BCG Daily Monday 15th August 2022

Marriage, BBC One review

Nicola Walker and Sean Bean triumph as a couple in a marital minefield.

Marriage review

At long last! A brilliant BBC drama about normal people.

Are landlords - not artists - the true winners of the Fringe?

No-one thinks that the short-term-lets profiteers, whose little secure key boxes dot the entrances to vastly overpriced properties throughout Scotland's capital, are the lifeblood of the world's biggest arts festival.

Marriage, review

Sean Bean and Nicola Walker will shake you out of complacency.

Michael Palin: Going around the world in 80 days now would be a much less happy experience

In the 1980s, the Monty Python star retraced the fictional footsteps of Phileas Fogg. How would he fare if he made the journey today?

Jerry Sadowitz branded 'abhorrent' by Scottish Tories after comedian allegedly called Rishi Sunak 'a p***'

It's claimed Glasgow comic Sadowitz referred to Sunak as a 'p***' in a gag during a performance at the Edinburgh Fringe on Friday.

Marriage viewers blast 'abysmal sound quality'

BBC viewers all shared the same complaint during the first episode of Marriage.

Fringe performers camping to save money

Performers at the Edinburgh Fringe have taken to camper vans and tents to escape the city's sky high accommodation costs.

Fringe: Do people still want to laugh at politics?

On the Sky News Daily podcast, our arts & entertainment editor Amy Hitchcock is joined by comedians Nish Kumar, Rosie Holt and Sarah Southern, along with our entertainment reporter Jayson Mansaray.

Call for Pleasance boycott after Jerry Sadowitz cancelled

Comedians and figures from across the political spectrum have condemned an Edinburgh Fringe promoter for cancelling a show by a notorious stand-up.

Jerry Sadowitz, "freedom of speech" and The Pleasance paving the Road to Hell...

The aftershock of The Pleasance venue cancelling the second of Jerry Sadowitz's two comedy shows at the Edinburgh Fringe rumbles on.

Why shouldn't we wear shorts on stage asks Dalia Malek

Is this comedy's greatest taboo?

Marriage is largely tedious - Sean Bean's new TV series finally gets it

No smashed plates. No screaming rows. No custody battles. Stefan Golaszewski's BBC drama about a 27-year-old partnership is unusually honest about the lethargy of long-term cohabitation, writes Fiona Sturges.

Team talk: Joel Dommett on being the fittest comedian

The self-titled comedian/presenter/actor/podcaster/fashion icon is also a committed CrossFitter. MH Squad spoke to Joel to find out why he is so often found doing handstands in his garage...

Hannah Fairweather: Just A Normal Girl Who Enjoys Revenge interview

I spoke to her to find out more.

Interview with comedian Lew Fitz

"It made me focus on the gigs I was doing. It became more out the quality rather than the quantity and how every set or show was building towards creating something, in this case my show Soft Lad".

Opinion: Jerry Sadowitz and being cancelled

This could run and run. And in the process Sadowitz has become entangled in the latest round of culture wars.

Making a drama out of a comedy

What is the difference between sitcom and comedy drama?

Emergency question: Which sitcom character would you be?

Edinburgh Fringe comedians answer.

Interview with writer-performer Patrick McPherson

"My mum would write stories and read them to my twin brother and me when we were small. I remember her making up this epic fantasy Odyssey which, as I recall it, might be one of the greatest things ever written. But according to her she lost it. A true tragedy."

Ali Woods picks his comedy favourites

Bill Burr's special had a profound effect on me.

My festival: Hannah Fairweather

The Edinburgh-based comedian on playing golf in America, the importance of a rigorous exercise routine, and her dad's lawn.

'Sketch will never die!': Edinburgh fringe super troupes Tarot, Sheeps and Britney

It's a form of comedy that has fallen out of favour with TV, but a trio of fun acts are keeping the sketch flame alive.

"I was at the Jerry Sadowitz show... The Pleasance are just making **** up..."

As an addendum to the blog I posted earlier today about the Jerry Sadowiz/Pleasance venue contretemps at the Edinburgh Fringe... My eagle-eyed, eternally-un-named friend has spotted a Tweet posted yesterday.

Janey Godley reveals plans to return to live comedy following cancer treatment

Scottish stand-up comic Janey Godley has revealed she is set to perform live comedy for the first time after undergoing cancer treatment.

The pitfalls and pleasures of taking comedy across borders

Just because a joke works in one country or language doesn't mean it will in another. Globetrotting stand-ups talk about routines that have bombed - and the changes that saved them.

Should Edinburgh Fringe have cancelled Jerry Sadowitz?

Controversial comedian's show pulled from world's largest arts festival over 'not acceptable' material.

New pictures released from BBC Three's upcoming comedy horror series Wreck

BBC Three have released a further selection of first look images from Wreck, the upcoming thrilling comedy horror series created and written by Ryan J. Brown.

Edinburgh International Books Festival interview: Armando Iannucci

How did the creator of razor-sharp satires The Thick Of It and Veep try and reflect the strangeness and sadness of life in lockdown? By composing a 700-line mock-heroic poem that balances humour, anger and more.

Will Duggan's Fringe cringe, binge and whinge

My Alex Horne shame...

Should Jerry Sadowitz have been cancelled?

The stand-up's show was shut down at the Fringe after complaints. I'd still rather see him than most other, more morally digestible acts, says Dominic Maxwell.

Why did the Edinburgh Fringe cancel Jerry Sadowitz?

I suppose it was inevitable that cancel culture would eventually catch up with Jerry Sadowitz.

Helen Bauer interview

"I love people falling over."

Jerry Sadowitz often pushes boundaries, but that's exactly the point

The comedian offers one of the purest forms of risqué comedy out there.

Why Harry Hill's little green aliens are popping up all over London

The comedian on his mission to breathe life back into the West End.

Complete cast for Noises Off tour announced

Complete casting has been unveiled for Lindsay Posner's new touring production of Michael Frayn's quintessential farce Noises Off, celebrating its 40th anniversary.

The show will star the previously revealed Felicity Kendal (The Good Life) as Dotty Otley alongside Tracy-Ann Oberman (Friday Night Dinner]) as Belinda Blair and Matthew Kelly (The Dresser) as Selsdon Mowbray.

Preview Review - Hannah Pilkes

This show sort of defines what a good Fringe show should have, uniqueness, something completely different and gives the audience an experience they won't forget and will tell others about.