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No, I'm talking about Saturday night live . No, listen, yeah, I'm so pleased it's gone so well. It has been the people were negative about it. What is wrong with us ? That's the question . Brighton if you've got the answer. No. What' wrsong with the Brits where we cannot want something to succeed? Yeah. 'Cause you get people moaning and I'm sure I'm included in that. Oh, you get the same old faces on the term. Get some fresh blood. And then you get fresh blood. I don't know who they are. Well, just enjoy it and watch some bloody good comedy. I had this the other day. Someone left me a message on my Instagram, I've never even heard of you. I clicked on the press. Sorry about that, I've been drinking. I clicked on their profile. They follow me. I'm like, you have you do follow me, like, it's just like, but I'm loving it. And it's like, it feels like comedy is having a bit of a renaissance. It feels like can I say live as well, live ? That is terrifying. But you know what I thought ? I thought it has slight I think because people were like, We've never done SNL here before. It's never worked. I think Friday Night Project going back in the day. I think that was a bit SNLI. Well, I think we'd make the idea. Well, live, you know, my favorite bit of live TV where live TV goes wrong. Yeah, is Joan Rivers on Luz Winner. Where she goes. Russell Crow is get ready to bleed this a fucking shit and then run and she got thrown off loose women. But what about Linda Robson pushing the thing out? Oh, I know. Yeah. Oh well, I got to do this shit shit . It was lad. She said that every show . And you know what? My worst live doing crafts with Claire Baldin Five Minute segment on how to groom a dog. The dog ran off ?ion Act . Claire, get on your knees. Let me turn that fringe . You'd be there our shampoo, Claire Balding . Right, listen, we haven't even had a drink yet. We usually start with a welcome drink, but we've got this is a special episode because for those who haven't seen it before, why? But also we invite wine experts on and sometimes as well celebrity guests. Well today , we're merging the two. Oh, we're killing two birds with I can see him off camera going . No , I think he's grimacing . No, he is an actual national treasure because people say that about everyone these days an actual what an introduction People say that about everyone. Yeah, but I'm saying he . Oh God he is. He is. Yeah, he's a national treasure. He's an author, presenter, chat, show host, comedian , but he's also an aficionado about wine. He own wine. Can you believe it? And we're about to try it. Please make some noise for one, the only Graham Nota . Thank you very much. I do bring wine. I do bring wine wine. Yes. Wine with your half. Thank you so much wine with your face on it. It is embarrassing that my face is on it, but there you go. Was it embarrassing the first time you saw it or was it like, oh my gosh. No because, like we didn't even do like because it's New Zealand and it's a bit of a cottage industry . Like we didn't even vit a photo shoot or anything. I think that's just someone on their phone going I think Well, I'm on every bottle of wine . Have you seen me? No, you know, when he says pregnant women shouldn't drink . It's my silhouette . He's having quads . Well, listen, let's pour this out. Now, this is your favorite isn't it? I love Southern Bronc. This is an unusual one because we do two Southern Bronx. We do New Zealand Southern Bronc, which is absolutely traditional . And then we discovered this when there was a bad harvest one year and we couldn't meet demand. We thought we weren't learning all of it. It was a Soviet Blanc , you know, drought . So they went to South Africa and got this. So this is Western Cape Soviet Blanc. So it's slightly different. I do like South African World too. Yeah, yeah. Because you actually said in an interview as well, you forget grapes are a crop. And it's so flimsy. Bad weather, bad snow. It's crazy like I 've been doing this for , I don't know, like over ten years now, and of course never been to New Zealand because it's very far away . They send the wine here. Oh , so I didn't really feel the need . But I did eventually go. All the dogs died, so we thought, oh now it's a good time to go to Australia and New Zealand because it's far away. And I sat in Marlborough having this lunch outside, drinking my own New York, which I've had so much of, but oh, it hit differently. We've said that though. Doesn't it taste different and different like I'm the same with South African wines. Like when I've been in Captain, you'll have a wine that's so delicious . And then you come back and you find it here it's like not quite the same . Talking of what we would just tal aboutking life because it's a heavy pore for a while. Little place . Normally it shot for me. That's a shot. Normally, just a little just a little bit of a little breeze. Just give it some air. Bumbs up. Both , I totally forgot I was wine tasting. I just thought we were having