His daughter Flora is a comedian. Although he doesn’t have the rights to trade directly on past glories, enough of the gang who made Whose Line? The controller wanted ‘something a bit different’ – we made one series of this different thing, by which time the controller had moved on. [5] Anderson attended Selwyn College, Cambridge, where, from 1974 to 1975, he was President of Footlights. “I wanted to be funny, and to challenge, and take the conversation into slightly different areas. The only thing is that they’d had a piano in their house when they were growing up, and somehow she knew what to do.”, There’s an old-fashioned leather briefcase on the table, rather schoolboyish, groaning with things that Anderson needs to be getting on with. I think that was a compliment. You can’t complain.”, Well, maybe he should have complained. In one incident in 1997, Anderson interviewed the Bee Gees, and throughout the interview he repeatedly joked about their songs from the Saturday Night Fever era, also referring to their original intended name as 'Les Tosseurs' but his comment, 'you'll always be tossers to me' ultimately prompted the band to walk out of the interview. “Well, it’s partly ruminations on Shakespeare, Scotland, England. Clive Anderson's big break came in 1988 when he began presenting. He also covered the Sunday morning 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. show on BBC Radio 2 through the end of January 2008.[13]. I wanted to be funny and to take the conversation into slightly different areas’. I suppose it could have done.” He grins. It wouldn’t even have occurred to me that he would be investigated. When the idea was first suggested, he explains, it was less a case of leaping at the opportunity than struggling to find an excuse to show it the door. [3], Anderson was educated at Stanburn Primary School and Harrow County School for Boys[4] where his group of friends included Geoffrey Perkins and Michael Portillo. [14] He also hosted six series of Clive Anderson's Chat Room on BBC Radio 2 from 2004 to 2009. Political Think Moving Line. Tickets: 0844 545 8252; underbelly.co.uk, Clive Anderson: 'I still feel like I’m an 18-year-old in awe of the world', MPs seek clearer data in backlash over 'hysterical' coronavirus death projections, Man 'forced' to inform on fellow Uighurs for China is shot in Turkey, Four years of Donald Trump: Watch the key moments of his presidency. He was an awkward, avuncular presence who remained thoroughly barrister-like in his bearing, grilling his guests the way you imagine he once grilled criminals in the law courts. on BBC Radio 4, then later Channel 4.He has also hosted many radio programmes, and … I needed the show to have a structure, you see, and I suppose Shakespeare, and Macbeth, provided – well, it provided that structure. It gave me more confidence. Clive Anderson’s fateful encounter with the Bee Gees in 1996. He supports Arsenal,[16] Rangers[17] and Albion Rovers and is President of the Woodland Trust[18] and Vice Patron of the Solicitors' Benevolent Association. He has also frequently appeared on QI. Back when Graham Norton was still honing his craft and Jonathan Ross hadn’t yet started to fade, Clive Anderson was a TV chat show king. Throughout, Anderson inclines towards drily discussing career choices and deflecting attention on to others rather than open up about his feelings, which in itself seems interesting. Him and his wife Jane, a doctor, have three children. “No,” he says, adjusting his tie. He grimaces – I sense he’d like to be pressing a buzzer, Whose Line-style, and bringing this to a halt. But I think I’m always going to be something of an amateur who drifts in to doing things – gifted or otherwise!”, ‘What Does the Title Matter Anyway?’ is at the Underbelly’s McEwan Hall, Edinburgh, Aug 6-19. Is that how much it cost?”) and unambiguously rude to Jeffrey Archer (“Is there no beginning to your talents?”). Summing up, how would he characterise how things have gone, where he’s headed? “When I first started in broadcasting, Michael Grade described me as a gifted amateur. Clive Stuart Anderson (born 10 December 1952) is an English television and radio presenter, comedy writer and former barrister. In the shadows, he still looks, so far as one can tell, a lot like the golden boy of yore, or at least the one-time poster-boy for Channel 4’s early days of doing things differently. on BBC Radio 4, then later Channel 4. Later that year, he presented a talent show-themed reality TV series produced by the BBC entitled Maestro, starring eight celebrities. “I’m not Clive James.”, Me, Macbeth & I tours the UK from 13 March to 24 May. “I’ve matured,” he says, by way of explanation. Now at the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time in over a decade, Britain's wittiest 'natural-born pessimist' tells Dominic Cavendish what happened, “Anyone in the public eye goes quite rapidly from ‘Who’s he?’, to ‘Oh, I love him!’, to ‘Oh, not him again!’. She couldn’t explain it – she’d never had a music lesson, couldn’t read music. These days, there would probably have been a Twitter campaign to get him back on our screens. Perhaps if I’d caught up with him in Argyll, where he has a holiday home to which he, his wife and three children have often beaten a retreat from Highbury, north London, I’d get a more expansive take on things. It wasn’t that he lost his lustre, he lost his platform. As everyone knows, there were a lot of rumours going around for a long time about him. He does a bit – even though he grew up with his elder sister in suburban Stanmore, Middlesex, his father having come out of the war ‘bombing the Germans’ and headed straight for a stable life, ending up as the manager of the local branch of the Midland bank. The erstwhile talk show host didn’t quite slide into Partridge-style obscurity, but he admits that both his pride and his wallet took a direct hit. [8] One of his early comedy writing projects was Black Cinderella Two Goes East with Rory McGrath for BBC Radio 4 in 1978. "[12] The last series of Clive Anderson All Talk aired in 2001. ", he swiftly replied, "About as much as you do.". I then imaginatively switched to wanting to be a barrister, a very north-London-suburban outlook on life.”, It was at Cambridge, studying law at Selwyn College, that he fell in with a comedy crowd that included Griff Rhys Jones, Douglas Adams, Jimmy Mulville (who now runs Hat Trick Productions) and Peter Fincham, currently ITV’s Director of Television. Way Think Like Things. Perhaps the most memorable scene in all the very many episodes of I’m Alan Partridge was the one in which the inept broadcaster responded to the BBC Controller who denied him a second series by thrusting a particularly ripe stilton in his face, and demanding that his now-former boss “Smell my cheese.”. I’m dead as far as they’re concerned. I was better at both as a result. Clive Anderson. Outwardly at least, Anderson, then 48, accepted his fate with a quiet stoicism. Talking things up isn’t his forte, and Anderson is unsentimental about this get-together. He is fondly remembered for his talk shows in some quarters, but certainly not in all. “They said: ‘We don’t want you to carry on doing the chat show.’ ‘Why’s that?’ The audience figures weren’t going down. “It has gone at a slow rate,” he says with a smile. When the famed TV presenter told him that a great sadness in his life was that he never saved up the air miles in his earlier years because “I’d have a free trip to Pluto by now,” Anderson hit back with: “It’s one of the great sadnesses in all our lives.” And when Richard Branson, seemingly bored by the way the interview was proceeding, poured a glass of water over Anderson’s head, the host responded with: “I’m used to that; I’ve flown Virgin Atlantic.”.
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