Julian Clary
Brydon &
Rob Brydon | Wondery
4.6 • 597 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Joining Rob for the final episode of the series is renowned comedian and self-described national trinket, the one and only Julian Clary. In this candid and colourful conversation, Julian shares how his career began, reflects on the fallout from that infamous awards show joke, and recounts his journey to becoming the king of panto. He also discusses the inspiration behind his latest national tour, ‘A Fistful of Clary’ - giving a tantalising taste of what to expect.
Witty, candid, and as fabulously outrageous as ever, Julian wraps up the series in style. Don’t miss it!
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| 0:00.0 | Today's guest is Julian Clary. |
| 0:05.0 | What a fascinating and likable man he is. |
| 0:10.0 | I think it's his likability that meant he won a celebrity Big Brother. |
| 0:14.0 | We talk about that. |
| 0:16.0 | But mostly we talk about comedy, his love, which I share for camp comedy. Larry Grayson gets almost as many |
| 0:27.8 | mentions here as he did when I spoke to Tim Vine. It's a lovely conversation with a splendid man. |
| 0:36.6 | Please sit back, relax, enjoy. Briden and, and he's going on tour soon, Julian Clary. |
| 0:48.8 | I didn't know till I read the research notes that you grew up in Teddington, which is more or less where I live. |
| 0:59.6 | I live in Strawberry Hill. |
| 1:00.6 | Oh, I know, Strawberry Hill. |
| 1:01.9 | I was, when I was about 14, a member of the Strawberry Hill players. |
| 1:06.1 | We were doing a production of Lord Arthur Saville's Crime. |
| 1:09.5 | And Oscar Wild. |
| 1:10.4 | I think it's Oscar Wilde. |
| 1:11.2 | Yeah. Yes. What was the crime? Was it? I can't remember. It was one of those amateur |
| 1:19.1 | theatrical companies where you did a lot of rehearsing and went on and on for months. And |
| 1:24.2 | I don't know if we ever performed it. You know, they just liked it was something to do. |
| 1:28.5 | That's the nature of school production as well, isn't it? Because I did school musicals |
| 1:32.6 | with Ruth Jones and it felt like we rehearsed blissful rehearsals all year and then Thursday, |
| 1:39.9 | Friday, Saturday, done, finished. That's right, yes, two on a Saturday. So that's where you live in Strawberry Hill. |
| 1:46.6 | It was a lovely place to grow up. |
| 1:48.4 | It's, you know, used to cycle around. |
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