Beyond The Joke

Seann Walsh and Katya Jones have been eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing.

Their spooky toymaker dance failed to impress the judges on Saturday night, scoring only 20 points.

And on Sunday night after the public vote they faced a dance off with cricketer Graeme Swann and Oti Mabuse.

The judges put Graeme and Oti through and knocked Walsh and Jones out.

Mark Thomas is one of radical comedy’s national treasures so it feels apt that in his latest show he is looking at another national treasure, the National Health Service. The difference between them is that while Thomas appears to have so much energy he looks like he might go on forever, the NHS is becoming an endangered species.

Edinburgh Comedy Award-winner Sam Simmons returns to the Soho Theatre with the world premiere of his brand-new alternative show for Christmas.

Sam Simmons is Away in a Stranger is an alternative Christmas show which answers life’s big questions: What is you? Where is me? When have I been all your life? Why am I doing this? How…? Join Sam to witness the miracle birth of the baby Greg* Wrap a biro in sausage meat and sit around the open pug while we all raise a warm mug of yoghurt to Greg.

Comedian, author and - most recently - idiot who agreed to be tortured on 'I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!', Shappi Khorsandi is a woman of many parts. But live comedy is where she's in her element, and now she sets out on tour to 38 more welcoming destinations around the UK this spring with her newest show Skittish Warrior…Confessions of a Club Comic.  This brand new hour brings sharp-tongued gags, cultural observation and whatever else is in her easily distracted mind at the time.

Following his recent success reviving his cult character Jilted John and his past success as John Shuttleworth Graham Fellows is going on tour as himself.

Recently Graham appeared and won (alongside Dave Gorman) Pointless Celebrities and had a cameo on Count Arthur Strong. Now, minus purple leather jacket and fawn slacks (but fully clothed), he steps out from behind the keyboard to plug in his guitar and sing his own songs: revelatory, humorous and quirky still, sometimes sad.