Limerick's Ben survives red chair on Graham Norton Show thanks to "heavy-handed" Treaty barman

GRAHAM Norton had Julia Roberts, Colin Farrell, Benedict Cumberbatch, Gloria Estefan, and Robbie Williams on his couch this week but the biggest round of applause went to a Limerick man.

Ben, from Limerick, popped up on the red chair segment at the end of The Graham Norton Show. Audience members sit in the eponymous chair and tell stories in exchange for not being flipped over. Ben definitely walked.

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The young man told a story about an unnamed hotel in Limerick where he and friends would “go on the beer”.

“Our friend was working there and he was very, very heavy-handed with the portions he'd give us. The last thing I remember is walking out of the front door of the hotel.

“The next thing I remember is hearing an absolute banshee scream. I woke up, looked around me and I was in this tiny box.

"I looked out the little hole and I see my mother looking in at me. I was asleep in my dog's kennel out the backyard!” said Ben.

“We love Ben,” said Graham.

“You can walk. Well done, Ben,” said the host of the BBC show, which is shown on Virgin One on Saturday nights.

Julia Roberts, Colin Farrell, Benedict Cumberbatch, Gloria Estefan, and Robbie Williams all applauded at the Limerick man’s unusual ‘tail’.