Richard Osman's House Of Games Festive Guests

By Bruce Dessau on 30/12/2024
Richard Osman's House Of Games Festive Guests

Comedians Jon Richardson and Desiree Burch take on Jennie McAlpine an Gareth Malone in this week's second run of festive editions of the brain-busting show.

It's certainly been an eventful 2024 for Richardson. As well as having a hit show under his belt, Dave's Meet The Richardsons, it was announced that he was separating from his wife, fellow comedian, Lucy Beaumont. This was such a shock there were quite a few people on social media initially wondering if it was a joke and maybe part of a Meet The Richardsons storyline.

Richardson joined Absolute Radio in September. He is live every Saturday morning from 8am, either from Absolute Radio’s London studios or his very own home-built studio in his garden pub.   

Jon Richardson is best known as a team captain on Channel 4’s Cats Does Countdown. He is also regularly in demand as a guest and made several appearances on BBC One's Have I Got News For You, The Graham Norton Show, The One Show, ITV's The Jonathan Ross Show, Channel 4's Gogglebox and The Last Leg.  

He is also set to be team captain on new quiz Have I Got Sport For You which will look back at a spectacular year of sport when it airs on BBC One from 8.30pm on Friday 3 January

I'm pretty sure Desiree Burch is the first Yale graduate to appear on Taskmaster. She is probably also the first former dominatrix to appear on the award-winning game show. Burch came over because she was in a relationship with an English man. But while that affair fizzled out, her love of British comedy blossomed. She had previously done some stand-up in New York but immediately found the London scene more welcoming.
 
“My boyfriend said I’d do well here and he was right," she told me in 2019. "I finally got a sense that I could have a comedy career.” Having graduated from Yale with a degree in theatre studies she also wrote serious plays, but laughter became more important than drama. “In a way comedy was always there. I’d always been writing comedically about things. I was raised by a television set."

Richard Osman's House of Games Festive Special, Monday, December 30 at 7pm, BBC Two. Daily times vary.

Picture Credit: BBC/Remarkable TV/Graeme Hunter

 

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