07/11/2012 The One Show

Welcome to the One Show with Matt Baker. And Alex Jones. Two British

stars on the show tonight. first is Bob. Bob is already a

success here in the UK. But now he's got an agent and is trying to

break America. Incredible story. Our second guest already has gone

are his days of playing to a crowd of three in New York. Now he's one

of the biggest comedians in the world. Madison Square Gardens.

at that, a standing ovation just by saying where he is. It's Eddie

Izzard! Wait. Where are you Eddie? Hello The One Show!

APPLAUSE These people are very good. The

reason why Madison Square Gardens was so important was that I started

in an eight-seater. My first show was in Washington square park, a

street show to about three people. I felt that everyone who had ever

seen a show came to that gig. It was 15 years building up. Some

people have rocket careers. I have a slow balloon career. It will keep

going up forever unless birds attack. Obviously you spend a lot

of time in the States. Where were you first thing this morning when

the news came in of Obama? I was here. I came in two days ago. I try

to be mostly here. But I'm everywhere on the planet. I was

4.20 and I couldn't watch the telly because I was, I wanted Barack

Obama to win again. I was too scared - everyone was nervous.

was a nail biter. I got texted, this thing said "We've won." Mitt

Romney hadn't conceded defeat and so I thought oh, no it's not going

to be one of those when they say no and change their minds. I had to

watch for two hours then. Are you all right? A bid tired? I am tired.

I am a bit weird in the brain. I'm here. We've won. I support Crystal

Palace and we won 5-0 last night. Lots of winning going on. We're

first in the championship. We won the Tour De France. Good night all

round. And the Olympics and Paralympics... All great.

phenomenal year for human beings, not for Republicans and right-wing

people. Lovely to have you hear. Phill was up till the early hours

as well as our new political correspondent, watching the votes

come in at the American embassy in London. I bet you wish you were

with him. Here's how his night unfolded.

I have to admit, I don't know too much about American politics, but

what I do understand is about playing the long game. This one has

been a toughy. Rain stopped play due to Hurricane Sandy. We're in

the last over in the second innings and it's all to play for. Plus I

thought I'd wear me cricket gear. It makes me feel more comfy. You're

the expert, what's going on this evening? There are 538 votes

distributed amongst the states according to population. You have

got to win 50% of those votes plus one. First one to 270 wins. There

are nine which are swing states. Ohio is the big one. That's the

state that's going to win or lose it. Well, it's 11.55pm. The port is

in full swing. I'm told that the results will soon start coming in.

Exciting day? Exciting day. Exciting night. Wonderful crowd.

Everybody seems to be having fun. Ambassador, who are you rooting for

this evening? Obviously I'm an Obama appointee, one might presume

that I may have a choice, but I'm mainly interested in seeing that

everybody's happy and the election works well. If Romney does win,

does that mean that you're out of a job? Well, it's tradition that all

ambassadors, you put your resignation in on January 20th and

then decisions are made. You're a big baseball fan. Give us an

analogy to sum up tonight. I have this problem. I've been here for

years. When you have a ball and a bat, it's baseball. Not cricket!

I've managed to grab Russell Watson. How are you? Last time I was here I

was waiting four hours for a visa. Obama has got off to a great start,

seeing the ball well. He's smacked 61. He's in the lead. Romney is on

40, playing well but needs to just up his game a bit. But still

anybody's game. The main swing states haven't come in yet. The

King. You see. It really is. I'm the King of the Jungle. You're the

king. I'm the king. Kansas, Romney's won Kansas. Things are

starting to hot up. Just as well, because 2ax it is now and I really

do feel -- 2am it is now and I feel like the night watchman. Do we know

who's going to win? We don't have the difintive answer but based on

the numbers we're seeing now it looks like the polls were right.

This is a strong swing for Obama. We're on target for victory tonight.

