Jay Richardson
- Journalist
Press clippings Page 25
Best comedy podcasts at this year's Fringe
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Jay Richardson, The List, 26th July 2018Holy jokes
A Catholic, an Orthodox Jew and a Sufi walk into a gig. No, really. Jay Richardson explores an unusually spiritual perspective on making people laugh.
Jay Richardson, Fest Mag, 26th July 2018Focus on: Beth Vyse
Anyone who has witnessed Olive Hands, the alter ego of Beth Vyse, knows she's unfit to be a mother. Well, too late. Beth has a baby, and Olive isn't afraid to use him.
Jay Richardson, Fest Mag, 26th July 2018Marjolein Robertson on standing up for Shetland
From Shetland to Edinburgh via Amsterdam and New York, stand-up Marjolein Robertson has plenty of tales to tell.
Jay Richardson, The Skinny, 26th July 2018Meet the one-liner storytellers
For some, there's nothing more perfect than a one-liner; for others a torrent of disconnected gags is unbearable. But for Adele Cliff and Glenn Moore, there's no reason why one-liners can't be part of something bigger.
Jay Richardson, Fest Mag, 24th July 2018Dck & Dom interview
After Trevor & Simon and Ant & Dec, Dick & Dom were the next cheeky-chappie kids' TV double act, and they're on their away to their Edinburgh debut.
Jay Richardson, The List, 12th July 2018Interviews with disabled Fringe comics
Being disabled hasn't prevented a number of Fringe comedians from striving towards the top.
Jay Richardson, The List, 12th July 2018Nick Mohammed to pilot sitcom
Nick Mohammed is making a Mr Swallow sitcom pilot for Channel 4, in which his excitable alter-ego hosts his own chat show. Mohammed has also joined Julia Davis's new Sky One comedy Sally4Ever and is writing a sitcom based on British spy headquarters GCHQ, with a big-name US sitcom star attached.
Jay Richardson, Chortle, 27th June 2018Jamie and Natasia Demetriou interview
'Our spirit animal is a Muppet with its mouth open'.
Jay Richardson, i Newspaper, 25th June 2018Comedy review: Jonathan Pie, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Though best known for his three-minute YouTube rants, Tom Walker's splenetic news reporter character Jonathan Pie is altogether funnier and more impressive in a live setting. The narrative arc of this show allows him to build up an incredible head steam, escalating from pompous self-regard and waspish asides, through thermonuclear paroxysms of rage to sustained and seething but clear-eyed invective.
Jay Richardson, The Scotsman, 15th June 2018