BCG Daily Tuesday 30th May 2023

Guests announced for new season of RHLSTP

Highlights include League Of Gentlement writer Jeremy Dyson and regular Derren Brown collaborator Andy Nyman on June 26 and Ben Willbond and Laurence Rickard from Ghosts and Bridget Christie on 3 July.

Katherine Parkinson on Significant Other

"How un-Richard Curtis can you get?"

Inside No. 9's best guest performances

Shearsmith and Pemberton can't do it all on their own. Here are Inside No. 9's most memorable turns by guest actors.

Richard Pulsford: Short Joke Teller review

Is it mean to call Richard Pulsford a cut-price Tim Vine?

Is it curtains for Britain's 'Oscars of comedy'?

The world-leading Edinburgh Comedy Awards are desperate for funding. Winners and supporters tell us what we'll lose if we don't act.

Ben Elton interview

Woke comedy and the scourge of individualism.

Black Sheep Comedy review

It's billed as three stand-ups offering comedy coming from the 'very depths of their damned souls', which provides plenty of latitude for he most depraved material.

The Queen, Shakespeare And Me review

All but the most hardcore monarchists should stay away from this adoring tribute to the late Queen, performed on a memorabilia-strewn set and concluding with a paean to her life of decency and service.

Josie Long review

This playful show is jammed full of laughs and represents Long's laudable rallying cry for people to "re-engage" with radical politics and leave with hearts full of hope for change.

Lachlan Werner review

A unique spectacle from a very clever performer. Lachlan Werner is one to watch.

Of course the Edinburgh Comedy Awards might not happen this year, why would anything be easy?

For comedians putting everything into the Fringe, this is just another blow, says Alexandra Haddow.

Zahra Barri wins a literary prize

Now comic will have her debut novel, Daughters Of The Nile, published.

Viggo Venn makes it into Britain's Got Talent final

Venn made it straight through by winning his semi-final, broadcast on ITV1 on Tuesday evening.

Great Expectations in the West End review

Eddie Izzard mixes magnetism and flamboyance.

Inside Peter Kay's huge comeback

Peter Kay's comic timing is never off - but fans have had to wait a long time to hear his latest punchlines.

Now, the UK's favourite comedian is back, performing a handful of enormous gigs each month until the summer of 2025.