BCG Daily Monday 24th November 2014

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.

Review: 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.

Radio 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.

Review: 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.

Charlie Higson creates Jekyll & Hyde for ITV

ITV commissions action adventure drama Jekyll & Hyde written by Charlie Higson.

Video: 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.

Inbetweeners: 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.

No 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.

Leicester 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.

Lee 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.

Lewis 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."

Comedians' 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...

Black 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.

Stewart 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.

Sarah 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.

Frankie Boyle out of charity comedy night

Frankie Boyle has been forced to pull out of a charity comedy gala event tonight due to sickness.

Victoria 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.