The Brig Society
- Radio sketch show / stand-up
- BBC Radio 4
- 2013 - 2022
- 21 episodes (4 series)
Stand-up and sketch series presented by Marcus Brigstocke. Each week is themed around a different industry. Also features Rufus Jones, William Andrews, Margaret Cabourn-Smith and Colin Hoult.
Press clippings
Comedy.co.uk Awards 2022 shortlist
The 60 TV and radio programmes shortlisted across the 10 categories in the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2022 have been revealed. Voting is now open to determine the winners.
British Comedy Guide, 9th January 2023Radio comedies up for BBC Audio Awards 2018
Shows starring Harry Enfield, Paul Whitehouse, John Finnemore, Marcus Brigstocke, David Jason and Jocelyn Jee Esien are amongst the nominees for the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2018.
British Comedy Guide, 21st November 2017Comedy.co.uk Awards 2016 shortlists announced
The shortlists for the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2016 have been revealed. 60 shows are in the running for the Comedy Of The Year title. Voting is now open.
British Comedy Guide, 16th January 2017Marcus Brigstocke on the public school-educated cabinet
The comedian - who attended boarding school - is concerned that many prominent politicians "were removed from family and feelings and affection and physical contact at the age of seven".
Kasia Delgado, Radio Times, 11th October 2015BBC left-wing bias is alive & living in Radio 4 comedy
Marcus Brigstocke's Radio 4 series isn't satire, it's a text-book example of the kind of noxious lefty bias the BBC has only just found itself culpable of.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 5th July 2013Marcus Brigstocke gets his own Radio 4 series
Marcus Brigstocke has been given his own BBC Radio 4 series mixing stand-up and sketches, titled The Brig Society.
British Comedy Guide, 12th April 2013