‘We built a tunnel to your country’

@vladd896

Жыл бұрын

As if they had many other options...

@moramento22

Жыл бұрын

@@vladd896 They could've build it to Ireland

@CEDRICKB

Жыл бұрын

@@moramento22 they still can

@CEDRICKB

Жыл бұрын

imagine giving the points from the tunnel entrance ^^

@gerdcelinejensen8294

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

our swedish commentator once said "i don’t know what she is saying but i know she is exactly as tall as the eiffel tower" lmao

@RustyVaperGameplay

Жыл бұрын

And that is funnier than anything to ever leave Graham Norton's mouth.

@Stevenbfg

Жыл бұрын

@@RustyVaperGameplay No.

@RustyVaperGameplay

Жыл бұрын

Solid rebuttal.

@TearTheRoof0ff

Жыл бұрын

​@@RustyVaperGameplay About as salient as warranted.

@danielyeshe

Жыл бұрын

I am glad to see that another country has a similar style of commentator.

The reason they didn’t have it that one year is because they were busy moving the tower to the left.

@nameredacted6221

Жыл бұрын

Is the joke that they switched the perspective skewed to the left after that one year?

@forsakenvoidz6828

Жыл бұрын

@@nameredacted6221 yes that is the joke

@nameredacted6221

Жыл бұрын

@@forsakenvoidz6828 ok

@liplapdvs9443

Жыл бұрын

god damn it I wish I thought of that joke

@DavinciWhite

Жыл бұрын

Wonderful

The year they didn’t use the Eiffel Tower was honestly thrilling

@MJAY-N7129

Жыл бұрын

Hilarious

@averageday

Жыл бұрын

This makes so much sense 😂

@benjaminqmorris

Жыл бұрын

i guess building the grand entrance to ur gallery underground and then building what CAN be seen from the ground out of glass isn't optimised for television

@rinanishikido819

Жыл бұрын

I never saw it coming, how am I supposed to know they're in Paris without it?

@orpheaslivitsanos

11 ай бұрын

But, they did so!

If i were the person in Paris i would say "greetings to all, and yes Graham Norton, im in Paris."

@nienkehuijbens301

Жыл бұрын

No one outside of the UK (and those watching this) would understand but hey

@NathalieNoZen

Жыл бұрын

@@nienkehuijbens301 mate, I'm not from UK and never went there but I think most of Eurovision fans know about Graham 😂

@nienkehuijbens301

Жыл бұрын

@@NathalieNoZen so? Obviously we know about graham but only a handful of people watch his commentary. How would they know about this highly specific running joke?

@NathalieNoZen

Жыл бұрын

@nienke huijbens mate, you're right. It was meant on a light tone as it would be a funny joke, but well, not everyone is a eurovision "connoisseur"😉

@cinziapetio8929

Жыл бұрын

You seem to be taking this joke awfully seriously! I'm sure it'd help to lighten up 😊

France: 🗼 Graham Norton: I have never met this in my life

@zxorizonn_3111

Жыл бұрын

LMFAOOAOOA

@nemnyoom

Жыл бұрын

yeah, tokyo is pretty far from europe

@bobaplaysgames4019

Жыл бұрын

@@nemnyoom wtf you talking about? Whats a tokyo? This is clearly the eiffel tower 🗼

@nemnyoom

Жыл бұрын

@@bobaplaysgames4019 are you joking?

@DreamsAreMakeBelieve

Жыл бұрын

This tower could be walking down the street and I wouldn't know a thing. Sorry to this tower.

Each Eurovision, the Arc de Triomphe thinks, “this will be my year.”

@EEEEEEEE

23 күн бұрын

E‎ ‎ ‎

He's such a fantasic addition to british tv and it's wild that theylet him go off so much as a commentator

@lifelikejosie

Жыл бұрын

Sweden’s commentator Edward goes off just as much if not more 😂😂

@BrianLloyd1991

Жыл бұрын

Isnt graham at the final?

@joshuakerr5702

Жыл бұрын

@@BrianLloyd1991yes he’s hosting and commentating. I’ll miss him commentating as much but his hosting will be great!

@clyde_45td

Жыл бұрын

Hahah he does often go ham but we Brits abolutely love him, he's very entertaining and also a really nice guy

@gottalovetheinternet

Жыл бұрын

That’s British humour… just teasing eachother basically

0:53 “ONE?! We built a tunnel to your country”

@spitbacca

Жыл бұрын

I think each country only made a tunnel half way, then we connect in near the middle of the English Chanel

@afroturtl

Жыл бұрын

@@spitbacca the British half was longer :)

@GreeneyedApe

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately for them, Eurovision is not a tunnel-building competition.

