BCG Daily Saturday 21st January 2012
Press clippings
Audio: Humour Me podcast with Bec Hill
Bec Hill co-presents this week's podcast discussing Pun Run, the Australian comedy scene and her experiences of being a comic. The show also features an interview with Dominic Holland about Eclipsed and the corporate side of comedy gigging and Hils Jago provides a fascinating insight into Amused Moose, how to get "discovered" in Edinburgh how to "make it" in the comedy industry.
Comedy Blogedy, 21st January 2012QI: Quite interesting facts about baths
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI has a bath.
Molly Oldfield & John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 21st January 2012Video - Five minutes with: Chris Addison
Comedian Chris Addison talks to Matthew Stadlen about feeling underprepared for his acting roles, the pressure to "think of something funny" - and keep watching to find out what happens when The Thick Of It co-star Peter Capaldi turns into spin doctor character Malcolm Tucker.
Matthew Stadlen, BBC News, 21st January 2012Room 101 - review
Room 101 isn't quite ready to be consigned to Room 101 yet, writes Sam Wollaston.
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian, 21st January 2012Chat between Alice Cooper and Noel Fielding
An intimate chat between the shock-rock great and the Luxury Comedy funnyman. Warning: contains dead chickens and goth golf clothing.
Noel Fielding and Alice Cooper, The Guardian, 21st January 2012Penguins give Jonathan Ross a problem
Jonathan Ross has a p-p-problem with two penguins on his show tonight - as they refuse to leave.
The Sun, 21st January 2012Where are all the female comics?
Decades after they started out, French and Saunders are still Britain's best-known 'funny girls'. But a new generation of women is about to change all that, discovers Gerard Gilbert.
Gerard Gilbert, The Independent, 21st January 2012Daniel Sloss on how loss of his sister led to comedy
Rising Scots comic Daniel Sloss wants to marry Lorraine Kelly's daughter because he's smitten by the breakfast telly queen.
Rick Fulton, Daily Record, 21st January 2012Tube Talk Gold: Mr Bean
Everyone seems to have memories of Mr Bean, and it spawned both an animated series and a couple of big-screen adaptations. But what made it such a success?
Catriona Wightman, Digital Spy, 21st January 2012Meet Noel Fielding's cast of Luxury Comedy characters
Psychedelic chefs, a manta ray music producer, and 'Tron Quixote': all in a day's weird work for the team behind Noel Fielding's new E4 show.
The Guardian, 21st January 2012Noel Fielding: how Dalí and Senna influenced my comedy
From the eyeball-slicing Spanish surrealist to the 'enigmatic and spiritual' Formula 1 driver, a who's who of Boosh big-ups...
Noel Fielding, The Guardian, 21st January 2012David Walliams: BGT is real Little Britain
David Walliams has told Digital Spy that Britain's Got Talent is "the reality version of Little Britain".
Digital Spy, 21st January 2012Ronnie Corbett's daughter on his terrifying collapse
Sophie Corbett, daughter of Ronnie Corbett talks about her father's collapse in a restruant earlier this month.
Rebecca Hardy, Daily Mail, 21st January 2012Interview: Simon Munnery
How many musicals have you seen about British rigid airships? It sounds like a silly question - and it is - but Simon Munnery's latest show "Hats Off To The 101ers, And Other Material" offers just that, and a bit more.
Dan Carmichael, Giggle Beats, 21st January 2012Podcasts
TV & radio
11am60 min
Fighting Talk
Series 9, Episode 25Gary Gillespie, Des Kelly, Dougie Anderson and Josh Widdicombe fight for punditry points.
6:30pm30 min
Harry Hill's TV Burp
Series 11, Highlights Special - The Best Of TV Burp 21Harry goes back on a trip through Burps of the past, visiting Downton Abbey and EastEnders, and taking a look at reality show Love Thy Neighbour and Stephen Fry and Mark Carwardine's Last Chance To See.
8pm60 min
Monty Python: Almost The Truth
Episode 2The legendary troupe reflects on Monty Python's Flying Circus, revealing how the group's failures turned to success and how the hit series influenced comedians to come.
9pm60 min
Stella
Series 1, Episode 3When local legend 'Dick the Kick' passes away, Stella helps Paula throw the funeral of the century. But when disaster looms, Sean saves the day: again.
9:15pm60 min
The Jonathan Ross Show
Series 2, Episode 3 - Daniel Radcliffe, David Attenborough, Noel FieldingJonathan's guests this week include Daniel Radcliffe, Sir David Attenborough and Mighty Boosh star Noel Fielding. Plus there is music from Seal.
9:30pm30 min
Live At The Apollo
Series 7, Episode 8 - Jack Whitehall, Josh Widdicombe, Shappi KhorsandiHost Jack Whitehall leads the way for Josh Widdicombe and Shappi Khorsandi.
10pm30 min
Hot Gossip
Series 5, Episode 3This week's panellists are the BAFTA award-winning and unfailingly topical Andrew Maxwell, actress and comedian Katy Brand, and just as he comes to the end of his Request Stops tour of the UK, Bristol's Mark Watson.