Julian Clary

Rob Brydon displays the patience of Job in tonight's episode: he waits almost 20 minutes - 20 minutes! - before indulging in an impression of guest Ronnie Corbett. I always thought it was like a tic he couldn't control. Aside from Rob's golfing buddy, the guests are master of the double entendre Julian Clary, doughty Geordie Sarah Millican and chirpy Holly Walsh, who proves sharp with the one-liners. The stories are as tall as ever: Clary has a life-sized statue of himself astride a unicorn in his garden; and Millican once spent three hours on the Asda shuttle bus, for a day out. But the comedy hits the greatest heights when Corbett claims he actually had to ask for four candles in a shop.

David Crawford, Radio Times, 20th August 2010

I'm not even sure it can be described as a comedy: it wasn't even vaguely funny. Jason Manford made a few valiant attempts to shore up the laughter quotient but, on the whole, no luck. The basic premise was that two teams of two (in this instance, regulars Manford and, inexplicably, Peter Andre versus guests Lorraine Kelly and Julian Clary) compete to see who was better able to spot the "odd one in" of four strangers. For instance: who here really is a cockney? Which animal can actually skateboard? Who's not just pretending to hula-hoop? A bit like spotting the odd one out, except the other way around. Clever! Not really: Never Mind the Buzzcocks has been doing this for years, only for them it's a throw-away round, not the basis of the entire programme.

Alice-Azania Jarvis, The Independent, 9th August 2010

Best of the British Comedy awards

From Julian Clary's Norman Lamont gag to Frankie Boyle's edgy jokes, what have been the highlights of the ITV years?

Tara Conlan, The Guardian, 7th June 2010