BCG Daily Monday 24th November 2014
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Press clippings
Gino D'Acampo won't do more Celebrity Juice
Gino D'Acampo says he won't do any more Celebrity Juice after his racy jokes and sexual innuendo cost him lucrative business deals.
Tufayel Ahmed, The Mirror, 24th November 2014Review: Ross Noble
Ross Noble is a brilliantly original comedian but the man who got the biggest laugh at the Sands Centre tonight was a Cumbrian businessman who had managed to turn up to the gig a year early.
Nick Turner, Cumbria Live, 24th November 2014Radio Times review
Steven Toast is in awe of his old friend Axel Jacklin (played by the excellent Terry Mynott as a constipated-sounding James Mason), Britain's finest exponent of acting in high winds.
But if something were ever to happen to Axel, then Toast could step into his shoes, as he's Britain's second finest exponent of acting in high winds. Of course, Axel dies, hurled across the studio to his doom in a windy re-creation of Master and Commander.
There's a great set piece as Toast (Matt Berry) and his nemesis Ray Purchase (Harry Peacock) both audition to be the deceased Axel's replacement, in front of a nuclear-strength wind machine. It's an old-fashioned bit of comic idiocy, the kind of daftness Toast does so well.
Alison Graham, Radio Times, 24th November 2014Review: Lee Mack
Lee Mack tells stories of his life, like the best northern comedians, but it was the way he came up with killer lines in response to the crowd that showed off his true star quality.
Blackpool Gazette, 24th November 2014Charlie Higson creates Jekyll & Hyde for ITV
ITV commissions action adventure drama Jekyll & Hyde written by Charlie Higson.
ITV, 24th November 2014Video: Harry Hill - Behind the scenes
Big spectacles? Check. Big-collared white shirt? Check. Talking sideburns belonging to an Olympic cycling champ? Check. In these exclusive behind-the-scenes clips from his first live DVD in almost 10 years, Harry Hill gets ready for his Sausage Time shows.
The Guardian, 24th November 2014Inbetweeners: No 3rd film! New series?
Whilst Joe Thomas added that the show "has to end at some point" as well as musing that none of them would ever "have another job" like being on The Inbetweeners which they all agreed was sad, and that they would all miss each other.
Anna Howell, Unreality TV, 24th November 2014No 3rd Inbetweeners film: stars will form a book group
Cast members of The Inbetweeners will form a book group to stay in touch after confirming there will not be a third film in the comedy series.
Rob Leigh, The Mirror, 24th November 2014Leicester Comedy Festival pay tribute to Norman Wisdom
The 2015 Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival will pay tribute to the late comic legend Norman Wisdom by opening on what would have been his 100th birthday.
P. A. Warzynski, Leicester Mercury, 24th November 2014Lee Evans outsells Mrs. Brown in DVD charts
Lee Evans might have just announced his retirement - but his new live DVD has gone straight to the top of the comedy charts.
Chortle, 24th November 2014Lewis Schaffer on Dapper Laughs + offensive jokes
"Whether what Dapper Laughs said was good or bad, I think the reason other comedians picked on him was because they were jealous of him: that he had not worked his way up through the ranks, that he called himself a comedian."
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 24th November 2014Comedians' 10 best alternative Christmas cracker jokes
Cracker jokes can fall apart in the middle, so we asked 10 comedians to come up with their own festive groaners...
The Guardian, 24th November 2014Black Mirror Xmas Special: new plot details & pictures
The new episode of Charlie Brooker's satire stars Jon Hamm, Rafe Spall and Oona Chaplin and tells a chilling story about "blocking" people in real life - just as we do on Facebook and Twitter.
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 24th November 2014Stewart Lee, Leicester Square Theatre, review
He is, I think, the only comedian who can get away with deconstructing and critiquing his own routines as he goes along and not be repellent. He, and his material, are simply that good. And if there's a lingering sense that the joke is always a little on us, somehow that feels like a good thing.
Alice Jones, The Independent, 24th November 2014Sarah Millican - Home Bird Live: DVD review
As always, she comes across as a heightened, chummy Everywoman, and while not banging the drum of feminism quite so blatantly as some of her contemporaries, uses that liveability to smuggle in some astute points about pernicious women's magazines and Kate Moss's assertion that 'nothing tastes as good as skinny feels'. For any woman - or any man - who knows that's bullshit, Millican's the comic for you.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 24th November 2014Frankie Boyle out of charity comedy night
Frankie Boyle has been forced to pull out of a charity comedy gala event tonight due to sickness.
STV, 24th November 2014Victoria Wood attends TV version of That Day We Sang
The comedy star headed to the Vue Cinema at Salford Quays for preview of the BBC production starring Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton.
Dianne Bourne, Manchester Evening News, 24th November 2014Romesh Ranganathan's top ten stand-up comedians
The 2014 Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee reveals his favourite comics.
Ben Williams, Time Out, 24th November 2014Videos
TV & radio
Start/Stop
Series 2, Episode 3 - PregnancyCathy reveals to a shocked Barney that she is pregnant. Fiona suggests to a shocked Evan that he get a vasectomy. And David suggests to a shocked Alice that they adopt.
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
Series 62, Episode 2Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer are joined by Jo Brand on the panel and Jack Dee in the chair.
Trollied
Series 4, Episode 4First aid training gets under way but Brian is skeptical about such matters; pharmacists rule medicine, you see, not Jonny-come-latelies. Security guard Ian, meanwhile, is at his wits' end because of an unwelcome visitor: a fox. He'd appreciate it, then, if Harry (and his collection of fake fur coats) would stop winding him up.
Never Mind The Buzzcocks
Series 28, Episode 8Rhod Gilbert and regular team captains Noel Fielding and Phill Jupitus are joined by comedian Katherine Ryan, TV personality Loyd Grossman and musicians Charlie Simpson and Paloma Faith.
8 Out Of 10 Cats
Series 18, Episode 8Carol Vorderman, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Rob Beckett and Sara Pascoe are the guests on this episode.
Some Girls
Series 3, Episode 2The girls head off for their first music festival. Despite having to work on a t-shirt stall they still manage to pack in plenty of fun, hanging out with three boys in the tent next door. Fed up with the other girls calling her boring, Viva decides to take advantage of some new experiences on offer at the festival.
Scot Squad
Series 1, Episode 4Chief Commissioner Miekelson spends a day with Volunteer Officer Ken Beattie; PCs McKirdy and Singh get into a scrape thanks to a lost ice-scraper; and it's a case of green eyed monster for PC McLaren when PC Fletcher becomes the police poster girl.
Toast Of London
Series 2, Episode 4 - High Winds ActorAfter the tragic death of his friend Axel Jacklin, Britain's finest exponent of acting in high winds, Toast finds himself in demand for dramatic roles such as Napoleonic-era sea captains and mad Shakesperean kings. However, in order to land these attractive parts, Toast discovers that he must become a Freemason. As it seems that every actor in Britain is 'on the square'. Toast asks Ed to help him join the local lodge.