BCG Daily Thursday 6th February 2020

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Little Britain. Image shows from L to R: David Walliams, Matt Lucas. Copyright: BBC / Little Britain Productions

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 2020
Home. Image shows from L to R: John (Oaklee Pendergast), Sami (Youssef Kerkour), Peter (Rufus Jones), Katy (Rebekah Staton). Copyright: Channel X

Home 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 2020
Home. Image shows from L to R: John (Oaklee Pendergast), Sami (Youssef Kerkour), Peter (Rufus Jones), Katy (Rebekah Staton). Copyright: Channel X

Review: Home

Review of the Rufus Jones sitcom.

Carol Midgley, The Times, 6th February 2020
Greed. Sir Richard McCreadie (Steve Coogan). Copyright: Film4

Steve 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 2020
Maddie Campion

Maddie Campion interview

"Billionaires are not going to save us."

Blizzard Comedy, 6th February 2020
Ed Byrne. Copyright: Roslyn Gaunt

Leicester 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 2020
Chortle Student Comedy Award

Chortle 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 2020
Miles Jupp

RSC'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 2020
Sarah Keyworth

My 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 2020
Damned. Al Kavanagh (Alan Davies). Copyright: What Larks Productions

DMU 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 2020
Microphone

Interview: 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 2020
Komedia Brighton

Finalists 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 2020

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Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators. Image shows from L to R: Poonam Raja (Alexandra D'sa), Luella Shakespeare (Jo Joyner), Frank Hathaway (Mark Benton)

Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators

Series 3, Episode 4 - A Serpent's Tooth

When 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. Image shows from L to R: Jamie Redknapp, Andrew Flintoff. Copyright: CPL Productions

A League Of Their Own

European Road Trip 2, Out-takes - Unseen

The 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. Image shows from L to R: Guz Khan, Russell Howard. Copyright: Avalon Television

The Russell Howard Hour

Series 3, Episode 11

Join 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.

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