S24 E5 – The Graham Norton Show | Full Episode | Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Melissa McCarthy

Hello, everyone. My name is Eddie Redmayne. I'm Jude Law. Welcome to The Graham Norton Show. A great show for you tonight. We've got Hollywood stars, Oscar winners, pop icons, but I know why you're all excited. It's the budget on Monday! Yay! As if Mondays weren't enough fun already. The Chancellor's going to announce an increase in the money available for universal credit, which, you know, is good news for anyone who finds themselves out of a job soon. Even more exciting news. Don't forget, everyone, this weekend, the clocks go back. Yeah! Oh, an extra hour in bed. Who wouldn't want that? Oscar winner Emma Stone will be here! Yes! And Mr Rick Astley! Yes! But first, she's the star of comedy hits like The Heat, Spy and Bridesmaids, and now she's getting rave reviews for her moving performance in the new drama Can You Ever Forgive Me? Please welcome Melissa McCarthy! The actor has starred in the talent of Mr Ripley, Cold Mountain and Sherlock Holmes. Now he's playing the young Dumbledore in the new Fantastic Beasts film. Please welcome back Jude Law! As Newt Scamander, it's the Oscar-winning star who stunned us in Les Miserables and The Theory of Everything. It's always a pleasure to welcome Eddie Redmayne! My guest is broken. Er, what's wrong with you? Um, **** Graham. I'm not a doctor, I mean, I'm not going to do anything about it. So, well, you know how Tom Cruise did that thing this year when he, like, leapt across buildings? Yes. Yeah. So, um, I was on set of quite a hardcore stunty film about two people in an air balloon and they had this crash mat beneath the air balloon in case you fall out. Yes. And I walked on the crash mat. LAUGHTER And I fell. Oh, at least you fell. It wasn't a walking injury. Yeah, and so it's basically, I think it's a really bad, um... It's basically a sprained ankle, but they gave me... This Robocop thing, and I don't know what the hell... But there we go, they told me I had to wear it. OK. And I'm being obedient. That's a celebrity sprained ankle. You probably need a frozen bag of peas, don't you? I've had that. All of that. Now, very good to see you all. Melissa, welcome back to you. Cheers. I get caught right in the middle of it. Woo-hoo! And now, Melissa McCarthy, you, like a lot of people here, but you are a fan of Rick Astley, who's appearing later. Oh, my gosh, The Trenchcoat? The Trenchcoat, the... There was a real specific dance, the Canadian jumpsuit, the chambrays. I was a big fan. Let's just... Still a big fan. Still a big fan. Yes. Yes. He's here. Currently. Was and am. Yeah, right. Currently. He's watching this backstage. Yes. What? What's going on? Still love. And, of course, Jude, you worked with Melissa. Yeah. Yeah, we did. We worked together. I keep getting caught drinking. You have to get on Spy, yeah. There's no shame here, Melissa. You don't get caught drinking. I've found my home. Yeah, you get found... I asked for gin and tonic and I thought it would come in a glass like that so no-one would know, and now that everyone's got it... Wow, there should be a gold version of that. It's like a cruise ship gin and tonic. In a very strange glass. I'll drink it with my little finger out. Yeah, do that. And it's nice the two of you are friends now because was it awkward when you met on the set of Spy? I didn't think it was. Have you got a story here? I don't think it was my... First, we met out at a restaurant to get to meet everyone. It was lovely. Oh, my God! I was a little nervous to meet him. You've done 900 fantastic films. It was rather imposing. We were chatting. Jude comes in. Very charming, so personable. When you talk to him, you do meet, and you're really attentive. And it took me a few minutes to just take it in. I was weirdly sitting there and someone was telling a story and you were sitting across from me and the waiters brought little baskets of bread to the table and in my head I was like, I shouldn't be eating bread. I'm not going to eat the bread, although I wanted it. Somebody said something and you laughed and I went, Bread! I was in contact with the whole table. Paul Feig looked at me like I'd lost my mind. Everybody is like, what's the matter with you? And you went, oh, would you like some bread? And offered me bread and then I was able to calm down, but there was just a couple of minutes where I was like, bread! That's the only thing I could think to say to you, I'm sorry. It