So Graham Norton is remarkable only for the speed with which its audience and presenter did away with double entendres and used the proper words instead. They have ample chance to put this exciting new plan into practice as the programme is mainly about genitalia. That's why Mo Mowlam agreed to go on it. She cackled along with Graham like the best celebrity fag hag on a show that was at least as depressing as the Christmas one where Nigella Lawson got dressed up as the Virgin Mary. It is the laziness of the humour, not the bad taste, that is most depressing.
Television shrinks personalities to a handy pocket-size.
So Graham Norton is no exception. To appreciate just how intelligent Norton can be when he puts his mind to it, you had to catch the live show he took on his first national tour last year. A profile in The Sunday Times , 20th. With much mincing, oohing and aahing, Norton follows in the line of Frankie Howerd, Larry Grayson and Kenneth Williams - a homosexual comic who can make grandmothers chuckle indulgently at unadulterated filth. Biography , writing , press cuttings .