British Comedy Guide

BCG Daily Monday 3rd January 2022

Features

Press clippings

Jethro

Jethro's funeral to be held today

The funeral of Cornish comedian Jethro is to be at Truro Cathedral at 12:00 GMT. He died in December at the age of 73 after contracting Covid-19.

BBC, 3rd January 2022
James Corden

James Corden: at home he's just shy, reveal sisters Ange and Ruth

According to his sisters Ange, 46, and Ruth, 39, their brother James Corden is rather shy compared to them.

Yasmin Harisha, The Sun, 3rd January 2022
Microphone

Richard Littlejohn: Comedy classes on the NHS? You're having a laugh...

Just as well the NHS hasn't got much on at the moment. Patients are to be prescribed free comedy lessons to help them overcome trauma.

Richard Littlejohn, Daily Mail, 3rd January 2022

Videos

TV & radio

Radio 4 12pm
15 min
Subterranean Homesick Blues. Image shows from L to R: John (Bill Nighy), Maggie (Anna Calder-Marshall)

Subterranean Homesick Blues

Series 5, Episode 1 - Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight

Maggie has survived the pandemic and a broken hip and is now a social media 'influencer'. John worries how he can protect her now she is so well-known? Perhaps vetting her phone messages isn't such a good idea.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue logo. Copyright: BBC

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue

Series 76, Episode 6

The antidote to panels returns to the Lyric Theatre in Salford. Jon Culshaw and Milton Jones compete against John Finnemore and Vicki Pepperdine with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell provides piano accompaniment.

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