The Graham Norton Effect

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The Graham Norton Effect was a talk show hosted by the openly gay Irish comedian Graham Norton. The program has been aired on Comedy Central, BBC Three, Logo and Australia's The Comedy Channel. The first episode premeried on June 24, 2004, and the last on September 16 of the same year.

The Graham Norton Effect can be considered a spinoff to two previous shows hosted by Norton, including So Graham Norton (1998-2002) and V Graham Norton (2002-2003). During the last part of Graham's Channel 4 contract, Graham decided to film a new show, NY Graham Norton, in New York. The Graham Norton Effect was filmed for Comedy Central later in the year. Since this show was specifically taped for an American audience, some of the games played in the show were previously played on NY Graham Norton or V Graham Norton. (For example, a game about the world's worst bathing suits which was played in the Alan Cumming episode was originally played during a V episode with Bo Derek, tying into her movie Ten.) Also, some of the guests, who were only on NY Graham Norton a couple of months previous, appear again on the Graham Norton Effect

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The Graham Norton Effect, like all of Norton's shows, featured games and side attractions that often involved his guests. These side attractions usually relied on audience member participation. The guests would then take part in the event by guessing or chosing something based about the usually inane parameters Norton had defined about the game. For example, when playing "Guess the Partner," the guests would attempt to guess which two audience member participants were lovers based on physical features alone.

On occasion Norton would even go so far as to secretly produce a pre-selected audience member’s parents or lover to witness or take part in an embarrassing event without the audience member’s knowledge.

  • Episode 1: Guess the Partner: Guests attempt to match lovers with their partners. Barfly: Sandra Bernhard provides a remote voice for a life-size manequin sitting at a neighborhood bar, to the confusion of other patrons.
  • Episode 2: Ass Makeover: Audience members makeover their male partner's buttocks to resemble celebrities, such as Dolly Parton and Michael Jackson.
  • Episode 3: Audience members model regrettable swimwear.
  • Episode 4: Date Jesus: Norton sets up an audience member on a date with a Jesus impersonator. Lovers Line-up: Guests and audience members guess when participants last had sex by shouting “higher” or “lower.”
  • Episode 5: Sharon Stone is sung to by a fan over the phone. Audience members are called on tell suggestive pick-up lines to the episode's guests.
  • Episode 6: Guests attempt to guess if a man is gay by the way he dances. In the Dugout: Audience members and guests try to guess what base participants reached with other participants. Candle-schticks: Audience members volunteer to make multi-colored candles molded from their male anatomy, which are placed on a cake and wheeled out by Joan Rivers. Graham interviews candle owners by name, asking "My god, what happened here?"
  • Episode 7: Audience members attempt to guess which disguised participant is their lover by how they perform with a sex doll. Jade Esteban Estrada gets spanked by a dominatrix.
  • Episode 8: A sexual euphemism contest takes place.
  • Episode 9: Audience members reveal lies they have told to their parents. Carson Kressley talks about the man he'd most like to makeover on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
  • Episode 11: A George W. Bush impersonator is invited to the show. Audience members are asked to campaign for something close to them with mostly insipid results.
  • Episode 12: Chris Rock gives Marilyn Manson marriage advice.
  • Episode 13: Graham, perhaps in a mockery of Oprah, makes audience member's dreams “come true” with less than perfect results.

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