BCG Daily Monday 2nd August 2021

Jessie Cave interview

The actor, comic and writer talks about her bestselling debut novel, the cruelty of costume fittings, how it felt to be in the Harry Potter franchise - and finding hope in small things.

Bill Bailey interview

"My worst celebrity encounter was when I met Paul McCartney and spoke jibberish".

BBC Studios to remake Miranda in Germany

ZDF Neo adaptation will be titled Ruby.

Tamar Broadbent review

How nice to kick off the festival season with a good fun belter of a show, a real pick-me-up.

Iain Stirling on being a millennial and fame

The comedian on his new ITV2 sitcom Buffering, why he prefers Twitch to Twitter and why he keeps his family life fiercely private.

Gagging order: is it ever OK to heckle a comedian?

A set-ruining act of boorishness, or a vital rite of passage for stand-ups? Often it depends on who's doing the heckling.

I talk to Steve Bugeja

"We're aware of what people are going to expect from a Love Island/Iain Stirling sitcom so we want to immediately surprise them."

Suki Webster and Paul Merton on marriage

'I thought, 'Oh God, he doesn't rate me'.

Review: Dad's Army Radio Show - Crazy Coqs

One of the most revered of all the BBC classic comedy shows across radio and television is back in another revival.

Fringe "work in progress" comment whips up a storm

An article in the Edinburgh Evening News has upset comedians heading to the fringe with its comments about work-in-progress shows.

St Albans Comedy Garden review

St Albans has become the latest city to get a big-name Comedy Garden festival, following similar events in Bristol, Brighton and Greenwich. More excitingly, this run of impressive open-air gigs is the first the organisers have staged in well over a year not to have any form of Covid restrictions.

Jerk Series 2 review

Tim Renkow's Jerk is a clear example that anything's up for mockery, just as long as it's done with clear, uncruel intention.

Kiri Pritchard-McLean on The Learners

The comedian recently recorded her new four-part radio sitcom, The Learners, at Llandudno's Tabernacle arts venue, breathing new life and use into a building that was central to society for so many in the town, as hundreds of other chapels were to communities across Wales.

Jerk Series 2 review

Tim Renkow is back as a sociopathic puppeteer with cerebral palsy - who now identifies as able-bodied - in this superbly awkward comedy about society's discomfort with disability.

Channel Hopping With Jon Richardson, review

The comedian proves a charming host for this latest addition to the hackneyed genre of "laughing at weird telly from around the world".

Jerk, BBC One, review

It's hard not to admire Tim Renkow's commitment to being as dark as possible as Tim, a man with cerebral palsy who also happens to be a cynical narcissist.

Gavin & Stacey's Joanna Page, 44, pregnant

Gavin & Stacey star Joanna Page has revealed she is pregnant with her fourth child.

The 44-year-old actress posted a picture of herself with a small baby bump as she revealed she will become a mum again at Christmas.

Strictly Come Dancing target Alan Carr

Strictly Come Dancing bosses had better get Alan Carr on the phone for a pep talk if he is their secret male signing for this year's show. Bosses have apparently signed up a bloke to put in the show's first all-male partnership, but Alan fears that he would end up as the "joke act" like Ann Widdecombe.