Few chat shows have survived as long, or as loosely, as this one built around Graham Norton's easy Irish charm.
What is The Graham Norton Show about?
Each episode gathers a small cluster of guests on one couch rather than rotating them through separate segments, which lets conversations drift, overlap and occasionally derail in ways a stricter format would cut. Norton works the room with quick asides and running jokes, but the show's signature is the Red Chair: an audience member climbs into a seat rigged to drop them backward mid-sentence, and the stories people choose to tell in that seat range from mortifying to genuinely strange. A live musical performance usually closes things out, giving the hour a variety-show shape underneath the interview format.
About the cast
There is no fixed supporting cast; the show runs on whichever actors, musicians and public figures are promoting something that week, seated together rather than interviewed one at a time.
Context & significance
The series grew out of Norton's earlier late-night work in Britain and Ireland and settled into its current studio format in the mid-2000s, since when the mixed-guest couch and the Red Chair have become its most imitated ideas. Comedy and music sit side by side in its genre billing for a reason: the tone leans toward banter and audience participation rather than hard-news interviewing, and the live band segment is treated as a real performance slot, not filler between questions. Its comedy-and-music billing also explains why musical acts get treated as a genuine performance slot on the show rather than a quick plug between interview segments, and why the format has traveled well into late-night compilations and clip culture outside the original broadcast.
Watching The Graham Norton Show on Ktime
Episodes are available to stream on K-Time once you log into a free account; no separate subscription step is needed to start watching, and the Farsi-language interface makes browsing the wider talk-show and comedy catalogue straightforward for viewers who prefer navigating in Persian.