Radio Times review

If you've liked Detectorists from the off, you'll realise you love it after this. Ruminative and picturesque throughout, the series has unravelled its treasures as it's progressed, minting warm laughs from its character quirks. And it's so attractively filmed, if it doesn't inspire you to walk in the country, nothing will.

Till now Lance (deliciously underplayed by Toby Jones) has given the impression he's not the full shilling; now, in one of several riveting, unhurried scenes, he shows what a sharp cookie he's been all along.

It's an episode of revelations and decisions. Bleeping brilliant.

An Evening With Noel Fielding - review

Even in middle-age, Fielding remains ambitious and inventive, creating a world that works on its own logic yet resonates with ours - and includes some gloriously funny moments only he could have designed.

Chris Ramsey: It's basically a show about my idiocy

Funny Geordie boy Chris Ramsey first appeared at the South Holland Centre as part of his 2013 stand-up tour Feeling Lucky.

The star of BBC Two's Hebburn, and regular guest on Celebrity Juice, returns to the South Holland Centre on the second leg of his 2014 national tour The Most Dangerous Man on Saturday Morning Television (so called for getting booted off the Soccer AM sofa for misbehaving) and squeezed us in for a quick chat during his busy schedule.

Rory McGrath and Philip Pope join forces for a new show

THE singing dustman from Only Fools And Horses has joined forces with comedy writer and presenter Rory McGrath for a new musical show.

A Bridge Over Troubled Lager - Volume 2 will see McGrath and Philip Pope call in at the Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis, on December 12 and the Bridport Arts Centre on December 13.

Comedy queen Sarah Millican's record sell-out for show

Tickets to see comedy queen Sarah Millican at Pocklington Arts Centre have sold out in just six minutes, a record time for the venue.

Still Game films Children in Need sketch

Still Game will film an exclusive sketch for this year's BBC Children in Need Appeal.

Terry Mynott interview

Terry Mynott on Assassins Creed Unity celebrity co-op, David Attenborough and filling in for Dumbledor.

Opinion: Do comedians need reviews?

One of the bits of fall-out from the whole Andrew Lawrence furore is that he told me on Facebook that I am not welcome at his forthcoming London shows.

Battle of the first sitcom

On the 2nd November 1954 on the BBC Home Service Tony Hancock made his debut in a radio show called Hancock's Half Hour, written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson it became a huge hit with audiences and is widely regarded as Britain's first sitcom. Six years earlier tom other well known writers Frank Muir and Denis Nordan had written a radio comedy series Take It From Here.

You don't have to be mad to tell jokes here...

...but we've no idea if it helps!

Micky Flanagan on using drugs

Micky Flanagan has opened up about his wild past before he hit the big time as one of Britain's most successful comedians. The 52-year-old stand-up star admitted he was a 'product of a generation' that embraced a care-free party lifestyle when he was a teenager growing up in London's East End.

Daniel Sloss and Tom Stade make 'offensive' sitcom

Daniel Sloss and Tom Stade are to create a 'very offensive' online sitcom. M.U.F.F is set in the offices of a morally bankrupt, hugely successful company making 'some of the most generic, hack, borderline offensive, shit TV shows that are obviously lapped up by the adoring public'. The pair are seeking crowd funding via the Indiegogo website - but say they will make the six-part series even if they fall short of the £25,000 target.

Interview - "stand-up mathematician" Matt Parker

Matt Parker is using comedy nights to preach maths to big audiences.

Detectorists, TV review

Mackenzie Crook's sitcom has saved its sparkliest treasures for those who stick around to earn them.

Russell Brand's book's confusing but so are his critics

It's a truth universally acknowledged that his detractors have always made perfect sense.

Rob Newman: New Theory of Evolution, The Lowry, Salford

Newman's performance is slick and well-rehearsed with little or no deviation from the script which gives this show a more play like feel. The subject matter can at times be a little difficult to keep up with but the passion that it is delivered with cannot be questioned.

Mass Nokhas wins Reading Comedy Festival New Act award

The 21-year-old salesman from North West London had South Street's sell-out crowd in stitches with his hilarious anecdotes last Thursday.

Ava Vidal: As a black female comedian, I do loathe Ukip

A British comedian has won the praise of Nigel Farage for slamming TV comics as politically correct liberals. Ava Vidal, (who also took exception to his views on female and ethnic comedians) explains why right-wing jokers are no longer popular.

Dapper Laughs in misogyny row

Students today backed a petition calling on their university union to cancel a 'sexist' comedian's gig.

The camera is turned on tabloid editors

Senior tabloid editors are shown naked, embarrassed and scuttling for cover in a new documentary, targeting them with the kind of treatment usually dished out by their own newspapers.