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This is from Card's latest column. He writes:
quote: Graham Norton, on the other hand, brings a kind of manic exuberance to his show. He's so sincerely cheerful that even when he has people doing hideously embarrassing things or telling appalling stories, Norton makes it fun. You almost don't notice that your standards are being degraded to the point where your sense of public decency finally disappears altogether.
Norton is an OK interviewer -- for the fifteen seconds he actually converses with his guests. (Longer, if the guest has an appalling story to tell.) Then he has the guests stand there while he leads some poor audience members in doing something gross and hilarious.
I was not bored for a second watching Norton. Nor was I embarrassed, the way I was while watching Something About Mary, for instance -- that's a movie that's only funny while you're remembering it. While you're watching, you're embarrassed to be seeing the actors humiliate themselves.
Nobody is humiliated on The Graham Norton Effect. No matter how ridiculous or gross or offensive something is, Graham is so enthusiastic about it that you find yourself thinking, "That's a good idea."
In short, Graham Norton is the devil.
Hmmmmmmmmmm, not that I disagree that Norton presents substandard morals, but doesn't this seem a little overstated to anyone else? Saying in a serious manner, that someone "is the devil" strikes me as a little ridiculous.
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Seriously, though, don't you think that OSC's tongue is planted fairly firmly in his cheek when he says this?
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Actually that was a colume of OSC's I didn't mind reading. The first in a while. What he says about being a bad horror movie watcher exactly fits me.
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