Episode 6 The Graham Norton Show

Tonight we've the star of Men In Tonight we've the star of Men In

Black, the brilliant Jill Smith is - LAUGHTER - oh, what am I doing? Just

wipe the audience's memory. Tonight on the show, the star of Men In

Black, the wonderful Will Smith is here, let's start the show! APPLAUSE

Oh, oh! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. Oh, oh! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.

Good evening, everybody, oh, this is it, ladies and gentlemen. Oh, what

great show we've got for you tonight. I tell you, tonight we

really are hoping to cheer up viewers north of the border where

the price of alcohol is going to be increased to 50p a unit. 50p a unit!

Bad news for you Scottish You may have to watch the show

sober, or as BBC Scotland call it "high definition". Now, what

we've got for you. We've got the biggest movie stars in the

world, star of Independence Day, In Black,

Bel Air himself, Will Smith is on the show! Yes, he is. APPLAUSE Take

That's Gary Barlow is here, and musical legend Sir Tom Jones is with

us. APPLAUSE . Something for everyone. So, Will is going to be

talking about his new film Men In Black 3. Yes, I know. Now, the plot

of Men In Black is that aliens live amongst us. That's

to be honest. I mean, how could alien like this go unnoticed? Well,

small wig - hello. LAUGHTER. Uncanny, that is. Will is back

playing Agent J, as always armed with the latest hi-tech weapons.

Slightly odd-shaped gun. Any recognise that? Oh yes, you do,

don't you? Spread 'em! LAUGHTER. that what you say? I don't know.

Stick em up? Gary Barlow is on X Factor, Tom Jones on The Voice, both

talent shows, but what is the point now, ladies and gentlemen? We have

reached the pinnacle of talent. Yes, congratulations to Pudsey and

Ashleigh! APPLAUSE . Yes, who won half a million pounds in

Got Talent, that is right Pudsey the dog is now richer than Greece.

Weirdly, no one has seen Pudsey since Amanda Holden left the

aftershow party. LAUGHTER. So Pudsey is off to Hollywood. I do

hope it works out because you so many young dogs have gone over

there and ended up there and ended up starring in

wrong sorts of films. Let's get some guests on, ladies and

What's that ticking,'s the original sex bomb, it's Sir Tom Jones!

APPLAUSE , CHEERING. Have a seat, sir. Tom Jones! He

always re-lights my fire, it's Gary Barlow! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE .

Have a seat there, Gary Barlow. And here comes the Man in Black,

wow, I'm sensing a level of wow, I'm sensing a level of

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE excitement in the room. SCREAMING.

OK, OK - wow. We are here for a while, we are calm. I'm already

thinking you all know each other, because you guys were at the Nenad

because you guys were at the because you guys were at the

millennium Concert? Yes, we together at the Millennium. But we

worked together classically Fresh Prince Of Bel Air. And Mr

Barlow, you know him as well, don't you? We were drinking, things

happened and we said we would never talk about it. It's almost that

story. I wasn't going to mention that one, I was going to mention

something else. I don't know if you remember, but I do. Uh oh. Does

anyone remember the Smash Hits poll awards in 1993? That is right. I

remember those awards. You had a dance-off with one of our band

members, and I must say he whooped your arse. No, it's not true. Have

we got a close-up of Will and Jason? We were like 12. So ladies and

gentlemen, let's recap just how awesome this couch is. CHEERING

These are big, big stars, Sir Tom These are big, big stars, Sir Tom

Jones, over 100 million albums sold, now releasing your 38th studio

Don't you just want to have a drink Don't you just want to have a drink

at lunchtime and sit in a nice bungalow in Wales? I do.

keeps you going? Well, the love of it. I just love singing and I'm

getting paid for it. That helps. There's nothing better than

when you do something you love, and then you can - it's like a hobby,

you turn a hobby into a profession. Absolutely, yes. So it's not like

work at all. I was asked the other day "Are you working hard?", I said

"I haven't worked since 1962". LAUGHTER.

