Here's my highlight of this year's Children In Need. Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan reunited for two-and-a-bit priceless minutes of prime cut impressions, entitled The Trip To Tom. In keeping with the Children in Need theme there's a deliciously tasty Wogan-Off (clearly pre-recorded and slightly scuttled by Wogan pulling out, but who cares when it is so funny?). And, of course, there's a tasty Tom Jones session with Coogan and Brydon duetting on an epic, gut-busting cover version of the Thunderball theme.
It is well-known that before he became Dr Who Peter Capaldi had a lengthy track record as a comic actor, but a cutting has surfaced revealing his less documented past as a stand-up comedian.
The cutting is a review of a stand-up gig at Henry Afrika's Club in Glasgow in the Spring of 1983, which was reviewed by NME writer Andrea Miller.
Jason Manford has become embroiled in a controversy following his heartfelt, expletive-packed Facebook post condemning the attackers in Paris as cowards for killing innocent people just out enjoying themselves.
He went on to say: "For what? In whose name? Are you doing this in the name of your god? Cos I've got news for you, if you think your 'god' is gonna reward you for this type of atrocity then your god is a massive cunt."
If you look up Comedian's Comedian in a decent dictionary you will probably see a picture of Andrew Maxwell (the one here is by Richard Hardcastle). The Irish stand-up is one of our finest performers. Quite why he is not a much bigger star is one of life's great mysteries.
If you slavishly follow social media like I do you would usually think that the comedy world is in absolute rude health. Every night my Twitter and Facebook feeds are clogged up with comics who have just got home after having smashed it, stormed it or nailed it. And we aren’t just talking about Kyle Wallace last week, who ended up in Newham Hospital after impaling his hand on a spike onstage.
A flatshare sitcom about two dysfunctional blokes who seem incapable of growing up? Peep Show? No, we are talking about Josh, which by one of those quirks of scheduling starts its first series on BBC3 next Wednesday just as the first episode of the final series of Peep Show ends on C4. But flip channels and stick around, if you like one the chances are you will like the other.
The BBC has today launched a new way of accessing and keeping classic TV programmes including a number of comedies. The BBC Store enables fans to buy programmes from single episodes to boxed sets and retain them permanently.
Award-winning stand-up Gary Delaney has announced a major tour for 2016, entitled There's Something About Gary.
Delaney's last tour was extended four times and took in over 240 dates. His new tour will once again showcase exactly why he is seen as one of the premier gagsmiths of his generation. One-liner king Delaney has a simple philosophy when it comes to jokes: "A good joke should be like a drunk Glaswegian, short and punchy."
Bob Mortimer is to appear in a special Celebrity edition of Dave's series Storage Hunters to be broadcast at Christmas.
The episode of Storage Hunters was filmed before Mortimer's recent triple heart bypass surgery. It is fronted by regular presenter Sean Kelly will also feature Ross Noble, Jenny Eclair, Kimberly Wyatt, Jimi Mistry, Shaun Ryder, Bez, Lizzie Roper, Jimmy Bullard and Carl Froch.
I’m worried. You want to know what I’m worried about? I’m worried that I’m going to run out of new nice things to say about Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney’s screwy screwball relationship comedy (with occasional screwing). And I’m worried that I might run out of different pictures to run with each glowing review. So far this gem of a show, now quickly into its second series, has not put a foot wrong.
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