BCG Daily Tuesday 25th August 2020
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World Of TV is a safe space for un-PC comedy
The next thing the BBC should do is axe New World Order, The Mash Report, Have I Got News For You, Mock The Week and all those other political propaganda shows, masquerading as comedy, which are just an extension of the left-wing Twitter echo chamber that caused the great British sense of humour failure of 2012-2020 in the first place. As Harry Hill has demonstrated, both on ITV and BBC2, what's OK is the stuff that makes people laugh.
Ally Ross, The Sun, 25th August 2020Sh!t-Faced Shakespeare review
The whole thing sounds like a studenty jape, and I must confess I didn't entirely see the point.
Veronica Lee, i Newspaper, 25th August 2020Nathan Cassidy: Observational review
The world may have been turned upside-down. But reassuringly, this show, which Cassidy started developing at last year's festival, is a typically imperfect, bold hour from a comic seeking a shot at redemption and in need of a photo opportunity.
Jay Richardson, Chortle, 25th August 2020Asim Chaudhry in conversation
The Chabuddy G actor talks refugees, race and his new incarnation as a woke rapper...
Andy Hill, Clash Music, 25th August 2020The Lenny Henry Show review
Considering the writers and cast of The Lenny Henry Show features a lot of up-and-comers, the style of this new Radio 4 series is remarkably old-school, dated, even.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 25th August 2020Sian Clifford on her new survivalism comedy
We know her as buttoned-up high achiever Claire in Fleabag, even more tight-lipped Who Wants To Be A Millionaire obsessive Diana Ingram in Quiz and now controlling survivalist matriarch Tina Noakes in Two Weeks To Live.
Paul Simper, Metro, 25th August 2020Movie review - Get Duked! (2019)
In its own slippery game of generational cat and mouse, Doff's film is one that brazenly revels in absurdity; unashamedly committing to increasingly implausible sub-plots involving bread thieves, dim-witted police prejudice and the sharpness of forks.
George Nash, Flickering Myth, 25th August 2020Videos
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The Lenny Henry Show
Episode 1Character-based sketch comedy from Lenny Henry, featuring old favourites like Deakus (musing about Covid from his care home) and Brixton-based DJ Delbert Wilkins who's with his mate Winston talking about homeschooling. There's also new characters such as Mr Stone the former Special Forces operative-turned-teacher, and paranoid Aaron who sees crime everywhere. Plus there's an outtake from The Repair Shop, an advert for a new website, Compare The Token.com, and a debut from Northern grime artist 'The Yorkshire Moor', rapping all about lockdown.