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| TV,
Richard Young,
20 January 1999 |
Rating: F2
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We are a lucky lot, when you think about it. Channel Four have provided us with top quality comedy shows - Friends, Frasier, even Spaced managed to find itself a respectable slot in the Friday night line up. Falling somewhere between these shows and the travesty which is the 11 o'clock show, is So Graham Norton, the new series of which began last week.
Mr. Norton's super camp chat show persona is watchable, if a little self obsessed, while the audience participation is one of those obvious devices which makes you both laugh and realise the futility of the human race. A rare treat for those of us who remember the art of running in slow motion as a youngster, is in the form of special guest Lee Majors, who appears to have hardly aged at all. Within five minutes, you get the feeling he wished he never stepped on stage, as Graham makes him watch a quick-time movie of a singing penis.
As if that wasn't enough humiliation for Mr. Six Million Dollars, he joins Graham and the somewhat eccentric Liz Smith (Nanna from BBC's The Royle Family), rummaging through some poor sod's unclaimed luggage. So Graham Norton is only really worth watching if you forget to turn off the T.V. after Frasier, but it beats most chat shows hands down for it's sheer cringe factor.
Channel 4 Fri 22.30 GMT
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