0:00:17 > 0:00:20So inoffensive, she's offensive,
0:00:20 > 0:00:24ladies and gentlemen, please welcome your host -
0:00:24 > 0:00:25the fabulous Ruth Jones!
0:00:25 > 0:00:28# So here she is, merry Christmas
0:00:28 > 0:00:31# Everybody's having fun
0:00:31 > 0:00:34# Look to the future
0:00:34 > 0:00:39# She's only just begun. #
0:00:43 > 0:00:46Aww!
0:00:46 > 0:00:49Hello and welcome to my Christmas Cracker.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52We've got a real festive feast for you on the show tonight.
0:00:52 > 0:00:54Cockney comedy king, Micky Flanagan.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56APPLAUSE
0:00:56 > 0:00:59All-singing all-dancing living legend, Lulu.
0:00:59 > 0:01:04Music from the brilliant Manic Street Preachers.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09And in a second, I'll be reunited with my dear friend,
0:01:09 > 0:01:11the fabulous James Corden.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16Hey, what do you think about my house band?
0:01:16 > 0:01:21And the fantastic Segue Sisters!
0:01:21 > 0:01:26Now, my first guest is an immensely talented actor, writer, presenter and electrician.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28LAUGHTER
0:01:28 > 0:01:32Please welcome my dear, dear, friend, James Corden.
0:01:32 > 0:01:34# Whatever I said Whatever I did
0:01:34 > 0:01:35# I didn't mean it
0:01:35 > 0:01:38# I just want you back for good
0:01:38 > 0:01:40# Want you back, want you back
0:01:40 > 0:01:42# Want you back for good
0:01:42 > 0:01:45# Whenever I'm wrong Just tell me the song
0:01:45 > 0:01:47# And I'll sing it
0:01:47 > 0:01:49# You'll be right and understood
0:01:49 > 0:01:50# Want you back, want you back
0:01:50 > 0:01:53# I want you back for good. #
0:01:56 > 0:01:57Do you know what?
0:01:57 > 0:02:00It's come to something when I have to invite you as a guest
0:02:00 > 0:02:04onto my chat show in order to sit on the sofa and have a little catch-up.
0:02:04 > 0:02:06I saw you last week!
0:02:06 > 0:02:08See, he won't join in.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11- No, no...- But I saw you for how long last week?
0:02:11 > 0:02:14- Only about half an hour.- Exactly. We used to spend hours together.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16I know. It is weird, isn't it?
0:02:16 > 0:02:20At the moment, you are in his hit show in the West End,
0:02:20 > 0:02:21One Man, Two Guvnors.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24If you haven't seen it, it's amazing. Have a look at this.
0:02:24 > 0:02:27I'm my own worst enemy. Stop being negative.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30I'm not, I'm being realistic. I'll screw it up, I always do.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33Who screws it up? You! You're the role model for idiots everywhere.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36Me?! You're nothing without me, you're the cock-up.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39Don't you call me a cock-up, you cock-up!
0:02:39 > 0:02:40LAUGHTER
0:02:40 > 0:02:43You slapped me! Yes, I did, and I'm glad I did because...
0:02:43 > 0:02:47Oh, that hurts! Good! Because you started it.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49Argh! No!
0:02:55 > 0:02:59APPLAUSE
0:02:59 > 0:03:03It's so incredibly physical, that's the thing I can't get over.
0:03:03 > 0:03:08- I mean, are you covered in bruises? - Yeah. It's not all like that.
0:03:09 > 0:03:11There are other people in it.
0:03:11 > 0:03:15It hurts, every night. It does.
0:03:15 > 0:03:19I come on stage and within two minutes I've to roll over the back of a sofa.
0:03:19 > 0:03:21There's that, there's a lot of running.
0:03:21 > 0:03:26My legs often hurt, but they never really hurt when I'm doing it.
0:03:26 > 0:03:28When I'm doing it, it's just great.
0:03:28 > 0:03:31I'd be amazed if I ever play a better part.
0:03:31 > 0:03:35It's an amazing role and he is superb in it.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38I'm not just saying it, he's absolutely incredible in it.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41Is it true you accepted it without even reading the play?
0:03:41 > 0:03:44Nicholas Hytner, Sir Nicholas Hytner, I should say,
0:03:44 > 0:03:50who directed a play I was in called The History Boys and is artistic director of the National Theatre...
0:03:50 > 0:03:54So weird me telling you this when you know all of the answers to all of these questions.
0:03:54 > 0:03:59You know all of the answers! It's the weirdest thing.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02It's like you've been in a coma
0:04:02 > 0:04:06and I'm having to retrain your brain to make us friends again.
0:04:06 > 0:04:11Yeah, and he called and said, "Do you want to do a play next year at the National Theatre?"
0:04:11 > 0:04:12I said, "Yes".
0:04:12 > 0:04:15You know, he said, "Do you not want to know what it is?"
0:04:15 > 0:04:19I said, well... The truth is, I figure if you're an actor in Britain
0:04:19 > 0:04:23and you get to work at the National Theatre, particularly with him,
0:04:23 > 0:04:25then you're the luckiest in the country.
0:04:25 > 0:04:30So, next year in April, we go to Broadway and we'll do the play there.
0:04:30 > 0:04:34And of course you're going to New York under different circumstances from last time,
0:04:34 > 0:04:37because you'll be going as a dad this time.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39- Yes!- James has become a father!- Yes.
0:04:39 > 0:04:42APPLAUSE
0:04:42 > 0:04:46- It's...- How's that turning out for you?- It's great, it's brilliant.
0:04:46 > 0:04:49I have to say, because I'm very proud of this,
0:04:49 > 0:04:53James and Jules have asked me to be godmother to baby Max.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55AUDIENCE: Ah!
0:04:55 > 0:04:57And I've been thinking about it.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00I'm just wondering what you expect of me as a godmother.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03It's mostly financial.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05LAUGHTER
0:05:06 > 0:05:11As Max starts to speak, he may start asking you quite awkward questions
0:05:11 > 0:05:14and so I've written a few questions down to see,
0:05:14 > 0:05:18just to give you a little bit of preparation, so you're ready with the answers.
0:05:18 > 0:05:22- OK.- So I just thought, this is the kind of thing he might ask you.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25Daddy, where do babies come from?
0:05:25 > 0:05:27You should talk to your mum about that.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29LAUGHTER
0:05:29 > 0:05:31Daddy, why is water wet?
0:05:31 > 0:05:34LAUGHTER
0:05:34 > 0:05:36You should talk to your mum about that.
0:05:36 > 0:05:38LAUGHTER
0:05:38 > 0:05:43What's GDP expressed as a percentage of average earnings?