a drink, but we're having a drink. And you've just reminded me and we were just talking about live TV. And that is one of also in my top favorites when Allison Hammond says to you Oh I must ask you Greya how are the dogs? And you go dead Allison, think about the last time you saw me . Now this is what you actually have on your chat show. So this is reminding me of being on your chat. Yes, you can have this. Or actually you know next time you're on, you can ask like people ask for what they want to drink . You know, if I didn't know it was yours. I genuinely said, Wow, this is delicious. I mean, it could have gone very wrong it was so delicious. The other thing we have on our show is so many celebrities now have their own tequilas. Yes, yes. Yeah. Like sometimes we'll have more than one person on the couch with their own tequila. Do you like tequila? Do you want? I've grown to like it. Yes, because I think tequila was made so badly back in the day that everyone 'd get a bad rap, but now it's made so well. I really like it. Is it or is I think there's a weird thing about booze where marketing and I don't know how it does this. Marketing can change your taste buds. Like when I came to London first, all we drank were those big Australian chardonnays , you know, the big kind of buttery chardonnays. Yes. And then you see when Saudi Blanc came along and we decided no, no, we hate Big Boston Chardonnest now. We like ABC, anything but Chardonnay. Yeah. And like the same with gin. Like we all drank vodka and then someone decreed, no, you like gin now. Yeah. And we all went the Palomas all of a sudden all the gays we have an orange ring Paloma. Yeah. That just comes out of nowhere. Apparently Spritz I mean it was always popular in Italy, but we didn't have it. Yeah . I remember on chatty Man you used to give, I mean the shit I mean complete opposite you, the complete shittest drink was mostly Madori. Oh it was black and I remember having the black eyed peas on and will I am God emotional about Michael Jackson dying and said to the King of Pop, it was a glass of lamborni . I was like, oh shit. We are going to talk about you, why but I wanted to ask you, so I do a regular night at Brighton Commedia Comedy Club . Well, when you go in the green room , there are posters. There's a Shanlock poster back in there. And there is a poster of Graham Norton and his amazing hostess Trolley, I want to say. Yes. And I think people a lot of forget that you started in stand up . I did. I mean, that was back when I had to do shows for Edinburgh and where you have to pick the title months in advance. So I picked Graham Mortis amazing hostess trolley. And then I thought I would get a hostess trolley and bring it to the Edward Festival. And then as the date cooked a log of hostess trolley all the way to Emperor. Did you ever gig with prop comedians? I used to see prop comedians and think why. Jim Tabaret was to be Jim Tabare with a double bass. Oh, what? Giraffe. I know. And he was so funny. He was so funny . You don't need that. No. Yeah. It's like drag queens. You know you're in the bar and kind of someone comes in with like ten bit s drag queens here. Yeah . I remember one act they sang a Britney hit me one more time with like this massive chicken and then it was for the gong show. He got gonged off, but they invited the chicken back for next week . But you have you just become the patron of Edinburgh Festival? Is that right? Someone's doing research around here and it's not I don't know that one of us happens . I've got an earpiece. There's someone outside. Where he seems to why ? His name is Grey. Grey and you've met him before . So you just became the patron of Edinburgh Festival. I'm ambassador. And basically that happened because when I was starting out, that was where I started out with Edinburgh Festival. I did it for I don't know eight years in a row . And then when I got out of dodge, when I know I was nominated for a period, which is what it was called back in the day. And I just thought God, I will never do better than this . So I must never return . And then by then I was getting little bits of radio work and a little bit of telework. And so I just never went back. I never went back. And then about ten years ago, a friend of mine was doing a show up there and I went up for the weekend to see him and I thought I'll see some other shows. And I just fell in love with it. Yeah, yeah. Like as a punter, it's so great . Because I always associate it with kind of like a and then the money at the end and getting the bill. Yeah, I know. Getting bill. You can't make money in Edward. No, no, no , I'll claim they do. And then no way. The last one where I did well. I mean, I sold out every night and did two extra. I still lost three grand . Three grand. How'd you do that? But then 'cause I see you on Instagram and you go to some rogue shit up there.. Oh yeah That's the you don't go to the big hitters. You go because I follow you on Instagram and you're like La and I wow you have a deep dive into we do we do like we