BCG Daily Monday 12th May 2014
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It's criminal to keep these comedy gems locked away
It is criminal that the BBC has been sitting on thousands of hours of historic material for decades, letting the cannisters disappear under layers of dust and never publishing a catalogue of what's actually in their film warehouses -let alone reshowing them.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 12th May 2014Review: The Comedy Vaults
The result was certainly a treat for comedy geeks in parts, but there was also a fair bit of padding, pulling in bits from sketch shows that many will remember.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 12th May 2014The Comedy Vaults - TV Review
The Comedy Vaults' problem was that it showed a lot of lamentable stuff by people whom we now revere learning their craft at the licence fee payers' expense.
Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian, 12th May 2014The Comedy Vaults: BBC Two's Hidden Treasure, BBC Two
More questions than answers in this trawl of 50 years of comedy clips.
Andy Plaice, The Arts Desk, 12th May 2014Why are comics not musicians, talking about revolution?
In the twilight of neoliberalism it's comics such as Russell Brand and Italy's Beppe Grillo who puncture establishment thinking. Will pop ever become political again?
David Harvie, Brian Layng and Keir Milburn, The Guardian, 12th May 2014Stephen Fry: the letter that saved my life - video
Stephen Fry explains how a few short words turned his life around as a troubled teenager, and imagines the fantasy letter he would send to Oscar Wilde to rescue him from the shame and despair that blighted his final years. The interview was filmed at Letters Live at the Southbank on World Book Night, in aid of The Reading Agency.
The Guardian, 12th May 2014The Bruce Dessau extended interview
Very few reviewers are as well-known as Bruce Dessau. He's the comedy critic at the London Evening Standard and writes extensively on comedy at his popular website. His latest book Beyond a Joke explores the darker side of stand-up. Martin Walker meets him for an extended interview about life as a principal opinion former.
Martin Walker, Broadway Baby, 12th May 2014The Comedy Vaults review
There were the great sketch shows from the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties that, inexplicably, haven't been repeated since.
Ellen E Jones, The Independent, 12th May 2014Norwegians of Comedy interview
An interview with Martin Beyer-Olsen and Lars Berrum.
Sara Shulman, Comedy Blogedy, 12th May 2014The Trip to Italy: A Popular Postmodernism
"Did you ever hear of a good sequel?" asks Rob Brydon, in the postmodern improvisational joy that is The Trip to Italy.
Peter Yeung, The Huffington Post, 12th May 2014World premiere for One Rogue Reporter
In effect, the indefatigable Rich Peppiatt, who claims to be a "recovering tabloid hack", has transformed his successful Edinburgh fringe stage show on to film, but with a great deal of additional material.
Roy Greenslade, The Guardian, 12th May 2014Videos
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