@Zuazman

Жыл бұрын

@@GreeneyedApe yet

@thebazgaz

Жыл бұрын

We shouldn't criticise, at least the French give us points.

I am French and every morning, after putting on my beret and taking my accordion, I listen to La Zarra while going to buy my baguette and my croissants at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. This gets me in shape to prepare my midday frog legs

@angelvelezsalazar9766

Жыл бұрын

😂😂

@regina_george340

Жыл бұрын

no wine, cigarett and escargot? I doubt you are French

@KarrieDreammind5

Жыл бұрын

No doubt, you do all that while wearing your black & white striped shirt! 😀

@ob1cannobody

Жыл бұрын

I did not see you but my leprechaun friend told me all about this

@fenhen

Жыл бұрын

@@regina_george340 Needs a ring of onions around his neck too.

i LOVE this!! He also made the same joke in the 2010 intro video, when the camera flew by the effiel tower he said "do you think French people get bored of the effiel tower?"

@stephanieshine2098

Жыл бұрын

honest yes

@stephanieshine2098

Жыл бұрын

i don't even live in Paris

@ThumpaContinues

Жыл бұрын

Eiffel* , and personnally no hahah. But i don't live in paris anymore so maybe that's just it

@neigegavart6670

Жыл бұрын

Yes, yes, we wish they would show something else than the Eiffel tower.

@Ferreneh

Жыл бұрын

I'm sure they do, same exact way we get bored to the city we live in. After a while you just get "blind" to it. Only excited tourists make you actually see it again like "oh yeah there's that!"

“Is she on a skateboard???” 😂😂😂

@graceisadisgrace8625

Жыл бұрын

That killed me 🤣🤣🤣

@titularhero

14 күн бұрын

She's clealry on a greenscreen and the camera was moved, which in a way is funnier, she's in a studio but they still felt they had to have the eiffel tower in shot

“We built a tunnel to your country.” That sounded so ominous! 😂 Also, imagine if France hosts one year and they still report from the Eiffel Tower instead of the stadium! 😂

@FlipperWolf

Жыл бұрын

France will never win cause we purposefully avoid winning ...

@mironty

Жыл бұрын

Eifell tower WILL be the stadium lmao

@OO-oe3th

6 ай бұрын

So junior eurovision

"we built a tunnel to your country" that's a threat. He's coming in and taking the tower down in a matter of minutes

I'm still have no clue how he could tell they were in paris

@oldvlognewtricks

Жыл бұрын

If only they’d build a big illuminated landmark - some kind of mast or spire, maybe - to help give a sense of location

@riverkath

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, if only! That would be a great help!

@jamienorth1603

Жыл бұрын

It’s because of the Eiffel Tower in the background and so that’s how he recognises it each time, he said he couldn’t recognise where it was one year as they weren’t next to the Eiffel Tower as a joke. Hope this clears it up

@oldvlognewtricks

Жыл бұрын

@@jamienorth1603 If only it were real 😔

@michaelalmquist9063

Жыл бұрын

Who was in Paris?

1:23 It feels like they were literally moving her so they could show him the eiffel tower and it just makes it so much funnier XD

I missed him this year during the televoting wasn't the same without him there.

@PoMaQue

Жыл бұрын

He did go off on his own sometimes "It's Eurovision, not Tinder!"

@pn2360

Жыл бұрын

i mean i didn't particularly mind because he and hannah were busy being such a vibe themselves as hosts so i didn't really care all too much, but yeah mel wasn't great...

"We built a tunnel to your country." delivered with just the right amount of bitterness.

2024 and he's just done it again 😂

While the jokes themselves are funny, the thing the brings this into legend is how it spans across an entire decade

It'd be funny if this year Graham, as onstage host for the voting, throws to the french vote, and the person reading France's twelve said something like either, 'Hi Graham, yes it's the eiffel tower agaaaaiiiiiiinnnn', or 'Hi Graham, You probably don't know where I am, but I thought I'd sit in front of one of France's lesser known buildings".

@jakehonor8770

Жыл бұрын

you mean if onstage host how he was this year and he would just say that he likes french or vote for them?

@HoltAlex

Жыл бұрын

I missed the voting; does anyone know if he did?