was not my finest moment. And we should say to Eddie, you are now a father of two. I am, yeah. Yes, well done you. Thank you. Despite your injury. Yeah. Despite your injury, you've done that. Well done you. Although my daughter Iris was so terrified of this thing she didn't speak to me for about three days. Yeah, that daddy's broken, I need a new one. A proper, normal looking one. Listen, Eddie and Jude's new film, Fantastic Beasts, The Crimes of Grindelwald. I'm saying Grindelwald. Really good question. He says Grindelwald and I say Grindelwald, and one of us is wrong. Yeah, that's all right. It's definitely me, I know that for a fact. Well, I'm not going to say it again. The Crimes of Grindelwald. Vold. Vold? Val. OK. Vold. It opens on the 16th of November, and obviously, Eddie, you're back as Newt, the beast handler. Jude, you are the young Dumbledore. Yeah. I insist on the word young being in front of all the parts I play. Even though I was probably the oldest person in the cast. No. I think I was, I was one of the senior members of the cast. Oh, really? Yeah. But the only guy called, but young. Young. This is a continuation of the really successful first film, but there's been a gap of time, so what's been happening to Newt in between the first film and second? Between the first and the second film, Newt has gone home from New York and he's basically written up his book on fantastic creatures and he's become a bit of a celebrity, but Newt's not very good with people generally and becoming a celebrity is not ideal for him. And all he wants to do is get back to New York to find the girl, Tina, that he's fallen for. Katherine Waterson. Katherine Waterson, exactly. But they have removed his travel permit for dodgy reasons and this guy, who's very slippery... The young Dumbledore. ..the wonderful Dumbledore... Young Dumbledore. I looked at you for a moment, I thought, Dumbledore, no, oh, young Dumbledore. It sort of entices him, through wily means, to go to Paris and to start doing some things. And so... Let's go to something. So you get the part, you're young Dumbledore, but what I don't understand is, because you're a newbie to this world, how come, it sounds like J.K. Rowling has just spilt her guts to you, you know stuff that he doesn't? Well, no, I'm not sure. We haven't cross-referenced this yet, actually, but when I was asked to play the part, the first thing I felt was my responsibility was to meet J.K. Rowling and to question her about the backstory and the life of this incredible character, because he is hugely beloved and I felt like it was a big responsibility. So she talked through his childhood, a lot of which we all know from the Harry Potter books, up to this point, and she went a little beyond, but not hugely, I mean. And most of what she told me was about Albus, not about everyone else. So, you know, I know a little bit. I'm really sticking to this don't-talk-about-it clause. Don't pretend you stick to the secrecy clause! Of course I don't! It's not fun doing these films, you're like... You don't read to everyone? No. No, but what I like is... As you can tell, I'm that really boring person who will not spill any beans. If you're an actor and you get cast as young Dumbledore, the one thing you do know is you live. Yes. I'm in all these films. Nothing's out of it. You could die. You could die. That was all good. All I have to worry about is keeping that beard growing. That's it. Yeah, yeah. But a big reaction from fans... Sort of a confused reaction from fans. Here are some of the tweets when it got announced. I mean, Dumbledore just got 200% hotter. Oh, my God. Here's another one. Jude Law is playing a young, hot and gay Dumbledore in Next Fantasy Beasts. I'm sweating already. LAUGHTER This, I think, sums it up quite nicely. Dumbledore? More like Dumbledam. LAUGHTER I didn't realise... It's apparating. Apparating. Now, obviously, you've done much apparating. Expert in apparation. So did you give Jude a lot of apparating tips? Yes. Oh, by the way, sorry. Apparating's the thing where you disappear. Yeah. Oh, right, yeah, yeah. LAUGHTER The first scene we had, do you remember, was on top of that huge plinth, and actually we had to step off onto one of those big mattresses. Oh. There you go. I remember that day. Apparating off that plinth, didn't we? Well, I remember when we did the first film, there were all these sorts of things that you... You know, you get to be in JK Rowling's world, you suddenly get given a wand, you've waited pretty much