Clive Anderson

Explain yourself: Clive Anderson

A profile of the presenter Clive Anderson.

Clive Anderson: For most people I have ceased to exist!

Barrister-turned-comedian Clive Anderson was the nation's darling - and then he seemed to vanish. Now at the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time in over a decade, Britain's wittiest 'natural-born pessimist' tells Dominic Cavendish what happened.

Edinburgh diary: Clive Anderson's no-pay day

All your old fringe favourites are back this month, and many of them will wander through Clive Anderson's What Does the Title Matter Anyway?

Clive Anderson brings his hit improv show to the Fringe (Link expired)

Plenty of the old gang from Whose Line Is It Anyway? will be taking part in Clive Anderson's Fringe show. The Loose Ends presenter and former barrister talks to Claire Smith about improv and the interview he would rather we all forgot.

The Greg Proops three minute interview

Greg Proops is a stand-up comic from San Francisco, who now lives in Hollywood. He is best known in the UK for his unpredictable appearances on Channel 4's inprov show, Whose Line is it Anyway? Martin Walker asks about his Edinburgh reunion with Clive Anderson, but his first question concerns Greg's Fringe show, The Smartest Man in the World.

Interview: Clive Anderson vs rising improv stars

BattleActs, Austentatious and more quiz the Whose Line is it Anyway? host.

Glamping is an unlikely TV theme tonight, cast in two very different roles. Over on Great Night Out, it's a positive holiday option, but here in Frank Skinner's domain, it's being proposed for disposal in Room 101 by actor/comedian Jack Whitehall. It's what bugs him most about the great outdoors, while for The One Show's Alex Jones, it's seagulls. But the controversial choice for presenter Clive Anderson is Bambi's extended family - until meeting special guest Arthur changes his mind.

If Frank Skinner's ad libs are the real thing and not carefully pre-arranged, then they're little comedy gems.

There's a moment tonight when Clive Anderson has proposed consigning British deer, or a large proportion of them, to Room 101 and in the process he points out that there are three million deer in Britain now. To which Jack Whitehall quips, "All they need is a leader!" It's a nice idea - of the deer rising up as one in a horned rebellion. Then Skinner chimes in: "Maybe the Dalai Lama?" It's quick, silly and typical of his ability to juice up the joke quota.

Not that he needs to much this week: Anderson, Whitehall and Alex Jones make a great panel. It's the sparkiest episode yet.

Clive Anderson's controversey putting deer in Room 101

Oh deer! Animal lovers will be baying for the blood of ex-chat show host Clive Anderson who is calling for a cull on deer.

Hosted by Clive Anderson, The Guessing Game is a brand new panel game on BBC Radio Scotland. Among those featured alongside Anderson were the show's (annoying) house band Gus and Fin plus One, and this week's contestants: Rory Bremner, Tom Allen and Alex Horne.

As the title implies, the object of the game is to guess the answers to difficult questions. The usual scoring system is two points if you get the answer right and one point for an amusing or good guess. Questions included: "What is the difference between Justin Bieber and banana?" and "Who gave away their music rights from beyond the grave?"

There were some amusing asides from one or two of the panellists, mainly Horne, but other than that there wasn't much going for it. The problem for me is that this format has been done before, and much better, by shows that are already on. QI on TV and The Unbelievable Truth on radio handle the subjects of trivia and unusual information in a much funnier manner.

Perhaps the issue's the scoring system. With QI and The Unbelievable Truth, you often end up with negative scores. In The Guessing Game this doesn't happen. Let's hope that the show will improve as the series goes along...