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Graham presents his traditional New Year’s Eve talk show, with guests including double Oscar-winner Tom Hanks, starring as American children’s TV host Mr Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood; his co-star, Welsh actor Matthew Rhys (The Americans); Strictly judge Motsi Mabuse; top British actor Stephen Graham (Line of Duty, Rocketman), discussing new drama White House Farm; rising British star Florence Pugh (Midsommar, The Little Drummer Girl), who is in the new movie version of Little Women; and boxing champion Anthony Joshua, fresh from regaining his world heavyweight titles. Plus music from Melanie C feat Sink the Pink, performing their current single High Heels.
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[@paddawan_]

Tom Hanks is just gold for chat shows

[@Xpistos510]

Tom Hanks should become a British Officer and address the troops in this accent. He sounds so noble. 🤣

[@Gambit771]

As long as he works on getting a decent accent.

[@theshootist3873]

To whom does he sound so noble?

[@carolynworthington8996]

The Shootist probably to Americans like me.

[@theshootist3873]

world peace murder? What’s your definition of murder?

[@theshootist3873]

world peace that doesn’t help at all & by attempting to redefine the word murder for your own argument you are doing nothing but detracting from those victims of murder. If you want to use another word to describe what the U.K. and USA governments have done in the past, and likely will do again in the future, then fine, go ahead, do it & I won’t have a problem with it but stop using words which you do not understand the definition of. I’ve actually seen phrases like “They are murdering innocent animals.” If anyone writes nonsensical drivel like that they have to expect to get pulled up on it because it’s ridiculous and wrong.

[@whatwouldpicarddomakeitso9607]

I was sorting through my many DVDs one day and I decided to put them in order of the actors and I noticed I had many more Tom Hanks films than anybody else without realising it. That told me what a superb actor I think he is.

[@tmm_2455]

This has to be lies. So you messed up series of DVDs? What about films with co main actors/actresses? This never happened.

[@johnnys-left-earring]

@@tmm_2455what

[@GallowglassVT]

Stephen Graham did a workshop at my college once. He's such a nice guy and so genuine.

[@danieljamesmead]

When’s the video coming of him actually trying to do a Scouse accent

[@tfh1898]

He did

[@shauntbarry]

@@tfh1898 I must have sneezed and missed it

[@soundhealer6043]

Yeah, it was closer to cockney.

[@Dangermoose-rv6bb]

0.49>0.49½

[@CliveWarren69]

@@tfh1898 you must be able to produce candles from your ears like shrek

[@MerkinMuffly]

Hanks couldn't pull off an accent if it meant getting off an island with a volleyball.

[@Wimpoman]

Or landing a plane on a river.

[@chaspfrank]

@@Wimpoman Or taking a lunar lander to the surface of the moon.

[@Milamberinx]

@@chaspfrank you've not quite understood the game.

[@musakhan9719]

Or saving a private during the war

[@aoh9791]

LOL, at first I read "Getting off on an island with a volleyball." xD

[@Hisham_HMA]

i would love to see the video his kids sent to the director that would make me laugh so much specially when i remember Tom's impression of them

[@leeluv96]

When he imitated the kids I hollered!!

[@greaser7765]

Lies

[@pauliewalnuts5803]

Does more than that with kids

[@leeluv96]

@@pauliewalnuts5803 OH MY 😱

[@eldueno6593]

Me: *listens to the Scouse accent* No that's not it...

[@robynredfern6079]

0:49

[@philmckrakin5405]

@@robynredfern6079 that’s nothing like scouse

[@hannahdyson7129]

Sounds like a mafia boss trying to do Scouse .

[@RooFvIn]

That was his cockney. Not Scouse mate

[@Gambit771]

His generic American attempt at English.

[@lidiak.9421]

Tom hanks..a real nice human being and truly humble star!!

[@rohithraman6488]

Imagine Tom Hanks and Darren Farley on the show together 'Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh (sound of an old door) yeah course...'

[@dmspencer967]

When Tom Hanks said ..." Oops I just tread on the Cat ".....I had just taken a drink of my coffee and I spewed it all over the kitchen table......I'm still LAUGHING

[@melodiejohnston9528]

'Oops. I tread on the cat." ROFLMAO! Loved the accent.💙

[@richbuilds_com]

Tom Hanks is an absolute joy.

