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Just The Tonic Comedy Club goes online
One of the most esteemed comedy clubs across the UK, Just the Tonic is attempting to bring back the comedy club experience to millions of people currently doing the right thing by staying at home with new LIVE comedy night via the newly launched Just the Tonic TV.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 2nd May 2020Online comedy night attempts Guinness World Record
For one night only on 1st May at 8pm become part of an official Guinness World Records title attempt for the most visitors to a virtual pub.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 25th April 2020Comedian Jon Richardson and his wife Lucy are doing their darndest to squeeze entertainment out of domestic life with their three-year-old daughter in the Yorkshire market town of Hebden Bridge.
Their mock reality-show Meet The Richardsons (Dave) started last month, pretending to be a fly-on-the-lounge-wall show where Jon and Lucy sat on their sofa and bickered about their marriage.
If they'd stuck with that concept, it might have worked better: the couple are obviously close but one can't say a word without rubbing the other up the wrong way.
Lucy spent several minutes criticising her husband for the way he says 'hello'.
And millions of wives will sympathise with her frustration that Jon can go into rhapsodies about a flash of football skill in a Sky Sports game, but fails to notice when she's spent an hour doing her face and make-up before a night out: 'You just say: "Come on then, let's go."'
But the show falls apart when it descends to scripted hijinks. Jon got stuck on the stairs moving a sofa and had to phone for help ... even though the camera crew was in the house. Are they professionally bound never to intervene, like wildlife photographers?
Jason Donovan made a cameo appearance as a guest at a celebrity Halloween party, sending himself up rotten when Lucy mistook him for Bros.
He was great in Dial M For Middlesbrough last year, too. Top chap.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 20th March 2020Vegan Jon Richardson fed ghee on live TV
Fans have been left outraged and Simon Rimmer forced to apologise after comedian Jon Richardson, who is a vegan, was fed ghee on Sunday Brunch.
Metro, 8th March 2020Jon Richardson extends his misanthropic persona to a Curb-ish mockumentary, satirising his married domestic life with fellow comedian Lucy Beaumont. There are good gags about Richardson's eccentricities, but the cringeworthy comeuppances are underpowered.
Jack Seale, The Guardian, 27th February 2020Preview: Meet The Richardsons, Dave
No need to curb your enthusiasm here, there is plenty to be enthusiastic about.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 27th February 2020Meet The Richardsons review
If you were looking for a British answer to Larry David, you could do worse than set-in-his-ways curmudgeon Jon Richardson.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 27th February 2020Meet The Richardsons review
Two married comedians do scripted reality. Sounds like a treat. Who better to send up the sort of bilge they broadcast on ITV Be than two nimble wits?
Lottie Young, Evening Standard, 27th February 2020A marriage made in comedy heaven
Desiree Ibekwe meets the team behind Dave's semi-scripted peek into the lives of married comedians Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont.
Desiree Ibekwe, Broadcast, 26th February 2020Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont interview
With hints of Curb Your Enthusiasm, real-life married couple and successful comedians Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont have opened up the doors to their home, their family and their friends in Meet The Richardsons, a new six-part scripted comedy based on their life.
I Talk Telly, 20th February 2020