are we are quite organized. We get the program me and he goes through it, and I go through and then we see what can we see in the three or four days when we're there. But I think the joy about it is you book all those tickets and then actually if you're having a lovely lunch and you kind of think, Oh, cabiar. Yeah, you know, someone, you know, juggling dead dogs or something. As the ambassador, good to hear that. I'm having a lovely lunch. Fuck you The ambassador of the Friday for the tent . I'm having my lunch in Edinburgh . What more do you walk from me? I was very near those shows . Kim I don't know the bowser. I walked bars . Yeah Yeah, I heard it was good. The starter was delicious. Graham Norton . Did you ever go back not as a punter? Would you go weirdly this year myself and my good friend Maria? Because we also have a podc.ast I was gonna talk about that winding up. Everyone has a podcast. We're doing a live show. Well, actually , me and Lee have booked tickets, but we've also booked a lovely lunch So we might be there with Can I just say that reflects on the lunch more than my show We'll be there with bells on her. Wang on with Brayman Maria? Yes. And so is this a premise , is this a premise from a radio two show you did together Girl Graham? I mean, basically years ago, I was kind of the agony uncle for the Saturday Telegraph. It seems unlikely now but I will God . And so and I love doing it. I love doing it. And then when I got the gig on radio two, I thought, oh, there's a way to do that. And I thought make it a bit more radio. I'll get someone else in to read the letters. And Maria has got a fabulous voice. You know, she was the voice over for your trash. Oh my god, her trash. Yeah. Yeah, she was the voice over that. And so she reads the letters, then we discuss it in a kind of brutal way. And then they don't go back. And then people , you know, they would text in. And so we did there for ten years. Virgin for three , I stopped Virgin and then Maria kept going, Oh, people keep asking me how we're going to do a podcast. I was like, no one wants a podcast But eventually I'm all right, we'll do it. And if no one listens to it, we'll stop immediately. And it turns out she was right . The people weren't lying to her. So deep, it seems quite a popular. Yeah. I mean, as you're sitting in an empty theater at Edinburgh , no . It turns out it wasn't that bad Really? We'll see, we'll see. So new episodes of Wang On Are every Monday, right? Every Monday. I mean, Maria was meant to be coming, wasn't she? No. She chose to go to Seville. She's dead to us. Sean man . Sean, look, she did actually say that she's sorry she's not here . No, a liar. And she lives in hastings. Before we go into the wine as well. The neighborhood . The neighborhood seem to be I seem to be busy How did you find the time? Well the neighborhood I did like this time last year . I have to say I saw the trailer. I think it looks really good because it's that cross between and I think there's one thing in the UK, isn't it? We are so nosy with neighbors. Like what's good? So explain the premise. Like they are all in the neighborhood, but then they go back, they live there as well. Is that right? Oh yeah, I mean, so it's separate immersive isn't it 's they live there. Like it's a pre existing little village up in Derbyshire. And we get households. Now some of them are actual families, you know, mom, dad, kids. Some of them are kind of blended modern families where you know people later in life with kids . There's one that's like three generations. There's a granny and a grandson da da . And then some of them are just housemates or siblings, that kind of thing. And they all move in. They're there twenty four seven. They're filmed twenty four seven . And then we give them these kind of big challenges. And the challenges are all based on really kind of suburban things like building a garden shed or there's a big game with like thousands and thousands and thousands of garden gnomes . There's a seven meter washing line and stuff. But it's and those are kind of visually fun and they get to play the games , but it's the behind closed door stuff. Yeah, I love you guys do the cameras there and you're slagging each other off? They really do. Like well, they slagged the other house off, but they also kind of slagged each other off. Like once they shut the door, they go Why did you say? Yeah, why did you say that? All of that. What's interesting is they kind of because you have to be popular to do well because the prize is a quarter of a million you have to you have to kind of be popular to be not be voted out You also have to be smart and a bit conniving. Well, the con I felt the conniving people didn't do so well. Right. If you came into its strategy, people smelt a rat. Yes. Whereas actually if you were just a nice neighbor ., Yeah just upon like, you know, how are you? We're going to do our best. Me and the traitors . Yes, of course. Yeah. Did you know I did that? Did you know I hadn't heard That's still milking it. Still milking