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Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

The good and the great from the BAFTA's - 9 Feb 15

Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

Global

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.3808 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2015

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Just for the podcasters - a little bit extra from the acerbic wit of London's longest-serving talkshow host!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Morning, everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today. Yes, I know it's Monday.

0:05.1

I know that Nick is breakfasting in America, and I know that Boston has got snow. I mean,

0:10.5

so deep, so deep, you can't even imagine it. We get snow here. So I just ran. And it's nothing

0:18.7

like over there, is it? So I hope it goes well.

0:21.7

Hope it goes very well.

0:23.1

So last night, the BAFTAs, and the good and the great turned up,

0:27.5

and the street was full of people, yeah, woo-bee, and clapping and cheering.

0:31.7

And it looked good.

0:34.0

It's at the Royal Opera House.

0:35.1

It's a great venue.

0:36.5

And Stephen Fry, I don't know. Is this the final year they invite Stephen Fry to do it? The truth of the matter is he's a bit starstruck. He's a bit loved up with Elliot. But I always think you should keep that private, don't you? You know, nobody's really interested. We, there's a huge age difference. We know that

0:54.9

apparently Elliot is a comedian, although frankly, I've never seen him anywhere. But everybody turned

0:59.6

up, and they did their bit, and it was all lovely, and people clapped, and Eddie Redmayne got it.

1:04.1

I think, you know, it's, even though you think to yourself, I thought I was pretty good in it,

1:08.1

to actually win an award is lovely. And Eddie, uh, picture,

1:13.3

pictured with, excuse me, wait a minute, let's have some water, pictured with Stephen Hawking,

1:20.4

was, uh, was, you know, he gave a very impassioned speech. Very impassioned and so everybody

1:26.6

very happy. He's got a top it though. He knows it's

1:29.5

very, very difficult. David Beckham, you know, just sort of posing for pictures. Unfortunately,

1:34.9

he should have put his hands behind his back because he's covered in tattoos and it looked a little bit tacky.

1:39.7

Scrubbing up for the BAFTAs, Claudia Winkleman, making light of last year's makeup malfunction.

1:45.7

She was determined not to top the worst dress list, and so she was there.

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