BCG Daily Sunday 4th September 2022
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TV
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New claims of BBC anti-Tory bias as Jack Dee makes c-word jibe against Boris Johnson
Have I Got News For You was accused of broadcasting a torrent of 'spiteful and crass insults' as it dedicated Friday night's episode to Mr Johnson. In one shocking moment, host Jack Dee quoted a newspaper article that referred to the departing Prime Minister as a 'cosmic ****' - a moment greeted by gales of laughter in the studio. Panellists also suggested that Mr Johnson had taken cocaine.
Chris Hastings, Sam Merriman & Georgia Edkins, Daily Mail, 4th September 2022
Emily Atack to tackle online sexual harassment in new BBC documentary
She will explore whether enough is being done to protect young women and girls online, and what needs to change.
BBC, 4th September 2022
Stewart Lee: How will history recall the reign of Bad King Boris?
King Lear may have divided the country in two and turned it against itself but perhaps, like the outgoing Tory leader, he 'got all the big calls right'.
The Observer, 4th September 2022
Joe Lycett causes a kerfuffle on new political show
Joe Lycett has caused a kerfuffle with his appearance on the first edition of new political show Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 4th September 2022
Crowdfunder set up after critic & charity director Kate Copstick mugged
Television presenter, writer, critic, director, producer and charity director Kate Copstick was attacked in the street on Saturday (3rd September) by muggers who stole the £8,500 in cash that she was taking home from the charity shop she runs in Shepherd's Bush, ahead of flying to Kenya to help women in need via her charity Mama Biashara.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 4th September 2022
Jerry Sadowitz has been cancelled by Margate Comedy Club
The comic's performance at the new Crack Me Up! club has been axed, with the comic posting that the issue was with "the owner of the venue" who "read what happened in Edinburgh and has decided to cancel due to me being 'unsafe, racist, homophobic and misogynistic.' People... I am so much more than that, Comedy Monster."
Rich Johnston, Bleeding Cool, 4th September 2022TV & radio
4:30pm30 min
Natalie Haynes Stands Up For The Classics
Series 8, Episode 4 - Homer: The OdysseyNatalie tells Homer's epic story of Odysseus's journey home from the Trojan War, stopping off for adventures and infidelity on the way.
9:45pm60 min
10:35pm60 min
Stewart Lee: Snowflake
Stand-up performance filmed at York Theatre Royal in which the comedian tackles cancel culture, free speech, identity politics and being woke - all from the position of being a self-confessed snowflake. He takes on millionaire comedians baying for attention by pretending to be cancelled, considers how it isn't actually possible to say the unsayable, and argues free speech can't always be entirely free.