See my pal hated it.
But I thought it was genuinely very funny.
I mean to be fair, people should know what they get with Graham!

I certainly liked Johnny after seeing this!

These kind of talk shows are never meant to be serious or intelligent. It's just PR - showing their face out there - and be entertaining. They know that when they sign up for shows like Graham. I personally laughed from start to finish, I found it hilarious (and also felt slightly bad/embarrased for Ben's sake. Not embarrased for something he did, but for having to endure that letter).

Also, I personally have no trouble both gushing like a teenage fangirl over his eyes, hair, arms and bum - and at the same time greatly appreciate and respect him for his personality, intelligect and his skills as an actor. 

Last edited by Vhanja (November 29, 2015 9:51 pm)

I watched it yesterday, but saw the photos on tumblr first. And I thought "oh no not the otter stuff again" it doesn't get less boring the more Graham mentions it. And I felt sorry for Ben that he had play "monkey" again. Although especially the pic with the teddy bear was soooo cute.
Does Johnny always speaks so slowly? His appearance was a bit greasy. I hope he gets his act together, would be very sad otherwise. The last film I liked him in was "Public Enemies" he was very sexy.

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I, too, would have liked to see all 4 together.  I've seen clips from the show where they've had 3 people on the couch together, why not four? Oh, well.

This had nothing to do with the amount of people on the couch it's just a timetable thing. The Ben/Johnny interview was recorded about 6 weeks ago and I guess James/Daniel was from Thursday. There wasn't a chance to get them together on the couch, Ben is filming (somewhere) and Johnny is probably had to be back in the US (or whereever he lives these days)

But I have to say, sometimes I prefer less people on the couch, it's always the same, when you're a "Hollywood" actor you get all the time no matter how stupid your film or you in general are. It happened last week when Tom Hanks was on, I like him, he's funny and seems like a nice guy, I'd totally invite him to dinner, but I would have like to know more about the other guests.
 

He was funny enough but a bit slow finding words. But I haven't seen many interviews with him, so I don't know whether or not that was his usual self.

I'm not sure either.  He did seem a little spaced out: could have been drugs (prescription or otherwise), lack of sleep, jetlag, or anything really.   I think it was more obvious because it was a such a contrast to Benedict's and Graham's more hyper, energetic styles.   I thought he was good though - he has struck me as serious before, but it turns out he does have a dry sense of humour, and I was touched by what he said about his daughter being ill and the hospital visiting (something about the children being strong and courageous, while the parents are dying - it felt like a genuine insight and concern for the parents, whereas I think most celebrities would have just talked about the children).

I do agree about the otters thing - its time has gone.  But the Reddit post really was funny!  I did think they were given a good amount of time to talk about Black Mass (Graham does always seem to give his guests a good chance to promote whatever it is they've come on the show to promote).  Possibly Benedict was disappointed, I didn't notice that.   He has been on Graham Norton before, so knows the format and style (and the inevitable teasing, and funny stuff from the internet) but it was a shorter interview than normal due to it being split. 

Last edited by Liberty (November 30, 2015 10:35 am)

Fabulous.

Lol, awesome cupcake!