BCG Daily Tuesday 15th October 2024

Comedy club to offer new mums support and a laugh

The Milk Club Comedy, in Shipley, will be held during the daytime and is believed by organisers to be the first of its kind in West Yorkshire.

GB News viewers were furious after Ian Hislop mocked Andrea Jenkyns, making the whole thing even funnier

Hislop's mocking prompted GB News to come out to bat for Jenkyns, suggesting she had been totally unfairly treated by Hislop and the rest of the HIGNFY gang. So much so that they did a poll asking whether the BBC should apologise.

Rose Matafeo on her scary return to stand-up

She won comedy's top award, reinvented the romcom and now hosts Junior Taskmaster. So why does the New Zealand comic need Buddhist podcasts to get through the day?

The 'racism' row should be the end of Mrs Brown's Boys - but it won't be

Creator Brendan O'Carroll has apologised for making a "clumsy" joke on the set of the upcoming Christmas special. But don't expect it do any damage to the worst comedy on TV.

Alex Horne reveals he wants Bill Bailey to appear on Taskmaster

Horne says the stand-up has always been a comedy hero of his, and would welcome him on to his hit show any time.

Sacha Baron Cohen: I may NEVER bring back Borat

Sacha Baron Cohen has amassed a fan base of millions with his hit comedy alter egos Borat, Ali G and Bruno.

But he says that the situations he put himself in to film undercover became so risky that he doesn't think he will ever play a character like that again.

Brendan O'Carroll cracked a "joke" using the N-word

Mrs Brown's Boys star Brendan O'Carroll cracked a "joke" using the N-word in front of a junior member of production who was so upset they later quit. Brendan, who plays Irish matriarch Agnes, improvised on a read-through of the Christmas special script, referring to "calling a spade a spade". He was stopped from saying the final syllable of the offensive word by his wife.

When is a joke not a joke...

Watching John-Luke Roberts do five different stand-up shows back-to-back, and what that says about time... and comedy.

A comedy club on a double-decker bus

Ludo's - a double-decker bus-turned-bar - is bringing back its Comedy on a Bus nights, where you can clamber to the top deck to watch stand-up (or in this case, possibly slightly hunched-over) comedians perform every other Wednesday.