By minute 14, Hanks has commandeered the decanter. By minute 17, Harrison Ford is smiling . Not a grimace. A genuine, crinkled-eye, I’m-having-fun smile. The studio audience gasps as if witnessing the second coming. The deep magic of BD5 occurs during the “red chair” segment. A contestant tells a mundane story about a lost ferret. But it’s what happens after that matters.
Tom Hanks then tries to outdo them all by standing up to reenact the ferret’s escape. He trips over the BBC’s floor monitor. Helen Mirren calls him “a clumsy Yank.” Ford, without missing a beat, adds: “That’s why we won the war.” the graham norton show season 17 bd5
If you have not seen it, watch it alone, with headphones, after 11 PM. If you have seen it, you know exactly why you just smiled reading this. It is the perfect storm. The uncut gem. The sofa that held four gods and one glorious mess. By minute 14, Hanks has commandeered the decanter