BCG Daily Monday 31st August 2015

Press clippings

Lenny Henry: I got into fights but I was never bullied

The actor and comedian discusses his parents, his rise to fame and what inspired him to write his new BBC drama, Danny and the Human Zoo.

Lenny Henry, The Telegraph, 31st August 2015

Spaced: Where are they now?

Catch up with the tenants of 23 Meteor Street...

Rory Gallimore, Radio Times, 31st August 2015

Harry & Paul: a double act that gets better with age

After more than a quarter century of comedy collaboration, the BBC celebrates the duo's impressive run with live show-cum-retrospective An Evening with Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse - evidence of the pair's enduring talent.

Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 31st August 2015

Rated or dated: Blackadder the Third

The revival of chatter about a new Blackadder series has sent Standard Issue back to the first four. OK, three of them because, well, you know. Today, Mickey Noonan looks at what the butler saw in Blackadder the Third.

Mickey Noonan, Standard Issue, 31st August 2015

Patrick Monahan: The Disco Years, Edinburgh Preview

Patrick Monahan has an energy that could wake the dead.

Becca Moody, Moody Comedy, 31st August 2015

The end approaches

What the..!? It's the 31st?

Emma Bentley, The Public Reviews, 31st August 2015

Fresh Fringe 24: House of Blakewell

A chat with House of Blakewell.

Hannah Whitcombe, Fresh Fringe, 31st August 2015

Fringe Q&As: Morgan and West

Morgan and West discuss grumpy humans, moustaches and performing with Paloma Faith.

The Herald, 31st August 2015

Brendon Burns stops by the #WOWwagon (Link expired)

Australian comedian Brendon Burns stopped by the #WOWwagon to talk about doing a free Fringe show and his Edinburgh experience this year.

Matthew Dunne-Miles, WOW247, 31st August 2015

Exclusive Interviews with Comedy Award nominees

Sara Shulman interviews the winners and nominees of the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2015.

Sara Shulman, Comedy Blogedy, 31st August 2015

Sam Simmons - my part in his Foster's victory?

When Sam Simmons won this year's Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award on Saturday I was delighted for him. Simmons had been nominated twice before, which meant that to persuade the judges to vote for him he had to improve on previous shows. And he clearly did it with Spaghetti For Breakfast, a veritable maelstrom of zany thoughts, madcap ideas and zippy observations.

Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 31st August 2015

Final fun at the Fringe

Some venues finished their programmes yesterday, plus a ton of shows have been cancelled so here is our pick of the best comedy shows for the last day.

Punchline UK, 31st August 2015

Death, reviewers, pigs, ham-fistedness & drink

Reviews, of course, are both the dream and the nightmare of performers at the Fringe and some of the fly-by-night publications employ (unpaid) youngsters who are barely literate, let alone knowledgable.

John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 31st August 2015

An Evening with Harry Enfield & Paul Whitehouse, review

What started out as embarrassing and puzzling show turned into a highly amusing special, says Christopher Howse.

Christopher Howse, The Telegraph, 31st August 2015

Danny and the Human Zoo, review

This was a satisfying if fictional account of Lenny Henry's life in a troubled decade, says Christopher Howse.

Christopher Howse, The Telegraph, 31st August 2015

Review: An Evening with Harry Enfield & Paul Whitehouse

After last year's brilliant Story Of The Twos to mark BBC Two's 50th birthday, Harry and Paul return to the channel to honour another great institution: themselves.

Steve Bennett, Chortle, 31st August 2015

Danny and the Human Zoo, BBC1 - TV review

Forty years after his big break, Lenny Henry shows not a lot has changed on screen.

Tom Peck, The Independent, 31st August 2015

Review: Danny and the Human Zoo

Lenny Henry's semi-autobiographical drama is an enjoyable Bank Holiday treat.

Matt D., Unreality TV, 31st August 2015

Biggest Edinburgh Fringe ever

There were 50,459 performances of 3,314 shows in 313 venues across Edinburgh. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has announced that by Monday afternoon, with hundreds of performances still to take place, an estimated 2,298,090 tickets had been issued for shows across Scotland's capital. The number of tickets issued reflects a 5.24% increase in comparison to tickets issued by the same point last year.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 31st August 2015

TV & radio

Radio 4
10:45am
15 min
Bindi Business. Image shows from L to R: Raj (Chris Nayak), Bindi (Meera Syal), Anu (Krupa Pattani), Uncle Bash (Vincent Ebrahim). Copyright: BBC

Bindi Business

Series 1, Episode 1

Finding herself out of work at fifty-one, Bindi Banerjee decides to start up her own beauty business.

Radio 4
6:30pm
30 min
Duck Quacks Don't Echo. Lee Mack. Copyright: Magnum Media

Duck Quacks Don't Echo

Series 3, Episode 1

The fact-busting comedy panel series hosted by Lee Mack returns as Jerry Springer, Emma Bunton and Jason Byrne put further fascinating titbits to the test.

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