0:05:44 > 0:05:47Average earnings? You should talk to your godmother about that.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50LAUGHTER
0:05:50 > 0:05:52APPLAUSE
0:05:52 > 0:05:55And, Daddy, will they do another episode of Gavin and Stacey?
0:05:55 > 0:05:58AUDIENCE: Yes!
0:05:59 > 0:06:02Well, here's the thing...
0:06:02 > 0:06:08I've looked at the prices of your schools, probably yes. No!
0:06:08 > 0:06:10CHEERING
0:06:10 > 0:06:15Actually... The thing is that we do get asked that a lot, don't we?
0:06:15 > 0:06:19We're always being asked is there going to be any more Gavin and Stacey.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21It's lovely to be asked it.
0:06:21 > 0:06:25I always find it funny, because I always say the same thing, which is true.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27- Which is that... - ..we haven't had any time.
0:06:27 > 0:06:31I think the thing is, it's a big thing.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33It's a big thing to go back to it.
0:06:33 > 0:06:37The worst thing that could happen is
0:06:37 > 0:06:40we ruin this thing that we're both are so proud of.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43I think we sort of decided that we wouldn't write a series
0:06:43 > 0:06:46because it's gone on such a journey, hasn't it?
0:06:46 > 0:06:49So, if we were to go back, it would only be for a special.
0:06:49 > 0:06:52Yeah, I mean, I'm up for it, if you are.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55- Yeah, shall we, then?- Yes!
0:06:55 > 0:06:58No, I think we will. I think, yeah.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01CHEERING
0:07:01 > 0:07:04You know that I'm quite keen to do a musical.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07I think the musical version of Gavin and Stacey is a good idea.
0:07:07 > 0:07:12- I really do. - I don't think you're serious, I think you're saying this for comic effect.
0:07:12 > 0:07:16- No, I do!- You would sit and write a Gavin and Stacey musical
0:07:16 > 0:07:18- and we'd do it in the West End or something?- Definitely.
0:07:18 > 0:07:20What would the story be?
0:07:20 > 0:07:24- We'll get something!- Where would the houses be? What about the cars?
0:07:24 > 0:07:27- What about, you know what I mean? - That's the magic of theatre!
0:07:27 > 0:07:30We'll get the audience to help us.
0:07:30 > 0:07:35Give us a location or a scene between Smithy and Nessa from Gavin and Stacey.
0:07:35 > 0:07:39- On the island!- On the island. OK.
0:07:39 > 0:07:44And now give me a reason why Smithy and Nessa should get together.
0:07:44 > 0:07:48- Because they love each other! - They don't love each other!
0:07:48 > 0:07:50Have you ever seen it?!
0:07:50 > 0:07:52They have great sex.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55Because they have great sex? OK. All right.
0:07:55 > 0:07:58We're going to go over there and join our band
0:07:58 > 0:08:01and see if we can come up with a song that catches.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04This will either be a brilliant idea or the worst thing we ever do.
0:08:04 > 0:08:08- Absolutely. Absolutely. Come on.- OK.
0:08:08 > 0:08:11APPLAUSE
0:08:14 > 0:08:17Right, here we go.
0:08:17 > 0:08:21I feel like I'm on Whose Line Is It Anyway?
0:08:21 > 0:08:25- Just get us in mood, in the scene, in character.- This is a bad idea!
0:08:25 > 0:08:27- I can't remember how to do her. - Do some Nessa, go on.
0:08:27 > 0:08:31- Oh, what's occurring?- Ah!
0:08:32 > 0:08:35Can you do some Smithy? You've done Smithy quite recently.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38- I do it all the time.- Yeah.
0:08:40 > 0:08:43- All right, Smithy, what's occurring? - All right?
0:08:43 > 0:08:46What you doing on the island?
0:08:46 > 0:08:50# This and that I'm doing this and that
0:08:50 > 0:08:53# It's none of your business
0:08:53 > 0:08:55# Get out of my face
0:08:55 > 0:08:59# I don't know what you're doing here, you're on my land
0:09:00 > 0:09:04# This is my place This is my territory
0:09:04 > 0:09:06# Don't go on about it!
0:09:06 > 0:09:10# I just came down to see the boy
0:09:11 > 0:09:14# The boy loves you, no doubt
0:09:14 > 0:09:17# He loves you, no doubt
0:09:17 > 0:09:19# He looks at you and he says My dad, I love you
0:09:19 > 0:09:21# But he's a Welsh boy... #
0:09:21 > 0:09:23- Oh, don't give me that! - # He's a Welsh boy... #
0:09:23 > 0:09:25He's English!
0:09:25 > 0:09:27# He don't want none of your Essex crap! #
0:09:27 > 0:09:31LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:09:38 > 0:09:40- OK...- What will we do?
0:09:40 > 0:09:42A different tune?
0:09:42 > 0:09:45- Let's have a mood change, have a mood change.- A dark one.
0:09:45 > 0:09:47About all that Essex....
0:09:50 > 0:09:56# Gavlar, oh, Gavlar
0:09:56 > 0:10:01# I miss you since you've moved down to Wales
0:10:02 > 0:10:08- # Gavlar, I'm stuck with Pamela - Pamela
0:10:08 > 0:10:13# And Mick and you're down there with those sheep-shaggers... #
0:10:13 > 0:10:17LAUGHTER
0:10:17 > 0:10:22# What is this place called Billericay?
0:10:24 > 0:10:28# It's full of people who are called Nicky... #
0:10:28 > 0:10:29Eh?
0:10:29 > 0:10:33# They're very hard and they're all very tricky... #
0:10:33 > 0:10:35Not hard!
0:10:35 > 0:10:40# I don't want my boy growing up to be like that. #
0:10:40 > 0:10:41Twat.
0:10:41 > 0:10:45LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:10:52 > 0:10:55Oh, dear!
0:10:55 > 0:11:00We have to talk about the other big thing you've done this year, which is your autobiography.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02Yeah.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04James Corden: May I Have Your Attention Please?
0:11:04 > 0:11:08Brilliant title. And a fantastic read, I have to say.
0:11:08 > 0:11:09Well I was touched that you read it.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11- Were you?- I really was.
0:11:11 > 0:11:14- Can I be honest, first of all... - Flick read it?
0:11:14 > 0:11:17- No, I read it. - But you looked at your bits first.
0:11:17 > 0:11:20I flicked to look at my bits, what has he said about me?
0:11:20 > 0:11:22And then I got engrossed.
0:11:22 > 0:11:26You didn't put in the story about the squirrel, about when you dressed up as a squirrel.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29I wanted to, I adore that.