And Gary Barlow, again, one singles, the highest grossing UK

tour last year, and of course leader of the greatest boyband of all

ladies and gentlemen. CHEERING APPLAUSE

here they come. Don't you hate here they come. Don't you hate

those old pictures? You look you look good in that. Do you

Don't make us cry again, Take That Don't make us cry again, Take That

are coming back, because you have been away a while. Of course.

we have been away for nearly a year. That's a long time. Not when you

are our age, it isn't? It takes that long to heal. Then we come to

Mr Will Smith, ladies and gentlemen. Not just the first rap artist to

a Grammy, also twice Oscar-nominated. You are

incredibly bankable star. every movie you've made has

excess of $100 million. That's incredible. That's good. APPLAUSE

successful music artist, you have been a successful actor,

Independence Day took it all to a different level.

yes. That must have been amazing you and your family, your parents,

to see. Yes, that was the first movie, Independence Day came

broke all of these box office records and it was huge. I remember

that Monday morning I was in Los Angeles and my family was in

Philadelphia, so it was 6.00 am in Philadelphia and 3.00 am in Los

Angeles and my father calls me he said "Man, you see these

numbers?", I said Dad, it's 3.00 in the morning, I didn't see anything.

He said "Remember when I told there's no such thing as luck?",

was like "Yeah, Daddy", and he said "Remember what I told you, you put

your mind to it, it ain't no luck, it's what you create", and I said

yes, man, I remember. He said "Man, that's bull, you are the luckiest

man alive". A huge movie like that obviously creates action figures and

some of them aren't that great. I doubt even Geoff's mother would

recognise him from that. Bill Pullman has a passing resemblance.

Yes. But they saved their work. Ladies and gentlemen,

Will Smith. Wow. That is a shocker, isn't it? Yes, I look like Rambro.

But it doesn't look like you at They are like: listen. Just make

it black. They will know it's him. It really is like they did that. It

really is. You are not the only one, an action figure. Mr Barlow, oh

yeah. These are old. He has got a necklace and everything. He is

dancing. APPLAUSE. Now that's funny. That one is funny. OK, it's not that

funny. No one wants this on the of their toy: not suitable for

children under 36 months due to small parts. LAUGHTER

Hey listen, let me say one thing, Hey listen, let me say one thing,

when we got those dolls the thing we all did was pull

pants down, and there's no small parts at all. Do you mind telling

the story, the story about you going to check out the doll? That was

the days when we had no control at all over what was going on so we

didn't get the prototypes or anything, we were just told the

dolls are being released on Monday, so by Friday I couldn't wait any

longer and so I put a cap on, glasses, and I went off to Toys R Us

in Chester, and I was going down the aisles, Cindy, Action Man, then I

came across the Take That thought this is it. Mark, Howard,

- I must have sold out. So I went - I must have sold out. So I went

up to the till and really tilted my cap down and I said to the girl

"Excuse me, have you got the Take That Gary doll?", and she went "No,

we don't have them. You've got to buy Mark, Robbie, Howard, Jason,

collect the coupons, send them off and you get Gary for free". APPLAUSE

that's cold. It was. I flew on the phone to management. LAUGHTER.

That's fantastic. Tom, have you ever been made into a doll

kind? Erm, nothing that I can about. LAUGHTER

OK, all right Tom. I think my OK, all right Tom. I think my

sister has one of those. LAUGHTER. APPLAUSE

So Will Smith, Mr Summer So Will Smith, Mr Summer

Blockbuster, so many of them, Independence Day, Men In Black,

Hancock - you own the summer and now you are back to take the summer

Men In Black 3. Thank you. We've missed you. It has been nearly

years? Yes, I have been working the family stuff. We did the Karate

Kid and my daughter was whipping hair. Back and forth. How old is

Willow now? She is 11 and her big record was with my hair, and as

see she has cut her hair off. You know, and I was like "Wait, honey,

no!", you can't whip your head, baby. But, you know, she

handful. She is so absolutely positively knows what she wants to

do, and I have to do what she says. You know, and it's just - it's

beautiful. You mentioned your son Jaden, of course and he has had a

number one film himself. Karate Kid. Look at him, so

He has the Smith ears. Because you produced the Karate Kid? Yes, yes.

So you are producing a movie your son is in. Yes. How much do

you pay him? Well, less than I would if he was somebody else's kid.