[@thedude3866]

Never the less it wasn’t scouse but it was good. Cracked me up well done Tom love ya

[@enterfil]

I have to respond just for the fact you’re called “THE DUDE” with a dude pfp. Greatest film ever produced no doubt

[@KieranThomasSmith]

this really made me laugh, he got sort of close when he said 'love you loads' but thats about it

[@intoarut]

You gotta love Tom Hanks!

[@lfc6724]

I LOVE THE SCOUSE ACCENT ❤❤❤

[@hansfieldrecords]

Tom Hanks is True Actor 👍

[@peterbrewer1822]

Sorry . Not scouse.

[@wizwoz]

I never used to be a fan if graham norton, having never seen the show if course, then it popped up as a suggestion on here and now I'm hopelessly addicted!! He keeps me up half the night in hysterics and makes my daughter tell me off for keeping her awake in the next room! That man can bring the bad out in anybody!! I'd never be able to have a conversation with him because my sense of humour is bad enough already but I wish I had the guts to ask him for help with a small wind up I have going on with my granddaughter about keanu reeves, I'd love to see her face as I served the winning shot in our little war! Baring in mind that her previous best insult to me is "why dont you go and watch another marvel film old granny!" Lol

[@junojay4563]

If you haven't already seen the episode with Matt Damon, Bill Murray and Hugh Bonneville, PLEASE do it! I watched it several times, it always cheers me up.😊

[@toni123456ify]

@@junojay4563 omg it has me in stitches😂😂 at 4:34 am I'm in hysterics watching this😂😂

[@The_Deaf_Aussie]

There's so many golden moments on this show.. Best one for me is Lady Gaga and Judy from East Enders.. ITs so adorabubbles

[@wizwoz]

Thanks for the suggestions! I've yet to see one that I dont like. He seems to have almost exactly the same sense of humour as me which is really not suitable for winding my granddaughter up but I think he'd be crazy enough to join in and PG it a bit lol she's not old enough yet to have learned not to try winding up your old nan, but she'll learn lol

[@JohnsysChannel]

The man sure knows how to Riverdance in a caravan!

[@AJP158]

Nobody can actually do a Scouse accent unless your from Liverpool… yet to hear a good impression done by a non scouser 😂

[@matthewlacey4198]

Try Martin Freeman in The Responder, I'm from Liverpool and didn't find a single fault with Martin Freeman's accent

[@AJP158]

@@matthewlacey4198 nah I’ll give ye that one, fellow scouser here.

[@c.l.m.4726]

Stephen Graham "do ya know whatta mean" is the most common scouse embedded catchphrase. Watch the whole show and count how many times he says it 😂

[@spaizemunkie4397]

I LOVE Tom Hanks! 😄😄😄

[@dinomacak1842]

yes tom hanks scouse 😂

[@obibear123]

Love this show x

[@arsenalmanic]

LOOOOOL!

[@castle7689]

*Stephen is an amazing actor, it's a shame he don't get the sane recognition as Tom*

[@ArmyofLove]

He is brilliant

[@bigbarty8648]

I didn't hear a scouse accent.

[@cartossin]

Right; video needs to be retitled to whatever accent this actually is.

[@julieenslow5915]

Y'all are too funny! Of course, I don't even know what a scouse accent is. But this is Tom's honest attempt at that accent - which is why he relates that his accent coach kept saying to him "No, that's not it." It's quite clear he never got it!

[@robynredfern6079]

He did it omg

[@RevJamesCostello]

0:49 That is his attempt. Which isn’t that bad.

[@vanman757]

I know, yeah... 😆

[@kathyjones3798]

Love Tom hanks.

[@gastonmamy7107]

Such a great guy stephen graham seem to be

[@LutzmannSwanz98]

Loved his movies, such a legend as a actor. As a person and his personal interest he deserves death penalty. Such a shame

[@ancientseed2607]

Tom Hanks is a highly dangerous individual.

[@Sossingro]

I wonder if Tom and Stephen talked about Band of Brothers together

[@oOBeagleOo]

@MEanME Most people ALREADY HAVE

[@MichaeLSwagTV]

I love yer loads😂😂😂😂

[@massapower]

TOM HANKS.... An amazing Talent 😎👍🏻

[@seniorscouse3346]

Tom stop it lad a like a southern forrest but a dont wont a forrest gump soundin scouse like me please 😂

[@geraldryan8562]

No where Scouse, but Tom Hanks was fantastic, speaking as one whom is a plastic Scouser from Birkenhead, thanks Tom for all your great films, ttfn 👍😊

[@DollyBelladonna]

Plastic scousers are from Runcorn, Skem and St helens

[@davidbrock2871]

Tom Hanks is a national treasure both in the USA and UK.

