i guess building the grand entrance to ur gallery underground and then building what CAN be seen from the ground out of glass isn't optimised for television
@@NathalieNoZen so? Obviously we know about graham but only a handful of people watch his commentary. How would they know about this highly specific running joke?
I am French and every morning, after putting on my beret and taking my accordion, I listen to La Zarra while going to buy my baguette and my croissants at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. This gets me in shape to prepare my midday frog legs
“We built a tunnel to your country.” That sounded so ominous! 😂 Also, imagine if France hosts one year and they still report from the Eiffel Tower instead of the stadium! 😂
i LOVE this!! He also made the same joke in the 2010 intro video, when the camera flew by the effiel tower he said "do you think French people get bored of the effiel tower?"
I'm sure they do, same exact way we get bored to the city we live in. After a while you just get "blind" to it. Only excited tourists make you actually see it again like "oh yeah there's that!"
It’s because of the Eiffel Tower in the background and so that’s how he recognises it each time, he said he couldn’t recognise where it was one year as they weren’t next to the Eiffel Tower as a joke. Hope this clears it up
i mean i didn't particularly mind because he and hannah were busy being such a vibe themselves as hosts so i didn't really care all too much, but yeah mel wasn't great...
It'd be funny if this year Graham, as onstage host for the voting, throws to the french vote, and the person reading France's twelve said something like either, 'Hi Graham, yes it's the eiffel tower agaaaaiiiiiiinnnn', or 'Hi Graham, You probably don't know where I am, but I thought I'd sit in front of one of France's lesser known buildings".
It’s really funny that every Eurovision has their own commentary. I’d love to choose which commentary to watch. Loved that Catherine Tate gave the votes from the Uk this year. Love her
Australia used to get the Terry Wogan commentary and we loved it. And then, one year, SBS (the broadcasting service in Australia with broadcasting rights) decided to have an Australian team do the commentary instead of using Terry Wogan's. There was a lot of upset in Australia that year. There was a lot of love for Terry Wogan's dry commentary. SBS did repeat Eurovision a few days later in that particular year, using the Terry Wogan commentary. We now only get the Australian commentary; Graham Norton doesn't get a look in. I
@@mallbratgirl_3005 If she's doing any presenting she's always blind drunk. It's got to the point where I'm surprised that any one hires her for these sort of things because they have to know she'll just do it pissed.
Hearing him and Hannah Waddingham do the votes was so good. Usually it fells so generic and forced. Both of them had good chemistry together and made it fun.
@@conorcolumb6291 I don't know about that. He's very much become a Brit like Terry Wogan before him. Wouldn't be surprised if Graham becomes a British Citizen and receives a Knighthood too, before long!
@@squidink3470it’s just a man who always hypes up the other skandinavien countries and if another contestant has the smallest thing to do with Denmark he mentions that but thats it
@@squidink3470 no there’s no fun what so ever unfortunately. We used to have one like Graham many years ago but they wanted someone younger and we got stuck with one that calls the danish entry the best he’s ever seen 🫣🫣🫣
Following Graham Norton's relevant remarks, we built Palais du Louvre AND its pyramid. Too quickly evidently for they collapsed after a few weeks. And since there is no other monument in our miserable capital, we had no other choice but to go back to the Eiffel Tower.
Tbf to the French producers, the tower is tall and fits in the frame, and it's lit up at night when the results are read. It really is perfect for this. It's just a shame nobody knows where it is.
@@jasmin5858 I've stopped watching Eurovision on German TV a couple of years ago because I can no longer stand Peter Urban's stupid comments. I now watch the video on the official Eurovision channel. It involves some shielding from the news for a day but it's so much better! The only good thing is the info he usually gives about the performers during the short video clip shown right before their song but that's about it.
I bet for this year, Graham won't have an Eiffel Tower to look for because of the fact the French delegation took it to make their staging 😭 (edit: forgot they had it plastered into the LED for 2017 buut you get my point)
Fun fact, the Eiffel Tower was erected to honour the winner of the first ever Eurovision song contest. Clair Eiffel De Lune won it in 1957 with the hit, 'Just Give Me A Snail For Breakfast' which btw spent 36 weeks at no.1 in the French charts. Clair reported at the time that it was a bottle of wine which inspired her to write the song. After the success of the Eurovision song contest when it was all over, Clair went on to travel the world and speak French wherever she went no matter what. Today, every year on the 16th of May in France people ironically don't eat snails for breakfast in honour of Clair Eiffel De Lune's life. Whilst Clair continues to live a life of honour as she wouldn't ever say something like, it's great to be French because that sentence is in English and she only speaks French even though she can speak English just as well. I think she paints pictures for a living and sells baguettes on the side for the extra bit of cash.
You forgot to mention WHY the tower was erected. Not only to honor the winner, but because every time the votes were collected, Graham Norton couldn't tell WHERE the french supermodel was at...
The French don’t hate the English as much as everyone thinks because when I went there earlier in the year, there were literally TONNES of stalls at the bottom of the Eiffel Tower selling key rings of the one in Blackpool.
i like how every country seemingly has their own passive-agressive narrator that provides snide comments based on both current and historic geopolitics
My favourite from last night, ESC 2023 was "the slowest stripper in the world" quip. I can't remember which country but the man giving point was all zipped up and unzipped only the mouth to say the country with 12 points.
It's funny because I made literally the exact same joke this year while watching it with my friends, without knowing about Grahams running joke, and none of my friends really picked up on the joke. And now, some days later, this video pops up in my recommendations as some message from above to tell me that it was indeed a funny comment!
I don't live in the UK but i always tune in to the Beebs for Graham. It's just so much funnier when Graham Norton is doing his thing, it makes for a fun evening with some very questionable music and snarky commentary. He's the best!
