898.
Do you really swear in the car, and why does it matter?
Charlie Chaplin. Was he?
I don't know. He wasn't famous in 1898. 1898.
Oh,
no. No, thank you very much. He'd have been a bad booking in 1898.
Jack the Ripper.
Yes, very good. Come on, Jack. Tell us how you did it. Was it you? Oh, come on. Just between us now, Jack. Come on. Yeah. There are no cameras.
Can we really only think of one person
from 1898? Jack the Ripper is the only celebrity booking in 1898. Oh, surely Charles Dickens was knocking around, or is he dead by
then?
What advice do listeners give for dealing with a cancelled visit from a close friend?
No, he's 16. Oh, no, he, no, Charles Dickens, I think. All right, I'm trying to think of a...
I think
he
might have been dead.
What about a woman from the music hall? There must have
been... Mary
Lloyd? Mary Lloyd! No, I think she's at 1900s, isn't she?
I don't know. Again, she might have been a bad booking. I might have heard the up-and-coming Mary Lloyd. And now a little songbird here. You haven't heard of her. You've never seen her. Florence Nightingale? No. Well, maybe.
Crimea War?
Crimean
River. So now let me ask you something. As your star has risen up the stratosphere and as you went to T.S.' 's wedding, all those months, I know, whatever, where like every celebrity in the world was there, most of them have been on your show, but there must have been a few there that weren't. Did you go around going, yeah? Here's my card. Do you want to come on my show? No, I did
not do that. Why not? One big star who's never been on the show, but I can't tell you who it was. Because I have to tell you that they were at the wedding. And I don't think I've seen their name anywhere. Okay. So I'm not sure people know they were at the wedding. But he, I'll give you that, he came up and said, oh, I've been meaning to come on your show, da-da-da-da-da. I
say
that, I was quite drunk. And I know he said something about the show. So he might have said, I'm never coming on your fucking show. But my drunk brain went, he's
talking
to
me.
Now I'm
obviously desperate to know who it
is. And then I got sick of my mouth and had to walk off. And then did you go like that to
him?
You've got a bit of carrot in your face there.
So this year's stars on your show then, are we expecting a kind of, even though you get big stars on, are we expecting more of the same?
Because
everyone seems to love coming to Britain at the moment. All the Americans.
And also because a lot of things are filmed here now. Because even at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Helen Hunt, famous Oscar winner and American actress, she's rocked up. It's a bit like when you see Americans at Edinburgh, you kind of think... Do you know what, have you ever been to Stratford before?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What’s new with Graham Norton’s chat show comeback in 2026?
0:00–0:43
2
Why do Graham and Maria love watching Gogglebox and Bluey together?
0:43–0:46
3
How should you handle discovering a friend’s partner has a secret porn‑star past?
0:46–1:10
4
Is it okay to confront a friend about a “hot Italian” weekend plan?
1:10–1:38
5
Do you really swear in the car, and why does it matter?
1:38–2:11
6
What advice do listeners give for dealing with a cancelled visit from a close friend?
2:11–4:32
7
How can you turn loneliness in a foreign country into a positive experience?
4:32–9:41
8
Why do the hosts think using profanity in the car is not weird?
9:41–41:50