BCG Daily Wednesday 24th January 2024
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How 'The Mighty Boosh' transformed British comedy
In the whirlwind of The Mighty Boosh in 2004, attempting to describe the show posed a formidable challenge.
Kelly Scanlon, Far Out, 24th January 2024
David Jason: 'I'd still love to do a major Hollywood movie'
The Only Fools And Horses actor, 83, on keeping chickens and being called a national treasure.
Nick Duerden, The Times, 24th January 2024
Stamptown review
I wouldn't take my grandma, but I would take all my friends.
Sam Newman, Entertainment Now, 24th January 2024
Janey Godley documentary to close Glasgow Film Festival
A documentary about Janey Godley, her comedy and her cancer, is to close the Glasgow Film Festival, it has been announced.
Chortle, 24th January 2024
Janey Godley: Trolls say I'm faking cancer
For comedian Janey Godley no subject is out of bounds. Not her abuse as a child, her alcoholic parents or her family connections to gangsters. So when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2021, it didn't take her long to find the humour in an otherwise hopeless situation.
Pauline McLean, BBC, 24th January 2024
Poor Things is one of the most misogynistic films I've seen
Of course this film, written by a man, got more Oscar nominations than Barbie.
Isolde Walters, i Newspaper, 24th January 2024
Is Poor Things a feminist masterpiece - or a male sex fantasy?
The Oscar contender about a sex-crazed young woman with an infant's brain is dramatically dividing cinema-goers. We asked cultural commentators for their verdicts.
Samira Ahmed, Charlotte Higgins, David Thomson, Zoe Williams, Viv Groskop, Tshepo Mokoena, Ione Gamble, Bidisha Mamata, Jason Okundaye, Imogen Tilden, Shaad D'Souza, Jess Cartner-Morley, Leslie Felperin and Ann Lee, The Guardian, 24th January 2024
In conversation with: Su Mi
Think it's a stand up solo show? Think again. This immersive comedy, Banana Beard, from Su Mi, invites you all on a surreal misadventure of absurdist sketch, untamed thrash metal guitar solos and imaginary costumed personas.
A Young(ish) Perspective, 24th January 2024
Bobby Davro recovering from stroke after he collapsed at comedy gig
Comic Bobby Davro is recovering from a minor stroke after collapsing at a show.
The ex-EastEnders star had just come off stage following a standing ovation at a sell-out gig.
Emma Pietras & Emma Pryer, The Sun, 24th January 2024
'Great sitcoms are missing from our TV screens and our lives - we need them in these times'
Even if "we're all doomed" under the Tories, as Dad's Army's Pte Frazer would say, shows like George And Mildred, Are You Being Served?, Robin's Nest and Three's Company still make us laugh.
Siobhan McNally, The Mirror, 24th January 2024
The Stand in Glasgow to sell famous cowboy stage backdrop
A Glasgow comedy club which launched the careers of stars including Kevin Bridges and Daniel Sloss is to sell its famous stage backdrop.
Nichola Rutherford, BBC, 24th January 2024Podcasts
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1:45pm15 min
Ian Hislop's Oldest Jokes
Episode 3 - The Drunk And The Bullion StoneThe subject of drink and drunkenness is always a contentious one, but however puritanical or sensitive the age, the figure of a drunk, from Joanna Lumley's riotous Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous to Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff has been a regular feature of comedy. And as it turns out, you can go back further still to find the depiction of a comic drunk. Ian's in Scotland to see The Bullion Stone, a 10th century Pictish carving now on display in the National Museum of Scotland.
11pm15 min
We Forced A Bot To Write This Show
Episode 6 - The One Show, The Crown, And ClarksonWe forced AI to digest massive amounts of media and then write its own versions. We pushed the scripts into the mouths of actors, and the result is, absurdly, joyously hilarious.