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