BCG Daily Wednesday 8th January 2020
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Mrs Brown's Boys 2019 specials review
If you don't like Mrs Brown's Boys by now, nothing I've written will change your mind. It's one of those shows that you love or you hate and, as someone who loves it, I can recommend these latest two festive offerings. It's more of the same family-oriented humour, focusing unashamedly on making you laugh and nothing else, and it does a wonderful job - comedy doesn't need to be anything else.
Reece Goodall, The Boar, 8th January 2020The lesbian comics rediscovering their butch side
Hannah Gadsby made butchness cool again. Now a crop of queer comics are channelling their inner bloke - and getting back to boots, quiffs and taches.
Ella Braidwood, The Guardian, 8th January 2020Yuriko Kotani interview
Yuriko Kotani is in a league that very few other Japanese people have or would want to wade into: performing stand-up comedy in English. This week she brings that show, called Somosomo, which she debuted at Edinburgh in August 2019, to Tokyo and Osaka before returning to her base in London and taking it back on the road in the U.K.
J. J. Donoghue, The Japan Times, 8th January 2020Great Yorkshire Fringe won't return to York
Organisers say the event does not have a place in York until the management of the city centre is improved.
Stray FM, 8th January 2020Eleanor Morton on silliness, safe spaces and sexism
"If you're not happy there's no point in anything."
Blizzard Comedy, 8th January 2020Susie McCabe interview
'There is mental in the world and then there is Glasgow mental'.
Stacey Mullen, Glasgow Evening Times, 8th January 2020The Comedy Room day two
Generating ideas, writing to a brief and pitching
Amy Xander, BBC, 8th January 2020Martin Besserman on Greta Thunberg, drugs, dead animals
Martin Besserman runs the long-established Monkey Business club in London. He has decided to give profits from four of his shows to a charity...
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 8th January 2020Videos
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Jeeves Live!
Series 4, Episode 2 - The Great Sermon HandicapAt Twing Hall there's a scheme afoot among the young guests to run a handicap on the length of the sermons preached by the vicars, and Bertie is persuaded by his nephews to fund their bets as well as his own.
Obsessions
Series 2, Episode 1Joining Joe on the sofa this week, weather presenter Carol Kirkwood shares her obsession with a cat called Donald, while Radio 1 DJ Clara Amfo reveals her love of trainers. Joe also welcomes members of the public to share their secret passions, as well as this week's VOP (very obsessed person), Paul Fraine, who introduces Joe to the world of Live Action Role Play.
Comedy Legends
Series 2, Episode 12 - Peter SellersBarry Cryer pays tribute to actor Peter Sellers, who shot to fame in The Goon Show and starred in the Pink Panther franchise and was Oscar-nominated for Dr Strangelove and Being There.
The Skewer
Series 1, Episode 1Skewered in this opening episode are Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes, some growing tensions in Iran and Donald Trump on his knowledge of windmills.