It's 3.15am, we don't know who's won yet. Most of the Republicans

have gone home and as you can hear, most of Obama's supporters are

sounding cheerful. I think now you have the hard core group that

really want to see this all the way to the end and go to bed knowing

what tomorrow and the next four years hold for us. Well, it's 4am,

and it has been a long innings. We still don't know who's won. By the

time you see this film, you'll probably have a better idea than I

Well, as ever, you were the last to leave the party. I was indeed.

everybody when you heard the result. We got thrown out at 4am. Why?

don't know. We were ushered out. I was in the cab on the way home

listening to the radio. We had been there for hours waiting. The whole

embassy, they emptied it? Yes. rid of security guards and

everything? I think they left a few of the guys with guns there. Looked

like a great time. You'd be the first to say you didn't know an

enormous amount about American politics. No, but I went down there

with my eyes open and have a great evening. I got into the swing of

things. It was great fun. Lots of holering and cheering and

everything. You started like this in art and look where you are now.

There you go. Absolutely nowhere. Obama is still President. Yes, he

is. With a new-found knowledge. Give us stats on the difference

between the American elections and the UK. It's difficult to compare

because we're a tiny country and they're massive, but UK party's

spent 31.5 on the general election. Over in the US the election could

reach 5.8 billion. That just shows to show how much they throw at it

all. We're a fifth the size of them. If we were there size and with our

system, we would spend 150 million. They spent almost 6 billion. To put

it in context. Last year the Americans spent over $7 billion on

crisps. There you go. This is the interesting thing, you

are massively into your politics. Looking on both sides of the

Atlantic... I'm into people who generally around the centre, centre

left, centre right, radical moderate that's what I am. Their

Republicans have been pulled right over to the right by the TEA Party.

It was a danger if they got in. America would go crazy. Is it worth

throwing all that money. They changed the rules so that they

could pult in billions. The last election they didn't spend this

much. It was like the Republicans were trying to buy the election.

the end, woor left with the same result. Which is great and positive

for anti-racism around the wrorld to have a black man be elected

twice as President. That's brilliant. It's a great future for

the world. How did your mate Mitt take defeat. I didn't realise his

name was Mitt. He took it with good grace through gritted teeth. He's

used to it. He ran for nomination in 2008 and lost out to McCain. His

father... McCain, that's a chip. We.disclaimer at the top.

father ran as a Republican nomination for President in 1968.

He withdrew. And his mum ran for Senate in 1970 and she lost. So

they're kind of quite used to it in that family. Phill on US politics.

Thank you. We might call on you Eddie next

time. Yes, I'll be here. Next week, we go on the road to keep up with

team rickshaw, the six teenagers that will be accompanying us as

they cycle from Llandudno to London. Team rickshaw start on Friday. Then

the whole One Show will meet up with them for a live TV special

from Cardiff on Monday from the castle actually. Then it's Bath on

Tuesday, Salisbury, Reading and Television Centre in London for the

big Children In Need night itself. It's going to be a brilliant thing.