[@marvinthemonster7524]

An international treasure then…

[@davidevans3227]

mum calls him Sir tom hanks... can he get some sort of honorary knighthood?? 🙂 x

[@Ganaton2]

That's Tommy!

[@RevJamesCostello]

0:49 is his attempt at a Liverpool accent. Mocking Graham on the phone. Not too bad.

[@ZolaMarcelle]

Tom Hanks is WICKED!!

[@xxcris20xx]

FLORENCE PUGH!

[@beefcake0354]

not judging him here, but I look at Tom Hanks differently after Golden Globe 2020 and I can't help it.

[@leilabrowne5465]

Tom hanks mega wool

[@jaminnetwork]

Tom Hanks loves kids.

[@itsobviousha9347]

💯

[@deathbeforedecaf7755]

Before you all get butt hurt and whine that that's not a scouse accent blah, blah they said he TRIED to do an accent. He knows he couldn't do it correctly. It's funny bc it's his take on the people he met. Geez

[@stevencassidy6982]

We are very hot on accents in Britain.

[@mezalong]

@alex unger refer to your own comment for the answer.

[@sallyatticum]

@alex unger They are still very classist.

[@hannahdyson7129]

I don't think anyone is really bothered. Not the Scousers I know anyway

[@SuperTrojan64]

I’m still waiting for the scouse

[@chrisneedham5803]

Talks more like a woolly-back

[@MikeMcKenna21]

Chris Needham pissin 🤣😭

[@gazjones6621]

Wirral for life

[@beepboop9464]

@@MikeMcKenna21 what's a woolly back?

[@LURCHMEISTER]

It's a nickname scousers give to non-scousers. Even though it's hypocritical as the term "woolyback" came from when scousers used to work on Liverpool Docks back in the 19th century and they would wear jackets lined with wool during freezing temperatures

[@LURCHMEISTER]

As a fellow scouser.... Yes I'm a wool

[@liverpoolpotter4155]

WHY HAVE I NEVER SEEN THIS

[@richardbuchanan7124]

𝘛𝘳𝘰𝘥 on the cat.

[@VanDiemen16]

The best Greek actor ever!

[@nikolaspapadopoulos1845]

He’s American

[@jloae820]

@@nikolaspapadopoulos1845 pretty sure he's greek

[@nikolaspapadopoulos1845]

@@jloae820 no

[@keithm6252]

American actor with English and Portuguese ancestry

[@SaintPhoenixx]

The man never ages.

[@nantia07]

Honorary Greek citizen Tom Hanks, so proud :)

[@crystaldelancey7160]

I just broke my leg. I really really would like Tom Hanks to narrate.

[@acmhactress9378]

Sorry to here that. I hope your leg heals quickly.

[@tomhanks9185]

Hello dear fan thanks for your love and supports

[@davidevans3227]

risking a stupid question.. is this the new year eve show series 26...??

[@philatkinson1698]

Do one Hanx, I bet you loved the kids video

[@sel508]

We need another Robert Langdon movie?

[@AtomicFuture1982]

Not really, no.

[@Melvorgazh]

Wonder what Isaac Kappy's Scouse accent would have sounded before being murdered

[@AreYouSufferingX]

Love him, phenomenal actor, but that wasn't even in the same time zone as a Scouse accent

[@wimbledan]

He don't do dat doo do dey

[@VeraCasaca]

Is that gentleman on the left, Tommy from Snatch??

[@virenusbram8184]

0:50 i hear bristleback.

[@RobertGShipley]

Are they perhaps referring to the scouser, Stephen Graham bit on the phone?

[@TheMetalhead678]

Tries to do scouse, sounds like a cockney XD

[@davidlance5310]

First he does a Carly Rae Jepsen vid now this

[@StevenHeapRecipes]

Where??

[@OskarTBrand]

yeah he is a kid fondler alright

[@Dumebi7278]

His son Chet Hanks has a Jamaican accent. I’d like someone to explain that to me. 🥴

[@nickrinks2229]

1:03 why does he sound like he’s from northeast all of a sudden. To our directa

[@robynredfern6079]

Idfk what ya’ll are talking ab but he did the scouse accent, just don’t skip the bloody video

[@zasproductions9258]

When I hear Tom Hanks, I always think of Woody

[@philatkinson1698]

When I hear Tom Hanks I think Adrenochrome!