@Mscape7

Жыл бұрын

@@HoltAlex no need for a semi-colon there :')

@Menno_3

Жыл бұрын

@@Mscape7 well just taking it out would be wrong.

@Mscape7

Жыл бұрын

@@Menno_3 He just needed a full-stop. The semi-colon is wrong, and he only included it to try and look smart!

The UK should deliver their points from the Blackpool tower one year

It’s really funny that every Eurovision has their own commentary. I’d love to choose which commentary to watch. Loved that Catherine Tate gave the votes from the Uk this year. Love her

@mallbratgirl_3005

Жыл бұрын

she was soo drunk though lmao it was kind of embarassing

@thesmithersy

Жыл бұрын

She was awful, I can't believe we picked her to represent us. Ham acting and forcing enthusiasm.

@travelphotos7662

Жыл бұрын

Australia used to get the Terry Wogan commentary and we loved it. And then, one year, SBS (the broadcasting service in Australia with broadcasting rights) decided to have an Australian team do the commentary instead of using Terry Wogan's. There was a lot of upset in Australia that year. There was a lot of love for Terry Wogan's dry commentary. SBS did repeat Eurovision a few days later in that particular year, using the Terry Wogan commentary. We now only get the Australian commentary; Graham Norton doesn't get a look in. I

@NuminorTheFool

Жыл бұрын

@@mallbratgirl_3005 If she's doing any presenting she's always blind drunk. It's got to the point where I'm surprised that any one hires her for these sort of things because they have to know she'll just do it pissed.

@RenewedRS

Жыл бұрын

​@@thesmithersy she literally in character you mong

“I wonder where he is?……. He could be anywhere in France really…“😂😂😂

@DerekPK

Жыл бұрын

Ha ha, even in Normandy.

When they read out the UK votes next year, they should have the Blackpool tower in the background, confuse the hell out of the rest of Europe.

Hearing him and Hannah Waddingham do the votes was so good. Usually it fells so generic and forced. Both of them had good chemistry together and made it fun.

Come on France...we get it! The Eiffel Tower is in Paris! It's beautiful we love it but show us something else! 🤣

@falconeshield

Жыл бұрын

As opposed to the shard, England

@solarprogeny6736

Жыл бұрын

I blame foreigners for being so obsessed with the Eiffel Tower that if we showed anything else they'd be disappointed

@astrovisionbroadcastingunion

Жыл бұрын

Tell that to our oh-so wise ministery of culture... 😭

@jonatortue

Жыл бұрын

yes next time in the Catacombs, that would be original haha

@mishynaofficial

Жыл бұрын

I don't even like that tower lol

As a presentator in the final he will have the duty to comment on the eiffeltower!

@Tillyard86

Жыл бұрын

Didn’t really get a chance they were in and out with France pretty quick.

I love Graham Norton! He must have been super excited to finally host Eurovision in the UK.

@conorcolumb6291

Жыл бұрын

I'd say hed love to host in Ireland more

@criostoirodriscoll3534

Жыл бұрын

@@conorcolumb6291 I dunno if he would. He is very much a monarchist and unionist west Brit at heart

@Oxley016

Жыл бұрын

@@conorcolumb6291 I don't know about that. He's very much become a Brit like Terry Wogan before him. Wouldn't be surprised if Graham becomes a British Citizen and receives a Knighthood too, before long!

@Zett76

Жыл бұрын

@@conorcolumb6291 He did say "we built a tunnel to your country", didn't he? :)

😂😂😂😂😂 i Wish we could hear the UK version of Eurovision with Graham Norton instead at our boring Danish speakers. I love Graham ❤

@squidink3470

Жыл бұрын

What's the Danish commentary like? I assumed it would be funny as you guys have a good sense of humour.

@Danmarinja

Жыл бұрын

Graham’s sass is part of the UK Eurovision experience

@fairypoo

Жыл бұрын

I think one of the reasons UK loves it so much was Terry Wogans commentary and then Graham when he took over. It just adds to the experience

@mr.lookatmeiamyourcaptainn9078

Жыл бұрын

@@squidink3470it’s just a man who always hypes up the other skandinavien countries and if another contestant has the smallest thing to do with Denmark he mentions that but thats it

@conn7125

Жыл бұрын

@@squidink3470 no there’s no fun what so ever unfortunately. We used to have one like Graham many years ago but they wanted someone younger and we got stuck with one that calls the danish entry the best he’s ever seen 🫣🫣🫣

devastated that graham wasnt allowed to be drunk this year. let the poor man deliver tipsy commentary! it's tradition at this point 😂

Following Graham Norton's relevant remarks, we built Palais du Louvre AND its pyramid. Too quickly evidently for they collapsed after a few weeks. And since there is no other monument in our miserable capital, we had no other choice but to go back to the Eiffel Tower.

