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It's de rigueur for journalists who meet him to note what a charming and funny interviewee he is, largely because there was a significant proportion of his career when he was anything but.
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He's lived a hell of a life, and, as it turned out, is a hell of a raconteur: a kind of dream interviewee, funny and frank and wise, touching on everything from the perils inherent in trying to descend from a spacecraft onstage while wearing nine-inch platform boots, to politics, to why the recent Blurred Lines court case is "bullshit".
He turned out to be a dream interviewee: charming, funny, self-aware, unflinching in telling his extraordinary story.
James is an odd, if stimulating, interviewee.
The less his interviewee gets the joke, the funnier the joke is.
The real joy is that people talk openly and intimately and it's not only funny but a real insight into the interviewees".
One Rogue Reporter - described on the festival website as "a gutsy takedown best served funny" - has a star-studded cast of interviewees, including Hugh Grant, Steve Coogan, John Bishop, Max Mosley, AC Grayling and John Prescott.
He quotes an ex-columnist as saying: "He doesn't laugh, he just says, 'That's a funny remark.'" (Like most of the interviewees, he remains anonymous).
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