it Soon soon there'll be another celebrity trailers. I know. Great. Do you think he's ready to let it go? No . I am not. No , he was he was on the chat shirt, talked about it, go, Oh, I told everybody wants to talk to me about it. I'm so tired of it. And then we went back to say, she was wearing the green coat carrying a lantern. Do you believe Windsler had never seen traitors? She went, tell me about the process. I mean , I'm like these typical men, don't don't linger on the traitors. Well, I was like a rata patre A ratappetore I was walking around Kay Windsler . I know. I know one of those ones and it was amazing to you. It was. And I feel like they have to do something more with that image of you in the victim. Because why was that so funny? Because it was just your face, which, you know, I think you've answered it I'm not sitting here looking at it going to exactly. There was something about that thing . Because I did some extra filming BBC said look for the civilian and the north civilian woman that's what listening those people . For the normal one, people who aren't celebrities, they said, Oh, what do you do who live without celebrity in their lives? Yeah , because sad people people . And yeah, they said, Or could you just wear the cloak and pop it up and do the thing? And then the director went , can you do the face? What fade? This is my fade . Do the face? Most have been asked. You must have been asked. I don't think I was. Oh, I don't think I was. And also, would you know, here's my thing. No, I think. The thing is, I think and tell me if I'm wrong, I think a lot of people would have said yes and I would have said yes to the round table. That looks fabulous. I'd love to do the round table. I don't wanna carry shit up a hill. No, no, yeah, yeah. I don't wanna splash around in a fucking air . So for that reason, I'm out. Yeah. Have you ever done who'd you think you are? Yes . That when you have a manuscript or document , Allen, just run your finger along it. People think I can't read . Graham Carl. Who reads like that ? Graham Carl was I mean Alan. Would you wear those glasses right now? Did you cry ? I didn't cry. Did they try to make you? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They said to me once they kind of sat without them doing a little bit of the interview and they were Graham. A lot of people find this process moving moving . And I was like, okay, but what bit would you have cried at? Dad, did you get anything? One thing that was going to make me cry . But then what was weird was the very next day we were in Leeds . You tried then I will . He arrived. He arrived at Leeds. You can only get to Leeds from Dublin Brian, Ryanair Tears Orange . The scarrow . No ice . If you've ever blasted Synth Beats from your boombox or burn seeds for your besties , this one's for you. As people get older, much like their music tastes, their health needs change. Age one is the simple daily health drink designed to deliver over seventy five essential daily nutrients in pre and probiotics to support energy, digestion , and mood, so you can make the most out of every decade and dance break. Learn more at drinkag . com . 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Now, but listen, obviously you won Baftas, you won everything. You've won awards for your wine. What is the most ? Is it Bafta or is it wine? Award? Bafta. Okay, yeah. I thought we're going to get some laugh. Oh, I never thought you'd say that, but you said exactly what I thought you'd say. Yeah. Yeah. Great. You know, it's Buffa's for me. Yeah. Am I right? It's for me rolls. It's for me rolls . Am I right in saying that, didn't they ship some grapes? Didn't they ship some grapes for you to crush on the set of your show. You say ship, they didn't . The guy basically the guys who make this wine , Tim and Rob it is in Vivo, is it? In Vivo, they're from New Zealand. And Tim and Rob are I love them. They're great. And they started this label on their credit cards . And I must have made some press for the show with the New Zealand paper. And you know, I had nothing to say. They always got to know what New Zealand celebrities would like to have on the show and could you help me a little gave internet even there. They're Australia . That's what I mean. It is far . It's really hard . So for something to say, I went, oh, I do love New Zealand Submarin blanc. Well, these guys read that. They said, Oh, would you like just to give some wine to the green room and of course, you know, it costs them very little to give us mine. But it meant that back in New Zealand they were able to say, you know, as drunk by Guyneth Paltrow or whatever. So it was a great press for them. And I just thought, Oh, they're smart guys . And then when they asked me about doing my own label, I just thought, well, you know, I like the color of their jib, let's give it a whirl. And it's kind of taken off and now we've been doing it for years. And you also do gin as well. Yeah, the gin and the v odka they're made in Ireland in Scaberina. Okay. So that's