"we built a tunnel" had me in stitches

Tbf to the French producers, the tower is tall and fits in the frame, and it's lit up at night when the results are read. It really is perfect for this. It's just a shame nobody knows where it is.

Graham is one of the best tv personalities, love him

It's sad to see how other commentators make jokes and our german commentator just.. commentates. Gotta love german practicality

@louis3328

Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure if it's particularly practical and if German are really practical, but it sure is less funn 😅

@solmoman

Жыл бұрын

That's why you got voted the least funny people by South Park

@jasmin5858

Жыл бұрын

@@solmoman South Park 😩😩😭 plsss

@jensraab2902

Жыл бұрын

@@jasmin5858 I've stopped watching Eurovision on German TV a couple of years ago because I can no longer stand Peter Urban's stupid comments. I now watch the video on the official Eurovision channel. It involves some shielding from the news for a day but it's so much better! The only good thing is the info he usually gives about the performers during the short video clip shown right before their song but that's about it.

@thatguy1173

Ай бұрын

@@jensraab2902 Watch the Austrian ORF then. It's done by Andi Knoll, he cen be quite funny and sarcastic.

What do you mean Graham’s favorite running gag!? It’s France’s favorite gag, they’re the ones framing it in EVERY TIME!!! Graham HAS to respond! 😂😂😂

I mean, to be fair to Graham Norton, they could have used video from Las Vegas by mistake 🤷‍♂

LOL he did it again...

Wouldn’t it be funny if this year they announce the votes in Nice then Graham can’t comment on the Effiel Tower

@imageez

Жыл бұрын

Wow, even the Eiffel Tower walked out and joined the strike

@bakeymykakey

Жыл бұрын

honeslty at that point he’d make it a thing to ask where the eiffel tower had gone

@jensraab2902

Жыл бұрын

I'd be more interested in the Naughty votes! 😛

Im hammered and i dont know why youtube has shown me this but i choose to assume theyre all in blackpool

I bet for this year, Graham won't have an Eiffel Tower to look for because of the fact the French delegation took it to make their staging 😭 (edit: forgot they had it plastered into the LED for 2017 buut you get my point)

@solarprogeny6736

Жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHAHHA

He wont do the joke this year since he is on stage😢 Savage if he does it anyway

graham is a treasure. i dont think anyone understands how unhinged the australian commentary is compared to this. god love em 🤍

@magic8girl

Жыл бұрын

Australian?

@ke_nickie

Жыл бұрын

@@magic8girl yess i’m comparing graham’s jokes to the chaos of the australian commentary

@mallbratgirl_3005

Жыл бұрын

nice pfp lol

@RustyVaperGameplay

Жыл бұрын

Why are Australia even in EuroVision...

@lilymarinovic1644

Жыл бұрын

​@@RustyVaperGameplay because we Australians need the sophistication and high culture! 😂

Fun fact, the Eiffel Tower was erected to honour the winner of the first ever Eurovision song contest. Clair Eiffel De Lune won it in 1957 with the hit, 'Just Give Me A Snail For Breakfast' which btw spent 36 weeks at no.1 in the French charts. Clair reported at the time that it was a bottle of wine which inspired her to write the song. After the success of the Eurovision song contest when it was all over, Clair went on to travel the world and speak French wherever she went no matter what. Today, every year on the 16th of May in France people ironically don't eat snails for breakfast in honour of Clair Eiffel De Lune's life. Whilst Clair continues to live a life of honour as she wouldn't ever say something like, it's great to be French because that sentence is in English and she only speaks French even though she can speak English just as well. I think she paints pictures for a living and sells baguettes on the side for the extra bit of cash.

@johnmartinez7440

Жыл бұрын

I thought it was named after Eiffel 65? Learn something new everyday.

@egg_2705

Жыл бұрын

I, pls tell me this is a joke 😂

@scientistbird

Жыл бұрын

this, sadly, means that they could not report her points while standing in front of the eiffel tower

@Zett76

Жыл бұрын

You forgot to mention WHY the tower was erected. Not only to honor the winner, but because every time the votes were collected, Graham Norton couldn't tell WHERE the french supermodel was at...