all your life for this moment, you think you're going to be a pro at it, and you suddenly stand there with this wand in your hand, and you're like... So I got this wonderful movement coach called Alex Reynolds, who came and worked with us, and we did a few sessions, pretty much in order that I could work out whether... It's too much, or, like, it should go super minimal, and we sort of studied all the... But it's the same with apparating. Apparating is... It's in that wizarding world. I love you. I just never thought about the levels and how it could go wrong. But actually, Jude, I hear that that scene in particular annoyed you. That you had skills that are multiplied. Again, this was being over-eager. Like, you know, just getting lessons. This was one of the funniest moments of my life. Getting lessons. There was a mention, a brief mention in the scene just before that. That scene goes all the way through London as Dumbledore is trying to persuade Newt to go on this mission. As I said there, he can't. Dumbledore can't. And there's a brief mention that he makes a card appear, which he then hands Newt, and as you see there, he eventually hands it back. So I thought, well, I was at this charity event and there was this incredible magician there, a very tall guy called Pete Heat, brilliant magician, by the way, who I thought, well, hey, can you come over and teach me some sleight of hand so I can maybe, you know, make this card really appear? And I practised and practised and practised and did. Of course, I got there and they were like, no, we CGI that. I'm watching this face. But can you still do it? I can. Well, oh, no, I thought... I think they used it in the film. You're just saying that to make you feel better. I had to prepare it first. I had to prepare it first. OK, try it for yourself. And you had another thing. Sure. And then, and that's what she said. Now, this is going to be awful. Look over there. I go like this. I go like that. Like that. Oh! I saw that. We missed it. We missed it. That was all sleight of hand. That sounded like a woo that you give a really drunk uncle at Christmas. That was a woo where... I'll try and do it again. That was like, you just... Like that and like that. Oh! What?! It worked on me. Oh, immediate reaction. I didn't see it. I didn't see the beginning. But you know what I love? You talk about how they were like, oh, we can CGI that, but there was one moment in Fantastic Beasts and, my God, they build the most extraordinary sets and when you walk onto the set of a lot of those films, it was completely mind-blowing. Except we had to do one scene where we were walking down, down kind of by a bridge, down to the bank of the River Seine. Obviously, all shot in Watford, but, like, by the river Seine. And they hadn't actually built any steps. And it was just a sort of amazing moment for the amount of, sort of, like, money that they had spent on extraordinary things. Suddenly, they had, like, all these sort of four actors having to do that thing, which I can't really demonstrate because I've got a... Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. You had to do one of these? You had to do one of these. Oh, my God! Literally, you had to do, literally... Oh, no! You had to fake a staircase? This world is real. It's, like, $8 billion. It's like, we can't do stairs. We just can't do it, guys. The worst thing, Melissa, is I thought I'd be really good at it and it transpires I'm not. But is this rooting it for you, Melissa? Because you are a proper Potter fan. Like, I really am, like, super, super worried. No, no, she's not making it up. There's another picture. Oh, God, where are these pictures coming from? And also, what I like is that you've got two kids, but they're not in this picture. Yeah, but they're like, you guys are staying home. Yeah, we had lawns, we had... But, like, Fantastic Beasts for me is, like, I don't know why that, like, made my brain break a little. Like, I loved it. I really, really loved it. Like, I was so excited. Because your little girls, how little are they? 11 and 8 now. Oh, so not so little, yeah. But there has been the patter of some new small feet at your home. Gigantic horse... Horses. Raising Golden Retriever horses. Two new Golden Retrievers. They're massive and they're super pretty. They are really pretty. Super pretty and super dumb. It's like living with models. They'll never wait in a line. They'll never, like, have to take, like, a bad job. Sometimes they go out into the backyard and they'll