Clive Stuart Anderson is an English television and radio presenter, comedy writer, and former barrister. Winner of a British Comedy Award in 1991, Anderson began experimenting with comedy and writing comedic scripts during his 15-year legal career, before starring in Whose Line Is It Anyway? on BBC Radio 4, then later Channel 4. He has also hosted many radio programmes, and made guest appearances on Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week and QI.

Filmography

• 2022Dream Big — Mr. Swift
• Mystic Britain — Presenter
• 2018How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
• Mongrels
• Maestro — Presenter
• 2000Best
• 1997Hospital! — U-Boat Commander
• 1993Clive Anderson Talks Back: Peter Cook — Self - Host, Writer
• Clive Anderson Talks Back
• 1974Cambridge University 1974 Footlights Revue — Various Characters, Writer
• Omnibus

Appearances as themselves (23)

• 2023Hancock: Very Nearly an Armful — Self
• 2018The London Studios: Home of the Stars — Self
• Richard Osman's House of Games — Self - Contestant
• Walks with My Dog — Self
• Comedy World Cup — Self
• Celebrity Antiques Road Trip — Self - Participant
• The Bubble — Self
• 2009BBC Proms - A Celebration of Classic MGM Film Musicals — Self - Presenter
• 2009Mock the Week - Too Hot For TV 2 — Self
• Would I Lie to You? — Self
• 2005Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' — Self
• Mock the Week — Self
• QI — Self, Self - Panellist (archive footage)
• 2002Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe — Self
• If I Ruled the World — Himself - Host
• Room 101 — Self
• Have I Got News for You — Self, Self - Guest Captain, Self - Host
• Whose Line Is It Anyway? — Self - Host
• Great Railway Journeys — Self - Presenter
• Question Time — Self - Panellist
• An Audience with... — Self
• Clive Anderson's Conspiracies — Himself - Presenter
• Have I Got a Bit More News for You — Self - Panellist, Self - Presenter