BCG Daily Monday 13th February 2017
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Romesh Ranganathan: All stand-ups have angles
Often people just Asian assume Asian that Asian everything you Asian talk about Asian is just the Asian fact that you're Asian.
Romesh Ranganathan, The Guardian, 13th February 2017Jack Whitehall, comedy review
Posh manchild saddles up for a sensational show.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 13th February 2017Review: Bilal Zafar
Bilal Zafar asks a lot of questions of his audience. Literally. "How did you hear about me?" he asks incredulously
Chris Thundow, Leicester Mercury, 13th February 2017'The Full Monty' turns 20 this year
Recently, someone told me that when you start trying to remember any kind of anniversary of a favourite movie, the standard rule is you come up with a number as to how long ago you think it premiered and then add five years to the total and, generally, you will be correct at that point. Such is the case with a favourite of mine, The Full Monty, which turns 20! in August of this year.
Bill Young, Tellyspotting, 13th February 2017Leicester Comedy Festival review: Carly Smallman
Aficionados of the comedy scene might well think of Carly Smallman as a musical comedian. It's true that, in previous shows, she's carved a niche strumming caustic songs on her guitar.
Sean Tizzard, Leicester Mercury, 13th February 2017Review: Naked Comedy
They must be full of cracks and flaws. How else could five comedians and a compere be encouraged to do their thing naked? Admittedly, this sold-out late night show, downstairs at Manhattan 34, is all for charity (Loros) but wouldn't it be easier and slightly less embarrassing to be shaking your tin fully clothed?
Sean Tizzard, Leicester Mercury, 13th February 2017Review - Paul Foot's Game of Dangers
No one in their right mind would put the absurd and unpredictable Paul Foot in charge of a game show. So he's done it himself, given that 'being in his right mind' is not a charge he's ever knowingly guilty of.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 13th February 2017League of Gentlemen eyeing 20th anniversary reunion
The comedy quartet of Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton and Jeremy Dyson will meet this year in a bid to mark 20 years since the TV debut.
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 13th February 2017Liam Williams on new BBC show Pls Like
All the characters were partly based really vloggers or (a sort of composite of various vloggers) but through the writing and improv they all became quite distinct from the original sources.
Laugh Out London, 13th February 2017Bridget Christie: 'I hate what this country looks like'
Bridget Christie faced a tougher crowd the night before we meet. She was, she admits, in a bad mood prior to going on stage. "I shouldn't have checked the news before I went on," she explains. "I need to be playful."
Heather Saul, i Newspaper, 13th February 2017Jack Whitehall interview
"In the early days I knew I was funny, but I just couldn't work out who I was. I was trying everything. I started doing routines in a really thick cockney accent. No idea why. I dressed as a rapper. I wore eye liner at one point. I was all over the place."
Simon Binns, Manchester Evening News, 13th February 2017A new satire must emerge breaking out of liberal bubble
We need a rebirth of political comedy: preaching to the converted about Trump and Brexit isn't going to be enough.
Viv Groskop, The Guardian, 13th February 2017Bob Mortimer interview
He's spent 25 years as half of Britain's greatest comedy double act with lifelong writing partner, Vic Reeves.
Joe Zadeh, Vice.com, 13th February 2017Susan Calman interview
I'm not talking about my politics as such, more about a holistic sense of what I want the world to be like.
The Latest, 13th February 2017The Party review
The tenor of the piece is something like Harold Pinter reworked as Feydeau farce, but there's also a definite state-of-the-nation analysis to this panorama of left-wingers, intellectuals and feminists of a certain age, all reappraising their ideals in a decidedly venal and pragmatic world.
Jonathan Romney, Screen Daily, 13th February 2017The Party review
Potter's cast is perceptibly having a blast with her savory invective and insults.
Guy Lodge, Variety, 13th February 2017The Party review
Potter keeps the energy fizzing and the jokes crackling throughout the drama's short span, which unfolds in something like real time.
Stephen Dalton, Hollywood Reporter, 13th February 2017The Party review
Kristin Scott Thomas stars as a cabinet minister hosting one of those dos at which shock revelation follows shock revelation, in Sally Potter's short, smart comedy.
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 13th February 2017Videos
Podcasts
TV & radio
Chain Reaction
Series 12, Episode 1 - Sara Cox interviews Joe LycettSara Cox's interview pick is Joe Lycett because "he makes me happy" and because someone needed to finally chart his much discussed journey "from Birmingham to 10th hottest man in the world".
The Infinite Monkey Cage
Series 15, Episode 5 - The Human Story: How We Got Here and Why We SurvivedWith Ross Noble, Professor Danielle Schreve, Chris Stringer.
Go Jetters
Series 1, Episode 42 - Waitomo Glowworm Caves, New ZealandIt's Go Jetters glow when Glitch uses some glow worms for his disco pizzazz in New Zealand.
The Museum Of Curiosity
Gallery 10, Episode 6 - Meeting Sixty-OneJoining John Lloyd and Jo Brand are American comedian Michelle Wolf, food writer Bee Wilson and literary walker Henry Eliot.
I Live With Models
Series 2, Episode 2 - Jess Steals A JobWhen Molly's forced to lose weight for a job, Jess stands up for her - but in the process accidentally takes her job. Tommy's oldest friend Seth visits and Tommy panics.