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Jan 7, 2022 · The Bee Gees walking out of an incredibly awkward TV interview in 1997 has become one of the most infamous moments in British chat show history. Appearing on the Clive Anderson All Talk show, the Bee Gees famously walked off set after growing tired at the host's continuous jokes about their music.
Feb 22, 2020 · I regret my bust-up with the Bee Gees: Clive Anderson interviewed. The man who reinvented the chat show talks about mistaken identity, Macbeth and making a career out of being a bit of a...
Dec 12, 2020 · Those four words – from the almighty Barry Gibb, no less – punctuated one of the Nineties’ most notorious TV events: The Bee Gees storming off Clive Anderson All Talk in October 1997. The...
- Do You Get Recognised Much?
- What Are You Up to Now?
- How Will It Work Live?
- Have Any Other Guests Ever Taken Offence?
- What Would Be Included in Your Own Seven Wonders?
- Have You appeared at The Edinburgh Festival before?
- Is It Harder to Be A Comedian These days?
- You Started Out as A Lawyer. Why Did You Switch to Comedy?
- Did Any of Your Three Children Follow in Your Footsteps?
- Any Plans to Retire When You Turn 70 This Year?
Young people now would have no idea who I was and old people will have forgotten who I was! There’s a middle group who still can remember me but even then they think I’m Clive James. He sadly died. They’ll talk for five minutes about how much they like my programmes and then name one of mine and name one of Clive James’s shows too!
I’ve been doing a podcast called My Seven Wonders where I interview people who nominate their seven wonders of the world. The wonders can be anything. So hopefully people come up with their childhood teddy bear or the guitar they lost on the beach in Greece, something of sentimental value. I thought it would be fun to do it on stage so I’m taking i...
There are lots of comedians and actors in Edinburgh so I’ll be persuading some of them to take part. I’ve got to get a different guest every night. It will be exciting but it’s not very different from doing a chat show, which I’ve done on radio and TV.
I don’t think Jeffrey Archerliked it. [Anderson said to him, ‘There’s no beginning to your talents.’] My idea was to make the show funny so I tried to make questions have a joke in them. It worked best when people joked back.
My smallest wonder would be a football I was sent by my grandparents as a Christmas present when I was a child. It was a wonder because it was a proper leather football, not like the plastic balls we’d been kicking round in the park. In terms of places, I’ve seen the Great Rift Valley in east Africa and the Amazon rainforest, so I’d include those.
I went there for the first time in 1974. I was 21 at the time and it was a Cambridge Footlights Revue Show. I did it with Griff Rhys Jones. We’re still friends to this day.
Social media makes a big difference. Back in the day you might say something that people were offended by and they told their friends. Now they can share that opinion to many more people, so there are risks. And things change. Years ago there were words you wouldn’t be able to say – swear words and blasphemy. Now you can say all that but you could ...
When I was working as a barrister I used to do bits and pieces of comedy in my spare time. Then I was asked to present a radio programme when somebody dropped out. One of the producers had invented Whose Line Is It Anyway? and he asked me to present it. After that, we developed the chat show. I expected I’d do two or three years and then go back to...
I was a lawyer and my wife is a doctor, and none of them have followed us into those sensible professions. One of my daughters, Flora, does comedy and improvisation – she’s a very talented performer. She’s not always overkeen that I trumpet our connection.
Maybe things will fade out but I’m not going to deliberately retire. After Edinburgh, I’m probably going to tour with my stage show, Me, Macbeth & I. I also do Loose Ends on Radio 4 every Saturday.
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