The thing about Julian is he looked so straight-faced and sounded so innocent. You never knew when a joke was coming and it could be just a little tickle or a full on belter only he could get away with.
I don't dislike Jonathan Ross, but he really is not a good interviewer or host. Julian was right when he said "let's talk about me" as Ross always tries to take the limelight. His interviews are invariably really awkward and often his guests clearly feel awkward.
Wow...Valerie is STILL ALIVE, she must have been very young here, they brought her and his other dog Albert into the Big Brother diary room as a reward for Julian's storytelling task and it reduced Julian to tears, he really adores his dogs as though they were his children, he showed his affection for Albert by blowing a rasberry onto his groin as he lay on his back on the diary room floor...aahhh!
I love it. They're clearly good friends. Straight man comfortable with his sexuality tries to out-camp his gay friend with rude jokes and fails, obviously. It makes me happy to see.
Julian seems very uncomfortable here, wonder if it's the backstage setup with the cameras in the green room, or having to sit on a seat still warm from someone else, as he mentions when he comes on. He's clearly not enjoying the interview anyway.
Jonathan Ross is a hopeless interviewer. He treats his interviewees and the audience like idiots. I think that's why Julian Clary was losing patience with him -- having to sit through cumbersome "jokes" from a presenter who was not entertaining the audience at all and was rambling on about himself instead of doing his job. I honestly cannot understand why people like Jonathan Ross, or why the BBC ever thought he was worth a multi-million dollar contract. As for his rhotacism, it's annoying and could easily be corrected if he paid for a bit of speech therapy. I've known three people who affected a lisp because they thought it made them special and interesting. It didn't. Two of them realised that and stopped bothering with it. The other kept bothering us with it until we thankfully parted ways. Now, I'm not saying Jonathan Ross' Elmer Fudd impression is an affectation but if he wanted to correct it, he could take pity on us and do so. And why is he an OBE? Honestly... Ok, I'm finished now. That feels much better. ;)
Just because there are RU-vid compilations of "snowflakes getting triggered" it doesn't mean we live in some ultra PC dystopia. It's definitely still ok to make fun of gay people, ever been to a drag show? They do it themselves 🤣 Part of British culture is the ability to laugh at ourselves.
Julian seemed so over it from the beginning and was not into Jonathan’s naff jokes. Kind of pathetic too that he felt his masculinity would be threatened if he took the dolls trousers down.