kind of a nice connection to Harvard. That's lovely. Yeah. I think a lot of people will think with some wines, celebrity wines, like you're saying with the tequila and things they just, but you're quite hands on with it, aren't you? We do a blending every year. Yeah . So the nice thing about Jina Vodka is once you've signed it off, oh that's it. You never have to do it again . Whereas every year and as you were saying earlier, you know, that you forget that it is agriculture . And it's so difficult when you're there in New Zealand and you meet the people who are growing the vines and picking the grap es. It's suddenly so real and you realize my god these people live and breed this and they sit there looking at the weather they're going Oh no like the raining and da da da and it is absolute farlyming and it's so reliant on it. So every year the harvest is different , you know, the taste is different, the quality of the wine is different. And what we do is we get normally bring about six different samples from different vineyards. And then we do this blending, which is so different from like wine tasting. We've all done that where you gotta go that's nice. This is you taste all six and you kind of go, well, I like that element of this one. I like that element of that one, you know, the nose, the body, the afterstase, whatever. And then you start combining them and it's amazing . If you ever get the chance to do it, do it the quality it's so kind of chemical and the tiniest little bit will go change the whole glass. It's crazy. Science. Yeah, it is science. Science, science al Alloneen. Science, you've got glass es . He knows what he's talking about. Yeah . So Graham, every week, well, not every week, but most weeks we do dilemmas, sometimes sometimes if we're so aware enough . Yeah . If we're capable of reading from a card, Dinama. Are you gonna say for the dinomas? I am. Bottoms up. Bottoms up. We've all been there. We're heading to a party and you're staring at all the shelves in the wine shop. What am I gonna buy? I've got a party to go to. Well , fear no more because me , Lee and Graham are here to help. Aren't we Lee? We are indeed and it is not just a party they're going to, it is a Eurovision party so So correct noise, correct noise. That's the official Eurovision . Hi, Lee Allen and Graham. I'm hosting a Eurovision party and to balance out the camp, I've decided we are doing a wino vision like it. We've pulled names out of the hat only in badly . It's four hours long . We've pulled names out of a hat and ended up with our three finalist countries Romania, Moldova and Belgium. I haven't got a clue when it's all the country in Italy Spain France Brad and Chip did very well this year . I haven't got a clue where to start with wines from these countries. Can you help me pick a winner? Loving buttons up is always duxpoint from me every week , Marcus in Rumford . So I think Marcus might be homosexual . I'm just saying, I'm just saying no one gay lives in Romford Right. So what we are going to do is in honor of your revision, we've got three wines here respectively from Moldova, Belgium and Romania, and we are all going to give them a maximum of twelve points. All right . So shall we begin? Shall we begin? We're going to go for this is a box wine. Now would Graham Norton ever go for a box wine? Would you produce a box wine? Here's the thing because of the environment, I think there was a slight there was a push wasn't there to go for bags of wine, boxes of wine. And it is really handy to have in your fridge. Got yeah. Yeah, you just got and also in your mouth in your bum bag. But I feel like this is a bit like a caravan holiday . It just s. I just feel like I just feel like I'm camping But this is a nice. If you're going to have a box, there's a nice package. Oh, I know, lovely. All right, so where's this from? This is that's a good question. Why is this representative ? This is Moldova. It's really yes, Moldova, I believe. What's it say here? I can't see on the back of the box. China . I didn't know Taiwan was in the Eurovision . Yeah, it's a while of Moldova. Here we go. They make pinot pinot. Pinot pino it's called, which is a pinot guy. It sip so good. We named it twice. Easy drinking and delicious with fresh floral aromas, touches of peach and refreshing sickness. I don't think I'd ever had them or does it. So apparently this is surprisingly smooth, easy, uncomplicated like the Eurovision strawberries and that everyone secretly enjoys but no one writes home about. If this were a Eurovision song it would be the safe crowd p,leasing ballad. You may not love it, but you cannot deny it deserves its spot on the stage. Now, what are we thinking about this? Actually, it's surprisingly , it's nice the way I thought it was going to be. Yeah, if you were going to give me a Moldovan wine , I would've known what it's a bit like when you're watching Eurovision and that act come on, you go, God, I'm gonna hate this. And then it's an eer worm. And you're like, Did anything I was wrong to judge? Yeah, I