Andrew Garfield's hair, white tigers and Stallone on Graham Norton's sofa

The BBC's Short from Norton's latest episode passed 190,000 views in 13 hours, and its comments keep asking what happened between Stallone and a tiger.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 258,677 views a day, 25 times a normal first day on this channel (10,426).

The story behind Andrew Garfield's beautiful hair! | The Graham Norton Show - BBC

Hair was the hook. The BBC titled its newest Graham Norton Show Short "The story behind Andrew Garfield's beautiful hair!" and it passed 190,000 views within 13 hours. A Short on this channel usually ends its whole first day somewhere near 10,000.

The hair gets the title, but the description slips in a second hook, a laughing nod to white tigers. The comments suggest the tigers belong to Sylvester Stallone's part of the evening. Many viewers want to know whether he ever made it to the bathroom, and others picture him alone, face to face with a tiger. Garfield's look gets its own thread: one viewer has been reminded of John Glover's long-haired Lionel Luthor in Smallville for months. Thirty-eight comments arrived in those first hours. A BBC Short usually gathers about five in a full day.

It was a crowded sofa. Stallone, forever Rocky and Rambo, came to talk about his memoir, The Steps. Catherine Zeta-Jones, who won her Oscar playing Velma Kelly in Chicago, was there for the Amazon revenge thriller Kill Jackie. Garfield leads The Uprising, Paul Greengrass's film about the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. Greengrass is the director of United 93 and two of the Bourne films, so a medieval rebellion is new ground for him.

The same episode kept the channel busy all day. A second upload under the identical hair title drew a much smaller crowd. A Stallone clip about geese did nearly as well as that second upload. By his account, a goose will take you behind the barn and give you a beating.

As we reported here, Norton's sofa carried the channel last week too. This time, a hairstyle did the work.

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The numbers

Here are the figures behind a Short that drew far more views and comments than this channel's clips usually manage on their first day.

the video's first day

usual first day here

10,426

this video

258,677

subscribers

15,700,000

▲ 100,000 in the last 7 days

total views

12,907,851,546

views per day

4,026,025

typical day: 3,438,369

the video

views

189,636

likes

2,772

comments

38

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Gordon Ramsay

22,000,000

BBC

15,700,000

HISTORY

15,500,000

Dropout

15,300,000

Comedy Central

12,600,000

Still Watching Netflix

11,000,000

As of October 8, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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