BCG Daily Friday 10th July 2020
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Ricky Gervais: cancel culture preventing risky comedy
With The Office turning 19-years-old, it should be a time of happiness and joy, but the 59-year-old has reflected on what was shown in the series and pondered whether it would be allowed to go ahead in this day and age.
Stewart Perrie, Lad Bible, 10th July 2020Review: There She Goes
Half an hour just isn't enough for a family drama this good.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 10th July 2020There She Goes review
Dark and poignant but also really rather funny.
Carol Midgley, The Times, 10th July 2020@TheDriveIn, Blackheath review - comedy and caraoke
Pleasant summer entertainment from Ivo Graham, Andrew Maxwell and Duncan Beiny.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 10th July 2020Joe Lycett: comedy clubs need urgent support
A new study suggests more than three-quarters of our comedy venues face permanent closure - we must save them.
Joe Lycett, The Guardian, 10th July 2020Elections for EdFringe Society
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society will elect three new members to its board of directors, after a specially convened general meeting failed to amend its own rules.
Thom Dibdin, All Edinburgh Theatre, 10th July 2020Dane Baptiste: Just erasing blackface is not enough
Just erasing blackface from old TV shows is not enough - the biggest issue is the lack of black faces. If the industry is truly to change, it needs ethnic minorities in senior consultative positions, writes comedian Dane Baptiste.
Dane Baptiste, i Newspaper, 10th July 2020Jack Whitehall's Sporting Nation preview
He does a decent job, an amusing and buoyantly positive host without pushing the comedy too hard, always good company if rarely laugh-out-loud funny. (though a wry comment about 'those who can't, host' is winningly self-deprecatory). It's a stepping stone to him being a bone fide presenter, rather than a jester on the sidelines.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 10th July 2020Mark Watson's Carpool Comedy review
'This is not a perfect way to do comedy,' Mark Watson admits during the first of more than two dozen of his Carpool Comedy drive-in gigs.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 10th July 2020Stand-up is in big trouble just when we need it most
The coronavirus pandemic is killing off live comedy and we simply cannot let this happen to one of the most democratic and unpretentious art forms, warns Ayesha Hazarika.
Ayesha Hazarika, The Scotsman, 10th July 2020Myra Dubois interview
The comedian, drag act and entertainer on the things that make her laugh the most.
The Guardian, 10th July 2020Shappi Khorsandi: the circuit is being left to die
I wish I could at least say that we were at the bottom of the food chain, but our industry is getting zero government money. We aren't on the agenda at all.
Shappi Khorsandi, The Independent, 10th July 2020Mel Giedroyc: what's kept her positive during lockdown
The former Bake Off host shares how she's been coping.
Nathalie Whittle, Good Housekeeping, 10th July 2020Comedians indoors getting creative: part 17
To help you get your comedy fix, every week we'll be putting together a list of projects we've spotted online by funny women...
Funny Women, 10th July 2020Jack Whitehall: PC exists for a reason in comedy
Jack Whitehall has said that political correctness has a "purpose" in comedy as it exists to protect vulnerable people. However, the 32-year-old stand-up admitted that he was more careful now about what he said on stage than he had been 10 years ago.
Alex Green, Yahoo, 10th July 2020Chris Ramsey to be a dad again
Chris Ramsey is set to become a father for the second time, as he revealed his wife Rosie Ramsey is pregnant.
Female First, 10th July 2020Jack Whitehall's Sporting Nation, BBC1, review
Whitehall's humorous honesty on our sporting failures and achievements kept this potentially self-congratulatory series on the ground.
Emily Baker, i Newspaper, 10th July 2020Jack Whitehall's Sporting Nation, review
A decent filler in the absence of real sport.
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 10th July 2020Videos
TV & radio
No More Jockeys
Set 1, Episode 5 - Set 1, Game 5Key has two wins to his name compared to Horne and Watson's one. Surely suggesting Penelope Pitstop can't hurt...
Fags, Mags And Bags
Series 9, Episode 4Ramesh and Malcolm's wedding day plans upset a few people, including Sanjay who wants to perform at the reception with his new "horrible" band.
Breaking The News
Series 16, Episode 3Des Clarke is joined by Russell Kane, Ashley Storrie, Mark Nelson and Elaine Malcolmson.
Dead Ringers
Series 20, Episode 5If you don't know what a Kanye West is, then Joan Bakewell will explain all, and Her Majesty the Queen tells us why she's helping out the FBI. There's also a special guest at Downton Abbey, and a new role for Daniel Day Lewis.
Jack Whitehall's Sporting Nation
Episode 1 - It's Coming HomeJack celebrates Britain's finest sporting moments and achievements to have taken place on home soil, asking why it is that when the United Kingdom hosts a major sports event the whole world stops to watch - and why holding a international tournament in our own backyard brings the very best out of us as a nation.
The Other One
Series 1, Episode 5It's the night before the wedding but Cathy can't enjoy her drink-up as she's obsessed by a scuff on the wall Marcus made, and the sisters run in to Cat's old school bully.
Big Zuu's Big Eats
Series 1, Episode 9 - Ed GambleBig Zuu takes his food van to Manchester where Ed Gamble is performing. Ed's love of fried chicken and all things cheese related gives Zuu plenty to work with.