How popular will Norton — best known for his hilarious and outrageous chat shows on British TV — be after he takes the EW Pop Culture Personality Test? Let’s find out.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Have you ever written to fan letter to someone?
GRAHAM NORTON: I wrote a fan letter to Rupert Everett once. He was in the Noel Coward play The Vortex in the West End and I’d read in the newspaper that someone wrote a letter to him of complaint saying that they’d enjoyed the show but they couldn’t hear him. They’d wished he’d spoken up a bit. And he wrote them a letter back saying, “Glad you enjoyed the show. I’m sorry your enjoyment was marred by my performance being inaudible. I hope these few enclosed pubic hairs make up for some of the disappointment.” [Laughs] You can imagine this lovely suburban woman was appalled to open this letter and find Rupert Everett’s pubic hair inside. I thought it was hilarious, so I wrote him a letter to tell him I thought it was so funny. I was still at drama school, so this would have been back in 1988.
The piece of pop culture memorabilia from your childhood you wish you still had?
I was a big collector when I was a kid because I grew up in Ireland. There was very little to do, so collecting was almost an activity. I had my David Cassidy scrapbook. But then have you ever met David Cassidy? [Laughs] Yeah, I shed fewer tears about losing my David Cassidy scrapbook than I once did.
Your geekiest possession today?
I have a Carrie Fisher Pez dispenser. Well, it’s a Princess Leia Pez dispenser. I sort of know her a bit, so I see it as Carrie. She came into my house, and that’s just embarrassing that you’ve got a really dusty Pez dispenser of somebody on a shelf in your kitchen.
Comedy tastes are deeply held, yet wildly subjective. Some people love Seth Rogen, and some wish him ill. Many people think Larry the Cable Guy is the funniest thing since Jeff Foxworthy; others think that's as faint praise as saying, “body odor is a better smell than rotten eggs.” And yet even as we might objectively realize that we all have different tastes, and we should laugh and let laugh, etc., don't we all have certain cherished movies that make us growl, “If you don’t like this film, we have nothing to say to each other”? One that, if someone else says, "Oh, I hate that movie," you think less of them? Clifford, this week’s Pop Culture Club assignment, is one of my lines in the sand. (Incidentally, my apologies: This movie was harder to find than I realized — there is no justice! It should be handed to all babies upon their birth! — but for those still looking, it’s available as a rental through 
