Jay Richardson
- Journalist
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Diane Morgan: meet the performer behind Philomena Cunk (Link expired)
Acclaimed actress and character-comedian Diane Morgan is back with a Philomena Cunk special this week, as well as starring in two high-profile new sitcoms, and the David Brent movie. She spoke to Jay Richardson about her increasingly in-demand career.
Jay Richardson, WOW247, 10th May 2016Bill Bailey writes safari park sitcom
Bill Bailey is writing a sitcom set in a safari park.
Jay Richardson, Chortle, 4th May 2016Inside Flowers
Flowers is a funny, emotionally fraught British comedy drama that truly puts its central characters through the wringer.
Jay Richardson, Split Sider, 28th April 2016New bus tour guide sitcom pilot starring Ryan Sampson
Plebs star Ryan Sampson has shot a comedy pilot for ITV2.
Jay Richardson, Chortle, 14th April 2016Mike Wilmot - 'We're back into PC World now'
The globetrotting no-holds barred Canadian comic has had enough of censorship but would never say anything bad about his wife. Maybe...
Jay Richardson, The List, 7th April 2016Ardal O'Hanlon pilots ITV sitcom
Ardal O'Hanlon has shot a pilot for a new ITV family sitcom. The Berries, which co-stars Miranda's Sarah Hadland, is about what's described as 'your average family ... that is to say, completely unique in their own funny ways'.
Jay Richardson, Chortle, 6th April 2016Review: Mark Watson, Citizen's Theatre, Glasgow
Expanding on the mental health and alcoholism struggles referenced in his excellent 2014 show Flaws, this first return to Glasgow in four years for Mark Watson examines some peculiarly contemporary forms of anxiety.
Jay Richardson, The Scotsman, 25th March 2016Scot Squad: Chief Commissioner Cameron Miekelson review
Whether this stays as an entertaining, scripted one-off or a viable tangent from Scot Squad remains to be seen. But a third series of the increasingly assured, improvised mockumentary feels like a must.
Jay Richardson, Chortle, 23rd March 2016Review: Omid Djalili
Certainly, it's rare to see such an established, even mainstream, comic as Omid Djalili be so deliberately politically incorrect with racial and national stereotypes; risk-taking with disability material; unorthodox with stand-up's seemingly default atheism, even taking a pop at its high priest, Tim Minchin.
Jay Richardson, The Scotsman, 21st March 2016Russell Kane interview (Link expired)
Russell Kane on spring-loaded crotches, acting his age... and his stand-up war with Stewart Lee.
Jay Richardson, WOW247, 21st March 2016