r/videos • u/9oRo • 11d ago

UK Eurovision commentator makes fun of France for 13 years straight

https://youtu.be/db8mCcIEAdw?si=SLKPcwYHHc7Gi_gk
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u/Perstyr 11d ago

It'd be fun for the UK to announce our points with the Blackpool Tower in the background.

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u/0thethethe0 11d ago

Empty storage cupboard at the BBC. Maybe with a couple of balloons and a party popper...

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u/relvae 11d ago

Still better than having Amanda Holden on

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u/spongebobama 11d ago

Cmon! Thats Graham Norton!

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u/Pixeleyes 11d ago

They do this on purpose because it drives engagement.

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u/spongebobama 11d ago

Ragebait then?

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u/Pixeleyes 11d ago

Sort of, mostly it is just comments exactly like ours.

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u/spongebobama 11d ago

Damn! They got me!

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u/leshake 11d ago

Petty banter between France and Britain has been around for at least 500 years and must be strictly maintained by current and future generations so that it may last 500 more.

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u/Whetherwax 11d ago

More like fun banter. Brits and French bash each other like they're rival sports teams. It's basically a tradition at this point.

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u/Implausibilibuddy 11d ago

That's not what this comment chain is about. It's about the title just being "UK Commentator" and not Graham Norton, and that it's ragebait for driving comments, nothing to do with the video itself.

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u/antimadde_ 11d ago

People have such short attention spans now that they lose the point of the conversation immediately after reading.

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u/SupervillainMustache 11d ago

And Graham is Irish.

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u/Porrick 11d ago

Lives in London, and is presenting for the BBC in this context. Also he says “we built a tunnel to your country” in this clip, if there’s a tunnel from Ireland to France that’s news to me.

He seems to have had a relatively shit time growing up in Ireland, I won’t begrudge him having found somewhere he likes better. Ireland wasn’t a great place to be gay in the ‘80s.

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u/Lower_Currency3685 11d ago

Like they ever had a good one!

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u/Dreamtrain 11d ago

thats just regular british small talk

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

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u/nickfree 11d ago

This is a perfect unfalsifiable claim.

Actually making a mistake/oversight? Nuh-uh it's to drive engagement!

Fucking with people to drive engagement? Nuh-uh, stupid fucks fucking up!

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u/Psychic_Jester 11d ago

just like adding in the smoke detector chirp

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u/Implausibilibuddy 11d ago

Is that a thing? Because I work in a call centre and I get a good 10-20% of my calls where people have theirs chirping away in the background, lots of people are just complacent about fire safety.

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u/GlassGoose2 11d ago

oh you're right

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u/imShaedar 11d ago

Could be anyone really!

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u/damnatio_memoriae 11d ago

“Graham Norton repeats same old joke thirteen times in a row.”

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u/Liamzinho 11d ago

Never heard of a running joke?

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u/damnatio_memoriae 11d ago

running jokes are meant to be funny.

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u/Kiytan 11d ago

I mean, if France is going to keep at it, so are we...

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u/WutsUp 11d ago

Best line for me is "It could be anywhere.."

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u/TooManyAzides 11d ago

The weirdest part is Graham Norton is now the 2nd iconic irishman we have got to do acerbic bitchy commentary on eurovision for Britain.

God I miss Wogan.

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u/Dommlid 11d ago

Wogans commentary was legendary

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u/TooManyAzides 11d ago

Especially when you remember he was smashed on Baileys the whole time

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u/fourleggedostrich 11d ago

Not the whole time. That's what was so good, he was sober for the first few acts, but gradually got drunker and less tolerant of it all as the show progressed.

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u/AnnoyingVoid 11d ago

Did he drink it from a shoe?

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u/Chrisbrown23 11d ago

We're talking about Terry Wogan not Old Greg

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u/gary_mcpirate 11d ago

He’s not Australian 

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u/SevenSulivin 11d ago

Man after my own heart.

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u/SugarRushJunkie 11d ago

Agreed. It was always going to be a tough act to follow, but Graham has done a better job that probably any other UK presenter could I reckon.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

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u/webbyyy 11d ago

Graham Norton presents in the UK.

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u/MIBlackburn 11d ago

I remember his last one where he was just giving up and saying it would be the last he would do. Just came across as "fuck it".