just literally somehow... I see them, I'm like, what are they doing? And I swear to God, I've watched Homer, like, catch light and then a breeze and then just, like, look back at you and you're like, you look gorgeous. Like, in a weird, scary way. And other people have seen it and thought it was, like, exaggerating and then they see it, they're like, my God, that dog found his light. Like, it's weird. But you're encouraging the model behavior because you've had proper beauty shots. Look at these. I mean, they're pretty. Which one's that, Homer or... That's Harper. Harper. And this one's Homer. Here we go. They'll be impossible. Guys, look at my chest hair, right? But he looks wise, doesn't he? He's just constant, he always is like, I'm so pretty. Like, it's always just, like, this sad, like, pretty, like, I don't know. But then, I like what you've done. You've taken beautiful dogs and then you've humiliated them. You've come up here as lions. Of course. That's how I spend my free time, guys. It's not weird. It's not weird at all. And then this one, this is, like, hand dog's tail. What is this? I get them to look like they were holding, like, loaves of bread and baskets. Like, they were, like, kind of, like, fishing village women. But they were just eating the bread. They're my grandmas. Now, I need... Clearly, I'm like, I need to do more with my life. They're still finding the lens, though, aren't they? They're always, like, they'll be all over the place and you get a camera out and they're like... Melissa McCarthy, you bring us an extraordinary true story. I mean, this is phenomenal. It's a movie called Can You Ever Forgive Me? And it's one of those... You're doing the rounds of the film festivals right now, but it won't actually... Cinema's here till the 1st of February. And it's about a woman called Lee Israel. So, tell us about Lee Israel, who she was, at what point we meet her. We meet her in, like, the 90s, like, 91, 92. She was a fairly successful biography writer living in New York City. A prickly, caustic, very difficult woman. And then suddenly was kind of told she's obsolete, no longer wanted or needed to write. She was on welfare. She couldn't support herself anymore. And so she started doing the one thing she could do well and kind of, by happenstance, she ends up forging literary works by Noel Coward and Dorothy Parker and all these incredible writers. And she eventually is caught by the FBI and convicted of it. But the tale... And she befriends, you know, Richard E. Grant, who plays Jack Hawk in it, who's amazing in it and, like, a delight. And they become these very, like, two incredibly intensely lonely, isolated people that kind of form this friendship and they both are in cahoots with it. And the forgeries, they're letters. It's, you know, people who collect... They're letters, yes. It's people who collect autographs and letters. And that overall, how many did she do? About 400 of these things? She did, like, 400-some letters in less than a year and a half. So she was... She had typewriters all over her house that matched and different types of paper and was baking things and selling them to all of these kind of antiquities, people that really were the ones that authenticate. So it was a full grift and a con, but she was really good at it. And I think three of her letters in the first edition of a Noel Coward book, three of her letters are in it. Until the second printing, when they're like, get them out! I want the first edition when they're in. We know you can be very funny, but we haven't seen you do this before. It's sort of heartbreaking and heartwarming. It's just beautiful. It must have been kind of a joy for you to do this. It was... I love the story so much, and I love all the kind of strong, flawed women I've played, but there's something special about Lee. There's no real reason you like her, yet I found myself pretty enamoured with her about a quarter of the way through the script. I was like, I don't know why, but I think I love her. Well, it was beautiful work. Beautiful work. Really. Right. Birdman, and has a BAFTA, a Golden Globe and an Oscar to show for it. She's currently starring in the dark historical comedy, The Favourite. Please welcome Emma Stone! Oh. Hi. You look fresh. Thank you. Yes, I've been recently touched up. Oh, OK. Good to know. Do you know anyone? You do know everyone. Yeah, I mean, have we met before? No. OK, you don't know everyone. Lovely to meet you. One second. So when were you born? 1932. Oh, I meant