Jay Richardson
- Journalist
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Where stand-up and Alcoholics Anonymous meet
Late afternoon in a dark, intimate room in London and people are sharing their experiences of addiction. Alcohol, drugs, food, gambling, sex and love, their raw pain and degradation revealed to strangers. But there's laughter too.
Jay Richardson, i Newspaper, 11th June 2018Interview: Tom Walker
Ever since Jonathan Pie began attracting attention in late 2015, the spoof news correspondent has been aggressively off-message, mocking the journalistic code that a reporter never becomes the story. His liberal-blasting tirade in the wake of Donald Trump's presidential victory has attracted more than 150 million online views alone. However, the first mass-appeal satirist to emerge from YouTube has polarised opinion and been kept at arm's length by the British television and comedy industry.
Jay Richardson, The Scotsman, 4th June 2018Comedy review: Jason Manford
You would be hard pushed to find many comedians with his hit rate and crowd-pleasing ease at playing the knackered parent.
Jay Richardson, The Scotsman, 8th May 2018Tez Ilyas: Edinburgh Comedy Awards 'have a racial bias'
The Edinburgh Comedy Awards are biased against acts from ethnic minority backgrounds, comic Tez Ilyas has alleged.
Jay Richardson, Chortle, 2nd May 2018Aisling Bea and Sharon Horgan to play sisters
Aisling Bea and Sharon Horgan are to play sisters in a dark new sitcom for Channel 4.
Jay Richardson, Chortle, 20th April 2018Comedy review: Russell Brand: Re-Birth
There's no other comic quite like Russell Brand, dispensing cookies to his audience made by the Hare Krishnas and remaining onstage during the interval, posing for photos with the multitude that want them.
Jay Richardson, The Scotsman, 14th April 2018Ian Hislop pens freedom of speech play
Ian Hislop has written a play about freedom of speech. The oft-sued Private Eye editor will tell the story of 19th Century satirist William Hone in Trial By Laughter. Hone was accused of seditious libel against the government and the Prince Regent in 1817, having parodied them in a spoof of the Book Of Common Prayer. He faced three separate trials on three successive days at London's Guildhall as the Establishment tried to silence him and deport him to Australia.
Jay Richardson, Chortle, 12th April 2018Famalam interview
'We've a licence to talk about things other sketch shows don't because we've an all-black cast'.
Jay Richardson, i Newspaper, 3rd April 2018Janey Godley: Revelations of Godley review
A night of 'Classic Godley' full of stories told with relish and abandon.
Jay Richardson, The List, 27th March 2018Comedy review: Limmy's Vines
If anyone can elevate masturbatory gurning to a level approaching performance art, it's Limmy. For better or worse, no other comic is so immersed in the rhythms and culture of the internet as the Glaswegian.
Jay Richardson, The Scotsman, 24th March 2018