The Night Chris O’Dowd Met Shane MacGowan

Irish actor Chris O’Dowd is among the stars featured on the Graham Norton Show on BBC One tonight (10.35pm). Chris stars in the new Netflix comedy Mascots at the moment in which he plays a character called The Fist.
The Roscommon man told Graham Norton about the time he met his hero, the legendary Pogues frontman, Shane MacGowan – a tale which results in much ribaldry.

O’Dowd recounted that he and McGowan were attending an awards ceremony. Glad to see Shane, O’Dowd went over to introduce himself.

After several minutes of silence MacGowan leaned over and said: "I'll just have a vodka tonic.” As the creator of Moon Boy told it, Shane had mistaken him for a waiter. Or else he was just trying to cadge a free drink!