BCG Daily Monday 1st May 2023

The Windsors review

Every royal's fair game in this affectionate Coronation satire.

Russell Howard review

I'd love to see more of the darker, gnarlier comic.

I starred in The Inbetweeners and fans went MAD over my sexy character

He played handsome French exchange student Patrice, who was loved by the ladies and despised by the jealous boys.

And surprisingly, Vladimir Consigny, 33, is still recognised for his role on The Inbetweeners - despite only being in one episode back in 2009.

Frankie Boyle under fire over vile jokes in Channel 4 show

Frankie Boyle has come under fire for making vile jokes about the Queen in a Channel 4 'anti-monarchy' show.

Aired just days before the King's Coronation, the controversial comic made a gag about bottling the Royals with a petrol bomb.

Maid Marian And Her Merry Men is being rebooted

Sir Tony Robinson is working on a reboot of his award-winning kids' comedy Maid Marian And Her Merry Men.

Frankie Boyle's Farewell To The Monarchy review

Frankie Boyle's Farewell To The Monarchy is a welcome - and bitterly tart - antidote to the media's wall-to-wall forelock-tugging Coronation coverage, which expects us to believe the pouring of God's special oil from a gold, eagle-shaped ampulla as a perfectly normal part of a modern democracy.

Harwich Museum flies Hi-de-Hi! flag for future generations

For almost a decade viewers enjoyed following the antics of the employees of Maplins holiday camp in the BBC comedy Hi-De-Hi! Some 35 years after the last episode, a museum in a town where it was filmed says it is determined to keep "flying the flag" for the show.

Alexander Bennett: Why can't audiences behave any more?

If comics can't trust audiences with a pause or a difficult idea then comedy is doomed.

The Stand issues new statement on proposed Joanna Cherry appearance

The Stand Comedy Club has issued this updated statement with regard to the previously planned appearance at their Edinburgh venue in August of SNP MP Joanna Cherry. Comedian Bethany Black had cancelled her planned tour date at the venue's sister venue in Glasgow when the gender critical Cherry's appearance was set to go ahead.

The Windsors review

In contrast to Frankie Boyle's no-punches-pulled Farewell To The Monarchy, which followed on Channel 4 last night, The Windsors Coronation Special offers a comparatively affectionate mockery of the characters within the Royal Family.