Last Tuesday we went to see a taping of The Graham Norton Show. Great fun! I'm a big fan of Graham's great acerbic wit and rarely miss a show, thanks to the BBC iPlayer. There weren't any clips from the show we saw online...it aired this week, but you can see what I mean about Graham's wit in this YouTube clip...The guest for our show was Dame Edna Everage - normally he has two guests, but I guess, given Dame Edna's larger than life persona, Graham thought it best if she didn't share the stage. As it was, the bandying at the end of the taping between Dame Edna and musical guest Alanis Morissette got pretty intense, especially when Dame Edna mistook her for an American.
Dame Edna kept us rolling with laughter for more than an hour and Alanis performed an acoustic version of "Underneath" from her soon to be released new work Flavors of Entanglement. There was a technical problem so we got to see her sing it twice...the second time was much better.
Tickets are free, you apply on line and wait to be notified. We did learn that you need to get in line and queue early - I'd say by at least 45 minutes as not everyone gets to go into the actual theater, about half the people who were in line didn't make it into the show...we've no idea where they went. We were among the last people who actually got to be in the live show audience.
