<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/?attachment_id=652" rel="attachment wp-att-652"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-652" title="julian-clary(oct12)" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/julian-claryoct12.jpg" alt="Julian Clary @ The Derngate" width="264" height="174" /></a>Julian Clary is a really "nice" person. The trouble with comedians who base their whole act on a single minority group premise is that it wears a bit thin after about 30 minutes and this was true for me. Of course the risk with criticising the performance is that one is accused of being a homophobe and I don't think I am.

His act was funny in parts and there were times when I found myself not laughing but the two men beside me were laughing long and loud so its obviously a matter of taste. What did I expect? Well yes that's a good question - yes I expected double entendre and graphic descriptions of what gay men do for sexual gratification but it went on for too long on a single theme.

In the second part of the act he selected eight men out of the audience and under the guise of looking for a partner he humiliated them on stage asking them questions and getting them to perform tasks one of which involved a man who was at least middle aged bobbing blind folded into a bucket that contained plastic penises. I felt uncomfortable for him and I was at least twenty rows back. As I said at the beginning, Julian Clary is undoubtedly a nice person and ok in small doses (no innuendo intended).