Miriam Morgolyes on Graham Norton

[PuppyMonkey]

Anecdote about wanking off three men in a random wood in Edinburgh or something. Everyone laughed hysterically.

Is it just me or have TV chat shows gone really downhill?

I think it's great to see a woman who doesn't care what anyone thinks and who breaks all the rules about how women are supposed to behave. I find it very cheering

Ew no. It would be just as repulsive if a man went on there and talked about wanking off random women in public and calling people cunts and using racist terms.

If thats what you find "cheering" I find that pretty pathetic

Hah, yes, these days when you have unfortunate, grotty women bragging about doing a thousand equally grotty men in a day (yuck) then a story about wanking off three men in a wood of an evening sounds positively pedestrian.

Although what that says about society is rather depressing.

Eugh. Think people are really turning against and seeing through folk like that now. Fantastically rich liberal who owns multiple homes/open borders enthusiast, tick, gay woman/TWAW, tick, be kind /unless you're wishing death on a conservative, tick.

I find her crude and embarrassing, although I know there are lots of people who find her "telling it like it is", think she's a national treasure etc. and think the swearing is hilarious.

She's an attention seeker I think, Graham loves her and gives her the means to do it.

Well, it’s clear I’m not the only one to have found her awful.

Of course I’ve seen her in things before and knew she was a bit of a “character” - but I didn’t know she was going to be on last night until I started watching. Yes, I could’ve switched channel but I like AS and I enjoy watching the show snuggled up in bed on a Friday night. Just wasn’t expecting such a crass anecdote and was a bit WTF because the audience seemed to lap it up.

Yes, I grew up with Parky and Russell Harty and even Des O’Connor who got all the A list Hollywood legends telling fascinating tales that gave a real insight into the era. And now we have Miriam regaling us with wanking stories. Yuck.

She is obviously an intelligent, educated Woman. It is a shame for her (or maybe not) that she resorts to such crassness.

There was one episode where she was talking about her love of Dickens, it was really passionate and someone else on the sofa said they were going to try one of his books as a result. But I suppose that’s less clippable for YouTube and social media.

I feel embarassed for the woman.

My late father loved her in Dickens adaptations.

So sad.

I watched with my Kids (young adults), they all found her really "creepy". After all it's been through in recently years, you'd think the BBC would want to distance itself from such cringyness.
She's no different to Bernard Manning. The world has (hopefully) moved on.

I've always found a rather tiresome. Her stories are considered funny because posh women being vulgar is more shocking than if it came from Kathy Burke.

I think she has this dirty stories schtick as her persona so that she continues to get invited on to chat shows.

I think she's a talented actor who has done good work, but I avoid anything about her like the plague outside that context. Vulgar, crass anecdotes trotted out for 'shock value' are just embarrassing, not funny, whether man or woman, young or old are doing it.

I've thought before she seems racist. Interesting to see others feel the same.

It's sad really, she's done some brilliant work with amazing people (the Charles Dickens stuff in particular) but she thinks the most interesting thing about herself is wanking men off.

She has always been revolting. 🤢

I find her vulgar and smug, frankly. Wit should be clever.

I can’t stand her, she’s always so coarse and vulgar I avoid anything she’s on. She actually makes me feel physically repulsed.

She was on Wogan or something years ago, I remember watching with my mum, who was very taken by her. Just chatty and warm and funny, and full of passion for Dickens. What the hell has happened to her/to television? Are we supposed to be happier, so much more 'advanced' now? It's all so depressing.

The male actor sitting next to her looked like he was forcing himself to laugh. It was a bit cringe and yes, she's told it before, but this time 2 further men were added.

Thinking about it I've started watching those old episodes of Parkinson that gets shown on TV nowadays and the difference in quality to the boring self-agrandising, very carefully curated presentation of celebrity that Graham Norton and Jonathan Ross serve up is absolutely startling.

I haven't watched Norton or Ross for months because I realized that they're actually quite boring. Celebrities being given a chance to present their best selves and talk about their new film is obviously what mainstream audiences are expected to want now and I suppose there's always been a bit of that, but it was actually offset by some real interviewing as well and some nuggets of insight or reflection.

Whoever said Parkinson didn't just do celebrities, is spot on and it sometimes made a really interesting combination of an A-List actor with an academic. So much more interesting.

I find her repulsive and tedious, the female version of a dirty old man. Grubby.

For me it's the way of how she talks about her parents . She's an elderly woman but when recalling her mother , it's mummy . I shudder every time she says it .
She's just brought out another biography , and in her first she also talks about being good at handjobs despite being a lesbian .
Giving them to strangers in parks apparently !

It would be interesting to see how Bette Davis or Peter Ustinov or Oliver Reed or Billy Connelly would have fared on the modern Graham Norton chat show. Or Mohammed Ali. Probably cut them off for a silly clip or the stupid red chair .

How does she seem racist?

I avoid her too. She was a participant at recent literary festival and avoided her presentation. However, reading this thread, and watched SGN, despite MM being a participant, I too felt very uncomfortable about the three men incident. I do also remember her talking about Dickens in previous interviews and think her expertise is is insightful. Again, I consider BBC editorial policy is at fault, and wonder if the edits of all the participants made for a poorer show.

She started off just the right side of inappropriate but has now become a caricature of herself with all the increasingly outrageous stories. I no longer find it funny.

If she wasn't so posh I doubt she'd get away with her 'banter'.