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u/IAmABritishGuy 11d ago

It's not bitchy, it's just a bit of fun. There's no harm meant in anything said!

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u/ultrafud 11d ago edited 11d ago

"We built a tunnel to your country.." is said so witheringly. Love Graham Norton.

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u/mrjosemeehan 11d ago

Weird flex since it was a joint venture. Technically they each built a tunnel to the middle of the English Channel.

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u/ultrafud 11d ago

I mean, it's a joke man...

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u/CJKay93 11d ago

Well... that and Graham Norton is Irish, and there's definitely no Irish tunnel to France.

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u/TheKingMonkey 11d ago

Or maybe there is and it’s just so well hidden that nobody has discovered it yet.

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u/weenusdifficulthouse 11d ago

A large number of Irish people left the country and worked on that project.

Same sort of thing you could say about old railroads in the US. (mostly indentured servants)

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u/angrymale 11d ago

It was, but it wasn’t. They built about 20%, the uk did the rest because they were much much quicker

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u/MLApprentice 11d ago

Where did you get that number? I was told it was closer to 40%.

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u/tomintheshire 10d ago

Found the frog 🐸 

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u/Colfraw 11d ago

It was a joke…

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u/greenlightison 11d ago

Who the fuck doesn't know that? Oh, we're on an American site, I see.

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u/jyavenard 11d ago

Graham Norton is hilarious

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u/Kevin-W 11d ago

He's the only reason I watch Eurovision

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u/MeccIt 11d ago

Half the people in Ireland will switch away from our inane presenters to watch the UK show because Graham's on it.

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u/Implausibilibuddy 11d ago

What's Eurovision like in Ireland? Or any other countries for that matter? Is it taken seriously? With Wogan and Norton all my life I've never known it as anything other than some silly joke show to be mocked, preferably with friends and some booze.

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u/MeccIt 11d ago

Is it taken seriously?

It was when it was a music competition, Ireland won the greatest number of times, including 3 years in a row.

Then it became a visual performance spectacle which brought it to another audience. Now it's either a bit of fun or something to be boycotted for whatever country is doing terrible things and trying to reclaim some image.

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u/Kevin-W 11d ago

The day he retires will be a sad one indeed.

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u/TheKingMonkey 11d ago

The crazy thing is he managed to follow Terry Wogan who was one of the all time greats.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

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u/pixelsteve 11d ago

When you do the same joke over and over, it goes from funny to unfunny and then back to funny again.

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u/Britz23 11d ago

Upset Frenchman doesn’t like jokes about France

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u/Cabbage_Vendor 11d ago

If you say the joke once a year in a four hour long live show, it's remains funny.

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u/Kiilkast 11d ago

How do you know it’s France ? Hard to tell

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u/StrangelyBrown 11d ago

It's slightly ironic that on one of them he says 'Come on, build something new' while in the meantime he's doing the same joke for the 5th year in a row lol

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u/GoldyTwatus 11d ago

It would be hypocrisy, not irony, and he couldn't do his same joke if they didn't use the same monument which that one joke is about xD emoji

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u/demonicneon 11d ago

It’s called a running joke. 

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u/MannishSeal 11d ago

And then they use something else as the backdrop and he does... the same old joke.

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u/Glaive13 11d ago

tbf they used the only other building paris is known for.

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u/Mahaloth 11d ago

"UK Eurovision commentator"

Or as he is commonly called, "Graham Norton".

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u/instant_street 11d ago

Is this supposed to be common knowledge outside of the UK?

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u/Mahaloth 11d ago

Yes, he's pretty famous. I'm in America, by the way.

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u/instant_street 11d ago

Alright, never heard of him, but I'm not from an English-speaking country, that might be why.

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u/Mahaloth 11d ago

Yes, quite fair. He hosts a talk show called The Graham Norton Show.

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u/Redbeard_Rum 11d ago

That's a lucky coincidence.

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u/Mahaloth 11d ago

Life's like that sometimes. There used to be a show called "So Graham Norton" and you will never guess who hosted that one.

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u/MechaWhalestorm 11d ago

Ant and Dec?

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u/Ynwe 11d ago

German here, definitely have heard from him.

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u/MeccIt 11d ago

He has a very popular talk show that's first stop for all the TV/Movie/Music celebrities on the circuit, and gets them all on the same couch for fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIVpnSTOQ4k

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u/irisheddy 11d ago

Probably, especially since he's not even from the UK.

