BCG Daily Monday 3rd June 2013
Press clippings
What ho! Jeeves and Wooster head for West End
Almost a hundred years on from their first appearance in print, PG Wodehouse's comic creations Jeeves and Wooster are being resurrected on stage. Matthew Macfadyen will play valet Jeeves with Stephen Mangan as the dim but amiable Bertie Wooster in Perfect Nonsense, by Robert and David Goodale.
Tim Masters, BBC News, 3rd June 2013Archive - 3 June 1983: Footlights celebrate 100 years
A new article celebrating the then 100th anniversary of the Cambridge Footlights.
Richard Boston, The Guardian, 3rd June 2013Stand-up for Oxford's lost humour
Three Oxford students walk into a joke. The first makes a tedious observation about how privileged and behind the times everyone here is. The second cluelessly asks what the funny part was supposed to be. The third attempts to ask 'what is comedy?', deconstructing the original comment and starting a cloyingly pseudo-intellectual meta-debate.
Matt Handley, The Oxford Student, 3rd June 2013The Cat Laughs Festival: When ego takes the weekend off
Edinburgh is all about pressure, coverage and star ratings. The pressure to have a show ready, the pressure to get noticed and get a big break, the pressure to sell tickets, the pressure to get reviewed. Comedians come to Kilkenny to get away from pressure.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd June 2013Al Murray: Comedy's role is to lampoon politics
Al Murray, the comic behind the stand-up creation The Pub Landlord, has criticised as "ridiculous" other comedians who embrace political views.
Ian Burrell, The Independent, 3rd June 2013BBC 'got it wrong' over Balding gag
The BBC has admitted that it "got it wrong" about a live quiz show which discussed "curing" Clare Balding of homosexuality, on Radio 5 live.
BBC News, 3rd June 2013Filming begins on Jason Byrne sitcom Father Figure
Adapted for television from the acclaimed BBC Radio 2 series of the same name, Father Figure is a new BBC One audience sitcom written by and starring popular stand-up comedian Jason Byrne.
BBC Press Office, 3rd June 2013Production Blog: Editing The Now Show
Cut to 9am Friday morning. Today's job is to digitally assemble the programme, edit in retakes, add extra music and sound effects and cut last night's recording down to 28 minutes for broadcast at 18.30.
Colin Anderson, BBC Blogs, 3rd June 2013Review: Reginald D. Hunter
Reginald D. Hunter's supreme power and control as an orator allow him to captivate the audience as he vividly articulates both amusing and thought-provoking tales and insights.
Jack Massey, Giggle Beats, 3rd June 2013Comedy gold - Les Dawson
Behind the gurning game-show host and mother-in-law jokes was a complex comic with an unexpected past, who captured the hearts of the British TV-watching public.
Leo Benedictus, The Guardian, 3rd June 2013Grumbleweeds star Graham Walker dies at 68
Tributes have been paid to Graham Walker, best known as a member of the British comedy band The Grumbleweeds, who has died aged 68.
BBC News, 3rd June 2013Comedy Central to broadcast live comedy ad
TV channel Comedy Central will be broadcasting a live ad, challenging a quartet of improv-comedians to come up with some side-splitting material on the spot.
Creative Review, 3rd June 2013John Oliver talks about hosting The Daily Show
John Oliver says guest hosting The Daily Show is an honour, a career opportunity and, when he allows himself to acknowledge his feelings, no small source of anxiety either.
Dave Itzkoff, The New York Times, 3rd June 2013Incoming: Liberty Hodes
Our latest Edinburgh preview comes from the immaculately-dressed Liberty Hodes...
Andrew Mickel, Such Small Portions, 3rd June 2013Edinburgh Fringe interview: Stuart Laws
An interview with Stuart Laws, regular host of Laugh Out London, video entrepreneur and fan of marmalade on toast ice cream.
Laugh Out London, 3rd June 2013Videos
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6:30pm30 min
Just A Minute
Series 66, Episode 3The guests this week are Paul Merton, Richard Herring, Gyles Brandreth and Russell Kane.
9pm30 min
Vicious
Series 1, Episode 5Freddie and Stuart invite Ash and his new girlfriend Chloe to dinner. Meanwhile, Violet is visiting her lover in Argentina.
9:30pm30 min
The Job Lot
Series 1, Episode 5Karl's got a new girlfriend - but she signs on. Relationships between staff and jobseekers are forbidden so he's got a big decision to make. Trish, meanwhile, has laser eye surgery.
10pm30 min
What A Load Of Buzzcocks
Episode 1 - 1996What A Load Of Buzzcocks starts with 1996, the year the programme was first shown. It was a busy year for Michael Jackson and the year Take That split up. Plus, there is a touching tribute to Phill Jupitus.