It's all to support Children In Need. Our six inspiring young

people, tonight it's gentleman milla's turn to tell her story. --

Jamila's turn to tell her story. Welcome to my house. This is my

bedroom where I listen to music, watch movies and chill out. This is

my mum and my little sister. Hello. And that's my sister. Hi. That's my

family. The part of London I live in is quite urban. There are a lot

of young people. They tend to hang around in groups and some of them

get called gangs and others are actually in gangs. There is a lot

of gang awareness. You'd be scared to go into a certain area because

you might gate proched. You see a group, it's intimidated. You don't

want to walk near them. When I used to go to school sometimes, I'd get

picked on. It made me feel self- conscious. I kept myself to myself

really. Being picked on in school and also the gapbgdz, it makes you

not want to go anywhere. It makes you want to be alone. I'm involved

with the Rickshaw Challenge because it's an opportunity for me to raise

awareness for Code 7 project. The project is so important for young

people in this area. It's somewhere that they can go. It's somewhere

they don't have to be hanging on the street. For children to find

something like that, it's so important. She's a fantastic young

lady. When she first came to Code 7 she was so shy. Someone said - she

can sing. We nurtured that talents and give them the opportunity of

positive outlets where they can benefit I think it's a necessity. A

lot of young people love music. It's their way of expressing

themselves, instead of turning to a different way of life, they write a

bit of music, that's about their life, get it down and put a nice

beat behind it. A lot of the songs here are about

leaving your past behind and aiming for a better life. That's what a

lot of the topics are about here. The Rickshaw Challenge is very

important. Without Children In Need Code 7 wouldn't have been able to

give me as much as I've been given. I want to raise awareness for young

people that there is support for you. She's trying to prepare

herself by going on long walks when she comes back from college every

evening. I've never seen her be so tenacious about exercising. She

doesn't like to exercise. I think the hard est thing is going o to be

the riding, just riding that long way. I've been doing some cycling,

so that I know I'll be ready for the challenge. It is going to be a

huge challenge. You know, you have a team behind you. There's going to

be six of us and we are going to be supporting each other, which is

going to help us a lot. We're doing this for a lot of people and we

just need that support from everyone. So, it would be nice to

people to give us encouragement. APPLAUSE

She's strong. She'll be singing the whole way. Hopefully. Eddie, would

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do-it- now! You are not shy of a challenge, Eddie. 43 marathons in

51 days. Yes. I want a tattoo! It was a bit bonkers. He Llandudno is

in North Wales. My advice to them is listen to your body, but nobody

listens to their bodies. Before we were wild animals, we would feel

what we should and shouldn't do. We don't train enough because we don't

listen to our bodies. Their determination will make them do it.

If they want to do it, that will get them through. How you are on a

bit of a little tour yourself. Going worldwide with Force Majeur.

It starts next year and I'm playing all through Britain, the O2 Arena,

Wembley Arena, Aberdeen arena. starts in Riga. It starts in

Latakia and then we are going to Estonia and I will be playing

Kathmandu and Mumbai and Moscow and Berlin. Have you ever been to these

places before? I have not been to Moscow, St Petersburg, Delhi or

Mumbai. I met a man from Kathmandu walking down the road. It is like a

retired Kipling story! He said you are that comedian guide. He said I

am from Kathmandu. I said, really? This was in New York. I said you

speak good English. I ask if kids spoke good English in Kathmandu. He

said yes. I asked if I could do a concert there in English and he

said yes. You are travelling all over the place. How do you know

with the same material that works in that fear it will work in

Kathmandu? People say there's a Latvian sense of humour and then an

Australian sense of humour and that is not true. I believe Khuner is

human and approve of this is Monti Python and the Simpsons. They go

all around the world. They dubbed the Simpson's, but it is still the

same jokes. I make mine universal. By and talking about supermarkets,

haircuts, God, dinosaurs. Even George Formby jokes in Paris! I

talked about him and they didn't know him. I said imagine a love

child between Chas us before and Jacques Chirac. That got a laugh

here and in Paris. You just have to make your references work. You'll

love this because one of the places you're going to his dystonia. We

have been in contact with his Mr Estonia loves it. That is look

from the office! Be for we give you the translation, can you guess what

that joke might mean? I can't guess. I have seen the translation. That

is a good joke. We knew hear the translation, that works. A classic

is stony injured in English. drunk guy falls from the 9th floor

and when he hits the ground, he doesn't have any injuries. The

bystanders ask him, what's the problem? He says, I don't know, I

just got here. That is probably a true story!

Drunk people and babies survive the big fall. Thank you do those two in

Estonia. That is just human. If the drunk I fell out of the window...

Also, the comedy is in the fact of, I just got here. It is a silly line

and a drunk man would say that. You could do that anywhere. I will do

one about pigs with guns. A man who is more used to looking into the

future than delving into the past next. Russell Grant revisits the

house he lived in with his Nan. Tell us the joke!

Are I'm Russell Grant and I'm going back to the Street where I used to

live with my Nan. Torrington Road in Rice look, Middlesex. It is some

time since I have been here, but it has not changed. This was where my

Nan that lived her final years. They are re very different. But the

stairs have not changed. The eyes of a child, it is funny. Everything

seems much bigger. From about the age of 11 or 12, I ended up living

here more and more when my mum and dad went through a difficult time.

There's a lot of very, very happy memories in this house. But my

initial reaction is that it has changed. I'm having to go into my

memory banks to see how things were. I remember this room. This was a

piano room. The piano it used to stand there. She would look in the

local paper, the Middlesex Gazette, and say piano is the sale, will you

buy that? That was my Nan, that is why I loved her. She was so random

and spontaneous. Sagittarius. She was probably frustrated that she

could not play as well as she would have liked to. She said, do you

remember Les Dawson? He used to play out of key. She preferred to

think of herself more as a Liberace, Now, if this has certainly changed.