feel it's a bit dead in the finish . Yes, it does entail. It tails off. A bit like your vision. Yeah . Our four . I'm like , this was fun for Argo. That smells like a good idea as . No , it's nice it's nice, but like you say, it just needs a pool. Yeah, it doesn't stick with you, does it? No , but it's quite a nice nose and then it's nice at the mouth, but it's just it's somehow but coming from a box of wine, I think that's good. I'm gonna go straight down the middle with that and I'm gonna go for a six. Oh, do you think that's a bit harsh? I would might go a bit higher. It's out of twelve, so I would go eight. Okay. It's about gonna go for eight. I'm actually enjoying it. All right, eight, eight, and six. So this is eighteen pounds around literacy . two point two five. So that's good. That's about eight pound a litre. And that's nice wine. That's nice. That I think because I do think, you know , wine needs to be delicious, but it also needs to be affordable of course. Particularly at your vision party. So yeah, I'm going to give an extra point for that. I'm going to change my point to seven. All right, so we are now going to move on to Belgium. We're moving on to Belgium and it is h wellope I I say this right creek creek bone cherry lambeth has a beer . No, this is a ruby red apparently. It's like a it's like an almost oh no it is a beer . Gosh. I've never been sick I'm gonna be sick. It is a beer . Oh I thought they were all wines. So we have the beer at the end. Yeah, you're right. We finish on the beer. Yeah. I love that Graham is our guest, but he knows way more than how gross he said. Is he also producing no graham? You're our guest will have a beard now . Human shocked wow I said I didn't want the beer now . Oh God, this is a beer. Shush, people from Cleeg Boon might be watching . Do you know what? Let's start with let's start with the Romanian wine then. Now this is called Sorco . And it's golden straw in color, elegant, like it wandered straight out of a folk festival, apparently. So there we go, John. That's fine that's fine. I gotta sorry, thank you. Save some room for your beer . So like I said, this is Romanian w ine. And so yeah, you're very good there. So do you do this? I like the smell . That's nice. And you swirled it there, didn't you? Very good, yeah, that's what you meant to do. Yeah. I mean it's fun. It's fun. I mean, I don't know what that does . This is your revision for me. Fan fruity . So on the nose, I'm beginning with it. What do you get on the nose? Anything? Actually, it reminds me of like a museum and Ron. Yeah, yeah, I can smell it in . It's much softer than I thought in the bout. It's kind of a full fruit. I thought it'd be clacky, but it's not. Yeah, well it's saying we've got pears hunt. Oh , oh, that's really nice. It does affair, isn't it? Fears, honey and subtle floral, sophisticated with a cheeky hint of something unexpected. Medium bodied, it says, balanced. You never want something unexpected in a while. My own filings . It says here. It goes bleak . It says here, it's not obvious. But if you pay attention, it walzes across your tongue. That's not obvious they're not wrong yet. Now, here's the thing. I think this is lovely . I couldn't drink a lot of it. Okay , get out. Why? Out. No, 'cause I feel like it's quite filling. You know what I mean? 's like It,' its quite a full flav . So it is actually delicious in this as I tasting. Yeah. Like if I was going for dinner and somebody will that, I'd like, ooh, I was hoping to get drunk tonight, but I can't. Yeah, I know what you mean. I can't drink a lot of that. Yeah. I know what you mean. You'd have one and then maybe after your second you'd be a bit like, I'm not sure I can carry on this. It's like bags of crisps. The first one, delicious. Yeah. The second one. Why did I have this? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're fighting . I a have little tippy top . Wow . Well this, I don't know if this will sway your voting. God, your glasses. That's fine. Absolutely. I want to drink with Greyham was Please . So this is nine pounds. Nine pounds for that bottle. It's great that's a nice bottle. Can I say if you brought that to someone's house, you would think it was way more than nine pounds. Whoever does label design in Romania has done such a great job, that looks beautiful. I buy wine because of the font. Oh, you take the food? Oh, I would do this. How long do you take to come up with your label? label like I don't. I mean, that's people in New Zealand. Oh, okay. So Mascow, yes to sign it out. Yeah, but it would have to be like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like to be comic sans film. I just feel like no one at ding bats ? Or was it windings? Ding bats? What's the one that's that weird? Wingdings we weddings or weddings . Okay How long it takes to get an Uber ? You have an all ey of your creek boo I know . We're settling down for last I'm gonna give this Du Spa or maybe I'm being that's the trouble moving one. I get over excited. Maybe ten . East Dispa. Which one