LAUGHTER. You know, it's funny because he is such a hard worker,

I'm just really proud of how dedicated he is. He doesn't perceive

it as something he is supposed have, he doesn't perceive it that

it's supposed to be easy. He out there and

sometimes has to work twice as hard as other people because he is

son. Now he has had a taste of it though, is he kind of

you? Yes, you know, he kind of at the dinner table and he is like

looking across the table at me, you know, looking at me like I am meat,

you know, but he just - he really wants it badly and he wants to prove

it to me but he also wants to show me, and it's just - we are working

together now actually on a also. Oh, and Gary, because one of

your daughters has kind of gone into show business as well, hasn't she?

Not the film industry I am afraid but if you are looking for any new

characters we can talk afterwards. We will talk later, OK. I saw your

daughter in the Wizard of Oz. is right, Emily. Is she doing more?

She is nine, she is going to big school in September so we've made

her go back to exams now. You horrible, horrible - you animal!

That's how we do it these days. Willow is whipping her hair back and

forth, she is 11. Will Smith's a great Dad! And Jaden, I guess

needs to be prepared for - he is about to be crushed now by Men In

Black 3, which is going to be you. I tell him all the time, son, if you

listen to everything that I say and if you stay focused, I

will be the second biggest movie star in the world. LAUGHTER

Because Men In Black obviously is Because Men In Black obviously is

Because Men In Black obviously is opening all over the world, it's

opening all over the world, it's opening all over the world, it's

Because Men In Black obviously going to be a big movie and it's

3D? It's in 3D, yes. It's the first one of the series that's in 3D. I

was very concerned about how my ears would look in 3D. LAUGHTER.

But I've seen the film and You know, my ears aren't going to be

in your popcorn. You don't turn your head much. None of that whoof.

Jeez, you are going to put someone's eye out with that thing. I've

the movie, it's really funny lots of action and the thrust of

is that it's time travel? Tommy Lee Jones' character Agent

is killed and my character, Agent J has to time jump to the past to

prevent the murder and Josh Brolin plays the young Tommy Lee Jones and

he gives a performance - the greatest tribute is that you forget.

You think you are watching a Tommy Lee Jones and some people

think that Tommy looped the voice but that is all Josh. A great actor.

Some movies are so complicated you just can't follow them or they

full of holes but you guys nailed it. Did that take ages? Yes,

because the thing about time travel is it's not real, right? LAUGHTER.

But there are rules. Yes, there are rules, but it's not real and there

are rules so you find yourself having really, really dumb

arguments. These types of movies just like that. Barry, the director,

his perspective and his twisted humour is the

For Old For

Black, so it's very clever. But it's funny but also a bit after

boohoo. I'm going to use that, a bit of a boohoo. But listen, we

have a clip. The movie opens on 25th May. This scene will not make

Table 3 over there just drank his Table 3 over there just drank his

fourth cup. PHONE RINGS. The crashed - Give us a minute, will

you, chief? We are in a situation. Yeah. I will take the one over

there, I will take whoever is in the kitchen and meet you on the street.

This is a very confusing time in my life. SCREAMING.

