BCG Daily Monday 21st July 2014
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David Walliams and Miranda Hart sign BBC Worldwide deal
A production company, part-owned by David Walliams and Miranda Hart, has signed a deal with BBC Worldwide to send its shows round the globe.
BBC News, 21st July 2014No more Mr Nice Guy: When disabled people get nasty
Disabled comedian Laurence Clark admits that sometimes he's not been very nice to people who have tried to help him - but he doesn't care. Much.
Laurence Clark, BBC Ouch!, 21st July 2014Kevin McHale interview
The host of Channel 4's new panel show Virtually Famous is ditching his musical theatre roots for Britain's dry sense of humour...
Susanna Lazarus, Radio Times, 21st July 2014Plymouth Comedy Club review
Plymouth Comedy Club's big summer show, the Night of Headliners, coincided with an electrical storm hitting the city - appropriate as there was plenty of lightning wit inside the Holiday Inn.
Plymouth Herald, 21st July 2014Jethro to auction off his comedy club
Cornish comedian Jethro is to sell his cabaret club north of Tavistock on the border of Cornwall and West Devon.
Plymouth Herald, 21st July 2014A guide for surviving the Edinburgh Fringe
We've put together a survival guide of practical info for these temporary residents - after all, if you're in it for the long haul, you might need to know more than just the location of the latest pulled pork emporium.
The Scotsman, 21st July 2014Monty Python Live wins record ratings for Gold
Monty Python's final live show scored record ratings for Gold on Sunday (July 20), according to overnight data. The show at London's O2 Arena brought in an average audience of 597,000 viewers (2.9%) from 7.30pm.
Digital Spy, 21st July 2014Monty Python Live (mostly) - flogging the dead parrot?
Monty Python Live (Mostly) was always going to be a mild disappointment, because everyone's favourite memories of the troupe are from 30-40 years ago, but as a celebration of the Python name it worked very well. It felt good to see them all together, one final time, having fun, giving the fans what they came to see. It could have been a lot better with more thought and fresh material, and had the slight whiff of a cash-grab because it felt a bit lazy at times... but, during the inevitable "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" climactic sing-along, after which the Pythons linked hands and bowed to the 15,000-strong audience (plus the millions of others watching around the world), I was suddenly moved.
Dan Owen, Dan's Media Digest, 21st July 2014Interview: Ray Peacock
In an extensive interview with Giggle Beats, Ray talks about his career to date, his Fubar Radio shows with Ed Gamble and Angela Barnes, new Edinburgh show Here Comes Trouble, and much more.
Andrew Dipper, Giggle Beats, 21st July 2014Edinburgh Fringe preview: Tony Law
Putting the right show together for the Edinburgh Fringe is no walk in the park. Ask Tony Law.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 21st July 2014Edinburgh Fringe 2014 interview: Rachel Parris
Edinburgh's dodgy bookies, deep fried food and the Pubic Triangle don't quite compete with vices of Las Vegas.
Laugh Out London, 21st July 2014Edinburgh Festival Fringe - Winky
A unique, thoughtful and hilarious satire staged verbatim from the short story written by George Saunders, Winky exposes the lie under self-help, pitting the fantastic dreams of fast cars and instant success against the loyalty one man has to his unbearable sister.
John Hislop, The Edinburgh Reporter, 21st July 2014Edinburgh Fringe - A TED* Talk with Clay JW Crowne
A Fringe debut combining funny, moving stories with a pastiche of the hyperbolic TED Talk style.
John Hislop, The Edinburgh Reporter, 21st July 2014The Next Big Thing: a musical comedy for all ages
Authors sometimes say that their characters 'take over'- by which they mean that the story moves in directions they hadn't anticipated when they began to write. But what if a novelist's creation really does start to have a life of her own?
Rosemary Kaye, The Edinburgh Reporter, 21st July 2014Edinburgh Festival Fringe - Keeping up with the Joans
Promised as 'A highlight of this year's Fringe', this bittersweet comedy about failing memory, friendship and mimicking martyrs.
Phyllis Stephen, The Edinburgh Reporter, 21st July 2014Edinburgh Fringe: Bowjangles presents On The Box
On The Box! is Bowjangles' Edinburgh Fringe debut - a day in the life of a TV that's been left switched on.
Phyllis Stephen, The Edinburgh Reporter, 21st July 2014Edinburgh Festival Fringe - Kiss Me, Honey Honey!
The Edinburgh Reporter met Grant Stott and Andy Gray the two stars of stage and screen who have combined their talents to delight audiences young and old at the King's Theatre pantomime over the years, but who are now doing something a bit more serious in their Fringe show Kiss Me, Honey Honey!
Phyllis Stephen, The Edinburgh Reporter, 21st July 2014The Katerina Vrana three minute interview
Katerina Vrana was born and raised in Greece, but now lives in London and does stand-up in both Greek and English, sometimes simultaneously. She co-runs and MCs Angel Comedy, one of London's popular comedy clubs. She returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August.
Martin Walker, Broadway Baby, 21st July 2014Harvey, Garvey & The Kane - the Comedy Blogedy game
Bound & Gagged are proud to present the highly anticipated sketch show Harvey, Garvey And The Kane making their debut as a trio at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year at the Underbelly Dairy Room.
Comedy Blogedy, 21st July 2014From YouTube to BBC Comedy Feed to full series
The fact that none of us had ever acted or written before never felt like a problem.
Steve Stamp, BBC Writersroom, 21st July 2014Ten feminist fatales
A selection of ten feminist Fringe shows.