[@mysteryteacher9]

I think he was still channeling Audrey Hepburn...lol

[@kpr1969]

Steven graham has got some cv

[@jayl0151]

Pizza

[@KL005]

TERM HWUENKHSSSSSSSSSSS

[@doreenlloyd4885]

I yeardxa pretty good cockney accent.

[@julieenslow5915]

On which one of them?

[@Gaffer_Bouncers]

0:49 No

[@JackDManheim]

There are so many many British accents, it's hard to keep track. In the US we have a few distinct regions with accents and... one city. Hi Boston.

[@fong03]

There are so many different English accents, let alone British. There are more in the US than one might think. Boston and New York are different, and there are difference in the NY accents. There are also different Southern accents. People from Texas do not sound like people from Louisiana or North Carolina, etc. The same is true for the Midwest.

[@hannahdyson7129]

It's funny how unaware you lot are unaware of how many accents you have or even the fact you have one .

[@jameshindle784]

​@hannahdyson7129 what's funny is you say unaware twice and that messed up you trying to sound clever. Or where you unaware?

[@jason41a]

when did he attempt to do a scouser accent? i couldn't tell.

[@Nergal_Slayer]

We hope you release our daddy.

[@paulnutter1713]

Tells you in the description who they are and I still only know who Tom hanks is, they must be celebrities

[@wullaballoo2642]

You must know Anthony Joshua the boxer. The others, I haven't seen any of those shows mentioned so I don't know them.

[@paulnutter1713]

@@wullaballoo2642 he came on later

[@Aboleo80]

I know the guy sitting next to Tom. He played Al Capone on Boardwalk Empire but that is the only thing I've seen him in.

[@billymyers9268]

At 0:49, he sounds like he's doing a Scouse accent, but from 0:51 to 0:54, it sounds like a mish-mash of Brummie and Cockney.

[@julieenslow5915]

Yes yes we know! Or rather, we know he can't do Scouse!

[@dmac1170]

There’s like 2 million britons and approximately the same number of accents.

[@tickyballart4325]

😄

[@conkrcstf6405]

i dont know how big you think the uk is but youre off by a factor of 30

[@dmac1170]

@@conkrcstf6405 wow I thought that there was more than 75000 people in Briton...I stand corrected. Thank you!

[@Pupenhausen]

@@conkrcstf6405 depends what you class as an indigenous Briton. Probably not far off with 2 mil. 😂

[@henryisharold1749]

FRANK ELECTRIS IS LONELY WHY DID YOU LEAVE HER ALONE kids memes

[@DollyBelladonna]

I know Stephen Grahams cousin

[@barrywhite7246]

That is without a doubt the worst attempt of a Scouse accent I’ve ever heard

[@Catty779]

Why he sound like the sniper

[@jakbrandonbentley5448]

Barely anyone, especially Americans can really do the scouse accent

[@kelli217]

Am American, can confirm. I can hear, for example, Craig Charles in my head, but I can't make my mouth produce those sounds, though I am usually at least _somewhat_ competent at mimicry.

[@KayEl58]

You have to grow up there and suffer from all the childhood diseases associated with the climate. Chronic bronchitis and sinus problems help.

[@Gambit771]

I once did what to my ears was a perfect scouse accent. It was by fluke and I've never come close to recreating it.

[@SuperDragonRED]

Band of Brothers 😃

[@rraptor158]

Is that an unblended hairpiece?

[@MRROBBIEWATTS]

When a Scouse accent sounds like a Cockney accent - :(

[@markwright9788]

Was it though?

[@chuyista]

That was not a scouse accent

[@philmcdonald4778]

Funny if it weren't painful

[@approxi85]

Supposedly at 00:50... 😕

[@CliveWarren69]

that was the worst scouse accent attempt ive ever heard HAHAHA imagine stephen just turned into combo and gave him what he gave milky hahahahaha

[@yonasco14]

My dream is to go to Liverpool just for the accent

[@helipeek2736]

Trust me, Tom Hanks didn’t get even close to a Scouse accent.

[@tonycook1624]

I'm a scouser and didn't hear any scouse whatsoever. What I did hear was an attempt at cockney