the month. But I know that Eddie, you gave Emma a BAFTA. Yeah, I did, and that was an amazing moment. He chose to name it. It actually wasn't her name. Because we're friends. The curse of La La Land. No, Ems is an old friend of mine, but it was an amazing thing when you're asked to give an award and then you know that your friend's nominated. But it was only on the day that I got, like, pounding anxiety, because I was like, what if actually you don't win? And then you have to do that thingy face, you go, that's the winner! And then not really be that excited. Oh, it's like the opposite. And she did win, and then I got a bit over it. Oh, good. Now, like Melissa, you're doing the film festival circuit. You've just come from the London Film Festival. Just now, that's why I'm late. Just now. I'm sorry. And this is the favourite, which is an extraordinary film, but again, this won't be in cinemas until January 1st is when it was released here. So remember. It's coming out. People watch this show over and over again. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah! It's for yeah! So, the film has been seen in other places, but was this really nerve-wracking? Because you are playing an English person in front of an English crowd with English actors. Is it tough? I mean, the thing that was scary, being the only American, I was like, if I mess this up, it's going to stick out like the sorest thumb. I mean, it would maybe ruin the entire movie. I would imagine. But that didn't happen. Well, I hope not. No, you know it didn't. I can't confirm it. I'm still American. I'm not totally sure. But I hope so. I mean, I tried to work hard on it. Yeah, no, it's phenomenal. It's phenomenal. So, the favourite, if you haven't heard about this movie, it's a sort of extraordinary tour de force by these three actresses. It's yourself, Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz. So, just give us a flavour of the story. How did the three of you kind of interact and meet? So, Olivia Colman, who is a genius and a legend and... Yeah. I mean... Yeah. I met her on this film, but now I understand why everyone's obsessed with her, because she's the greatest. She plays Queen Anne in 1708, 1710-ish. And Rachel Weisz plays her kind of companion, best friend, political advisor, Sarah Churchill. And then I come into the palace as Sarah's distant cousin who needs a job as a scullery maid. And then things get a little dicey from there. LAUGHTER There's some intrigue. Oh, there's a lot of intrigue. There's a lot of intrigue. No, it is terrific. Oh. Yeah, it's great. It's funny. And the three of you are just amazing. It's so much fun. It was so, so much fun. How do you feel about the corset? No-one likes corsets, do they? Oh, man. Has anyone ever tried a corset on? Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah, yeah. It's true. You've done a lot of corset work. Yeah, I have, actually. He's done extensive corsetry on many corset rolls. Yeah? Yeah. Quite a few. Yeah. First guy ever who made a corset, I did a production of Twelfth Night with Mark Rylance, and I was playing Viola and Mark was playing Olivia, and the guy who made the corsets was called Luca, and he was amazing. And he made these corsets, it was as if they were from the 16th century, whalebone, and he tightened me into it, and he had worn corsets all his life, and basically his body went into this extraordinary kind of thing. Like trees. Yeah. What happened when he took it off? Well, this is... My liver. Jelly. It was all floppy. But there was... I think a gentleman... I don't know the answer to that question. But there was a horrible moment when he was... I was like, oh, I'm not going to be able to eat much when I wear my corset, and he went... I never eat. So I have had some sympathy for the actresses I've worked with. Oh, God, you do? Go on, corset. No, you get... It was... Can you sit? Can you sit in those? I was supposed to ask, did you do the leading board? I learned to lean. I didn't have a leaning board, but I would just... Like a couch like this, I would... Because you cannot sit down. You really can't. And it's... And honestly, like, women existed in that for such a long time, which does give you a lot of sympathy for that time period, what you were going through. But for the first month, I couldn't breathe, and so I would just smell... And Sandy Powell is the costume designer. She's fantastic. The costumes are beautiful. It's just this one part. It's historically accurate, but I couldn't... And I would