Jay Richardson
- Journalist
Press clippings Page 29
Tez Ilyas: Edinburgh Comedy Awards 'have a racial bias'
The Edinburgh Comedy Awards are biased against acts from ethnic minority backgrounds, comic Tez Ilyas has alleged.
Jay Richardson, Chortle, 2nd May 2018Aisling Bea and Sharon Horgan to play sisters
Aisling Bea and Sharon Horgan are to play sisters in a dark new sitcom for Channel 4.
Jay Richardson, Chortle, 20th April 2018Comedy review: Russell Brand: Re-Birth
There's no other comic quite like Russell Brand, dispensing cookies to his audience made by the Hare Krishnas and remaining onstage during the interval, posing for photos with the multitude that want them.
Jay Richardson, The Scotsman, 14th April 2018Ian Hislop pens freedom of speech play
Ian Hislop has written a play about freedom of speech. The oft-sued Private Eye editor will tell the story of 19th Century satirist William Hone in Trial By Laughter. Hone was accused of seditious libel against the government and the Prince Regent in 1817, having parodied them in a spoof of the Book Of Common Prayer. He faced three separate trials on three successive days at London's Guildhall as the Establishment tried to silence him and deport him to Australia.
Jay Richardson, Chortle, 12th April 2018Famalam interview
'We've a licence to talk about things other sketch shows don't because we've an all-black cast'.
Jay Richardson, i Newspaper, 3rd April 2018Janey Godley: Revelations of Godley review
A night of 'Classic Godley' full of stories told with relish and abandon.
Jay Richardson, The List, 27th March 2018Comedy review: Limmy's Vines
If anyone can elevate masturbatory gurning to a level approaching performance art, it's Limmy. For better or worse, no other comic is so immersed in the rhythms and culture of the internet as the Glaswegian.
Jay Richardson, The Scotsman, 24th March 2018No Such Thing as a Fish review
The QI-spawned quartet have an easy chemistry on the live stage.
Jay Richardson, The List, 22nd March 2018David Baddiel: My Family - Not The Sitcom review
Jaw-dropping disclosures and shocking details abound in top-notch show about infidelity and illness.
Jay Richardson, The List, 19th March 2018Comedy review: Marjolein Robertson
Claiming to be Shetland's only female comedian, with violent reprisals threatened for any pretenders to her crown, Marjolein Robertson is a highly promising and delightfully original act. Perhaps only Michael Redmond or David Kay convey a similar, slightly touched impression of otherworldliness in Scottish stand-up.
Jay Richardson, The Scotsman, 17th March 2018