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BCG Daily Monday 10th June 2024

News

Alan Partridge - Stratagem. Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan) People

Steve Coogan wants more live Alan Partridge & preps Thatcher TV drama

Steve Coogan plans to perform live as Alan Partridge again, has confirmed that there will be no more This Time... and is making a drama about Margaret Thatcher's relationship with the political journalist Brian Walden, he has revealed.

James Acaster TV

James Acaster pilots "raucous" game show People Person for Channel 4

James Acaster is piloting James Acaster: People Person, a "raucous and energetic" Channel 4 game show in which a panel of comedians try to answer probing questions about members of the public, and will be releasing multiple versions of his next special, based on his stand-up show Hecklers Welcome.

Features

Talal Karkouti Live

Talal Karkouti interview

We talk to Talal Karkouti as he prepares for this Friday's Arabs Are Not Funny! gig.

BCG Pro

Image shows from L to R: Frank Muir, Denis Norden Pro

Dirty the paper

Write something - anything! - to jump start the creative process.

Press clippings

Jazz Emu. Archie Henderson

Jazz Emu review

Jazz Emu surely deserves a knighthood for his contribution to musical comedy.

Steve Bennett, Chortle, 10th June 2024
Have I Got News For You. Image shows left to right: Ian Hislop, Paul Merton. Credit: Matt Crockett

BBC says no HIGNFY election special

Busy summer schedule pushes out comedy entertainment show.

Heather Fallon, Broadcast, 10th June 2024
Queenie. Queenie Jenkins (Dionne Brown)

Queenie review

Queenie is a crude parody of real women.

Rachel Cooke, The New Statesman, 10th June 2024
We Are Lady Parts. Image shows from L to R: Momtaz (Lucie Shorthouse), Bisma (Faith Omole), Amina (Anjana Vasan), Ayesha (Juliette Motamed), Saira (Sarah Kameela Impey). Copyright: Working Title Films

We Are Lady Parts: how the show continues the legacy of Muslim punk genre taqwacore

If a TV show can spark that flame for an alienated youth in Jakarta or Johannesburg, in London or in Lahore, then ultimately I think that punk is still a beautiful thing - whether you're wearing a hijab or not.

Matthew Noone, The Conversation, 10th June 2024
Michael McIntyre's Big Show. Michael McIntyre. Copyright: Hungry McBear

Michael McIntyre: Macnificent review

What makes Michael McIntyre so funny is his delivery and how his voice sounds like he's laughing while speaking; making his shows all the more entertaining.

Isla Barker, Brig Newspaper, 10th June 2024
Jazz Emu. Archie Henderson

Jazz Emu review

The plot goes through multiple twists and turns throughout the hour, with Jazz's faux arrogance being the a characteristic that acts as a through-line for the show.

Zahid Fayyaz, The Play's The Thing UK, 10th June 2024
Matt Richardson

Liverpool's Laughterhouse and London's 21Soho owe thousands say comics

Comedians collectively owed thousands of pounds by Liverpool's Laughterhouse comedy club have gone public with their concerns.

Chortle, 10th June 2024
Rosie Holt. Credit: Karla Gowlett

NonCensored podcast cancels holidays to cover Election

NonCensored, the improvised satirical comedy podcast hosted by Rosie Holt (as Harriet Langley Swindon), Brendan Murphy (as Producer Martin) and Eshaan Akbar (as an awful version of himself), has cancelled its plans to go on hiatus over the summer; instead, it will be releasing DAILY in the week of the election, with new episodes released around lunchtime Monday 1st July-Friday 5th July. And then they'll go on hiatus.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 10th June 2024
Daniel Kitson

Daniel Kitson to compere benefit gig with Katherine Ryan, Lou Sanders, Tom Rosenthal and more

Cult comedy superstar Daniel Kitson is set to compere an all-star benefit in aid of autism charity PDA next month.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 10th June 2024
Jazz Emu. Archie Henderson

Jazz Emu review

Archie Henderson has many talents and combines them well, but undershoots his targets.

Grace Times, City AM, 10th June 2024
Brian Butterfield. Peter Serafinowicz

Brian Butterfield review

How lucky we were, at the Theatre Royal Nottingham, to learn the secrets of success from one of Britain's captains of industry. A new talent is ascendant...

Ian C Douglas, LeftLion, 10th June 2024
Edinburgh Fringe 2021

Mustafa Algiyadi interview

"Themes of belonging, identity, and a quest for a better passport!" We speak to the Libyan Arab comedian about his debut Fringe show, Almost Legal Alien.

Kevin Ibbotson-Wight, The Wee Review, 10th June 2024
Zoe Lyons

The UK's first LGBTQ+ comedy contest is changing the industry

"People laugh with you, not at you".

Marcus Wratten, Pink News, 10th June 2024
Adam Buxton

Adam Buxton at Eventim Apollo review

Effortless comedy and chemistry with special guest Louis Theroux.

Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 10th June 2024
Kind Hearts And Coronets. The General D'Ascoyne (Alec Guinness). Copyright: STUDIOCANAL / Ealing Studios

Kind Hearts And Coronets: locations from the murderous Ealing classic today

As Kind Hearts And Coronets turns 75, we went in search of the places where the D'Ascoyne family meet their sticky ends.

Adam Scovell, British Film Institute, 10th June 2024

On the Mic Picks: Eleanor Morton

Eleanor isn't just one of the best up and coming stand ups in Britain, she's is one of the few Edinburgh born comedians performing at the Fringe this year.

On The Mic, 10th June 2024

Videos

Comedy Central Live. Amy Matthews Online

Comedy Central Live - Amy Matthews

6 mins, 23 secs

Amy Matthews discusses quite how different Millennial and Gen Z discussions of mental health are.

Podcasts

The John Dredge Nothing To Do With Anything Show - Series 6. Credit: Joseph Champniss

The John Dredge Nothing To Do With Anything Show: Series 6, Episode 4

30 minutes

Believe it or not, someone who purports to be 80s pop star Nik Kershaw makes a guest appearance in this week's fun-filled show, in which a jingle is played backwards....

Mister Fluckcast

The Worst Writer in the World: Worst Writer - BONUS - It's The Mister Fluckcast

33 minutes

Once again, we're releasing an episode from our most Secret of Gangs on Patreon - into the wild. It's the Mister Fluckcast! Starring Mister Fluck, Mike & Brian, and Gorbilla....

TV & radio

Radio 4 2:15pm
30 min
Fags, Mags And Bags. Image shows from L to R: Sanjay (Omar Raza), Ramesh (Sanjeev Kohli), Dave (Donald Mcleary), Alok (Susheel Kumar). Copyright: The Comedy Unit

Fags, Mags And Bags

Series 11, Episode 2 - Grumpy-Pumpy Doo-Dah McGraw

Bishop Briggs has a crisis of faith - but a dark force lurks in Lenzie.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue logo. Copyright: BBC

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue

Series 81, Episode 5

The godfather of all panel shows pays a visit to the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh. On the panel are Fred Macaulay, Milton Jones, Pippa Evans and Rory Bremner with Jack Dee in the umpire's chair. Colin Sell accompanies on the piano.

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