0:11:29 > 0:11:32It was a harvest festival and so we all had to dress up
0:11:32 > 0:11:35as different animals and we were going to march through the town
0:11:35 > 0:11:38and I said, "Mum, I've got to be a squirrel.
0:11:38 > 0:11:40"In two weeks, I've got to be a squirrel."
0:11:40 > 0:11:42Two weeks came by and the night before I went,
0:11:42 > 0:11:45"Mum, have you made my squirrel outfit?" She just went...
0:11:45 > 0:11:49And I knew, from the look on her face that this was the first time
0:11:49 > 0:11:52she'd thought about the squirrel outfit since the last time.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55Cut to me in a brown jumper...
0:11:56 > 0:12:00..a pair of my sister's brown leggings...
0:12:00 > 0:12:02Right?
0:12:04 > 0:12:09Shoe polish on my nose with whiskers like this
0:12:09 > 0:12:10and then my mum,
0:12:10 > 0:12:12the final insult to injury,
0:12:12 > 0:12:18my mum got a pair of her tights... I don't know what...
0:12:18 > 0:12:21A pair of her tights and put one leg inside the other
0:12:21 > 0:12:24and put rolled-up pairs of jeans
0:12:24 > 0:12:29in the tights and safety-pinned them to my arse.
0:12:30 > 0:12:34So, all I had was like...
0:12:34 > 0:12:39what could only have looked like a huge poo,
0:12:39 > 0:12:44dragging on the floor and my own trainers, white trainers.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46I turn up to school,
0:12:46 > 0:12:49some of them had big bushy tails with wire in
0:12:49 > 0:12:52and little paws.
0:12:54 > 0:13:00I was just in a brown tracksuit and it was dragging on the floor.
0:13:00 > 0:13:03It was so bad that even the bullies,
0:13:03 > 0:13:06who would have jumped on an opportunity like that,
0:13:06 > 0:13:08were looking at me, going,
0:13:08 > 0:13:11"His mum's dome him over there."
0:13:11 > 0:13:13LAUGHTER
0:13:13 > 0:13:17You know what I mean?
0:13:17 > 0:13:20It's been lovely to chat with you, because I don't get to that often,
0:13:20 > 0:13:22so it has been nice.
0:13:22 > 0:13:25Have you got any ambitions that you still want to achieve?
0:13:25 > 0:13:28Honestly?
0:13:28 > 0:13:31To write something else with you.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33- Aww!- Truly. I...
0:13:33 > 0:13:37APPLAUSE
0:13:37 > 0:13:40I would like to do a special of Gavin on Stacey
0:13:40 > 0:13:46but to get back into a room and try and think of some characters and a story
0:13:46 > 0:13:48and try and tell it
0:13:48 > 0:13:51as well as we told the last one.
0:13:51 > 0:13:55- That's what I'd like to do. - That's lovely. I hope we get to do that too.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57James Corden, thank you so much.
0:13:57 > 0:14:02APPLAUSE
0:14:05 > 0:14:10My next guest has gone from being a Billingsgate fish porter to a sell-out stand-up.
0:14:10 > 0:14:13Before we meet him, let's have a look at him in action.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16Is there a young man in this room?
0:14:16 > 0:14:19You don't realise what men of my age have had to put up with.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21We've seen everything change.
0:14:21 > 0:14:26We caught the fag end of when men were in charge. Properly in charge.
0:14:26 > 0:14:30I've got a pair of bollocks and a day job, I must be in charge!
0:14:32 > 0:14:35They used to walk about doing nothing,
0:14:35 > 0:14:37go round in their pants.
0:14:38 > 0:14:43They'd come home, they put the money on the table
0:14:43 > 0:14:45and walked about in their pants.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49My old man did nothing.
0:14:49 > 0:14:52If he shut the cupboard door, he thought it was helping out.
0:14:55 > 0:14:59Shut that door for you, Sylvie!
0:14:59 > 0:15:03I'm going down the pub for a week.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06Micky Flanagan, ladies and gentlemen.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09# Oh, Mickey, you're so fine You're so fine, you blow my mind
0:15:09 > 0:15:11# Hey, Mickey!
0:15:11 > 0:15:13# Oh, Mickey, what a pity You don't understand
0:15:13 > 0:15:15# You take me by the heart When you take me by the hand
0:15:15 > 0:15:19# Oh, Mickey, you're so pretty Can't you understand?
0:15:19 > 0:15:23# It's guys like you, Mickey What you do, Mickey
0:15:23 > 0:15:25# Do, Mickey Don't break my heart, Mickey! #
0:15:27 > 0:15:29Thank you.
0:15:32 > 0:15:33You're looking fantastic.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36Oh, thanks. My mum got me ready.
0:15:36 > 0:15:37Really?
0:15:37 > 0:15:42Done a better job than your mum. Sounds a bit lazy, doesn't she?
0:15:42 > 0:15:46- You're hugely successful now. - Yeah, I know.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49Your tour has been record-breaking
0:15:49 > 0:15:52and your ticket was the fastest-selling comedy ticket
0:15:52 > 0:15:56- since Eddie Izzard's live tour four years ago?- It's amazing, isn't it?
0:15:56 > 0:16:00If it carries on, I'm going to sign off.
0:16:00 > 0:16:04I am. It's been murder getting back every other Tuesday.
0:16:04 > 0:16:08When the helicopter lands on top of the unemployment benefit office,
0:16:08 > 0:16:10it's causing a bit of suspicion.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12LAUGHTER
0:16:12 > 0:16:15At what point did you kind of go, "Oh, I've made it"?
0:16:15 > 0:16:17Or do you not feel like that?
0:16:17 > 0:16:22I went to my local DIY shop, and I bought a plunger for a fiver.
0:16:22 > 0:16:25The geezer went, "I saw you on the telly, give us three quid."
0:16:26 > 0:16:30I thought, "This is all working out, this."
0:16:30 > 0:16:34- Do you get recognised a lot?- I was in Brighton a couple of weeks ago
0:16:34 > 0:16:40and we took my little boy down there. I put him on these motorbike things, you know?
0:16:40 > 0:16:44I'm standing there, a bloke came over and went, "Can I have a photograph, mate?"
0:16:44 > 0:16:47"Yeah, all right." I looked at my friends, I'm like that. "Showbiz, you know?"
0:16:47 > 0:16:51Two minutes later, a bloke came over to me and went,
0:16:51 > 0:16:54"I've just put 50p in one of the bikes, mate, they're not working."
0:16:54 > 0:16:58I was like, "I don't work here, mate."
0:16:58 > 0:17:01Do you find now you're meeting all sorts of people?