@multirevelator

Жыл бұрын

always a history buff in the comments

"Who'd you think she gave the other half of that jacket to?" made me crack up

2015 is such a game changer. haha

Such a man of culture. On 2:38 he drops Jacques (or Zhak) joke, the Croatian classics.

he is such a hater and i love it

If only he said it live while hosting this year 😂

i was SHOCKED when they showed the louvre

The UK should stand in front of the Blackpool Tower and speak the same way they speak in Allo Allo. That will confuse the French.

Graham is such a gem!❤

wait till he finds out greece always has the panthenon as the background

I wish I could watch eurovision with Graham's commentary! Also, thanks for CC!

“Is she on a skateboard” lmao

I’m surprised he hasn’t made a Blackpool Tower joke yet 😂

Even before I moved to the UK, I always watched Eurovision on the BBC - entirely for this:

Lmao. I still enjoy the most his joke about golden boy (Israel 2015)

@el0leo

Жыл бұрын

what was the joke

@sweetgirl070707

Жыл бұрын

We need to know the joke please

@TalloMiz

Жыл бұрын

@@el0leo he said about Nadav what they feed them in Israel, he looks 35 😂😂😂 (he was 16)

@el0leo

Жыл бұрын

@Tal Mizrahi lol well he definitely has a point

@SvobodovaEva

Жыл бұрын

@@TalloMizwait what, he was 16???

he sounds like he's in his bed watching this on his tablet just commentating away to himself. soo funny

I was literally just talking to my partner about his obsession with the Eiffel Tower! It's so good. He's obsessed.

To be fair, it could be Las Vegas.

i appreciate the subtitles!

Hey, if it ain't broke don't fix it.

You are the best! Greetings from Brazil

"Build something else famous." We did a million times but they won't show it! 😭🤣

Now I know what I’ll be looking for next Eurovision

Can't believe he still hasn't done a Blackpool Tower joke

‘do yo think she gave the other half of that jacket to that man from Croatia’ 😂😂

He could at least ONCE ask why they switched to Las Vegas instead of France

Fun fact: Elodie Gossuin co-hosted Junior Eurovision 2021 in Paris.

The French don’t hate the English as much as everyone thinks because when I went there earlier in the year, there were literally TONNES of stalls at the bottom of the Eiffel Tower selling key rings of the one in Blackpool.

I fking love british humour omfg 💀💀💀

„It could be anywhere reaaaally!“

i like how every country seemingly has their own passive-agressive narrator that provides snide comments based on both current and historic geopolitics

Is that Paris by any chance.

France is using the same background again and again

It went from being on the right of the person to then missing a year and suddenly it was forever on the left 😂

A living legend, I love Graham Norton ❤

I guess I need to watch the UK version 😂🤣😂 F-hilarious!

They should throw in Blackpool Tower one year just to fuck with us.

i love that the one year they're not in front of the eiffel tower the background is the LOUVRE

You have got to love him! ❤

Just looks like an oversized electricity pylon

It's funny because I made literally the exact same joke this year while watching it with my friends, without knowing about Grahams running joke, and none of my friends really picked up on the joke. And now, some days later, this video pops up in my recommendations as some message from above to tell me that it was indeed a funny comment!

Bet he was gutted that he couldn't make that joke this year on the account of being too busy hosting 😂

My favourite from last night, ESC 2023 was "the slowest stripper in the world" quip. I can't remember which country but the man giving point was all zipped up and unzipped only the mouth to say the country with 12 points.

@Somnogenesis

Жыл бұрын

That was the extraordinary jury delegate from Iceland!

In France, if you show Eifel tower in your productions, either in films or tv productions, you got tax free.

Why are they in Blackpool every year? 😂

I don't live in the UK but i always tune in to the Beebs for Graham. It's just so much funnier when Graham Norton is doing his thing, it makes for a fun evening with some very questionable music and snarky commentary. He's the best!

"1? We built a tunnel to your country -_-"

The year they didn't use the Eiffel Tower no one had a clue where they were 😂

Wishing he made it live this year 😂

Apparently Ireland dug a tunnel to France!

This is a clear case of Paris envy.

Next year they should troll Graham by broadcasting the results of the French jury from Blackpool.

You did it Graham, you got them to stick with the Blackpool tower of the south

That thing's the Eiffel Tower? That makes sense now - I always wondered why the French vote always had the person standing in Blackpool.

Graham is better in the booth commentating than he is actually hosting tbh.

Does anyone think the French might be doing this on purpose because they're aware of Graham's running gag?