BCG Daily Sunday 1st December 2013

Terry Jones: Still silly after all these years

While the reformed Pythons are preparing to revisit old material, he continues to add to his prodigious and varied body of work. But is it true the reunion is because he needs to pay off the mortgage? James Hanning meets Terry Jones.

Comedian gets the last laugh over FCUK logo row

What started as a T-shirt parody turned into a far-reaching, £3.5m corporate fight over copyright.

Review: Sarah Millican biography

For what it is, Campanella has actually done a pretty decent job in producing a decent, readable biography of one of the most successful comedians to come out of the North East in recent years.

Barry Cryer on writing for Morecambe & Wise

Eric Morecambe was very shrewd. The first year I worked on their Christmas show, he said, "I don't want any Christmas trees and reindeers and cotton wool beards and Father Christmas." I said, "Why is that Eric?" He said, "We won't get a repeat." And sure enough the Christmas show that year was repeated at Easter.

Yonderland Episode 5 review

A slight dip in laughs tonight is counteracted by a slightly darker tone (relatively speaking), with sinister undercurrents afoot in Elf's behaviour and in the mysterious goings-on in Ennythingos.

Radio Times review

Gentler gags this week - albeit with a couple that are more adult than usual - so time perhaps to enjoy Martha Howe-Douglas's superb performance as Debbie, the increasingly reluctant hero whose status as The Chosen One is making her spend too much time in her magic cupboard and not enough with her family.

Howe-Douglas largely has to stand there and react as puppets and men in wigs make jokes around and about her, which in less charismatic hands could be a monotonous straight role. That it isn't is what holds the show together, especially this week as Debbie decides to leave Yonderland, and Elf the elf sends her on one last quest.

Radio Times review

Sometimes this show feels rather like an endless list of depressing facts about a corrupt world, with the bad guys too numerous and malign to be dented by light pranking. With the best ideas naturally blown in the first few episodes, tonight there are quite a few will-this-do stunts, such as plastering a tax-avoidance slogan on Cadbury's HQ, then running away.

As always, Revolution is best when Jolyon Rubinstein and Heydon Prowse interact at length with unwitting stooges, preferably in ridiculous circumstances. Their attempt to launch a privatised lifeguard service on Brighton beach does not go down well. And we still need more of BBCOMGWTF, the apparently vapid red-carpet interview segment that suddenly asks questions like: "Is Tony Blair a war criminal?"