0:17:01 > 0:17:05- Do you ever get starstruck by people you meet?- I met Kevin McCloud the other week.
0:17:05 > 0:17:09Isn't it strange, the people you think, he's really thrown me?
0:17:09 > 0:17:12- I've been watching him for years. - On Grand Designs?
0:17:12 > 0:17:14In our house, he's a god. The highlight of our week
0:17:14 > 0:17:18is if we stumble onto an episode of Grand Designs we haven't seen, me and the wife.
0:17:18 > 0:17:22Oh! The tension in the room, it builds and builds.
0:17:22 > 0:17:26It's just as good when it's one you HAVE seen. And you know that they've made a really great house.
0:17:26 > 0:17:32It's nice because, if you ain't seen it, it's always, "Ooh, is the glass going to turn up?"
0:17:32 > 0:17:37You look at each other halfway through, "I can't take it, babe."
0:17:37 > 0:17:39"All the way from Germany in two weeks?
0:17:39 > 0:17:43"If that glass don't turn up before winter, the whole thing is going to be ruined."
0:17:43 > 0:17:47Kevin McCloud, when I met him I said, "I'm really pleased to meet you."
0:17:47 > 0:17:51You say something stupid. "I've done my house up, you know." And he goes...
0:17:55 > 0:18:00I have to mention your DVD. Again, fantastic.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03- It's brilliant. - We can't even discuss this, but I do love your theory
0:18:03 > 0:18:08behind why there are so many teenage pregnancies these days,
0:18:08 > 0:18:09compared to previous years.
0:18:09 > 0:18:14Less foreplay now. Or what our parents would call heavy petting.
0:18:15 > 0:18:19Basically, fingering's disappeared, innit?
0:18:19 > 0:18:23- It has. That's the truth of the matter.- Kids are not interested.
0:18:23 > 0:18:29"Leave it out, I ain't fingering her! I ain't wasting my time fingering!"
0:18:35 > 0:18:41It's true. It's absolutely true. When I was at school, it was all about fingering.
0:18:41 > 0:18:43LAUGHTER
0:18:43 > 0:18:47No-one was thinking about sex. Not until we got to college.
0:18:47 > 0:18:50At school, you'd just come in the next day.
0:18:50 > 0:18:52"How'd you get on?" "Fingered her."
0:18:53 > 0:18:58You also talk about titting her up?
0:18:58 > 0:19:00Obviously you've got to do your titting-up time.
0:19:00 > 0:19:04It can be anywhere from three to six months.
0:19:04 > 0:19:09Starting off over the jumper. Then you get under the jumper.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12- But above the bra?- Sometimes above the coat, if it's winter.
0:19:14 > 0:19:19Eventually, you get to hold the tit. You don't know what to do with a tit. You walk home in a daze.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21"I've held a tit..."
0:19:21 > 0:19:24It just makes me think that kids,
0:19:24 > 0:19:29it all goes through it too quickly, you know? I didn't have sex till I was, like, 27.
0:19:29 > 0:19:31LAUGHTER
0:19:33 > 0:19:35Let's talk about where you started off.
0:19:35 > 0:19:39You've come to comedy a bit late in life.
0:19:39 > 0:19:40I'm not a big rusher.
0:19:40 > 0:19:44You started off as a fish porter in Billingsgate market.
0:19:44 > 0:19:48Yeah, my first job was as a Billingsgate fish porter.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50That was me at 17.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53And you earned quite a lot of money doing it, didn't you?
0:19:53 > 0:19:58- I did, in 1980 I was earning £250 a week.- That was a lot.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01Cor. Talk about a catch!
0:20:03 > 0:20:08"I'm going to the pub, What do you want, babe? You want one? Give everyone a drink."
0:20:08 > 0:20:12That was a lot. I had a Saturday job, I used to earn seven quid for a Saturday.
0:20:12 > 0:20:16- And that was in, like, 1984. - I know.- So you was loaded.
0:20:16 > 0:20:18We used to call it footballers' wages.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21- You also do a wonderful cockney walk.- I do.
0:20:21 > 0:20:26I just wondered whether you would share it with our lovely audience.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29You want it to try and catch on, is that what you'd like?
0:20:29 > 0:20:33- Yeah, because we don't really have a walk in Wales.- Do you not?
0:20:33 > 0:20:35No. My friend, Gillian, she does the walk of a woman
0:20:35 > 0:20:37who looks like she's just baked a sponge.
0:20:37 > 0:20:41Oh, all right. Let me just give that one a little try.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43What's the point? You bake a sponge cake.
0:20:43 > 0:20:46No-one comes round.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50- Oi-oi!- A few little props, there.
0:20:50 > 0:20:54Fish? You know about fish?
0:20:54 > 0:20:57It can be very dangerous if it's not fresh.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00The things to look out for are the very bright eyes.
0:21:00 > 0:21:05Clear, healthy, firm skin. Not too smelly.
0:21:05 > 0:21:09Same sort of criteria you would use for a one-night stand.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11LAUGHTER
0:21:11 > 0:21:15So, the Cockney's got a few walks. I'll take you through the main three.
0:21:15 > 0:21:19Right? Your first one is your casual Cockney walk.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21This is just your Cockney walking about.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26Nothing special going on, just walking about.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28This tends to attract women.
0:21:30 > 0:21:34Women start looking over and think, "He looks reliable.
0:21:34 > 0:21:38"I bet he'd come home every now and then, that one."
0:21:39 > 0:21:44Just a casual, Cockney walk. There is a slightly tougher one.
0:21:44 > 0:21:48If the Cockney feels threatened, he will widen slightly.
0:21:50 > 0:21:54This is when the Cockney is under threat. The gait will widen.
0:21:54 > 0:21:59The head will drop a bit. Just a bit wider.
0:22:02 > 0:22:07The third one is for when a Cockney is busy. Which he is, sometimes.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09Not very often.
0:22:09 > 0:22:12This is just slightly more with the shoulders.
0:22:12 > 0:22:15LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:22:17 > 0:22:18Thank you!
0:22:24 > 0:22:28Were you the class clown? They always say, oh, he was the class clown
0:22:28 > 0:22:32- and then he became a stand-up comedian. Was that the case with you?- Everyone was a clown.
0:22:32 > 0:22:37Everyone did whatever they could. The chief things in school were to try to get the teacher to cry
0:22:37 > 0:22:40or attack another pupil.
0:22:40 > 0:22:44This was the genuine aim of the pupil.
0:22:44 > 0:22:46If we could just get him to break down
0:22:46 > 0:22:49or possibly attack one of the weaker children.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52In metalwork, once, what I thought would be really funny,
0:22:52 > 0:22:57is every time the metalwork teacher finished a sentence, I went, "Mmmm."