Whoa! APPLAUSE . Very exciting. You Whoa! APPLAUSE . Very exciting. You

wouldn't want to work in that restaurant, coming in for lunch

shift, alien gunk on everything. Because Will, when

location and stuff in the streets of New York, like in Men In Black 3 and

stuff, people must be just - when they see you - yes, fans can be

interesting, you know. He said interesting. No, we are interest New

York and there are these four girls, and they are in a car, and I'm

walking down the street, and they are probably 24 years old and it's

Friday night and they are in their car, and the girl, she

the window "Oh shit, Will!", and boom, into the car in front of you,

and "Will, can you sign this", just slammed into the car in front of her

but was getting your autograph. Tom, people famously over the years

who love Tom Jones, they love Tom Jones. Your fans are really

passionate about you. CHEERING. Back, back. But there's a bizarre

story, did one fan sort of you in a toilet? Yes, yes. We were

coming down the M1 motorway and had my band with me and I said we

have to stop, use the toilet, so we all walked in there and this

must have seen me, so she ran into the men's toilet, and I was actually

in the booth, you know what I mean, in the - yes. And all my band

all standing there, and laughing because they could

that she was - and she just came up over the top of the door. So I

started shouting at her and she said: ooh, you have terrible

manners. I thought I can't even, you know, go to the toilet now. I'm

lot more polite when I'm not pooping! So listen, obviously

are a massive star who then turned to acting. The thing I didn't know

was there was quite a serious dip in between those two careers? Oh yes,

yes. But you made millions. What happened to the money? Man, I had

spent it all. By the time I was I was broke. We put an album out

that flopped, and it was like "Uh oh", and I was very, very nervous,

but you know, when rich people they are broke, people like Baroness

they are broke, people like they are broke, people like Donald

Trump, he says he is broke and means he is down to $4,000 a month,

but I was properly broke. I couldn't afford gas for the motor scooter.

was like trying to make something happen and that's when I moved

Los Angeles, and there was television show and I would just go

and stand outside the show every day and meet people. But did people

recognise you? Yeah, but they - when you get broke, people try less

to recognise you. LAUGHTER. They are like "Ooh, man", so there

probably about a year and a half, and I just kept going to the show,

kept going to the show, I was standing there and I met a guy named

Benny who is the real Prince Of Bel Air. He actually moved

in with his rich relatives of that and he pitched me the idea,

and I met him just standing of the show. There's some guy

standing outside of your show right now who is going to be famous,

telling a story about it one day. And Tom, how did you end up in

Fresh Prince Of Bel Air? They asked me to go on there. Fair enough. But

before that, they were sort of talking about me because Carlton,

the character, was a Tom Jones fan, and Will used to make fun of that. I

wasn't making fun of it! No, but - it was the character. The

was doing it, I wasn't doing it. No, no, but your character was cool

and slick, and Carlton was trying to do my moves and all this, that and

the other and then, at the end - oh, there you are. Wow. Both of you

unchanged. LAUGHTER. Yes, so anyway, at the end of the show,

last episode of the series, and so Carlton is looking through Will's

records and he has a record of mine there. Yeah. So that was it, that

was the payoff. And it's incredible, given that you have this

phenomenal film career Prince doesn't go away. Less than

that, every country in the world, that is the thing that I am most

known for. No matter how big the movies get, it's the Fresh Prince

everywhere. Oh! Does that bug you? Listen, man, as long as they are

screaming "Will", I'm cool, but it's funny because the actor who plays

Carlton, when we started the show we were trying to come up with names

for the characters and we were talking about it and he pulled me

aside and said: let me tell you something, whatever your

name is, people are going to you that for the rest of your life.

He said "Make your character's name Will Smith", you know, and he was so

right. You know, when we go out together, people are like "Will,

Will, Carlton"! In fairness, Carlton is better than Alphonseo,

his real name. Famously, you performed the title rap, which I

happen to know everyone knows. CHEERING

Oh goodness. Including me. Oh, OK. Oh goodness. Including me. Oh, OK.

Let me hand this over. This is quite heavy. Here you go, Gary. Oh

goodness, OK. Now, you have seen some musicians before but get

ready, my friend. LAUGHTER. OK, hit the track. OK - now, this is

story about how my life got flipped, turned upside-down, and I liked to

take a minute, just sit right there. In West Philadelphia born and

raised, on the playground was where I spent most of my days,

out, maxin', relaxin' all cool, and all shootin' some b-ball outside of

the school, when a couple of they were up to no good, started

making trouble in my neighbourhood, I got in one little fight and my mom

got scared, she said "You're moving with your aunty and uncle in Bel

Air", I whistled for a cab and when it came near, the licence Plate said

fresh, it had dice in the mirror. Looked at my kingdom, I was finally

there, to sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air. CHEERING

APPLAUSE. That's hilarious, that's fantastic.

That was the synth it was done on well. Wow. Next tour. That's

opener. Don't make fun, it has me all week to get that right.

Thanks for doing that. Oh, enjoyed it. I remembered it. You

did, you didn't hesitate second. No, it is so funny that that

many people recognise that theme song, you know, and there's

something about TV that's than movies or music, there's

something about television it's like, you are in your

at the house, you know, and you don't get dressed up to go, and it's

like people come into your house and television really attaches you to

people. Yeah. In a way that is extremely powerful, and it's

humbling. Thank you. CHEERING APPLAUSE.

