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Clive Anderson
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Engage your audience with humor and insight into the art of conversation with Clive Anderson, speaker, television presenter, and comedian.


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Clive Anderson is a British icon, comedian, broadcaster and former barrister. He practised law for nearly 15 years while performing as a stand-up comedian and writing scripts for various comedians, including Frankie Howerd and Griff Rhys Jones. His broadcasting career began in the late 1980s with the radio show Whose Line Is It Anyway?
This success led to several series on Channel 4. He hosted ten series of his chat show, Clive Anderson Talks Back, before transitioning to BBC One with Clive Anderson All Talk. Clive has presented a variety of programmes on television and radio, focusing on topics such as travel, books, history, sports, comedy, and politics.
He hosts Unreliable Evidence on Radio 4, where he discusses legal issues with prominent figures in the legal field. His podcast, My Seven Wonders, features guest interviews about the seven wonders in their lives. Recent projects include the television series Mystic Britain on the Smithsonian TV channel and his one-man stage show, Me Macbeth and I.
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Email clive.anderson@getapeptalk.com or call PepTalk on +44 20 3835 2929 (UK) or +1 737 888 5112 (US), and one of our speaker agents will contact you within hours to confirm Clive's availability and fees. If you can, please include your budget upfront – it helps us fast-track your request. It’s also helpful to know the date, format (virtual or in-person), location, and a bit about your audience.
Clive Anderson draws on his background as a former barrister and long-form interviewer to structure his after-dinner speaking around legal anecdotes and observational commentary on public life. His material is grounded in his broadcasting career across television and radio, giving his humour a topical and conversational framework familiar to broad audiences.
Clive Anderson's work spans stand-up comedy, chat show hosting, and after-dinner speaking, with credits including Clive Anderson Talks Back and Whose Line Is It Anyway?, suiting corporate and entertainment event audiences. He practised as a barrister for nearly 15 years alongside his comedy career, bringing legal expertise to his broadcasting work on Radio 4's Unreliable Evidence.
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