First On Four: Julian Clary (Documentary, 1998)

[@TenorReacts]

I’ve been searching for this forever! I remember seeing it at the time. Julian was my idle and got the pleasure in meeting him when he picked me out of the front row collecting coats and bags. I wanted to be like Julian at college so much that I started to wear outrageous costumes and makeup until I nearly got beaten up! That’s my story. Thanks PP 😌

[@lauralutz4538]

I’m in the US & have found, Julian & the late, Paul O’Grady since, Paul’s passing. 2 amazing entertainers & nice men.

[@pmc8451]

You should check out the others he mentioned. Frankie Howard, Larry Grayson & Kenneth Williams.Though they weren’t out, homosexuality was still illegal when they started their careers, they were all highly camp performers fronting prime time tv shows. A big difference between the US & UK is that in the UK there’s always been queer & highly camp performers in mainstream entertainment, going back to the 50s..

[@tammywilliams5312]

Such a beautiful soul

[@wendischofield352]

I love this man.xxx

[@gabrielepresby9120]

I found him through Taskmaster. Like so many other British comedians I have come to adore. Now I watch anything and everything I can find about him.

[@mcolville]

Holy shit it's Captain Peacock!

[@troismoutonsetuntigre5988]

I love you Julian. You are so gentle in a mean way

[@ameliasmith4292]

“Early attempt at cruising” 😂😂

[@chazardlondon8883]

Totally adorable.. and I’ve read his Young Man’s Passage

[@w.urlitzer1869]

great. adore him.

[@ameliasmith4292]

He’s gorgeous

[@bridgetgibson5998]

😍😘♥️ and he's a fit bit still

[@bridgetgibson5998]

I always remember Julian clarey being known as the Joan Collins fan club and he had a dog called fanny a grey hound I think it was or a whippit and he would wear tall sky crappers on his shoulders and I swear to God it was probably him that put ideas in Gary Neville and his navvies heads to build them mahoosive humungus monstrous bluddy sky scrappers in Manchester city center 😠

[@bridgetgibson5998]

One thing I read about him years ago is his dad's a policeman and his mam is a social worker no idea if it's true I read a lot of mad stuff and folks tell me mad stuff

[@ppotter]

Mum was a probation officer, and dad a policeman, true.

[@21gramsofsoul]

Why was the joke censored from the documentary? Not from UK , so what was the fisting joke?

[@ppotter]

See here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHXEeIOJgpina6s

[@21gramsofsoul]

@@ppotter Thank you.

[@lapponia77]

The real puchline of the joke ("talk about a red box") was very clever, but unfortunately lost amid the furore. I still think that, if enough people had heard it, the reaction would not have been so OTT ....

[@judithadderley2985]

@@21gramsofsoul l

[@freejulianassange3143]

@@CalvinistBriton Which is nonsensical.. JC's character was established and the context made it clear that it wasn't factual.

[@csurname]

11:46 it got WHAT?

[@ppotter]

"Blown out [of all proportion]"

[@csurname]

@@ppotter sorry, it was meant to be an innuendo

[@ppotter]

@@csurname sorry, I thought you were a confused American (or similar) 🤭

[@gogogogogirl]

"The homosexual community"! Ha. Man, we have made serious social progress in the last few decades.

[@ppotter]

Hahahahahaha! Mike Smith was well-known for being a prick ;)

[@teralmiles]

@@ppotter a cheesy one at that.

[@tonymcneil978]

Captain Peacock

[@krisbest6405]

Thr hetro crime rate view was spot on.

[@meirwise1107]

Julian Clary has most talent in his little finger than Paul Merton has in his whole body!

[@ppotter]

And yet Merton wrote with him for a decade.

[@vordman]

They were friends. Merton wasn't being serious.

[@johnryan8173]

he is alot funnier then Paul Merton ha lol

[@vordman]

I think Merton was being playfully scathing. They were friends and often worked together.

[@stanochocki8984]

WTF!!!...LoL-o..Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa........NOT!