Now, listen, it's an exciting time Now, listen, it's an exciting time

here because it's jubilee year Gary Barlow, where would we be

without you? CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. No, because it's a big year and the

Queen, very hard to buy for. LAUGHTER. So Gary has got her

lovely concert, which is on the - 4th. 4th June, that's the Monday,

isn't it? Yes. And I believe there's a certain Sir Tom Jones on

the agenda? Yes, that is right. My invitation is probably at the house.

LAUGHTER. Yes, because I have been out the country, you know, so when I

get home my invitation will probably be there. What do you think? Yes.

Well, it should be. OK, don't you join in. When you said that Sir Tom

was on the bill, did her eyes light up? Absolutely. No, the Queen

absolutely delighted with line-up. Only a couple of weeks ago

I got the job of presenting the whole plan of the concert to her,

and I had learnt everything about this gig, I mean I know every

that's on that, I even know every band member in Madness, I've got the

whole thing, there's not she can throw at me where I'm going

to falter, and I went "Your Majesty, this is what the concert is going to

look like, it's going to be incredible, and this is

going to be, you know, we are in front of the Palace", and she looked

at it and she went "So all that equipment, how long is it going to

so at this point I'm getting and I so at this point I'm getting and I

said "Ooh, about six or seven hours", so she went: so the concert

finishes at 10.30 at night which means you will be doing that all

night while my family live at the front of the Palace. A

of sweat just coming down here. So I said: anyway, moving on, Your

Majesty, this is the royal box, this is where you will be sitting,

she said "How am I going to get there?", and I'm thinking "Something

else I don't know the answer to". Next time you are in that

a thing that works for me, like when you get caught like that, you just

said "Oh, what you call it gonna take care of that". Just try

I will remember that, yes. Because Will, have you met royalty? Yes, we

had a royal premiere and Charles was at the - oh, hey!

you are. We did a royal premiere of Ali, and it was really cool, I'm

sitting next to Prince Charles, you can't relax, I'm trying to pretend

like I'm watching the movie so love scene comes up, Ali, my wife

and I have a love scene, and Charles is sitting there, watching

the movie and someone taps his shoulder before the love scene

up and he does this, he looks down the whole time, looks down, looks

down, and I'm thinking "Yo man, this is my best work". LAUGHTER. You

know, and he had his head the whole time, the whole time, and somebody

tapped him and he looked back up. was like: oh man, he messed the

movie up for himself now. That was very cool. That's incredible, I

never heard that. There will be no point in the concert when he needs

to put his head down. LAUGHTER. course, Gary, you are not just

organising the concert, yourself Andrew Lloyd Webber have composed

Yes, the one thing the Queen is very Yes, the one thing the Queen is very

proud of all this time is the Commonwealth and I thought wouldn't

it be amazing if rather than just setting up in London and recording

this track, let's go to all these cities where the Queen matters so

much and add musicians piece by piece so we've made an hour

documentary of the meeting of this song, so we go from Kenya

Solomon Islands, and our last is back in the UK with the Military

Wives who sing the vocals, the main vocals on this track. We've got

little taste of the music it involves some of the filming

around the Commonwealth. It's a really rousing sort of anthem.

beautiful. Thank you. # Just sing

# Just sing # Just sing

# Come on and sing it louder # Singh it clearer

# Knowing everyone will find your voice

# Find your voice tonight # sing it louder, sing together,

make this moment last forever # Hear a thousand voices shouting

love # It's a bit boohoo. That's a bit

boohoo, yes. That's Prince Harry dancing there? We got Prince Harry

on the track. We met up with him in Jamaica and I took a tambourine

along with me and said: would you just hit this for us? We were

recording it, bang, spun it into track. Beautiful. When you

Prince Harry, did he strike you very tall? Everyone is tall

compared to me. I don't think you are this small. Yes, yes, he is

quite tall. No, that's the Rings version. LAUGHTER. He is

a big fella though. Listen, the single Sing is part of the

Gary Barlow and the Commonwealth Band, and that is out on 29th May.

