BCG Daily Saturday 3rd July 2021
Press clippings
Aisling Bea interview
"A lot of top female comedians have absent or dead fathers - look into that, scientists".
Alexandra Pollard, The Independent, 3rd July 2021Ariane Sherine wants to live to 100 and write 100 books
Ariane Sherine has had a busy week. It's her birthday. And she released the first episode of her weekly podcast Love Sex Intelligence. And she has published her first novel, Shitcom, about two male TV sitcom writers. She knows that about which she writes. She has been a writer on BBC TV's Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps and on My Family. She claims Shitcom is her first book, although she has previously published The Atheist's Guide to Christmas, Talk Yourself Better and How To Live To 100.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 3rd July 2021Brighton Fringe review: Funny That Comedy
Reviews of Laura Lexx, Angela Barnes, Jake Lambert and Emmanuel Sonubi.
Simon Topping, The Reviews Hub, 3rd July 2021I'll Get This review
Just a TV version of weak stocking-filler trivia games.
Lucy Sweet, The Big Issue, 3rd July 2021Kiri Pritchard-McLean has questions for S4C over badge
Kiri Prichard-McLean said the TV channel had "odd priorities" by asking her to take off her NHS badge while appearing on the Iaith ar Daith programme on learning Welsh while the Tory MP for Ynys Môn, Virginia Crosbie, had no such difficulties when visiting the set of Rownd a Rownd at Porthaethwy (Menai Bridge).
Nation Cymru, 3rd July 2021Leo Kearse says he's openly blacklisted for voting Tory
Scottish comic Leo Kearse insisted cancel culture is "absolutely not" a myth, and is causing some artists real harm.
James Bickerton, The Daily Express, 3rd July 2021Why I'm finally trying to embrace getting older
"I have a secret... I am going to die. It's very sad but I have known about it for a while. You see, I have a condition; it's called ageing."
Lou Sanders, Metro, 3rd July 2021Georgia Pritchett interview
'My male equivalents on Veep and Succession all got their own shows'.
Emma Brockes, The Guardian, 3rd July 2021Videos
Podcasts
TV & radio
Ready Player Marx
Nell Barlow and Hollie Edwin star in a satirical drama based on real events about a dirty war faced by video game workers trying to unionise.