BCG Daily Sunday 9th March 2025
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Features
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Monty Python role-playing game launched
A new tabletop game has been launched based on the troupe's comedy, called Monty Python's Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme.
Chortle, 9th March 2025
Inclusivity in the spotlight at Glasgow International Comedy Festival
Alongside the world famous acts and renowned stand-ups, the question of inclusivity will be pushed firmly into the spotlight when the Glasgow International Comedy Festival (GICF) returns for 2025.
Leah Flint, The Herald, 9th March 2025
Stewart Lee: Trump has microwaved my Cornetto of hope
The gadfly-minded abuser has openly threatened Greenland, Ukraine and Europe. He, and America, are the enemy now.
Stewart Lee, The Observer, 9th March 2025
Review: Lou Sanders: No Kissing in the Bingo Hall
A fun, cosy comedy show.
A Young(ish) Perspective, 9th March 2025
Marching Powder review
Coke-fuelled comedy doesn't pull its punches.
Wendy Ide, The Guardian, 9th March 2025
Mark Steel: The Leopard In My House review
From reading The Leopard In My House, Mark Steel's uncompromising account of his punishing encounter with throat cancer, you might expect him to be a diminished force on stage. The book describes in vivid detail how the treatment savaged his epiglottis, leaving him unable to speak, eat or drink while sapping him of every last scrap of energy. Yet 18 months after his diagnosis, his voice and his passion are undimmed.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 9th March 2025
Peter Kay treats Lisa Riley to VIP gig experience
Peter Kay treated soap star Lisa Riley to a VIP experience at his most recent gig after the comedian sparked a scandal with his recent reference to the Emmerdale stalwart.
Beth Allcock, The Sun, 9th March 2025
Channel 4 ditches Generation Z
Generation Z will NOT return for a second series. An insider told me: "Channel 4 decided to put this one on the shelf, and there are no plans to bring it back."
Rod McPhee, The Sun, 9th March 2025TV & radio
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Mhairi Black: Being Me Again
The ex-SNP MP talks about her life in depth as never before. As well as exclusive interviews with her wife Katie, and father Alan, cameras gain access behind the scenes at the House of Commons, and as she steps on stage for the first night of her sell-out stand-up show Politics Isn't For Me at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In intimate the woman first electyed to Westminster as a 20-year-old, discusses her feelings about her own neurodivergence.