That's beautiful. I will take that, thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank

you. It's music time and of course I mentioned this is your 38th studio

album, Tom, here it is. It's out on 21st May and Hit Or Miss that you

are performing is out now, right? Yes. And you are working

with the cool kids. The producer of this is Kings of Leon producer?

Yes, Ethan, he did my last two albums. It's great working with him

because you work from scratch. Now you can get in there, kick things

around and it's great working him. Thank you very much, you are

going to be singing live - oh all right, there you go. You are never

going to be broke again. You are never making that mistake again.

LAUGHTER. All right, if you want to go over

and get ready to do the business. Yes, OK. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.

There he goes, very good. In moment we will have this week's

stories in the Red Chair but first, performing his new single, Hit Or

Miss, it is Sir Tom Jones! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# I was sitting down # I was sitting down

# All by myself # Listening to everybody, everybody

saying # Be like everybody

# Oh you see # I got to be me

# Cos there ain't nobody just like this

# I got to be me # Oh baby, hit or miss

# Then I look at you sitting there # You're all by yourself

# You're listening to everybody, everybody

# Saying be like everybody else # Oh, you see

# You got to believe # And there ain't nobody just like

this # You've got to believe

# Oh baby hit or miss # Yeah

# I was sitting there # I was sitting there

# All by myself # Listening to everybody

# Everybody saying be like everybody else

# Oh, you see # I've got to be me

# Cos there ain't nobody just like this

# I got to be me # Oh baby hit or miss

# No, there ain't nobody just like this

# I've got to be me # Oh baby hit or miss

# You've got to believe # You've got to believe

# You've got to believe # In yourself

# Don't listen # To nobody

# But yourself # Yeah

# You got to believe # CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

thank you. Sir Tom Jones everybody. thank you. Sir Tom Jones everybody.

Beautiful. Fantastic. Brilliant. Sir Tom Jones, very good.

Beautiful. They loved it. Will is Beautiful. They loved it. Will is

humming it. You know, I can't wait. I can't wait. All night.

are running out of time but before we go just time for a story or

in the Red Chair. Who is up first? Hello, nice lady, what's your name?

Yasmin. Hi Will. What's up, baby? So your story? I was meeting my

friend for lunch at Oxford and we decided to meet in front of Top Shop

and go for lunch. Lovely plan. I was a bit early so I thought I would

have a browse in Top Shop and I this girl who looked exactly like my

mate, same jacket, same hair, same everything, so I thought I would

play a prank on her, went up behind her, grabbed her bag and goes "Give

me your bag, bitch, give me your bag", she turned round and she was

like "Get off me, who is this person, please help me", and then,

because I was near the entrance, two security guards started coming with

me and took me away to a room, watching CCTV footage of me grabbing

this random woman. I've never back since. You can walk lady, you

can walk. One more. Did you just step on mire action figure?

that's not you. Where are you? By the way, earlier you called it a

doll, I think. It's not a doll; it's an action figure. My mistake.

There's a difference. I will put the action figures back here.

I've lost you. No, here you are. There you are. There. LAUGHTER. He

is playing too. Look, he has got grippable hands, he could do that

grippable hands, he could do that. OK, here we go. Hello. Hi.

your name? Kate. And live? London. What do you do, Kate?

I'm a student, studying English. Studying English? Yes. To teach

to somebody? No, just university. Oh yes. To speak it.

Yes. No, it sounds as though she got a plan. LAUGHTER. Got her life

mapped out. LAUGHTER. It's not free anymore, Will. Someone is paying for

this. Sorry, my dear, off you go with your story. Now, this is a

story all about how my life got flipped, turned upside-down. Mmm.

Just sit right there, take a minute to tell you how I became - don't

you dare! LAUGHTER. Go on, baby. Born and raised. Finish your story,

baby, finish your story. The playground was where I spent most of

my days, relaxin' all cool, shootin' some

b-ball outside of the school couple of guys - this is a bit

after boohoo. They started making trouble in my neighbourhood, I got

in one little fight and my mom got scared. What did she say? She said

"You're moving with your aunty and uncle in Bel Air"! Well done, young

Huge thanks to my guests tonight, Huge thanks to my guests tonight,

Sir Tom Jones, Gary Barlow, and Will Smith! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.

Join me next week music from the Scissor Sisters, actress Kathy