Chortle, 21st July 2014Big fat Fringe bribe blog 2014: Chelsea Manders
The Canadian comedian buys some exposure with a classy bottle of icewine.
Niki Boyle, The List, 21st July 2014Stewart Lee & Bridget Christie: Fringe previews 30 July
Laugh Out London comedy club closes its best Edinburgh festival preview season yet with another great show featuring two of the most acclaimed comedians in the country.
Laugh Out London, 21st July 2014Edinburgh Fringe - Riptide: The Slasher Musical
200 blood packs ready for the Edinburgh Fringe. With 240 on-stage deaths during the run of Riptide: The Slasher Musical at the Edinburgh Fringe, the blood will be flowing.
John Hislop, The Edinburgh Reporter, 21st July 2014Edinburgh Festival Fringe - Alexis Dubus, Cars & Girls
A 55-minute ode to travel and lost love performed entirely in verse, Cars And Girls was recently a hit at Melbourne Comedy Festival, Adelaide Fringe and New Zealand Comedy Festival.
John Hislop, The Edinburgh Reporter, 21st July 2014Edinburgh festival Fringe - Morgan Berry
Born in Barnsley, raised in Africa-Bafrican! Morgan Berry is the world's first 24 hour Pet Bereavement Counsellor.
The Edinburgh Reporter, 21st July 2014Edinburgh Festival Fringe - The Matchmaker
The Matchmaker, based on the novella Letters of a County Matchmaker by John B Keane one of Ireland's most celebrated writers, will play at Georges Square Studio Three as part of the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe Festival at 1500 daily from 31st July to 25th August.
The Edinburgh Reporter, 21st July 2014Edinburgh Festival Fringe - Baba Brinkman
With Canadian, Baba Brinkman, about to Fringe premiere his deity defying show A Rap Guide To Religion, it may be apposite to recall Voltaire's deliciously death-bed naughty retort to the priest's pleading for him to renounce Satan and all his Works - 'Now, now, my friend, this is not the time to be making enemies!'
John Kennedy, The Edinburgh Reporter, 21st July 2014Russell Brand shelves 3rd installment of My Booky Wook
Russell Brand has shelved plans for a third installment of his best-selling My Booky Wook autobiography series after getting serious with girlfriend Jemima Khan.
Hannah Hope, The Mirror, 21st July 2014The Jim Campbell three minute interview
A bedroom can be many things: Sanctuary. Workspace. Fort. When Amused Moose Laughter Award nominee Jim Campbell moved house the mementos he found told his life story through a series of forgotten embarrassments. At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe he invites you into his room to relive his misadventures.
Martin Walker, Broadway Baby, 21st July 2014The Joey Page three minute interviews
Absurdist comedian, Joey Page returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a silly, irreverent technicoloured extravaganza to make you forget about rising house prices or that row you had with your lover over dinner...
Martin Walker, Broadway Baby, 21st July 2014The John Robins three minute interview
After starting out in stand-up in spring 2005, John Robins reached the semi-final of So You Think You're Funny in Edinburgh that year after only a handful of gigs. In 2013 he had the best reviewed stand-up show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Martin Walker chats to John about his new Fringe hour.
Martin Walker, Broadway Baby, 21st July 2014Fringe Q&As: Wendy Wason
In the first of our new series, HeraldScotland blogger Wendy Wason tells us about her Fringe show, Edinburgh experiences and her favourite heckle.
The Herald, 21st July 2014Review: Kevin Bridges at Latitude
Some of this material debuted at the Melbourne comedy festival earlier this year, but it's been tightened, tweaked and expanded â€" all work towards the next tour and DVD, no doubt.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 21st July 2014Review: Marcel Lucont at Latitude
Alexis Dubus, the man beneath the black rollneck, writes plenty of artful, epigrammic one-liners for his self-centred alter-ago, intolerant of anything that fails to fall outside his narrow focus of how the world should be. And that includes children.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 21st July 2014Review: Elliot Steel at Latitude
It’s a big booking for 17-year-old Elliot Steel, a virtual unknown taking a primetime slot in Latitude’s vast comedy tent.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 21st July 2014Videos
TV & radio
My First Planet
Series 2, Episode 1 - Sample Of TerrorDay 30 and Brian has to win the Tour De France to save the contents of Lillian's freezer. Meanwhile, Mason discovers that a nuclear core is not the best venue for some role play.
The Infinite Monkey Cage
Series 10, Episode 3 - Does Science Need War?With Katy Brand, Philip Ball, Kevin Fong.
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
Series 61, Episode 4A return visit to the Assembly Hall in Worthing for regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden, with Harry Hill on the panel and Jack Dee in the chair.
Virtually Famous
Series 1, Episode 1Team captains Seann Walsh and Chris Stark are joined by comedians Chris Ramsey and Romesh Ranganathan, Countdown's Rachel Riley, and actor Tyger Drew-Honey as they face a lip-sync challenge and witness the wonder of a flying cat.
Kevin Bridges Live At...
Episode 1 - Kevin Bridges Live At The CommonwealthKevin Bridges takes to the stage in front of a live theatre audience to present four internationally-renowned comics from the Commonwealth countries. Appearing on stage are Canada's finest Katherine Ryan, top South African comedian Trevor Noah, Scotland's own Danny Bhoy and English comic Simon Evans.
Set List: Stand-Up Without A Net
Episode 10Drew Carey, Tony Law and Andrew Maxwell perform improvised stand-up comedy routines based on subjects presented to them while on stage at the Brixton Electric.