smell menthol, and it sort of made me think that I was in, like, a wide-open space. So I'd just smell a little bit of menthol and be in a wide-open space for 30 seconds and then be back to not breathing. But then after about a month, my organs shifted. Oh, my God. Because they have to, like what you're saying. His whole body shape changed. And it was only temporary, but it was gross. It was gross. Do you feel they've gone back? They've gone back. Okay. They've gone back, for sure. You said that like we knew... What happens when you're... Do you hear it? No, basically... Is it like a... You hear a creaking sound, then there's a pop, and then it wakes you in the night with a screech. No, it was like it went, like, apart. The bottom half of my stomach, whatever's... I'm not a doctor. Whatever's in there went down that way, and then I guess just my ribs stayed up. Whoa. So... What?! Anyway, don't do it. If you don't have to, don't do it. But I was grateful. I just want, like, my lungs in my arms. My lungs in my arms. Just stay here. And you learned to breathe in a new way. After dinner, no, I'm full. It gives a new meaning to my heart's in my throat. Now, since we last saw you, Emma Stone, on the show, you went and won an Oscar. Well done, you. Yes! And there's, you know, often people in those speeches go, you know, oh, I never dreamt of this moment. But you did more than dream of this moment. I mean, you planned this. It wasn't that specific. For that movie. To be fair. No, I mean, what you mean just, like, in terms of my childhood dreams? Yes, when you made your pitch to your parents. Yes. I've... This is... This story will never die. But I know... How old were you when you did it? Because it's amazing. I was 14, I was almost 15, and I made a PowerPoint presentation for my parents. So you wanted to move to L.A. And they didn't want you to go. They weren't going to let you move. Is that it? Well, no, they hadn't even heard the idea yet. Oh, I see. It was just, like, I realise if I'm going to... You know, we lived about a six-hour drive from L.A. in Phoenix, Arizona, and I realised I couldn't just come home in my freshman year of high school, which is, what, grade nine, ninth grade? Mm-hm, sure. OK. And I realised I couldn't just walk in and go, like, I'm a-moving. I'm 14, and here I go. So I decided to make a PowerPoint presentation about why it would be a good idea for me to move to Los Angeles and follow my big dreams. But you went to it. Like, it had music and everything. Yeah, it had the song Hollywood by Madonna. Amazing! Were you in a sensible pantsuit? I should have been in a sensible pantsuit. I think I was in my, like, high school... I went to an all-girls Catholic high school, so I think I was in, like, a plaid skirt and a collared shirt. And so Madonna's playing, and then, what, you just had a series of reasons why you should go to... A series of reasons why this would be a good idea, not just at any time, but now. For some reason, it did... Eventually, it worked. And I would punish my child if they had done that. But they believed in me, those freaks. But it is true that the presentation ended with... With a... Let me go? What? No, didn't it end with... You probably remember more about it than I do. Well, Jessica, doesn't it end... It ends with you putting up the picture, and it says, Emma Stone, actress, best... Was it best actress? No! No, didn't it end with... Who told you that? It ended with you winning an Oscar. First of all, my name is Emily, so there's no way it said Emma. OK, OK. And then... No! So you didn't say you were going to win an Oscar? Why are we telling this story? No! I thought the whole point of this... That's crazy. I thought... Well, it's quite crazy anyway, but... It is crazy. It's crazy. I would have made it, like, absolutely, she's going somewhere. And it's not there. It's somewhere else. Oh, well, you won an Oscar. There you go. Time for music. Over 30 years, this van has sold more than 40 million records worldwide, with eight top ten hits along the way. Tonight, he's performing his single, Try. Please welcome Mr Rick Astley! Come on over, sir. Now... Shuffle, shuffle. Thank you so much for doing that. That is from the album Beautiful Life, which is still available. Indeed. And have you seen one of these in... I haven't seen one in about 25 years. It's not just vinyl, it's a picture disc. Oh, cool! It's a picture disc! And look on the back as well. It's a two-colour picture disc. I know, that's the expensive kind. Sales are