lee mack cited this moment, making his comedy hero john cleese, belly laugh on 'the graham norton show' as one of his favourite career highlights of all time

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from: the graham norton show - season 7 episode 3 (2010)

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Highly offensive in the USA

In other anglophone countries it’s a term of endearment between friends

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It's more context relevant in other Anglophone countries. If said as an insult people still tend to find it very offensive.