0:22:57 > 0:23:02Oh, it was killing. I was getting massive laughs.
0:23:02 > 0:23:06The metalwork teacher, nice fellow, Mr Filmer. In his 50s, 60s.
0:23:06 > 0:23:10Decent, good bloke. He just walked past - BOSH.
0:23:10 > 0:23:15Decked me, on the floor. I went "Uhhhgh..."
0:23:15 > 0:23:17And he went, "Mmmm."
0:23:17 > 0:23:20LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:23:22 > 0:23:26We're laughing away at child abuse here, aren't we?
0:23:26 > 0:23:29Teachers could do that, then. It would never have occurred to me to go home and say,
0:23:29 > 0:23:34"Mum, I'm only having a laugh today, right? The teacher's gone right up and floored me."
0:23:34 > 0:23:37She'd have gone, "Oh, did he? You dickhead."
0:23:37 > 0:23:40What were your classmates like? Was there a lot of ambition?
0:23:40 > 0:23:45No, school was somewhere they sent us before we went to work.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48I've said many times, the careers officer turned up,
0:23:48 > 0:23:51Christ knows what he thought he was doing.
0:23:51 > 0:23:54He asked us what we wanted to do with our lives.
0:23:54 > 0:23:57This is the absolute truth, the most ambitious kid in the class
0:23:57 > 0:24:01was a kid called Gary Utton, because he wanted to drive a van.
0:24:02 > 0:24:06"I'm going to drive a van."
0:24:06 > 0:24:08Where were all like, "You dreamer, Utton!
0:24:08 > 0:24:11"You ain't going to drive a van, man!"
0:24:11 > 0:24:16"You know why is it. We is here to carry the stuff TO the van."
0:24:16 > 0:24:20I trained to be a teacher, I don't know if you know.
0:24:20 > 0:24:24I went back in at the other end and realised what a tough job it is.
0:24:24 > 0:24:28The kids are just... Kids are kids and you've got to keep control of them.
0:24:28 > 0:24:32But I was more immature than them, you know?
0:24:32 > 0:24:35Walking down the corridor, fat kid falls over, I'm on him like a shot!
0:24:35 > 0:24:37BUNDLE!
0:24:42 > 0:24:46Bundles! Wouldn't it be amazing if bundles still happened now?
0:24:46 > 0:24:49I honestly think the world would be a better place
0:24:49 > 0:24:52where, if anybody slipped over or fell over,
0:24:52 > 0:24:55it was the law that they have to be bundled.
0:24:55 > 0:25:01Not just in street life, but say if someone went over in the Houses of Parliament.
0:25:01 > 0:25:04Bundle! Or at the Royal Wedding.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06In. Bundle.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09I'll clear it up for people. A bundle is a pile-on.
0:25:09 > 0:25:15I know it's slightly different. It should be kept into adult life.
0:25:15 > 0:25:19- I am SO with you on this.- Let's start a campaign for the bundle.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22- Bundling is a lost art.- Yeah.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25There's no reason why we shouldn't do it as adults.
0:25:25 > 0:25:30If you were at the bottom of a bundle, it gave the chance for even the weedier kids to come up
0:25:30 > 0:25:35and give you a sly kick in the head. It's their little moment in the sun, you know?
0:25:35 > 0:25:37When I was in school, I was head girl.
0:25:37 > 0:25:40I'm not going to lie, I'm not going to be ashamed, I was head girl.
0:25:40 > 0:25:44- There's me, there. I look like I've just baked a sponge there, don't I? - You do.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47James, do you think you and I would have got on in school?
0:25:47 > 0:25:50Well, we would have got on because of the school play.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53We'd have got on for about six weeks a year.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56I think I would have gone more for Micky.
0:25:56 > 0:25:57He was more my age group.
0:25:57 > 0:26:01And also I would have gone for his fashion sense, I think.
0:26:01 > 0:26:03- Look at that!- Sweet.
0:26:03 > 0:26:06There wasn't one single natural fibre in that jumper.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11I used to internally combust.
0:26:11 > 0:26:14My mum would try and put that jumper on me.
0:26:14 > 0:26:17I'd go, "Mum, I'll be hot in about three seconds."
0:26:17 > 0:26:20"Go on, put that on. You'll be all right."
0:26:20 > 0:26:24James, your acting started in school, didn't it, in the nativity play?
0:26:24 > 0:26:29Yes, I was Innkeeper Number One. Which is rubbish. The worst of the innkeepers.
0:26:29 > 0:26:33- Did you not have lines? - There were no lines, there was a narrator.
0:26:33 > 0:26:37It was one of the older kids who said, "Mary and Joseph had to go back to Bethlehem."
0:26:37 > 0:26:42The two walk across the stage. All I had to do was have a pretend door. I had to go...
0:26:43 > 0:26:45Like that. Right?
0:26:45 > 0:26:48When I got told, I'd been thinking about the school play for ages
0:26:48 > 0:26:51because what I really wanted to do was obviously play Joseph.
0:26:51 > 0:26:55But that went to Matt Peddle. Fair enough, he's older than me.
0:26:55 > 0:26:59Joseph was probably older than me, that's how I rationalised it.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02- He had a beard?- Yeah. I said to my mum one day, driving home,
0:27:02 > 0:27:05I knew the Nativity would start rehearsing the next week.
0:27:05 > 0:27:10I said, "What other people were in the stable when Jesus was born?"
0:27:10 > 0:27:13She didn't say squirrel, did she?
0:27:16 > 0:27:19She said, "Well, why don't you listen to the Christmas carols
0:27:19 > 0:27:22and that will tell you everyone who was there."
0:27:22 > 0:27:28I thought, yeah. I got home and listened to various Christmas carols.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30I said, "I want to play Round John Virgin."
0:27:35 > 0:27:38On my life. She said, "What do you mean?"
0:27:38 > 0:27:42I said, "Round John virgin." I sang it, you know.
0:27:42 > 0:27:45# Silent night
0:27:45 > 0:27:46# Holy night
0:27:46 > 0:27:48# All is calm
0:27:48 > 0:27:49# All is bright
0:27:49 > 0:27:51# Round John Virgin
0:27:51 > 0:27:53# Mother and child... #
0:27:53 > 0:27:58I thought, he's right by the mother and child, he's a prominent player.
0:27:58 > 0:28:01- He sounds hip, as well, doesn't he? - Round John Virgin.
0:28:01 > 0:28:05Yeah, man. "Have you been to see Round John Virgin? He's really good."
0:28:05 > 0:28:09What's Christmas like for you? Do you do something different every year?