going up. I know, it's crazy. I think you're about the first to come back with a picture disc. Oh, I don't know, I think people are doing it, but I think it's just a joy. I mean, I remember that as a kid and collecting records and really wanting the certain ones. Yeah, yeah, for sure, yeah. Just watching that mysterious face twirling round. It's got a big spot on that cheek, actually. Look at his eye, it's following me round the room. He's watching me. He's still watching me. You do have to be careful where they put the hole. Yeah, well, it's the thing with the busking. No, it's terrific. And, of course, Melissa, if you want to take that... I'm going to take that. Why'd she get it? I'm all for it. Well, no, because you joined the couch later. Earlier, Melissa was saying what a big fan she was. Are you also...? I'm sorry, OK, never mind. Are you also a big...? I would also like one if you have another. We'll farm it, don't worry, we'll farm it. If not, Emma and I will fight for it later. And we may fight to the death. You're just like, oh, my God, what if I'm died? No, because Melissa was referring to the famous... Yeah. The coat. The coat, what a deal. Yeah, I know, that's... The chambray outfit, and I literally, I was like, oh, my God, I've got to get a turtleneck. I remember thinking, like, I have to get a turtleneck and a trench coat. Yeah. Which is, like, a very short midwestern woman shouldn't. I'd like to see you rock that, I think that could be, yeah. And do you remember, because this wasn't exactly the most produced music video of all time. No, we basically, I turned up with a bunch of clothes in a bag. I literally, you know... Oh, my God. Yeah, they're all my clothes, it wasn't styled, that was an accident, it wasn't, you know, premeditated or anything. And there was a guy, actually, when we recorded, not that far from here, we recorded the video, and there was a guy doing nights, as we call it, he was working through the night, yeah, and he just kept shouting out of his window, will you shut up? I was like, is this really meant to happen on your video? But, yeah, so it was kind of a bit unprepared, yeah. But now, tragedy strikes, because that trench coat should be in some sort of Planet Hollywood, or, you know, some sort of... My closet. Your closet. On my back. Where was it? I actually, I did an outside broadcast in Northern Ireland back in the day, right in the beginning of all of that, and a bunch of kids, basically, as I was kind of trying to be on the radio, I kind of just pulled it off my back, and it just drifted across a crowd of like a few hundred, maybe 1,000 people, and just drifted off into the sunset. That should be a documentary. That is such a good idea. That is a good idea. Trademark. Go right now, and you get those rights. But every now and again, I kind of see it coming back to me, because we were doing a gig not too long ago, and I saw this guy in a trench coat, and then, sure enough, as the gig got towards the end, and we hadn't played that song yet, he took it off, and it just kind of drifted across the crowd to me, so I had to put it on, kind of thing, so we just kind of relived the moment together, and I did this. Was it the right size? It was a bit big, to be honest, but I styled it out, you know what I mean? And we've talked about this before on the radio and everything, this phenomenon of the Rickrolling, and I wasn't going to bring it up, but while you were over there... I didn't want to... Do you want to talk about that or no? Because I just was wondering if anyone else had ever gotten Rickrolled. Yeah, that's an interesting point. These guys haven't. They hadn't, and they didn't know what it was, and I want to be Rickrolled. See you later, Ben! No, it's an incredible thing. It's a very fun situation, but I don't know how you feel about it. No, I've been absolutely fine with it. We have a daughter, and she's 26 years old now, and when that kind of started about ten years ago, she literally sat me down on the couch and said, did you realise it's got nothing to do with you? No! Yeah, and I kind of thought, she's absolutely right, it doesn't. It's just a song somebody chose, and therefore, to do this prank with kind of thing. So therefore, I don't own it anymore, it's nothing to do with me. This is something else. It's stopped now, though. It's stopped. It doesn't happen anymore. It's stopped, but people keep doing things with that tune on the internet. So what happens, Emma, for people who don't know, you open an email... So