There was no big fitted wardrobe. This is where I slept. The thing I

remember about here was the sound of the train. That's down -- that

sound to this day still reminds me Goodness me. There's absolutely

nothing recognisable in this room. There was a fire here. One of those

lovely Raeburn fires. There was always a glow in the half. This

room was the heart of the home. There was always my man's chair

here. The telly would be on. My Nan used to lit -- laugh Cowboys, she

used as shout at the television. It was like a continual pantomime. But

they are treasured memories. Such fun, such joy, such merriment. That

is what my grandmother brought to me. My mum and dad parted, I spent

more time with my Nan. Whatever happens, I never did without family

love, it was always there. There's always a very powerful, strong

relationship between a grandmother and a grandson. A cluster of

emotions that wraparound you like a big blanket. They're not hint now,

Thank you, Russell. It is Remembrance Sunday on Sunday and we

want to remember your family's war heroes on our programme this Friday.

Please send your photos of the war heroes in your family that you want

to remember. Send us a picture and tell us their story. Going back to

Russell's film, you did a documentary, you visited some of

the houses you grew up in in Swansea and Northern Ireland.

it clearly in Bangor. I run the marathon through both of them. I

went back to Bangor. At what was it like? The very weird. Mum was alive

then and it was a fun time. We had a gang I played around with. It was

just fun. Northern Ireland before the Troubles, I didn't know

anything about politics, and it was just the best time of my life.

can put yourself back there. We it had the same carpet. The same

carpet was there. We had taken the carpet with us and they had bought

the same carpet from the same guy. It was odd. Dad said, yes, we took

it and they got more of the same carpet. Did you have a cat? Nine a.

My brother was allergic to cats. is time to meet Bob! Very talented.

He has found all around the world. He even has a Hollywood agent

handling the film rights to his story. All because of how he

changed James. The book James wrote about BOP is a bestseller, but that

hasn't stopped Bob doing what he likes best. He enjoys basking with

James on the streets of London. loves the attention when we are

basking. He just loves to perform for the audiences and he knows he

is a complete superstar. I put a blanket down for him and he sits on

it quite happily. I get on with playing the guitar. Thank you very

much. Bob and I first met when I came back to my supported housing

programme and after a while I realised he did not belong to

anyone so I took him in. Or what is his name? BOP. I've written a book

about him and our adventures and how he has changed my life and

given the structure. Bob is the best companion in the world. Never

lies to me, never deceives me, except from food! He loves me and I

love him and Bob and I have created a very special bond which I have

never known from another cat in my life. What a bobby dazzler! James,

he looked absolutely beautiful. is a superstar, he has changed my

life. He is so intelligent. He started following me round a few

years ago. He had been in a fight. He was hiding in my building and I

have not looked back. Taking care of someone else instead of myself

changed my life. Is this story going to be made into a film? How

confident are you? More and more every day. If you had so that any

18 months ago, I would have laughed. If you had said I would be sitting

next to Eddie, I would definitely have laughed! It is interesting

being at one with a cat. On the Street, you at one with everyone. I

wasn't sleeping on the streets, I just lived there. The fact that you

met a cat and got on with him is great. He is so intelligent, he

does little tricks for the audience's. Give me a high five.

This Hollywood agent was impressed and amazed by this story. The same

agent that came up with Marley And Me. The same Hollywood agent that

is currently trying to get it sold. Who knows? Everything has

snowballed. We've been non-stop in the top 10 for 40 weeks. The story

is incredible. It is a good time for ginger cat because we hear in

the news today, fresh from California, that the Californians

loved ginger cat. Tabbies, too much latitude. White cats are to a lift.

And black cats are too mysterious. Would you agree with this? You've

had a dog that behaves like a cat. I do like cats. There was a cat

that I was too young to know about. Ginger cat? Do yes. He is not

looking at me at all! He is watching himself on the monitor.

knows when his close-up is! He has got a strong quality of just

sitting there calmly. He doesn't give a monkey's. He has a one of a

kind. That is why I had to do the book. When I got offered the chance

by my agent, I had to snap it up. She said, would you like to do your

story? I said, yes. We are glad you have! Good luck with the film and

the book. It is called A Street Cat Named Bob and it is out now. If