BCG Daily Saturday 9th October 2021
Press clippings
Tim Minchin on quitting comedy
"There is a reason why famous people are often screwed up."
Tim Minchin, The Guardian, 9th October 2021
Extract: My Funny Life by Michael McIntyre
£30,000 debt, TV disaster and a trouser zip that wouldn't stay up... what a funny way to find fame!
Michael McIntyre, Daily Mail, 9th October 2021
Lenny Henry says he was used as a 'political football'
Lenny Henry has said that he was used as a "political football" after appearing on a minstrel TV show. The comic was the first Black performer to take part in The Black And White Minstrel Show, which aired on the BBC from 1958 to 1978.
Isobel Lewis, The Independent, 9th October 2021
Bob Mortimer interview
"I'm comfortable with getting older, but I try not to look in the mirror."
Katherine Hassell, The Guardian, 9th October 2021
Sindhu Vee and her father recreate a childhood photo
The comedian and her dad recreate a childhood photo and talk about early days in India, agoraphobia and swapping banking for comedy.
Harriet Gibsone, The Guardian, 9th October 2021
Limmy earns six-figure sum playing games on Twitch
Limmy coined in a six-figure sum playing video games on streaming website Twitch, according to leaked data.
Chris Taylor, The Scottish Sun, 9th October 2021
Dawn French paid fans for copies of hated biography
Dawn French so hated an unofficial biography of her life that she paid fans £20 to hand over their copies, she has revealed.
Anita Singh, The Telegraph, 9th October 2021Julian Clary interview
Julian Clary is the comic provocateur who defied school bullying and homophobic headlines to rise to the top of his profession. Now he's a married man who enjoys putting out the bins and ironing the sheets (and the company of dogs, of course).
Deborah Ross, The Times, 9th October 2021Videos
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TV & radio
9am23 min
Spitting Image
Series 22 (BritBox Series 2), Episode 5The England football team meet to plan their next campaign. Greta Thunberg starts college, Carrie Symonds convinces Boris Johnson to redecorate the Downing Street flat, and Chrissy Teigen apologises. Plus, Joe Biden initiates Ru Paul's Judge Race.
11am60 min
Fighting Talk
Series 19, Episode 9Former NFL player Jason Bell, sports broadcaster Kate Mason, sports journalist Jim White and comedian Neil Delamere join Colin Murray for an hour of sporting punditry, humour and entertainment.
8:55pm35 min
Blankety Blank
Series 18, Episode 2Bradley Walsh is joined by Tamzin Outhwaite, Craig Revel Horwood, Rob Beckett, Josh Widdicombe, Lady Leshurr and Ade Adepitan.
10pm45 min
Paul O'Grady's Saturday Night Line-Up
Episode 5Comedy chat and game show in which Paul puts questions, scenarios and dilemmas to celebrity guests Boy George, Jo Brand, Denise Lewis and Joe Swash, who must arrange themselves from best to worst correctly to match the order the British public have put them in.