Interview by Andrew Ajiz 

My life on the net: Graham Norton

The comedian talks us through his favourite websites.
  
  


The only purposeful site I go to is Ask Jeeves. It searches all the search engines, so you get the most comprehensive search. It's just very easy to use, very uncomplicated. In a normal engine you don't get what you want or you have to change the words you've typed in. What's great about jeeves is that it comes up with everything you've asked for. It's faster and less frustrating than some of the web can be.

I have a lot of favourite websites, but www.findadeath.com bears revisiting many times. It's about celebrity deaths, and in the last few pages mentions their last meals before they died. The pictures are fantastic and the stories are funnily written. I didn't know Judy Garland died in London somewhere in a small mews. It's the sort of thing that's perfect for the web; I would never buy a book on it. It's linked to www.findagrave.com , of course, which has photographs of every celebrity's grave you could ever, ever, ever think of.

Airport Sleeping Tips is the budget traveller's guide to sleeping in airports. I have no idea who Donna McSherry is, but I guess she lives in California. People send in their descriptions of airports. The good thing about Gatwick is that it's silent - they don't make announcements. But the air conditioning is turned up very high so it's cold. Again, what I like about this is that it's very much the web. I'll read it because it's vaguely amusing.

www.losers.org - well, basically, this is an index of sad home pages, people's own web pages. It's really funny for people who spend a lot of time on the web. It's broken up into categories: wannabes, freaks, dorks, goths, punks, rednecks, girls. Lots of hideous pics. It's so odd. These people have chosen these pics as how they want to be seen by the world. I don't mind the internet not being useful, and I do like the fact that anyone can be on the web.

• A new series of So Graham Norton begins on Friday on Channel 4

 

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