BCG Daily Friday 14th February 2025

Dame Edna's glasses auctioned for £37,800

A pair of Barry Humphries' Dame Edna Everage glasses have sold at auction for more than 25 times their estimated value.

Bridget Jones director on love of London filming

Michael Morris, director of Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, took BBC London's Alice Bhandhukravi to some of his favourite filming locations for the movie and revealed his love affair with London.

Iain Stirling threatens to go topless if he sells enough tickets

Iain Stirling has said that he will do a gig topless if he can fill half the venue.

The Last Laugh review

Three outstanding performances dazzle at the heart of this positive play about comedy legends.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

ourth instalment is riot of silliness with good old-fashioned bawdy humour.

Funboys review

This beautifully bonkers comedy is a worthy successor to This Country.

Unicorn review

Nicola Walker and Stephen Mangan's throuple comedy doesn't catch fire.

Peter Kay tribute act Simon Mark dies unexpectedly

The performer - whose real name is Simon Owens - played more than 100 gigs a year in the guise of the Bolton funnyman.

Stephen K Amos: Is Blazing Saddles racist? Not at all

Mel Brooks's unapologetically in-your-face western spoof broke all the rules and redefined satire - it is just as relevant for today's polarised world.

Bridget Jones: Is the rom-com heroine a 'misogynist role model' or 'inner voice of a generation'?

Since Helen Fielding created hapless, middle-class Bridget in the mid-90s, she's divided opinion. As the fourth film is released, women across different generations discuss her impact.

Paddington 4 needs to keep the bear in London

Paddington 3 is out now in the US and on home release in the UK, but let's hope the next Paddington movies don't follow in its globe-trotting footsteps.

My Comedy Hero: Alexandra Haddow on Kenny Everett

The rising star picks a character clown and DJ as her comic icon.

David Mitchell: it's odd that TV abandoned sketch comedy

The comedian and actor discusses his just-announced show with Robert Webb.

Where was Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy filmed?

It's farewell to bustling Borough, hello to leafy Hampstead for Bridget Jones and her two sprogs, Billy and Mabel, in the delightful, fourth-in-the-series sequel Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy.

Presenter 'thrilled' to own Eric Morecambe's desk

TV presenter Yvette Fielding has said she is "so honoured" to be the new owner of Eric Morecambe's writing desk.

She said her husband, Karl Beattie, sat in front of his computer for two days during the recent auction of the comedian's items, to ensure he won the piece of furniture. They also bought some of Eric's pipes, typewriter and his first ever prop - a wooden lollipop.

Sarah Roberts: "I remember being so scared the whole time"

BBC New Comedy Award finalist and a Rolling Stone's Rising Star of 2024, comedian Sarah Roberts walks us through her tentative first steps into comedy.

Noel Fielding seen for the first time since quitting TV show

Noel Fielding has been spotted in public for the first time since his Apple TV+ comedy show was axed due to a mysterious illness.

Fans were left concerned about the comedian after his representatives confirmed The Completely Made-Up Adventures Of Dick ­Turpin was cancelled because of a "health matter".

'There's a line': Comedians on whether Peter Kay was right to eject hecklers

Peter Kay made the news last weekend when he kicked two hecklers out of his show at the Manchester Arena.

Funboys review

This utterly idiosyncratic sitcom about young men in smalltown Northern Ireland has hints of This Country - but with a pedalo-based masturbation scene that is unspeakably, brilliantly awful.

Russell Brand shuts down addiction and mental health charity

Under-fire comic Russell Brand has shut down his addiction and mental health support charity, it emerged yesterday.

The Charity Commission said it was told in September that the Stay Free Foundation "no longer operates".

Funboys review

Imagine This Country transported to Northern Ireland, and you're halfway there.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

Bittersweet return for Bridget Jones.