Eric and Little Ern, New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich

Eric and Little Ern is a highly enjoyable, laugh out loud evening but one can't help feeling that an expansion of the first half would show us more of the men behind the laughs.

BBC comedy pilot lights up Wallingford's town hall

Fake smoke surrounded Wallingford's town hall during filming of a new BBC comedy, Professor Branestawm.

Fans defend Michael McIntyre over Darlington walk-off

Drunk heckler told McIntyre: "It's my show, not yours and if I want to speak to my niece, I will."

Graham Norton: why I refused £5m from the BBC

The BBC tried to recruit me for quite some time before I signed my first contract with them in 2005. As long ago as the autumn of 2000, I remember standing in a dark street outside a restaurant in Tokyo while filming a documentary for Channel 4, listening to a breathless agent on the phone telling me that the BBC had offered me £5 million.

Radio Times review

The impressive adult storybook series continues on its dark and disturbing way with the usually jolly Johnny Vegas (somewhat incongruously) narrating a creepy story about a bric-a-brac collector who finds everything he has ever owned suddenly coming up for sale before a dark vengeance horribly unravels.

Then comes Meera Syal with a comparatively cheerful yarn about a local newspaper obituary writer who embarks on a killing spree in order to keep her name in the paper and her job alive. Sweet it ain't.

Review: Jeeves and Wooster

John Gordon Sinclair steals the show and is hugely watchable and entertaining. The farce is predictable in many places, but still gets the laughs from the audience, and you cannot deny the clever staging and direction by Sean Foley.

Richard Herring to become a father

So yes, what I am telling you, in my own inimitable/annoying style, is that I am going to be a father for the first time.

Opinion: Calculating the value of a comedy gig

There has been a lot of coverage in the past few days about the comedy club in Barcelona where they are trying out a pay-per-laugh policy. There are a few things that bother me about this. Apart form the fact that I have no earthly idea how it is going to work. Presumably some kind of camera has to be trained on the face? What if the comedy fan is wearing a niqab?

Kevin Bridges: you can't be complacent in comedy

In an extract from his autobiography, We Need to Talk About ... Kevin Bridges, the standup explains the gear changes he needs to navigate a show.

Simon Amstell, To Be Free - review

Happiness - or Amstell's version of happiness - hasn't dulled his comedy antennae in his brilliant new show, his best yet.

In defence of Dapper

He's dumb, crude and unambitions - but not without charm and merit.

John Henry Falle on being an alien & an aspiring wizard

Yesterday, my blog was about the rise of storytelling nights in the UK - I was talking to comedians Matt Price/Michael Kossew at Soho Theatre in London. About two minutes after they left, John Henry Falle wandered past. He is a quarter of The Beta Males comedy group and 100% of The Story Beast.

Sophie Aldred interview

Sophie Aldred, who played '80s companion Ace in Doctor Who, stars alongside Carol Cleveland, Tom Price and Chase Masterson in new sci-fi comedy, The Search for Simon.