you open an email and there's a link to something, and it's like, oh, click this link, and then you click, and then basically, Rick, a bunch of pop-ups come up, and his face comes up as well, and then it sings Never Gonna Give You Up, and then until you restart your computer, it doesn't stop. LAUGHTER I find that funny. LAUGHTER It's pretty amazing. But I think it's the intention of Never Gonna Give You Up. Never, it's never gonna stop until you turn off your computer and start it up again. Thank you so much for that performance. Thank you. Good luck with the touring, and Rick Astley, everybody. APPLAUSE Time for a quick visit to the red chair, the big red chair. Who's on the big red chair? Hello! Hello. Hi, what's your name? Hi, I'm Andrew. Andrew, you sound like you're from further afield. I am, yes, I'm from Seattle, Washington, USA. Seattle, Washington, USA. Does your story involve someone on a couch? No, it does not, or at least, to God, I hope it doesn't. LAUGHTER Fingers crossed, everyone. OK, so what do you do for a living? I'm an ethics researcher at a tech company. An ethics researcher. Wow. That sounds like a really good job. LAUGHTER Thank you. I hope you're great at it. LAUGHTER We super need you right now. Did you just start? LAUGHTER Like, today? LAUGHTER Oh, my God. Off you go with your story. Yeah, so when I was younger, I was really into punk music, and I had this wonderful, amazing black leather jacket that I spent, like, weeks painting and studying, making it look really, really cool. So I went to a punk show, and I got a bit too drunk. And my friends, being the good friends they are, they put me in the last bus home, running from the club all the way to my house. And about five seconds into this bus ride, I can tell that I'm going to be very sick. Now, I'm frantically looking around for something to throw up into, but there's nothing anywhere. So as the bus takes a turn, so does my stomach, and I take the sleeve of my jacket... ..and just straight in. Classy. Now, it's a long bus ride. It's about 40 minutes in total. So this happens about five or six times, to the point where I'm having to kind of cradle my arm like this in this sort of V-shaped pool in my sleeve. Finally, my bus stop comes, and I ring the buzzer, and I stand up and start stumbling forward to get off. And as I'm walking past the driver, the driver says, Hey, whoa, man, you've got to pay. And without even thinking about it... ..I just drop my arm. In this sort of sea of sick. That's a good story. That was a good one. That's a good one. We haven't had that before, the old... The old sleeve-sick. That was very good. Do we have another one? We do. Hello! Hi. Hi, what's your name? My name's Francesca. Francesca. Lovely. And what do you do for Jessica? I am retired. I used to be a counselor, but I'm retired now. Okay, fine We're in safe hands here You are you are and I want to tell this story because it's about my sister Sarah who's broken both her ankles And I thought it'd cheer her up because the story features her. Oh lovely. Are you sure it's gonna cheer her up? Yeah It was many years ago Sarah and I were given vouchers for Christmas to go to a health spa in Covent Garden very famous health spa called the Sanctuary So it's very illustrious swanky And we decided to go together because we were a little bit nervous and intimidated Sarah and I had never even been to a gym together or gym at all. So we went along checked in got to the changing rooms and getting undressed Sarah looked around she said everybody's naked and so goodness. We're gonna have to be naked then You know, we're just gonna have to everybody else does because obviously this is what they do in this world And it's really quite hard to walk Naturally when you're naked, but anyway, we tried it and we went out the atrium is beautiful flowers and trees and birds We thought we don't know where to go So we headed towards the swimming pool up this little bridge and on the top of the bridge as a parrot So talking to the parrot And then so I said Jessica Jessica what people are wearing their dressing gowns Just in the changing rooms that people would make To be out there naked You didn't give it a big enough reaction Fantastic it was hard to top vomit man. I felt Accidental nudity, what else do you want? We're nude in a fully dressed environment Please say thank you to all of I guess Rick Ashley But in songs comedian and author David Walliams a British star Claire Foy and Hollywood great Kurt Russell, I'll see that good