0:28:09 > 0:28:14I'll be drunk for most of it. I like Christmas. It's the only time you can have a glass of Champagne
0:28:14 > 0:28:16- at 9:30 in the morning.- And people frown upon you if you don't.
0:28:16 > 0:28:20- They go, "Drink?" You go, "No, I'm all right." - "Come on, it's Christmas!"
0:28:20 > 0:28:23"Party pooper!"
0:28:23 > 0:28:28It's very much my wife's mum comes round and she cooks the dinner.
0:28:28 > 0:28:34She's a really nice woman. She is a psychiatrist and she is serenity personified.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36I've been with her when we've been in car accidents.
0:28:36 > 0:28:39I've been to her home when it's been burgled.
0:28:39 > 0:28:42She just goes, "Part of life."
0:28:42 > 0:28:46She came around to do the dinner the other day and I heard her say,
0:28:46 > 0:28:48"Oh, you WANKER!"
0:28:48 > 0:28:51I went in and went, "Hillary, what's the matter?"
0:28:51 > 0:28:54She went, "The cauliflower cheese has not browned off."
0:28:54 > 0:28:57LAUGHTER
0:28:57 > 0:29:00That's what broke her, the cauliflower cheese.
0:29:00 > 0:29:03She'd got to such a pitch that she took it out the oven.
0:29:03 > 0:29:05She was like, "WANKER!"
0:29:05 > 0:29:09You've got your little boy, how will you keep him entertained at Christmas?
0:29:09 > 0:29:13I'm going to be really creative, think things through, put him in front of the telly.
0:29:15 > 0:29:18Can I tell you a little story? It's a little bit odd.
0:29:18 > 0:29:22You know, I was watching the news when the Gaddafi thing was going on.
0:29:22 > 0:29:26It was horrible footage. And my wife brought him in from school.
0:29:26 > 0:29:27And I went to the toilet,
0:29:27 > 0:29:30and when I come back he's watching the Gaddafi story.
0:29:30 > 0:29:32And he was all a little bit shaken up.
0:29:32 > 0:29:34He said, "Daddy, what has that man done?"
0:29:34 > 0:29:36So I said, "Well, the thing is, son,
0:29:36 > 0:29:39"that crowd just found out that, when he was a little boy,
0:29:39 > 0:29:41"he used to get his parents up really early in the morning."
0:29:41 > 0:29:44LAUGHTER
0:29:44 > 0:29:46"Um, they're not having it, son.
0:29:46 > 0:29:49"They're not having it."
0:29:49 > 0:29:54He said, "I think I'll take some colouring to bed with me tonight."
0:29:54 > 0:29:55I said, "Now you're thinking, son!"
0:29:55 > 0:30:02- What's next for you at the moment? - I'm going to write the book, they've just asked me to write the book.
0:30:02 > 0:30:04- An autobiography?- Yeah.
0:30:04 > 0:30:06I'm going to have to be very careful,
0:30:06 > 0:30:10or it's going to end up being called Supergrass!
0:30:10 > 0:30:12LAUGHTER
0:30:12 > 0:30:18Every East End faction's going to be straight, "If he's grassed me up, I'll have his legs!"
0:30:18 > 0:30:21It's going to be... I'm going to enjoy doing it,
0:30:21 > 0:30:23because I think people are interested.
0:30:23 > 0:30:25You do something really well, and people go,
0:30:25 > 0:30:28"Could you just fill in the gaps for us?"
0:30:28 > 0:30:30So that's what... I'm looking forward to it.
0:30:30 > 0:30:33I look forward to reading it, when it's written.
0:30:33 > 0:30:35Ladies and gentlemen, Micky Flanagan!
0:30:35 > 0:30:37Thank you.
0:30:37 > 0:30:38APPLAUSE
0:30:38 > 0:30:42My next guest has been a huge star for five decades
0:30:42 > 0:30:45and we're really excited to have her on the show.
0:30:45 > 0:30:48Ladies and gentlemen, please give a massive Welsh welcome to Lulu!
0:30:48 > 0:30:49APPLAUSE
0:30:49 > 0:30:51# You can dance
0:30:51 > 0:30:54# You can jive
0:30:54 > 0:30:57# Having the time of your life
0:30:57 > 0:31:00# Ooh-ooh, see that girl
0:31:00 > 0:31:06# Watch that scene Digging the dancing queen
0:31:06 > 0:31:10# Digging the dancing queen
0:31:10 > 0:31:14# Digging the dancing queen! #
0:31:14 > 0:31:16APPLAUSE
0:31:17 > 0:31:19Can I say, your achievements,
0:31:19 > 0:31:22there's not enough room to write them down. It's just amazing.
0:31:22 > 0:31:24A child star at the age of 15.
0:31:24 > 0:31:28You've released more than 20 albums and 70 singles.
0:31:28 > 0:31:30You've sung the theme tune to a James Bond film,
0:31:30 > 0:31:33won the Eurovision Song contest, and hosted a chat show.
0:31:33 > 0:31:37Ever look at yourself and think, "Mm, could've done a bit more?!"
0:31:39 > 0:31:41Lazy!
0:31:42 > 0:31:46Yeah, definitely. I've just been sitting on my laurels.
0:31:46 > 0:31:48Absolutely incredible career.
0:31:48 > 0:31:53- The crazy thing is, though, I still think there's more to do.- Good.
0:31:53 > 0:31:57I'm just not the kind of person who does think that it's over.
0:31:57 > 0:32:01We haven't had enough of her, yet, have we?
0:32:01 > 0:32:0315 when you started.
0:32:03 > 0:32:07It must've been quite a scary environment for a 15-year-old girl.
0:32:07 > 0:32:10I wanted to be an R&B singer, rock 'n'roll,
0:32:10 > 0:32:13I did not want to be a pop singer.
0:32:13 > 0:32:16I tried to be true to myself
0:32:16 > 0:32:19and then worked with record executives and producers
0:32:19 > 0:32:22and management people who thought I should do certain things.
0:32:22 > 0:32:23I disagreed with them.
0:32:23 > 0:32:26That was very tough for me personally,
0:32:26 > 0:32:29and I would go home and cry all the time.
0:32:29 > 0:32:31"I don't want to do this." But I would sort of do it.
0:32:31 > 0:32:33But you knew your own mind at that age.
0:32:33 > 0:32:35You knew what you wanted to do.
0:32:35 > 0:32:38Yes, I did, but it's hard when you're 15, very hard.
0:32:38 > 0:32:42But of course, a lot of the things that I was guided to do
0:32:42 > 0:32:46that maybe I initially didn't want to do, were successful.
