The Best of So Graham Norton

Part talk-show host part comedian and all-out extrovert the very Irish and very gay Graham Norton is one of the few people who deserves all the adjectives that are thrown at him: "bawdy" "saucy" "outrageous" and "hilarious" are a few of them. His BBC talk show So Graham Norton is something that you just couldn't find in America: a rampant exercise in audience titillation that wallows gloriously in bizarre human behavior. It's like an audience-interactive NC-17 Saturday Night Live with occasional breaks for celebrity chit-chat. If you ever wanted to see Gillian Anderson Cher Sophia Loren or Dolly Parton break the talk-show mold with bawdy sex talk then your dreams have come true. And Norton's cringe-inducing yet compulsively watchable audience polls which ask common folk to relate embarrassing adult-oriented tales reveal a European openness (and sense of humor) that just wouldn't fly in the U.S.