It is a proven scientific fact that it is impossible not to like Adam Hills. When the host of C4's The Last Leg filmed his new DVD at the Hammersmith Apollo there was a bit of a cock-up on the ticketing front which meant that the start was delayed by an hour. Most comedy fans would be grumpy and give the performer a hard time. But when Adam Hills came on to start his show – he'd already been on earlier to explain what was going on – he was greeted by a bigger cheer than ever.

Hills has successfully combined a career in the UK with a career in his native Australia, but the UK may be starting to get the edge. As well as the runaway success of comical talking shop The Last Leg he  is about to film a pilot for a new series, Welcome To My World, in which celebrity guests suggest how they would like the world to be and then a panel of experts decide whether their ideas would actually work. Hills is also still on tour, details here and you can also catch him at the Leicester Square Theatre this Wednesday (Nov 7) hosting the London leg of a big 24-hour global comedy benefit, Comedy Gives Back. This review below first ran in the London Evening Standard. You can read the original review here.

Adam Hills, Hammersmith Apollo, September 22.