BCG Daily Saturday 22nd August 2015
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Pauline McLynn interview
Father Ted's Mrs Doyle on fear, families and fruit tea.
Oscar Quinn, The Independent, 22nd August 2015It's a fact that wealth makes you obnoxious
'A man who ordered a takeaway during my show seemed genuinely baffled as to why I even brought it up. He was hungry and needed to eat. What the hell was my problem?'
Bridget Christie, The Guardian, 22nd August 2015Fringe Q&As: Gideon & Hubcap
Gideon & Hubcap discuss being Fringe newbies, intergalactic energy levels and tigers.
The Herald, 22nd August 2015Reviewer review: Victoria Nangle (Fest / Fringe Guru)
When you read Victoria Nangle's reviews you find yourself muttering 'Get on with it' a lot. There's a great deal of throat-clearing and pussyfooting, all of it taking up ink and paper that could have been used for poetry, or a treatise on human rights or something.
Jemyma C. Noevil, FringePig, 22nd August 2015Reviewer review: Kate Wilkinson (Broadway B / EdFringe)
Kate Wilkinson gets the reviewing lark right, on the whole, with a nice balance between exposition and commentary.
Business Leopard, FringePig, 22nd August 2015Caroline Quentin: Men Behaving Badly won't come back
'Who'd tune in to watch characters who'd probably be a bunch of pathetic, middle-aged losers now? says Caroline Quentin.
Daphne Lockyer, The Telegraph, 22nd August 2015Rebecca Root: "I'm not fighting myself any more"
Rebecca Root is about to become the first transgender star of a British television show. She talks about changing perceptions, feeling sexy - and why she wishes she had the nerve of Caitlyn Jenner.
Nicola Gill, The Guardian, 22nd August 2015Ten sure signs a comedian has lost her mind
Jessica Fostekew's sanity test.
Jessica Fostekew, Chortle, 22nd August 2015Great Danes
Sofie Hagen chooses her comedy favourites from her homeland.
Sofie Hagen, Chortle, 22nd August 20155 minutes with: Patrick Kielty
The Belfast-born comic on making his debut at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Theo Bosanquet, What's On Stage, 22nd August 2015A game of characters: cricket & the comedy it inspires
Later this month, the former England all-rounder Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff brings his nationwide theatre tour, 2nd Innings, to the Edinburgh Festival. The show features Flintoff, the hero of the 2005 Ashes series, discussing everything from "the infamous Ashes bus tour" to "questions about players' toilet habits". When he appeared at London's Palace Theatre last month, Flintoff had the audience rolling in the aisles with a mixture of anecdotes and wicked one-liners.
Jonathan Liew, The Telegraph, 22nd August 2015Dave Benson Phillips, interview
This week I got to relive my youth watching Get Your Own Back. Later on I got to chat with Dave Benson Phillips host of the show about the live stage version at Gilded Balloon and future plans after the festival.
Chris Mackrell, Black Diamond, 22nd August 2015Comedian and comedy critic in fist fight at Fringe
Comedians and critics tend to have a love-hate relationship. Critics tend to love comedy and comics tend to hate critics.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 22nd August 2015Jonny Awsum: Everything Is Awsum, Edinburgh preview
There's something inspiring about attending a comedy show, which you have no prior information about other than a name, and discovering something quite remarkable.
Becca Moody, Moody Comedy, 22nd August 2015Festival Of The Spoken Nerd: Fringe charts 3
"Science comedy phenomenon" no less, Festival Of The Spoken Nerd are back, and this time "they're off the chart!" Which got us thinking. What would the Fringe look like in chart form? The comedy nerds have the answer. Look out for their Fringe Charts in each edition of Three Weeks this year, and here is the Week Two chart.
Matt Parker, Steve Mould and Helen Arney, ThreeWeeks, 22nd August 2015Fringe Q&As: Tatterdemalion
Tatterdemalion's Henry Maynard discusses going solo, falling over whilst puppeteering and square sausage.
The Herald, 22nd August 2015Fringe Q&As: Die Roten Punkte's Astrid Rot
Die Roten Punkte's Astrid Rot discusses party people, hot chips and rocking out in Edinburgh.
The Herald, 22nd August 2015Fringe Q&As: In Cahoots
In Cahoots discuss positive heckling, haggis pizza and Mhairi Black.
The Herald, 22nd August 2015Jim Bowen struggling after suffering third stroke
Bullseye legend says he will never work again and is embarrassed by his frailty but adds that he feels lucky to be alive after a third stroke has left him struggling to walk and talk.
Janine Yaqoob and Alex Belfield, The Mirror, 22nd August 2015Assembly Rooms shake-up heralds new festival era
A comprehensive shake-up is on the cards for the George Street site under plans by Edinburgh City Council to take over the running of the venue during the summer festivals period. Rather than allow a single operator to block-book the building for the Fringe, it will be made available to a host of different festival organisers, promoters and producers.
Brian Ferguson, The Scotsman, 22nd August 2015Three to see on 23 Aug
Three recommended shows for Sunday at the Edinburgh Festival 2015.
ThreeWeeks, 22nd August 2015Five questions for Abi Roberts
Abi Roberts and her big hair exploded onto the stand-up comedy scene in 2011, after a number of years as a musical and cabaret performer. Ahead of her four-date run of Musical CID at the Edinburgh Fringe, she answers five of our questions.
Andrew Dipper, Giggle Beats, 22nd August 2015And Broadway Baby's first Bobby Award of 2015 goes to-
Our first Bobby Award of the year goes to the inimitable Luke McQueen, whose playful and genre-breaking show Double Act wowed our comedy editor, Martin Walker, and the judges who went to see the show earlier this week.
Larry Bartleet, Broadway Baby, 22nd August 2015Videos
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TV & radio
11am60 min
Jest A Minute
Festival Specials, Episode 2 - Jest A Minute at Green Man FestivalRhod's at the Green Man Festival, in the Brecon Beacons, to present a special edition of Jest A Minute - with Holly Walsh, Greg Davies, Chris Corcoran and Rob Deering.
1:04pm30 min
The Harri-Parris' Radio Show
Series 1, Episode 2 - West End BoysIfan plots to split Anni from Ben, roping her ex-boyfriends into a scheme at Rumourz, west Wales's premier nightspot.
9pm60 min
Jason Manford Live: First World Problems
TV broadcast of Jason Manford's 2014 live stand-up DVD, First World Problems.
10pm60 min
4 Extra Stands Up
4 Extra Stands Up With Fred MacAulay, Episode 2Fred MacAulay hosts the best of 2015's comedy Fringe festival in Edinburgh. Expect some comedians you know, and some you don't.