13 June, 2006 | Leave a Comment

My favorite English chat show has to be The New Paul O’Grady Show, which is on each day at 5:00. Nothing makes me laugh more than the mere sound of Paul O’Grady’s voice. He is famous for hosting a variety of TV shows in drag as the character Lily Savage, but now he’s appearing as himself. He is wonderfully neurotic and funny and campy. His dog Buster usually sits on his desk during the show. Each day at the start of the program Paul reads letters from viewers (and cringes in horror if they address him as “sir”). Last week someone wrote to ask if he would make an appearance in the Big Brother house. He was disgusted by the thought and said he wanted to seal off the Big Brother house and turn on the gas. How can you not love someone who sees the world like that?

I recorded him reading one of his viewer letters this afternoon, just so my American readers can hear his Liverpudlian accent. His show is going on hiatus after this Friday to make room for Richard & Judy. Boo hiss!

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1. Gadfleye Says:

   June 13th, 2006 at 6:36 pm

   Sounds funny. Did you know that George W. Bush is really Ronald Reagan in drag? Karl Rove doesn’t even exist, he’s just a mannequin with a hidden microphone broadcasting passages from Machiavelli’s The Prince

2. Anglofille Says:

   June 13th, 2006 at 10:31 pm

   You are truly nuts!

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