BCG Daily Monday 11th March 2024
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Geoff Norcott: Should my son bother going to uni?
Comedian and former teacher Geoff Norcott wonders if he should encourage his son to go to university or learn a trade instead. Students today contend with tuition fees, the rising cost of living and can't always breeze into well-paid graduate jobs. Geoff travelled around the country for a BBC Two documentary to find out if university is worth all the time and money.
Geoff Norcott, BBC, 11th March 2024Leigh Francis: My First Time review
Cacophonously unfunny with the emphasis on cack.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 11th March 2024Iain Stirling on Love Island, fame and the Edinburgh Fringe ahead of new tour
Love Island and CBBC fame made him a household name - but Iain Stirling returns to his stand-up roots as he embarks on his biggest tour to date.
Adam Davidson, The National (Scotland), 11th March 2024Poor Things designers' Oscars win is 'surreal and wonderful'
Winning an Oscar for best production design was surreal, wonderful, and probably a one time thing, Shona Heath said. Ms Heath and James Price, from Worcestershire and Herefordshire respectively, took the award for their work in creating the Victorian sci-fi world of Poor Things, for which Emma Stone took best actress.
Eleanor Lawson, BBC, 11th March 2024Robert Wringham returns to live comedy. Plus a chicken sexing fall-back.
Robert Wringham is what Americans would call a hyphenate. He does all sorts of things. Basically he is a writer of humorous books; plus he has written two histories of alternative comedy; and he is editor of the New Escapologist magazine which "takes the stance that work has too central a position in Western life". He has appeared in previous blogs here and is currently co-producing Melt It! a documentary film about The Iceman. We were supposed to be having a chat about Robert's live performance at the Glasgow Comedy Festival this week. But I am not one to keep to the subject...
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 11th March 2024WIPped into Shape: Eleanor Morton and Jin Hao Li interview
We chat to Eleanor Morton and Jin Hao Li ahead of their Work in Progress shows at Glasgow Comedy Festival.
Laurie Presswood, The Skinny, 11th March 2024Janey Godley looks back on her comedy career: 'I was outspoken and cheeky but I always delivered the goods'
Janey Godley has lived a life full of laughter and trauma. As a frank documentary featuring her ups and downs is released, we talk to the beloved comedian about starting out in stand-up and leaving behind a legacy.
Jay Richardson, The List, 11th March 2024"We cranked up the madness": Jack Davenport and Steven Moffat on making Coupling
"NBC made an awful American version. I sensed trouble when they said, 'We'll need a new cast because yours aren't good-looking enough.' It was axed after four episodes."
Michael Hogan, The Guardian, 11th March 2024Two more comics through to Chortle Student semis
A strong heat in Bristol saw Leo Hincks and Michael McKenzie both made it through to the penultimate stage in the competition.
Chortle, 11th March 2024Should the Oscars do more to recognise comedy in cinema, as Poor Things misses out on Best Picture?
The award for "Best Picture" went to biopic Oppenheimer.
The Scotsman, 11th March 2024My favourite holiday: Sikisa
As stand-up comic Sikisa tours her latest show, she shares a chaotic tale about the neon city that never sleeps.
Sikisa, The List, 11th March 2024Kate Hammer on comedy not yet being a fully welcoming space for women: "It's not a healed community"
After last year's revelations about Russell Brand, it seemed as though the comedy world was having its own #MeToo moment. We speak to a number of acts at this year's Glasgow International Comedy Festival and ask whether anything has actually changed to make the circuit a safer space for women.
Isy Santini, The List, 11th March 2024Catherine Bohart review
Blurring the line between stand-up and the confessional.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 11th March 2024Mary O'Connell: Perfect Playlist
Mary O'Connell brings her debut show Money Princess to London's Soho Theatre later this month talking pop culture, trying to be a good person and all things money - which is particularly pertinent since she won a sizeable sum winning a talent hunt organised by OnlyFans. Here she picks her Perfect Playlist of comedy favourites...
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