BCG Daily Thursday 6th February 2020
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Little Britain: comedy from a less uptight age
It's only been off the air for 15 years, and already it's 'problematic'.
Guy Birchall, Spiked, 6th February 2020Home review
Bad comedy on telly is hardly unusual, but it's rare to see something so dreadful it's actually nauseating. The speeches about Britain's asylum laws, not to mention gay rights in Nigeria, came almost as a relief.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 6th February 2020Steve Coogan and Michael Winterbottom on Greed
The actor and director's business satire takes aim at the disgraced retail mogul Philip Green. They talk about celebrity, hypocrisy and showbiz moralising.
Henry Mance, The Financial Times, 6th February 2020Maddie Campion interview
"Billionaires are not going to save us."
Blizzard Comedy, 6th February 2020Leicester Comedy Festival: Ed Byrne review
Ed Byrne shows why he's one of the nation's greatest stand-up talents.
Becky Jones, Leicester Mercury, 6th February 2020Chortle Student Comedy Award prize just got even better
More Australian comedy clubs are backing the Chortle Student Comedy Award to ensure this year's winner gets a trip of a lifetime.
Chortle, 6th February 2020RSC's Comedy of Errors cast joining Miles Jupp revealed
Justin Edwards will be joining Jupp in a forthcoming production in Stratford.
Daniel Perks, What's On Stage, 6th February 2020My Comedy Hero: Sarah Keyworth on Jennifer Saunders
As the rising stand-up star takes Pacific across the UK, she picks the comic writer and actress as her funny favourite.
Brian Donaldson, The List, 6th February 2020DMU at 150: Leicester Comedy Festival
Leicester Comedy Festival has been part of the city's calendar since 1994 when it began as a student project by then Leicester Polytechnic student Geoff Rowe.
De Montfort University, 6th February 2020Interview: Lauren Stone & Liberty Hodes
Lauren Stone met Liberty Hodes when she was working on the bar at Alphabetti Theatre and Liberty had come to do a residency. Within the space of a conversation, such was their chemistry that they'd decided to run a night together. Three years on and their upcoming show of A Comedy Night That Passes The Bechdel Test, taking place at Alphabetti on Friday 14th February, is a very special third birthday edition of the celebrated alternative comedy night.
Helen Redfern, Narc Magazine, 6th February 2020Finalists announced for Komedia New Comedy Award
Nine out of the eleven finalists for the first ever Komedia New Comedy Award have been revealed. The two remaining finalists will be chosen by wild card voting which is now live.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 6th February 2020Videos
Podcasts
TV & radio
Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
Series 3, Episode 4 - A Serpent's ToothWhen a fatal accident takes place in a carpet warehouse, the youngest daughter of a carpet king hires Frank and Lu to investigate her own sisters.
A League Of Their Own
European Road Trip 2, Out-takes - UnseenThe challenges may be over and the tightrope has been walked, but you still haven't seen everything that Jamie and Freddie got up to on their latest jaunt through the continent. There're extra laughs, pranks and wind-ups as the boys present some unseen clips from their raucous road trip.
The Russell Howard Hour
Series 3, Episode 11Join Russell as he unpicks the week's news, interviews comedian Guz Khan about the new series of sitcom Man Like Mobeen, and chats to Hollywood star Jim Carrey.
CelebAbility
Series 4, Episode 4Iain Stirling presents as team captain Stacey Solomon who leads three friends in a series of games against Jenny Ryan, Chelcee Grimes, Dane Baptiste and Greg Shepherd.