# Dear Graham Norton **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 5, 2002, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-graham-norton/140813 "2002-12-05T23:53:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tir\_Tinuviel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-graham-norton/140813/21 "2002-12-06T11:44:03Z")
urg, Norton just makes me cringe. And now we got Patrick “lookie, I’m Irish, I got spikey hair, I wanna be just like Norton” Wosisname. **GO AWAY!** ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Bee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Larry\_Bee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Bee)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-graham-norton/140813/22 "2002-12-06T11:52:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yojimbo \* > \*\* > \*Just listened to an hour of Dermot Morgan’s Irish political comedy on the radio. Genius. \*\* I think there is a 4 CD set of Scrap Saturday being relieased soon.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Pergau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7c8e57/32.png) [@Pergau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pergau)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-graham-norton/140813/23 "2002-12-06T13:33:34Z")
I agree with the Dublin Dopers but can I do my line about Julian Clary? ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-graham-norton/140813/24 "2002-12-06T13:35:29Z")
Does it involve the phrase “Daz doorstep challenge”? ---
**Author:** ![Pergau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7c8e57/32.png) [@Pergau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pergau)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-graham-norton/140813/25 "2002-12-06T13:35:39Z")
I’ll take the silence as assent. Rory Bremner once described Julian Clary as the master of the single entendre. It sort of applies to Graham Norton. ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-graham-norton/140813/26 "2002-12-06T13:36:23Z")
yeah, the daily format sucks. he was hilarious in the weekly format ( and i only really watch the last 5 minutes to see what the audience bring in) billy rubin, gillian anderson grew up in london, she reverts to her childhood accent when she is in the country. it’s a real phenomenon, not a “fake accent”. my mother is from zimbabwe, i speak with a strong zim accent at home, a northern irish accent with my friends in my home town, and a neutral irish accent at college in dublin. ---
**Author:** ![Pergau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7c8e57/32.png) [@Pergau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pergau)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-graham-norton/140813/27 "2002-12-06T13:38:15Z")
Dam, I should have previewed. No Twisty, but I always expected him to hold up a pair of y-fronts in the ad and see if they met the challenge. ---
**Author:** ![apotheosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@apotheosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apotheosis)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-graham-norton/140813/28 "2002-12-06T13:40:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jjimm \* > \*\*Can’t be bothered to watch his program anymore, though. \*\* Can’t be arsed? [dumb yank]is that right? still trying to get the hang of that ‘arsed’ word…[/dumb yank] ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-graham-norton/140813/29 "2002-12-09T12:18:04Z")
**apotheosis** , _squak_ That’s the way to di it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-graham-norton/140813/30 "2002-12-09T12:22:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mangetout \* > \*\*Graham Norton is merely one of the latest in a long tradition of clowns exploiting an often OTT masque of homosexual stereotypes for comic effect. > > It varies from hilariously funny to dreadful and embarassing depending on the material, context and audience. > > See also John Inman, Larry Grayson, Julian Clary, Kenny Everett, Kenneth Williams. \*\* **DALE WINTON**!!! How could you leave him out?! > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Billy Rubin_\* > **Then there was the one with Gerard Depardieu, that huge ugly frog** LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL!!! Has there ever before been anything quite so **APT**?!! ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-graham-norton/140813/31 "2002-12-09T12:40:22Z")
John Inman, Larry Grayson, Julian Clary, Kenny Everett, Kenneth Williams, and, yes, Graham Norton are funny. Some are funny in smaller doses than others. Dale Winton is not funny. Dale Winton is just embarrassing. YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-graham-norton/140813/32 "2002-12-09T12:47:34Z")
and dale winton is allegedly straight… i mean, he alleges it. what with the wife and kids and all… but the camp humour, dayglo orange tan and supermarket sweep say otherwise… ---
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-graham-norton/140813/33 "2002-12-09T13:22:07Z")
Dale Winton is _NOT_ gay?!!! ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-graham-norton/140813/34 "2002-12-09T13:55:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by istara \* > \*\*Dale Winton is _NOT_ gay?!!! \*\* Much to everybody’s “astonishment” he [came out in his autobiog](http://uk.gay.com/headlines/29) :rolleyes:. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-graham-norton/140813/35 "2002-12-09T14:06:13Z")
Dale Winton released an autobiography? What on earth was there to tell? ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-graham-norton/140813/36 "2002-12-09T14:29:22Z")
I don’t s’pose there’s much text in it - just popup pictures, pages for you to colour in, and a free set of orange crayons. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-graham-norton/140813/37 "2002-12-09T14:33:34Z")
So next time you’re in ther supermarket, and you hear the beep, Think of how many makeup ladies are employed by Supermarket Sweep. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-graham-norton/140813.md?page=1)