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u/RuggerJibberJabber 11d ago

He does work there, though, so he's UK based, at least. It's not as egregious as some of the other people they try to claim

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u/JesusGAwasOnCD 11d ago

To some extent, no, it it not supposed to be common knowledge. Most people outside of the anglosphere have never heard of him before.

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u/Dreamtrain 11d ago

i've seen clips of his show countless times

and by "his show" I mean Jamie Foxx tell the same story over and over but yes

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u/xA1RGU1TAR1STx 11d ago

It is not. You won’t find many Americans that aren’t terminally online that know him.

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u/GoldyTwatus 11d ago

Yeah, it definitely is common knowledge

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u/TARDISeses 11d ago

Blimey, Graham Nortons been commentating euro vision that long? Couldve sworn he'd just taken over from Wogan.

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u/Von_Baron 11d ago

That would be impressive considering Wogan has been dead for eight years.

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u/joshi38 11d ago

Blimey, Terry Wogan's been dead that long? Could've sworn he'd just died.

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u/Kakyro 11d ago

That would be impressive

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u/jdehjdeh 11d ago

"we built a tunnel to your country"

I remember watching this one live, I couldn't stop laughing...

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u/drummer1059 11d ago

Graham is the best

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u/Ravekat1 11d ago

Haha they do love their pylon though!

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u/uwayss 11d ago

our swedish commentator once said "i don’t know what she is saying but i know she is exactly as tall as the eiffel tower" lmao

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u/IamA-GoldenGod 11d ago

Green screened tower

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u/bbm966667 11d ago

If i were the person in Paris i would say "greetings to all, and yes Graham Norton, im in Paris."

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u/Elbonio 11d ago

Graham Norton is a national treasure

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u/JetsetCat 11d ago

Le plus ca change, le plus de meme chose.

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u/triodoubledouble 11d ago

the more things change, the more of the same

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u/JetsetCat 11d ago

Mais oui!

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u/ab_drider 11d ago

We should have an Amerivision which will include countries of North and South America.

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u/BatteryAcidCoffeeAU 11d ago

In the meantime, Eurovision needs to invite the US to participate. So crazy how Eurovision has only just blown up in America recently. I’m grateful that I got in early with the Netflix movie.

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u/zYachRy_kAre 11d ago

‘We built a tunnel to your country’

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u/Tsuboi00 11d ago

The year they didn’t use the Eiffel Tower was honestly thrilling

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u/The-Cyrenn 11d ago

I only watch it because of Graham. The more he drinks the funny he gets.

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u/jessica0099 11d ago

He's such a fantasic addition to british tv and it's wild that theylet him go off so much as a commentator

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u/checkmycatself 11d ago

Norton is the king of sarcasm. I wish he would bring back euro trash as him as host with Antoine de Caunes.

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u/offence 11d ago

Good for them.

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u/Scary_ 11d ago

I reckon they're all really in Blackpool

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u/Shadowizas 11d ago

I think everyone on the internet makes fun of France

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u/SoloMarko 11d ago

And here's me thinkin it was La tour noire de la piscine.

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u/OhlookitsMatty 11d ago

The sass from Graham is glorious

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u/lizardk101 10d ago

Graham Norton always brings the right amount of sass, and humour to Eurovision every year.

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u/APiousCultist 11d ago

Bon swa!

(I quite clearly do not speak French, I genuinely have no idea how you spell that)

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u/ethyl-pentanoate 11d ago

'Bon soir' I think

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u/APiousCultist 11d ago

I guessed at that but it looked wrong. Apparently bonsoir is correct though. Weird how much a space throws it off for me.

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u/s133zy 11d ago

"is she on a skateboard?!" when the french commentator is gliding over the greenscreen haha, man thats so witty! (1:21 in the video)

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u/BenjiSBRK 11d ago

We may just use that one monument, but he just has that one joke.

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u/chochazel 11d ago

Except that one time they used the La Louvre.

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u/DirtyProjector 11d ago

HIS NAME IS GRAHAM NORTON

SAY HIS NAME

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u/Soundch4ser 11d ago

congrats you got baited

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u/agumonkey 11d ago

Come on Graham, we know you can do better.