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Video: Laurel and Hardy for a new generation
Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly play the comedy duo in Stan & Ollie. The film closed the 62nd BFI London Film Festival.
BBC, 22nd October 2018Paddy McGuinness one of the new Top Gear hosts
Paddy McGuinness and Andrew Flintoff will be the new presenters of Top Gear, the BBC has confirmed.
BBC, 22nd October 2018DVD review: This Country Season One & Two
It is nevertheless, quite brilliant.
Chris Hallam, Chris Hallam's World View, 22nd October 2018Kevin Bridges: Brand New review
Comedy of the highest quality.
Lucy Christopher, The Wee Review, 22nd October 2018Funny Beeseness review
If you haven't seen one of Wayne Beese's stellar comedy nights, my advice would be to book yourself in as soon as possible.
James Driver-Fisher, The Express and Star, 22nd October 2018Henning Wehn review
As the self-proclaimed German Comedy Ambassador, Henning explores what we really voted for in the EU Referendum.
The Reviews Hub, 22nd October 2018Rachel Fairburn interview
I'm certainly more myself on stage than I used to be, because when I started out I was really deadpan, doing one-liners and stuff like that. So the approach has changed. My persona is very much a harsh version of me -- close but exaggerated.
iiii Mag, 22nd October 2018Dutch 'silly walks' crossing is a hit
A Dutch town has officially opened a 'silly walks' road crossing, in honour of a classic sketch from the 1970s BBC comedy programme Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Martin Morgan, BBC, 22nd October 2018Luisa Omielan's Politics For Bitches review
Commissioning Luisa Omielan to address politics makes perfect sense for the BBC's public-service remit.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 22nd October 2018Elis James & John Robins review
Overall, these are two likeable, engaging storytellers, who are unashamedly touting a stocking-filler for Christmas whilst providing a perfectly fine night of comedy.
Matt Forrest, The Reviews Hub, 22nd October 2018Stan & Ollie review: an absolute delight...
An ageing Laurel and Hardy rediscover their mojo and their friendship on a tour of 50s Britain in this affectionate postcard to Hollywood's funniest double-act.
Andrew Collins, Radio Times, 22nd October 2018Film review: Stan & Ollie is 'a fine bromance'
Steve Coogan and John C Reilly star in a new biopic of Laurel and Hardy that is an irresistible homage to the iconic comedy duo.
Nicholas Barber, BBC, 22nd October 2018LFF: 'Stan & Ollie' Review: Dir. Jon S. Baird (2018)
Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly pair up to portray the iconic comedy duo of Laurel & Hardy in this bittersweet account of two fading Hollywood stars.
Andrew Gaudion, Hollywood News, 22nd October 2018#LFF 2018: Stan & Ollie review
Inspired by the book Laurel and Hardy: The British Tours by A.J. Marriot, who also featured as a consultant on the film, Jon S. Baird's Stan & Ollie is part biography and part homage to Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, arguably the greatest stage and screen comedy performers of their time.
Zoe Margolis, Cine-Vue, 22nd October 2018Stan & Ollie: Coogan's a hoot, Reilly deserves an Oscar
This tragic-comic biopic is mostly set in 1953, the year Hollywood comedy legends Stan Laurel and Ollie Hardy toured the UK and Ireland in hopes of revitalising their careers and mending their friendship (damaged by Ollie's willingness to make a movie, 1939's Zenobia, minus Stan).
Charlotte O'Sullivan, Evening Standard, 22nd October 20182018 BFI London Film Festival Review - Stan & Ollie
The love Laurel and Hardy channelled into their routines is clearly reflected - and respected - by the entirety of Stan & Ollie's cast and crew, and it shines through onscreen in this melancholic but heartfelt celebration of the double act.