is that this? That one's that one? Yeah, yeah, this is the Romanian . Sorry . Oh, you're gonna Oh, you gotta compare. So you gave you gave to that original nine . You gave eight to the original. So this is definitely nice of that. It is I'm going ten ten . for that. So you're going ten. I went seven for the original, so I'm actually gonna go nine. I'm going to go nine for that. Just to be contrary . Okay , no , okay. Now, can I just say, do any of us like beer? No, I mean makes me gassy and I like it yes. I'm not a massive fan of beer, but I'm certainly not a fan of red beer. Yeah. So I think we've probably found a winner, but let's keep going. Oh yes. The jeopardy is still there This has to be really bloody good . Saks are so high . Well, you never know what might happen. The entire population of Belgium is fighting fighting their beer for now. Can you imagine the Creek Boone factory like this ? No. And also, can I just say apparently this is three pound fifty, but it is a beer. I love it already But it's quite a small bottle. Yeah, it's a small bottle. It's a bottle of beer. So three pound fifty for a beer, not too bad . Okay, so it was a Eurovision, remember, lots of fun l ess. And this is Belgium, a ruby red and certain to catch your attention like a last minute key change. When you're sweet and she's fizzy and she's fun like a pop number with a dance break and a glitter can and this one my God to bring controversy. This doesn't say the sort of thing that will stain your colon . And they'll discover when they do the post mortem. It says it's cast. Why is it so red? Well, apparently twenty twenty six He went on a podcast beer . I'm not being grim, but you know when you go to the toilet sometimes after and you look, oh my god I'm dying. That's what this is like Well, Alan, you're dying. The bumps should never come out of your body. I hope this no, I hope this is amazing for Brookdun. So Cherry, we're talking about Cherry language . I know what you mean that. You not like cherry? Not as a flavor. I like cherry, I like cherries . Whenever they put artificial cherry flavoring in something it's disgusting. Saving the cherry coke there. So it says glitter on everything performance that will either be loved or scorned could win the televote or could go straight to Nil Pois. I think this isn't even getting to the grand final . You know what? I don't hate it . I haven't tasted it yet Are you nervous? It just smells actually it smells kind of toffee. It smells like smells like a soft drink. It's making my tongue like this and I can't. So it's only four percent. That's probably why . That's why my body's rejecting it . It's so close to water . So why are we thinking about? It's not kind of nice to say it's not as bad as I thought it would be. It's not as bad as I thought. It's bad it's a five. For me, it's probably a four. I'm gonna go four. No, no, I'm going to go five actually . I'm going to go two Yeah. It's because it's not even like I quite like a nice beer. Yeah, but it's not really a beer is it? Fucked around with it. Is it? You know what it's more like? Beer doesn't need to be red or anything. It's like a shur . It's like a shlur, isn't it? We'd like to thank our sponsors Creek Boon providing to. Okay, yeah, well, I think 're not my favorite, but then I feel bad because they plugged it with two wines. Yeah, to be fair, I do think it is nicer. It's probably nicer than Belgian wine. Oh, really? Is Belgium wine? I don't know. But I mean, that's quite hard When you're doing urification, what are you drinking? Are you drinking grahnot and wine? No, I'm drinking whatever I can lay my hands up because it's very hard. It's a long old stretch. Do you see? Well, here's the thing. So when Terry retired and I got the gig , he was really sweet and he rang me before I went off to Moscow, which was so nice of him. And the only bit of advice he gave me was don't have a drink before song nine . So I think Terry was quite fond of the Baileys . And I do wine if I can get it. Some years there's no drink to be had, no drink to be smuggled in, nothing. I love I love that your vision is smuggled. Oh, no, no, that normally it's smuggled in because you can't really get it in. But anyway and his advice was very good except that I feel like there are a lot more songs now . So song nine is quite early to be cuffing a drink . So you do have to kind of go what it's like, you have a drink , oh delicious have some more. Yeah. And because it's a long live show , you can't, you just can't. Yeah. So you have to just go license as that is, I can't have any m.ore So you try to stay sober. Yeah . But then at the end, of course it finishes so late. Yeah. Then you're like sniffing around the old comment you know. Any of that wine left. But there was an interesting thing. I think you were saying this, Alan that, you'd read about Graham where you used to come on with a glass of wine. I know you have a glass of wine on your show, but when you did stand up, you always used to come on almost like a we were talking about prop comedians