BCG Daily Wednesday 6th January 2021
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Comedy podcasts round-up 2: from home and abroad
We're still some way off being able to see live performances in actual clubs and theatres, but here are some more comedy podcasts to keep your laughter quotient healthy in the meanwhile.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 6th January 2021Need a laugh? It's French and Saunders to the rescue
When the days are cold and dark and the times are bleak, you have to take the laughs where you can get them. So thank goodness for Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, charging to the rescue like knights on a white stallion - or perhaps more like two drunk aunties on a pantomime horse.
Charlotte Runcie, The Telegraph, 6th January 2021The Stage Awards: Nica Burns wins producer of the year
"When my staff turn up for work their eyes are smiling and they skip in" - tireless efforts to keep the lights on in her West End theatres have earned Nica Burns the award for producer of 2020.
The Stage, 6th January 2021Comedy staple James Greene dies at 89
Credits include Hunderby, Birds Of A Feather, William and Mary and Cuckoo.
Chortle, 6th January 2021Why Sacha Baron Cohen finally revived Borat
"I felt democracy was in peril."
Brent Lang, Variety, 6th January 2021Rowan Atkinson's wrong to dismiss modern British comedy
The Blackadder star may have a point about cancel culture, but his dismissal of British comedy by saying that The Big Bang Theory is better than most British comedy makes him look desperately out of touch.
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 6th January 2021Habits of highly effective writers #5: ditching
In the last post, I suggested you that if you want to be a better writer, you need start writing and keep writing. In fact, make a habit of writing. Now I'm telling you to stop writing. I don't mean stop the habit. I mean stop trying to write that thing you've been writing for ages that isn't really going anywhere.
James Cary, Sitcom Geek, 6th January 2021Only Fools superfan turns his barber shop into shrine
Nathan Scotford, 39, has ran the Only Fools And Horses themed barber shop on Bouverie Road, Folkestone for a number of years.
Lauren MacDougall & John James, Kent Live, 6th January 2021Tom Allen on football
The comedian and TV host talks about his eye-catching punditry stint for Soccer Saturday and how it showed him attending a live game can and should be for everyone.
Sachin Nakrani, The Guardian, 6th January 2021Videos
Podcasts
TV & radio
Danny & Mick
Series 3, Episode 3 - Artful BodgersDanny destroys a freshly painted mural just as it is about to be photographed.
No More Jockeys
Christmas & New Year Specials - Twelfth Night Press ConferenceA special "Fumble Day" exhibition match of the memory game played by Alex Horne, Tim Key and Mark Watson.
The Cold Swedish Winter
Series 5, Episode 4 - VasaloppetMarried to his Swedish partner Linda, with two children to impress, Geoff is keen to embrace every Swedish rite of passage. A 90km ski-ing race may prove a step too far.
Conversations From A Long Marriage
Series 2, Episode 2 - It's Just WorkJoanna gets distracted by a work project, which means spending a lot of time with a much younger man. When Roger points out that she's never at home, she tells him 'It's just work'. But is it?
Comedy Catalysts
Series 2, Episode 3 - Josie Long On David O'DohertyMulti award-winning comic Harriet Kemsley invites her peers to celebrate the trailblazing comedians who inspired them to pick up the mic. In this episode Josie Long talks about her hero David O'Doherty.
Bunk Bed
Series 7, Episode 1The great comic actor Kathy Burke reveals the joy of amusing police officers by giving them 'the fingers' in her 50s, and explores the art of eating crisps in bed.