BCG Daily Thursday 7th December 2017

TLOG's original Christmas special was terrifying

Almost two decades later, it remains an inspired mix of wicked fun and festive fright.

Scott Bennett chooses his Perfect Playlist

Stand-up Scott Bennett, who has just released a 25-minute mockumentary, Caravan Of Love, on YouTube, names his six comedy favourites..

Overheard review

In these gloriously skewed shorts, comedians Ben Ashenden and Alexander Owen film unsuspecting people, imagine their conversations and add hilarious voiceovers.

David Jason claims he was mastermind behind bar scene

Fans of the popular comedy will never forget the iconic moment Del Boy - played by the 77-year-old star - fell through the bar while trying to "play it cool" in front of two stunning ladies in a swanky drinking hole and the legendary actor has admitted it was actually his idea to have the two girls in the shot because it would distract the audience and make the fall even more unexpected, dramatic and comical.

Speaking on This Morning on Thursday (07.12.17), David said: "We did it just once. We did it twice but we only used it once but the one that we used is the one that you see."

Ross Noble: Off Road review

This series may be mostly about motorbike trials, but given that Ross Noble is at the heart of it, there are laughs too.

Matt Roper + the first panto in New York for 100 years

"So," I said to British performer Matt Roper in New York, "Have you ever done a pantomime before?" We were speaking via FaceTime, obviously. "Years ago," he told me, "as a 20-year-old I was in Mother Goose at the Theatre Royal, St Helens, with 'Olive' from On The Buses. Anna Karen. She was great! What a woman! She was a Soho stripper in the 1960s in London. She was deported from South Africa in the Apartheid years. She was a puppeteer at a theatre in Johannesburg and gave a private puppet show to a bunch of black kids and she was deported."

Ed Gamble's Stampede review

While there were moments which clearly received less of a response than he was used to, with him repeatedly reminding the audience that we needed to 'loosen up', these were only occasional and by no means impacted upon the atmosphere of sheer entertainment.