BCG Daily Friday 12th July 2024
News
Pro
TV
TV
FYI
People
Features
Live
BCG Pro
Pro
Press clippings
Edinburgh Fringe Q&A - Tegan Verheul
"Wrestling and comedy are excellent bedfellows".
Ross Crae, The Sunday Post, 12th July 2024Funny At The Fringe - Kevin James Doyle: After Endgame
"I am a comedian who lives in New York coming back to Fringe for the 3rd time."
Holly, Phoenix Remix, 12th July 2024Life with comedian Laura Davis
"I go for a three hour walk almost every evening, to write".
Ellie Forbes, Scottish Field, 12th July 2024Edinburgh Interview: Noam Tomaschoff on Our Little Secret: The 23andMe Musical
"What has emerged is actually a story about any family going through something potentially traumatic, and how a family can process something."
Greg Stewart, Theatre Weekly, 12th July 2024Edinburgh Interview: Edith Alibec on Glitch
"It's that point where you see people you haven't seen for 10 years and basically it brings you back to who you were back then, what your dreams were, who you imagined yourself to be in 10 years and where you actually are".
Greg Stewart, Theatre Weekly, 12th July 2024
Tim Harding's Comedy Diary at the ARG Comedy Festival
ARG, held at Shoreditch Town Hall in East London, is a condensed version of the festivals found around the country. For one absurdly low entry fee, you can come and go all weekend, with unrestricted access to 48 work-in-progress shows from the cream of the crop.
Chortle, 12th July 2024Reuben Kaye: How my father kept my ADHD diagnosis a secret (from me and my mother)
Here, he tells the story of how he found out he had ADHD.
Reuben Kaye, LMAOnaise, 12th July 2024Funny At The Fringe - Milo Edwards: How Revolting! Sorry to Offend
How Revolting! Sorry to Offend is a show about the most revolting subject of all in Britain: Class.
Holly, Phoenix Remix, 12th July 2024
Amy Webber: No Previous Experience review
Webber's mellifluous voice is a joy to listen to throughout the performance.
Brian Madden, North West End UK, 12th July 2024Unfiltered #12 - The reality of getting Fringe ready with VILLAINS: A Dizney in Drag Parody
As I write this response, I sit in a brightly painted pink and yellow room with handmade teacups and teapots surrounding me.
VILLAINS: A Dizney in Drag Parody, The Quintessential Review, 12th July 2024
Sarah Parish says controversial police comedy Piglets is "silly, on steroids"
Actor plays a superintendent in the show, which has been criticised by a police body for its "disgusting" title.
Finn Cliff Hodges, The Independent, 12th July 2024Interview: Chloe Radcliffe
"Top to bottom it is dick jokes and dating and me being a feral little animal!" Chloe Radcliffe tells us about her second Fringe show Proud Raccoon.
Kevin Ibbotson-Wight, The Wee Review, 12th July 2024Frightfully funny: is being roared at by a near-naked hardman really comedy?
Testosterone-soaked clowning show Furiozo: Man Looking for Trouble spikes fun with fear - but the hooligan's knife-edge moments of vulnerability lead us somewhere different.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 12th July 2024
Paulina Lenoir: Puella Eterna review
Lenoir's mischievous charm is infectious, and she plays with skill on the heartstrings and funny bones.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 12th July 2024Funny At The Fringe - Harry Stachini: Grenade
"Well, apart from it being very funny and relatable to any audience, my show is centred around the theme of honesty and how destructive that can be in our lives, as we've all at some point in our lives been carrying an honesty grenade."
Holly, Phoenix Remix, 12th July 2024Funny At The Fringe - Ollie Horn: Comedy for Toxic People (and Their Friends)
"I'm 32 years old and don't have a wife, and I wonder whether I need to use toxic techniques to get one. This show's about that."
Holly, Phoenix Remix, 12th July 2024
Tired of Fleabag-style comedy dramas which aren't funny? Try Spent
This BBC2 show about an ageing, spendthrift supermodel will make you laugh.
Hugo Rifkind, The Times, 12th July 2024
David Baddiel: My Family review
Did the writer and comedian need to share his story? Perhaps not, but it remains a treat for readers.
Jennifer Lipman, The Jewish Chronicle, 12th July 2024Shitty Mozart interview
"I'm giddy with excitement for the Fringe".
The Herald, 12th July 2024Showstopper! The Improvised Musical interview
"Fringe is great for alchemical wonder - the novelty never wears thin".
The Herald, 12th July 2024Funny At The Fringe - Amy Matthews: Commute With The Foxes
"It's about the transformative nature of context."
Holly, Phoenix Remix, 12th July 2024Quickfire Questions: Harriet Dyer
We are so excited to welcome back Harriet Dyer, whose previous show Trigger Warning we loved! (Loved so much she won our inaugural ND Representation Award! She answers our Quickfire Questions about her new show Skin.
Neurodiverse Review, 12th July 2024Interview - Sarina Freda: no no no please no god no, nevermind i'm fine
I spoke to her to find out more about the show, and her hopes and expectations, of Edinburgh, and the future.
Caro Moses, ThreeWeeks, 12th July 2024Starmer and the satirists
Will British comedians be as tough on the new government as on the last?
Tim Dawson, The Critic, 12th July 2024Videos
Online
TV & radio
1:30pm30 min
Breaking The News
Series 28, Episode 4Des Clarke is joined by Susie McCabe, Hugo Rifkind, Jo Caulfield and Marc Jennings.
6:30pm30 min
The News Quiz
Series 114, Episode 6Zoe Lyons, Angela Barnes, Ian Smith and Marie Le Conte quiz the news with Andy Zaltzman. How's Labour's first week in government gone? Will Biden cling onto power? Should we tarmac over the Lake District? Listen to this week's episode to find out the answer to all of the above.
10pm65 min
I Literally Just Told You
Series 4, Episode 1 - Celebrity I Literally Just Told YouJimmy Carr test celebrity contestants on what has just happened, with Chico Slimani, Jonathan Ross, Josie Gibson, Oti Mabuse and Rylan Clark playing for charity.
10:05pm30 min
The Stand Up Sketch Show
Series 6, Episode 6Luke Kempner, Kemah Bob, Gabby Bryan, Aurie Styla, Helen Bauer, Huge Davies, Tamsyn Kelly and Eric Rushton recreate stand-up routines as sketches.