BCG Daily Saturday 31st May 2014

Mr Sloane TV review

This ain't Mad Men, but a homage to a typical British 60s sitcom is worth a look.

This week's new comedy

Previews of Michael Che, Josie Long and Tom Craine].

Interview: Hugh Dennis

The Outnumbered star on life as a school swot, being mistaken for a flasher, and parenting lessons from his fictional family.

Radio Times review

Assuming you haven't got the VHS, the DVD or seen it seven times on G.O.L.D., The Psychiatrist (series 2 episode 2: "Watery Fowls") looks as zingy and agonising as it did in 1979.

Sybil flirts with an open-shirted guest (or "Piltdown ponce") while Basil fawns on a couple who are both doctors - until he learns one is a psychiatrist. There's so much to love in the way that from there his spasms of overreaction build to disaster on the first-floor landing, not least the insults exchanged by the "brilliantine stick insect" and the "coiffured old sow".

Comedy review: Jon Richardson

Jon Richardson makes his extremely well composed set seem thrillingly ramshackle, and its often the off-kilter paths he hurtles down where the night's greatest laughs are to be had.

Fawlty Towers: 7 facts and anecdotes

Did you know how tough Manuel actor Andrew Sachs was or why Major Gowen was censored?

Interview: Miles Jupp

If you had to name a comic less likely to star in an imaginary remake of Men Behaving Badly, then Miles Jupp - who is bringing his stand-up tour to Peterborough's Key Theatre on June 11 - would possibly come to mind.

Rebecca Front: how TV fame has tripped me up

Being a familiar face isn't all it's cracked up to be. In an extract from her new book, Rebecca Front reveals the embarrassing situations it's landed her in - and what celebrity has taught her about herself.

Jason Byrne interview

"It's literally an impossible task for a comic. The producer told me that I had five minutes, and I said to him, 'It takes me 20 minutes to say hello in my normal shows'. But the whole thing was great fun."

Mrs Brown's Boys quiz

Award-winning BBC1 comedy Mrs Brown's Boys is one of the most popular sitcoms on TV. Test your knowledge.

Sunderland Comedy Festival 2014: the line-up revealed

Lee Nelson is the stand-out name in the programme.

Review: John Bishop hits Dubai's comedy spot

British comedian gets candid, bawdy and often near the knuckle on his UAE stop.

Harry and Paul's Story of the 2s is just too funny

Like so many of the best Harry and Paul sketches, it combined superb acting, a take-it-or-leave-it understatedness (respectful of the viewer's intelligence) and a shrewd eye for detail.

Sarah Callaghan interview

Sarah Callaghan is one of the youngest comics on the circuit.

Pappy's interview

I spoke to Pappy's to find out all about what to expect from the new series, who their comedy heroes are and what they make of the decision to move BBC Three online.

The Sarah Callaghan three minute interview

Sarah Callaghan is one of the youngest comics on the circuit. Beautifully honest and infectiously upfront in style, she started performing in 2010 and quickly made her mark becoming a Funny Women finalist. Martin Walker does his best to elicit some answers out of her.