0:32:46 > 0:32:49So I clocked that. I think I learned a lot
0:32:49 > 0:32:53from being in the business at such a young age.
0:32:53 > 0:32:58- You're from Glasgow originally. - Yes.- My Welsh accent comes and goes.
0:32:58 > 0:33:00Does your Scottish accent come and go?
0:33:00 > 0:33:03As soon as I hear him talk Cockney, I want to go right into it,
0:33:03 > 0:33:07when I was in To Sir, With Love, a film I did when I was 16,
0:33:07 > 0:33:11I had (ACCENT THICKENS) a very thick Scottish accent.
0:33:11 > 0:33:15And the whole thing was set in the East End of London,
0:33:15 > 0:33:17so, the first week of filming,
0:33:17 > 0:33:20I decided, "I'm going to get this accent."
0:33:20 > 0:33:23"(COCKNEY) I wanna talk like 'em! I am not gonna to talk like I do!"
0:33:23 > 0:33:25Because that'll make me different.
0:33:25 > 0:33:27So, I realised quite quickly I could do accents.
0:33:27 > 0:33:32You mentioned To Sir, With Love. That was a big influence on you, wasn't it, that film?
0:33:32 > 0:33:35When I was thinking about being a schoolteacher,
0:33:35 > 0:33:40those films rung in my mind, the ones where you win the kids over,
0:33:40 > 0:33:43you know, Sydney Poit-ier! Which is how you have to say it.
0:33:43 > 0:33:45Sidney Poit-ier.
0:33:45 > 0:33:47Poit-ee-ay!
0:33:47 > 0:33:51You can't say "Sydney Pottah", as I think Del Boy did once.
0:33:51 > 0:33:54It was based on an East End school,
0:33:54 > 0:33:59and I thought I was going to go in and be like Sidney Poitier.
0:33:59 > 0:34:01But it didn't work like that.
0:34:01 > 0:34:03One of 'em done a pooh in my desk!
0:34:03 > 0:34:05LAUGHTER
0:34:05 > 0:34:11- You've worked with some incredible names in your time. The Beatles! - A long time!
0:34:11 > 0:34:16- Tom Jones.- Yes, Tom. - Michael Caine. What was it like?
0:34:16 > 0:34:20I know you've worked with James. The best, obviously.
0:34:20 > 0:34:22A baby!
0:34:22 > 0:34:24It was called "Whatever Happened To Harold Smith?"
0:34:24 > 0:34:28And I played Lulu's love interest.
0:34:28 > 0:34:31- Did you?- Yeah.- Really? - I played her son's best friend.
0:34:31 > 0:34:32Were you a MILF?!
0:34:32 > 0:34:36A MILF? What?! What?
0:34:36 > 0:34:39- Did you have to kiss and everything? - No, I had to squeeze Lulu's bum.
0:34:39 > 0:34:43Oh! A little bit was left to the imagination,
0:34:43 > 0:34:46which is the way I kind of like it, don't you? I like that.
0:34:46 > 0:34:50More interesting. No, no, in the film, I mean.
0:34:50 > 0:34:52There was nothing explicit!
0:34:52 > 0:34:56We spoke earlier about being starstruck by people you work with,
0:34:56 > 0:35:00so when you work with people like the Beatles, were you overwhelmed?
0:35:00 > 0:35:01I was, I was just 15.
0:35:01 > 0:35:03But they were so nice to me.
0:35:03 > 0:35:08I mean, everyone I worked with, whether it was Jimi Hendrix
0:35:08 > 0:35:11or The Who, or The Beatles or The Stones,
0:35:11 > 0:35:16they use to pat me on the head. I was a little adult.
0:35:16 > 0:35:19I know you've been asked about where the name Lulu comes from
0:35:19 > 0:35:20millions of times,
0:35:20 > 0:35:24but I bet you've never been asked in Welsh, so, here goes.
0:35:24 > 0:35:31Mae diddordeb 'da fi mewn enwau, o ble mae'r enw, Lulu, yn dod?
0:35:31 > 0:35:32AUDIENCE: Ooooh!
0:35:32 > 0:35:34That's beautiful.
0:35:34 > 0:35:37Beautiful.
0:35:37 > 0:35:38Where does it come from?
0:35:38 > 0:35:42My manager, the woman who discovered me when I was 15,
0:35:42 > 0:35:46said I was a lulu of a kid, I think it's an American expression.
0:35:46 > 0:35:47It means somebody's great.
0:35:47 > 0:35:53Can I just say, as well, in bingo, if you go, "House!"
0:35:53 > 0:35:55And they come over and check your numbers,
0:35:55 > 0:35:57and they're wrong, it's a lulu.
0:35:57 > 0:35:58LULU CACKLES
0:35:58 > 0:36:01I think he's lying!
0:36:01 > 0:36:05And often, the woman will be checking and she goes, "Sorry, lulu!"
0:36:05 > 0:36:07Everyone goes, "Aww, lulu!"
0:36:07 > 0:36:11I went out with a girl once who called her...a lulu.
0:36:11 > 0:36:13Really?
0:36:13 > 0:36:15I'd say, "Where are you?"
0:36:15 > 0:36:18She'd say, "I'm off to get my lulu waxed."
0:36:18 > 0:36:19No!
0:36:20 > 0:36:25- I'm not a big Strictly fan, I don't follow it that well.- Neither did I.
0:36:25 > 0:36:29- But you did incredibly well. You did incredibly well.- Thank you!
0:36:29 > 0:36:33I've always loved to dance. My brothers, my sister, my parents.
0:36:33 > 0:36:36My parents met in a dance hall.
0:36:36 > 0:36:40We all love to dance, but I did Comic Relief Let's Dance, this year,
0:36:40 > 0:36:43and I did Soulja Boy, I did a hip-hop dance,
0:36:43 > 0:36:47I had so much fun, and I had been asked to do Strictly before
0:36:47 > 0:36:51but at this point, I think I was lulled into a false sense of security
0:36:51 > 0:36:56and thought, "Well, maybe I could probably do that, aye!"
0:36:56 > 0:37:00So, you're glad, you're glad you did it?
0:37:00 > 0:37:02I would do it again.
0:37:02 > 0:37:07For the absolute exhilaration and the physical adrenaline that,
0:37:07 > 0:37:11you know, learning. I wanted to learn to dance.
0:37:11 > 0:37:14And I thought, "Well, I've got a chance",
0:37:14 > 0:37:16and I think I was in there for about six weeks.
0:37:16 > 0:37:20- You did incredibly, amazing. - I really enjoyed it.
0:37:20 > 0:37:21APPLAUSE
0:37:23 > 0:37:26Do you think that, as a Scot, that, er,
0:37:26 > 0:37:28I always want to call it Mahogmanay!