earlier. That was your problem. It was not proper. No, it was because I' dont know if either of you had this, but when I started to stand up or performing really, like solo performing, friends would come and they'd go, oh, you seemed a bit nervous . And I could feel it. I could feel like I was nervous. And then one time I don't know why I was doing this, I was doing an Australian tourist commission gig , all the good ones. And I was surprised who I was. And so there was a kind of party and I had to be someone at the party and then I got up and did my bit. So I was at the party and I was standing there with my glass of Australian wine and I was sipping it. And because my I was in a nervous state so I was kind of heightened, I could really feel the wine going through my body and it just took the edge off I mean literally I had a couple of sips of wine . Yeah. it And just took the edge off and it meant and the gig went really well. I wasn't nervous . And I went, okay, I'm gonna do this. Yeah. And I did think to myself, right? If it ever gets to where I'm actually I'd have to hate that cold yeah you know on my second glass before I go on then I'll knock it on the head and so that's why I still have that glass of wine on set with me and then now I don't get ner vous , I like having a glass of wine . But and again, I have a huge glass of wine with lots of ice in it and I sip it. I'd rather drink it. But it's I think it also has a brand. I think it communicates to an audience that you're having a nice time. Yeah , yeah. Now the theatre is different . When I did a show in the West End Lego Faulk. And everyone was sick. It was between Christmas and New Year and I was only supposed to be rehearsing and everyone was off sick. The main guy, the understudy, the understudies replaced no one. And those shows are all fully booked. So they said, Graham, would you go on tonight even though you haven't really rehearsed with the band or anything? And it's horrifying. And I went yeah, yeah, I'll do that. And did you get like Edinburgh Festival kind of when you were there to do it? Well, because that's a brave thing to do. Well, it was the thing was I could tell what they were gonna ask and I did feel ready. Like I knew I knew I knew it. Yeah. And I thought, yeah, that's what it rip the band aid off. And also it's a bit, it's a bit kind of Hollywood movie. Like let's put the show on right here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I haven't learned the lies. Oh yeah, yeah , yeah. I could n't have to so they said to me, Oh, would you go? I said, Yes. And then they made such a fuss of me. They were really nice to me because you know, and even after I'd done it , the director came up and went, Graham, if you knew anything, you'd have said no because it was a very foolish thing to have said agreed to because it was a paying audience and I hadn't really go anyway . But the show , they were kind of coming to the dressing room and they were going, anything else, anything else would get you grabbed. And I went, ooh , I took a glass of white wine. Really nice. From the faces , I could tell oh, this is not theater way. This production of the Gazio falls for cancer . Yeah. Well blessed. That night they did get me one you were doing the paper because I was doing the paper, but I then realized you're not supposed to. So I never did again. So you've had that, you've La Casa Foll, West End, chat show, presenting Is there anything that you haven't done yet where you lie only fans ? When I get home tonight , I'm setting it up. Are you already? account will immediately have having a very long lunch . Yeah, we'll get to that . Yeah. Yeah, it's around literally you've got to a point where you're like, what? Like is there anything you thump? Here's the thing I'm sixty three and I've done so much more than I ever thought I would. Yeah . So it's that weird thing where you've kind of you've overshot your dreams and expectations by such a huge amount . So no , you know, let's see what happens. Yeah, see what happens. You know, that's an amazing place to be though, isn't it? Yeah, you know, I haven't been cancelled yet. There's still that accident for us. Well, wait until you see this back . When does this go out ? I would get a lot done before this goes out . So with twenty nine points, it was an obvious one the Romanian wine so ck over Romania. It's lovely. We've got in second place the pinot pinot with twenty three points not too far off and then come on Creek Boone. No, you've got it. Come on, you can do this . Has it won, drum roll everyone. Please, is it with eleven points? Fox never It's the creep boon, but whether you're enjoying, well, you will be enjoying your vision, have fun, but do drink responsibly and wait for song nine. So you can catch the neighborhood on ITV Wanging on with Graham and Maria episodes every Monday . 's just shouting like, Graham, go home. Stop working . Shut up, stop doing things . Thank you so much and your wine is so delicious . 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