Tori Brazier, Flickering Myth, 22nd October 2018Review: Stan & Ollie
Making a comedy about two icons of slapstick is a road so full of pitfalls that even the great men themselves would probably just have taken a different route - one marked "new tarmac" perhaps. And yet the film - like the marriage of a six-foot-one, 280-pound Georgian with a rake of a man from the north of England - just works.
Will Almond, The Upcoming, 22nd October 2018Film review: Stan & Ollie at the London Film Festival
Hollywood's great comedy duo are reborn in this terrific new biopic.
Kevin Maher, The Times, 22nd October 2018Dara O Briain: Voice of Reason review
O Briain rattles through both material and his ad-libs so quickly that even if a gag passes you by, he's on to the next one before you notice, yet always building up to a bigger picture: so what might start as a commonplace observation about watching porn on a VR headset snowballs into a brilliantly farcical image.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 22nd October 2018Luisa Omielan's Politics for Bitches, review
In exchange, I'd have cut out some of the superfluous stand-up banter and scenes of Omielan mugging to camera in a taxi. Best of all were the sparks of real anger from Omielan, as when she discussed the inadequacy of a new luxury development's "affordable housing" scheme with an estate agent; if only they could have been given more time to catch alight.
Hugh Montgomery, i Newspaper, 22nd October 2018Julia Davis: I'm worried there's going to be a backlash
Sally4Ever, a lurid lesbian sitcom, is her filthiest show yet - but even that's nothing compared with her extreme agony aunt podcast. The comedy writer and actor reveals how it all helped her deal with the death of her parents.
Harriet Gibsone, The Guardian, 22nd October 2018An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn review
Filmmaker Jim Hosking struggles to hit the right notes with his Greasy Strangler follow-up.
The List, 22nd October 2018Blog: Caroline Mabey
The comic on going sober for October.
Caroline Mabey, Big Issue North, 22nd October 2018BBC Wales' Festival of Funny: Halfway
We caught up with Sion Edwards, writer of Halfway, a new short form comedy which will be airing on BBC2 Wales.
Sion Edwards, BBC, 22nd October 2018An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn review
The film has its dead spots -- a running joke about grunting Beverly's trapped wind palls quickly -- but most of the slow-burn strangeness is a hoot.
Kim Newman, Empire, 22nd October 2018Podcasts
TV & radio
11:30am30 min
Josh Howie's Losing It
Series 2, Episode 4 - The GetawayJosh and his wife take their baby away for a weekend in Ireland. Sadly the trip doesn't get off to the best of starts when Josh upsets several people on the plane.
6:30pm30 min
The Museum Of Curiosity
Gallery 13, Episode 4 - Meeting Seventy-SevenJohn Lloyd and Lee Mack are joined by journalist and author Lucy Mangan, scientist and writer Steve Mould and former England footballer Graeme Le Saux.
9pm60 min
Joel & Nish Vs The World
Series 2, Episode 5 - Japan SumoJoel and Nish travel to Tokyo to meet Japan's professional sumo wrestlers before heading to the remote Oki Islands to take part in a tournament in the birthplace of Sumo.
9pm30 min
Peter Kay's Comedy Shuffle
Series 3, Episode 2The celebration continues with Peter making a riotous appearance with Alan Carr, while Brian Potter is trapped on a stair lift, and there is a disturbance at a motorway services. Plus a guest appearance from Eddie the Eagle.
9:30pm30 min
For Facts Sake
Episode 2Team Captains Jennifer Gibney and Fiona O'Carroll compete alongside members of the audience who are invited down to play the game. Tonight we learn some incredible facts on subjects from honey bees to pirates. Expert guest Sarah Keith-Lucas teaches us all about the weather, and Pat 'Pepsi' Shields reveals some amazing facts about Elvis Presley.
10pm30 min
11:15pm5 min
Halfway
Episode 1 - EvacuationWhen Carol is keen to talk about a new burger van fire evacuation plan, Dave and his co-burger worker Lucy aren't so enthusiastic. And why is Carol always on the phone to someone called George?