BCG Daily Saturday 23rd January 2010

Five Minutes With: Vic Reeves

Celebrities and news-makers are grilled by Matthew Stadlen in exactly five minutes in a series for the BBC News website.

This week, comedian Vic Reeves talks about how he got his name, the strange link that runs through the men in his family, why the curlew is his favourite bird and tells a tall tale about being shot by the police.

Web campaign plans to put Forties comedian back on top

Modern comics urge voters to support Tommy Trinder in Channel 4 poll.

David Threlfall: 'Celebrity? I hate the f@#$**! word!'

David Threlfall talks to The Independent about life as a foul-mouthed national treasure.

Laura Solon on 30 Rock, white jeans and tea

We've heard lots from Laura Solon since her Perrier-winning Edinburgh debut in 2005, thanks to her ace Radio 4 show Talking and Not Talking. But we hadn't seen a lot of this wry chameleon until Rabbit Faced Story Soup, a stage one-hander in which she plays a gallery of literary eccentrics, from a thwarted feminist to a planning officer turned sci-fi writer.

Marc Wootton Travels to Showtime's La La Land

The first thing Marc Wootton mentions when he talks about his new Showtime comedy series La La Land is Sacha Baron Cohen aka Ali G aka Borat aka Bruno.

Rock and Chips Review: Trotters Junior Traders

Although faced with some pretty large challenges, the writers have succeeded in breathing new life into these well-loved characters - but that could be because they were so very rich in the first place.