0:37:28 > 0:37:30LAUGHTER
0:37:30 > 0:37:33I like that! I'm going to do that from now on. Mahogmanay!
0:37:33 > 0:37:36Do you think Hogmanay is more important than Christmas?
0:37:36 > 0:37:40I don't know if it's more important, I think to a lot of Scots,
0:37:40 > 0:37:44it is, yes. As a child, we used to have Christmas, it was for the kids.
0:37:44 > 0:37:46I know a lot of it is for the kids,
0:37:46 > 0:37:48but basically, it was absolutely for the kids.
0:37:48 > 0:37:53And then you did nothing but wash, clean and cook
0:37:53 > 0:37:56and get everything ready, but they go mental up there.
0:37:56 > 0:38:00(SCOTTISH ACCENT) they go mental! We're all going Scottish, now!
0:38:00 > 0:38:02It's true, it's true.
0:38:02 > 0:38:05Nobody celebrates Hogmanay the way they do in Scotland.
0:38:05 > 0:38:07- I think it's to do with drinking. - Do you? No!
0:38:07 > 0:38:10I noticed when I was up there last time,
0:38:10 > 0:38:13when I was coming out the pub at six in the morning.
0:38:13 > 0:38:15And someone passed me and called me a lightweight!
0:38:15 > 0:38:16LAUGHTER
0:38:16 > 0:38:18What are you doing for Christmas this year?
0:38:18 > 0:38:22- My obsession right now is my granddaughter.- Aw! How old is she?
0:38:22 > 0:38:24She'll be two, on the 29th.
0:38:24 > 0:38:26So, last year, she was a baby,
0:38:26 > 0:38:29but this year, it's like,
0:38:29 > 0:38:32"Nana!" - because she calls me Nana - "Come on, hurry up!"
0:38:33 > 0:38:36So I am the best friend.
0:38:36 > 0:38:39I'm in the house, I'm crawling around, I mean,
0:38:39 > 0:38:42I am agile but this is...
0:38:42 > 0:38:46Strictly was nothing compared to running around with Isabella.
0:38:46 > 0:38:50Before we finish, we've done a special little thing for you.
0:38:50 > 0:38:53You got your iconic opening to the song, Shout.
0:38:53 > 0:38:55Which is that, em,
0:38:55 > 0:39:00# We-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-elll... #
0:39:00 > 0:39:01Very good!
0:39:01 > 0:39:02APPLAUSE
0:39:02 > 0:39:06You know what you looked like then?
0:39:06 > 0:39:08Like that sponge had come out really well.
0:39:08 > 0:39:12If someone just tuned in at that moment, they would go,
0:39:12 > 0:39:13"Oh, the TV's jumping again!"
0:39:13 > 0:39:16"We-e-e-e-e-e-ell"!
0:39:16 > 0:39:20Me and the audience have prepared a Welsh one for you.
0:39:20 > 0:39:23A Welsh version, a Welsh opening to the song, Shout, OK?
0:39:23 > 0:39:26So, here we go, after three. One, two, three.
0:39:26 > 0:39:31(STRONG WELSH ACCENT) We-ellll! You know, you make me want to shout!
0:39:32 > 0:39:34The Welsh word is, we like to say "well".
0:39:34 > 0:39:37That is the most original thing, because everywhere I go,
0:39:37 > 0:39:40people want me to do that bit, and I go, "Och, not again!"
0:39:40 > 0:39:44- No, we've done it for you! We brought it to you.- Thank you.
0:39:44 > 0:39:47Ladies and gentlemen, the sensational Lulu!
0:39:47 > 0:39:49APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:39:52 > 0:39:54I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas.
0:39:54 > 0:39:57A big thank you to all for watching.
0:39:57 > 0:39:59Thanks to my house band, and the Segue Sisters.
0:39:59 > 0:40:02CHEERING
0:40:02 > 0:40:04And of course, to my fabulous guests. To Lulu!
0:40:04 > 0:40:06CHEERING
0:40:06 > 0:40:08Micky Flanagan!
0:40:08 > 0:40:09CHEERING
0:40:09 > 0:40:10And to James Corden!
0:40:10 > 0:40:12CHEERING
0:40:13 > 0:40:15And to play us out tonight,
0:40:15 > 0:40:17celebrating an incredible 21 years in the charts,
0:40:17 > 0:40:20here they are with their current single, This Is The Day,
0:40:20 > 0:40:22the Manic Street Preachers.
0:40:42 > 0:40:46# You didn't wake up this morning cos you didn't go to bed
0:40:46 > 0:40:50# You were watching the whites of your eyes turn red
0:40:50 > 0:40:53# The calendar on your wall
0:40:53 > 0:40:57# Is ticking the days off
0:40:57 > 0:41:01# You've been reading some old letters
0:41:01 > 0:41:04# You smile and think how much you've changed
0:41:04 > 0:41:08# And all the money in the world
0:41:09 > 0:41:13# Couldn't bring back those days
0:41:26 > 0:41:29# You pull back the curtains
0:41:29 > 0:41:33# And the sun burns into your eyes
0:41:33 > 0:41:36# You watch a plane flying
0:41:36 > 0:41:41# Across a clear blue sky
0:41:41 > 0:41:43# This is the day
0:41:43 > 0:41:46# Your life will surely change
0:41:48 > 0:41:50# This is the day
0:41:50 > 0:41:54# When things fall into place
0:42:02 > 0:42:06# You could've done anything
0:42:07 > 0:42:08# If you'd wanted
0:42:08 > 0:42:13# And all your friends and family
0:42:13 > 0:42:16# Think that you're lucky
0:42:16 > 0:42:19# But the side of you they'll never see
0:42:19 > 0:42:23# Is when you're left alone with your memories
0:42:23 > 0:42:27# That hold your life together
0:42:28 > 0:42:31# Together like glue
0:42:45 > 0:42:48# You pull back the curtains
0:42:48 > 0:42:51# And the sun burns into your eyes
0:42:53 > 0:42:56# You watch a plane flying
0:42:56 > 0:42:58# Across a clear blue sky
0:42:59 > 0:43:05# This is the day your life will surely change
0:43:06 > 0:43:13# This is the day when things fall into place
0:43:14 > 0:43:17# This is the day
0:43:17 > 0:43:21# Your life will surely change
0:43:21 > 0:43:24# This is the day
0:43:24 > 0:43:27# When things fall into place
0:43:28 > 0:43:31# This is the day
0:43:35 > 0:43:38# This is the day. #
0:43:46 > 0:43:47APPLAUSE
0:43:47 > 0:43:49Thank you.
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