BCG Daily Saturday 20th July 2013
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Pappy's: the boys who never grew up
The much-loved comedy sketch troupe have finally got their own TV series after years of false starts. We meet them on the set of Badults to find their enthusiasm intact.
James Kettle, The Guardian, 20th July 2013Edinburgh's comedy stars are looking tarnished
If there is anything that gives star ratings a bad name it's the Edinburgh Fringe. It's not the fault of the star ratings (or the Fringe), it's simply because of the volume of publications that are now clamouring to cover the event.
Julian Hall, The Stage, 20th July 2013This week's new live comedy
Previews of Birthday Girls, Gráinne Maguire and Sara Pascoe.
James Kettle, The Guardian, 20th July 2013Latitude review: Pappy's
This boisterously playful nonsense is interspersed with some greatest hits of the past couple of years: strong sketches made stronger by their devil-may-care attitude.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 20th July 2013Latitude review: Mark Watson
He realises comedy and tragedy are close bedfellows, and is brilliantly, darkly, fully when frankly describing his own struggles with sobriety - such as the strain of enduring things that, tipsy, he would have let slide, allowing for fruitful strand of observational comedy through the prism of intolerance.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 20th July 2013Latitude review: Seann Walsh
Like all observational comedy, the joy is when he exposes, in perfect detail, a universal human foible that had perviously escaped us all, such as spotting yourself on CCTV camera, or using your phone to record video, and he lands several of these.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 20th July 2013Latitude review: Andrew O'Neill
It's hard to pigenonhole a comedian who one minute jauntily rewrites classic pop songs for the colour-blind, and the next rumbles intimidating death-metal lyrics into the face of a terrified front-row punter as part of a routine that started with small-talk at a bus stop - but there is one category you can put O'Neill into: the one marked 'funny'.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 20th July 2013Latitude review: Nick Helm and The Helmettes
Seeing a six-year-old girl merrily punching the air as Helm hollers out his filth is certainly an incongruous site, if not the finest example of good parenting.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 20th July 2013Videos
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Mike Bubbins: Day Tripper
Episode 1 - SeasideMike Bubbins's first day trip takes him to the seaside - from Porthcawl to Llanfairfechan and Llandudno.