BCG Daily Wednesday 14th April 2021

Funny Women is looking for an awards coordinator

Would you like to work with the best new talent in comedy? Do you have a passion for performing arts? We need someone like you to work in collaboration with our Operations Director to deliver our exciting annual Funny Women
Awards.

West End shows for Matt Forde's Political Party

Matt Forde is set to return to the stage with his Political Party shows. Guests lined up for three gigs at the Garrick Theatre include Labour leader Keir Starmer and Peter Mandelson.

Two Ronnies make modern lefty comics look like toddlers

Fifty years after their incomparable TV show began, Christopher Stevens celebrates the genius of The Two Ronnies... and argues they make today's Left-wing 'comedians' look like foul-mouthed toddlers.

Anger at joke saying Israel ignores Arabs on vaccines

A complaint has been lodged to the BBC after actor David Tennant read out a comment on a popular comedy show, saying Israel "ignores the Arab population" when it comes to vaccinations.

Paddy McGuiness made less on hit show than as lifeguard

For their sterling work on Phoenix Nights, Paddy McGuiness and Peter Kay should have been given the freedom of Bolton and a bye into the final of Talent Trek.

But according to Paddy, his work on the award-winning comedy put barely anything in his pocket, in fact less than he used to earn as a lifeguard at his local leisure centre.

15 thoughts watching Bridget Jones's Diary in 2021

So, 20 years after Bridget Jones's Diary was originally released, I finally sat down and watched the film. Here's what I thought.

Amanda Abbington says Freeman split damaged children

Martin Freeman's ex Amanda Abbington fears that the couple's painful split after 16 years has done "irreparable damage" to their children.

The actress, who starred alongside Martin in Sherlock, said she worries son Joe, 15, and daughter Grace, 12, could be driven to drink and drugs by the domestic trauma.