BCG Daily Thursday 3rd February 2022
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After Life: Meet the owners of Netflix's number one dog
"Your dog looks like the one from After Life" is a phrase Ashley Foster and Beth Heale hear a lot. They are the proud owners of Antilly, the German Shepherd who plays Brandy in Ricky Gervais's After Life.
Maisie Olah, BBC, 3rd February 2022Fond farewell to Barry Cryer, giant of comedy
Barry was the most universally loved comedian, talented writer and performer I've every met, writes Karen Koren.
Karen Koren, Edinburgh Evening News, 3rd February 2022Murderville misses what made UK original great
Global markets have a tendency to replace local idiosyncrasy with the accessibly bland. Murderville, a US series based on BBC Three's Murder In Successville, is worse off for just that reason.
Den Of Geek, 3rd February 2022Rose Matafeo on reinventing the rom-com in Starstruck
The New Zealand comic tells Alice Jones about bringing back the much-loved TV comedy for a new series.
Alice Jones, The Times, 3rd February 2022Ricky Tomlinson returns to the stage in new musical play
Ricky Tomlinson is to return to the stage in a new musical comedy that celebrates the best of Irish culture. Irish Annie's will perform around the St Patricks Day celebrations at St Helens Theatre Royal on Monday 14th March and the Epstein Theatre Liverpool on Saturday 19th March.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd February 2022Glasgow International Comedy Festival announces return
As exclusively revealed by beyondthejoke last month, the Glasgow International Comedy Festival is to return. The 19th Glasgow International Comedy Festival bursts back into life for three weeks between March 8 and March 27 and it promises to get straight back to (funny) business.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd February 2022Where do you get your ideas from?
This is one of the first questions writers are asked. Despite the often sneering and stupid answers it receives, is a very good one.
Dave Cohen, Dave Cohen's Blog, 3rd February 2022Otiz Cannelloni's oil paintings go on show
A stand-up who turned to painting his comedy heroes to get through lockdown has landed his first exhibition. Otiz Cannelloni will be displaying his oil portraits at Lauderdale House, a Tudor country house in London, under his real name, John Korn.
Chortle, 3rd February 2022Catherine Bohart interview
The Irish stand-up faced the Covid situation newly single, dealing with OCD and with her livelihood in tatters. Now she's back on tour, making comedy from mental health and heartbreak.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 3rd February 2022The Curse: a comedy supergroup is born!
The Kurupt FM crew and comedian Tom Davis have joined forces on Channel 4's new 1980s-set crime caper. They talk gold bullion, 7ft women - and why they dream of making their dads laugh.
Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 3rd February 2022Jo Kendall obituary
Actor in the high-spirited Footlights revue Cambridge Circus in the 1960s who was a founding cast member of Emmerdale Farm.
Anthony Hayward, The Guardian, 3rd February 2022Why critics love to loathe After Life
Reviewers have lost touch with what audiences enjoy.
Alex Cameron, Spiked, 3rd February 2022Funny how he wasn't Jewish... farewell to beloved Barry Cryer
The community mourns the late comic Barry Cryer, 'the most Jewish non-Jewish person' ever.
Mathilde Frot, The Jewish Chronicle, 3rd February 2022Eric & Ern - York Theatre Royal review
Unlike The Play What I Wrote, which spools around the story of a different pair of comedians and foregrounds the costume "drama" and the guest star, Eric & Ern is simply and purely a brilliant re-creation of much familiar material.
Ron Simpson, The Reviews Hub, 3rd February 2022The Curse review
I'm not wholly sold on it after one episode, but then it's telling a story that'll play out over the entire series, so I do need to see more.
Dom Robinson, DVD Fever, 3rd February 2022Family back plaque for Barry Cryer in Mornington Crescent
Barry Cryer's family are hoping that a New Journal suggestion of a plaque being erected at Mornington Crescent tube station in his memory could gather steam.
Harry Taylor, Camden New Journal, 3rd February 2022Videos
TV & radio
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