Funz and Gamez: Leicester Comedy Festival review

If this all sounds wholly inappropriate for a kids' show, that's because it is. But this is the genius of Funz and Gamez - the most inappropriate gags fly over the little ones' heads but keep the adults sniggering like naughty children themselves. In short, this was a wickedly fun hour.

Review: The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Spry sequel to the cross-cultural smash featuring Judi Dench and Maggie Smith.

Kate Copstick on what makes a good Fringe show

There was a high percentage of comedians in the audience at yesterday's live show and one asked: "What makes a good Edinburgh Fringe show?"

Film review: The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is the easy-going lightweight, painless to digest type of film that one usually snuggles up on the couch with on a Saturday night after a long week - and there is nothing wrong with that.

Radio Times review

The hit-and-miss lunacy is all hit in this episode. What makes Vic and Bob's Young Ones-style madhouse so great is that we can never be sure what's coming next. Most comedies are more or less predictable: not this one.

Lothario Beef (Matt Berry) has to hide from an angry husband? Naturally he takes cover in the washing machine, and emerges a tiny shrunken version of himself. What is Vic drawing on Bosh's back with the tattoo gear they stole? Why, a picture of Jeremy Clarkson of course, which then forms the basis of a madly ingenious visual gag involving a lampshade and some bongo drums.

It's all violently daft and childish, and that's entirely the point.

Radio Times review

Sharon is due - and so is a second series of this fabulous comedy. So it's perhaps no surprise that Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney's delicious romance draws to a tense and dramatic conclusion. Will the cry of a baby drown out the peal of wedding bells? Will their ghastly friends and relations ruin the lovely couple's big day? Will Rob ever agree to a prostate massage?

I won't spoil things for you, but what I can promise is that our lovers are as deliciously rude, naughty and whip-crackingly funny as ever. And you'll be rooting for them right to the end.

Radio Times review

As this fitfully funny comedy comes to the end of its short run, the embassy-interred Dan and Ludo seem to be on the edge of a big change. GCHQ leaker Dan has at last finished his manifesto, which he's sure everyone will be interested in (the Latin joke is staying in, too), while hacker Ludo finally finds some purpose in his life - but as usual it all falls apart, thanks to a World Cup bid, a fake torture claim and a spate of fictional Canadian bear attacks.

This finale doesn't quite match the laughs of the last episode, but it ends nicely, leaving the door open for another series; hopefully BBC Four will see the potential in this dark little comedy and bring it back for another run. If only to meet Ludo's legendary Aunt Inga...

Radio Times review

Frank and Dorothy are planning their wedding but pig-headed Bob is determined to be the centre of attention - that is if he doesn't stop their big day in the first place. Bob cannot envisage life without Frank, his best pal (and dogsbody) of 52 years standing, and when he hears the couple will move to Fife, he takes drastic action unbecoming of a best man.

Bob Servant is a gift role for Brian Cox, who manages to make Bob sympathetic no matter how deluded and bonkers he becomes. But the second run of Neil Forsyth's breezy Dundonian comedy comes to a halt after just three episodes. Let's hope for more soon.

John Thomson: Leicester Comedy Festival review

Review of John Thomson, Andrew O'Neill, Mick Ferry and Darrell Martin.

Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival 2015 biggest yet

Geoff Rowe, the mastermind behind Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival, is smiling.

A conversation with Ben Hatch: review

A small audience at the Belmont Hotel enjoyed a side order of tea and cakes as they listened to Ben, the son of the late David Hatch, head of BBC Radio, being interviewed, chat show-style by Alison Dunne.

Preview: Stewart Francis - Pun Gent

Canadian stand-up brings his unique brand of surreal and deadpan one-liners to King's Theatre, Glasgow.

Alan Carr takes Yap, Yap, Yap on tour

Chat show host likes to yap on stage as much as he does on telly.

Mark Thomas: Cuckooed - New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich

You can't accuse Mark Thomas of not giving value for money. Although he claims he does his own warm up act to save money, his first act stand-up routine, ahead of the headline second act performance of his play Cuckooed, provides arguably the highlight of the evening.

Mark Thomas on Cuckooed, his new "comedy of betrayal"

Ten years ago, Mark Thomas discovered a man he trusted as a friend and fellow campaigner was actually a corporate spy sharing the secrets of the organisation they were members off with a huge multi-national organisation - and it's only now that he's found a way to cope with it.

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - review

Everyone can heave a massive sigh of relief. For this sequel to the hugely popular 2011 original, based on Deborah Moggach's book These Foolish Things, is a sure-fire crowd-pleaser in its own right.

Dylan Moran interview

As Bernard Black, he banned mobile phones from his shop in Black Books, and as himself, Dylan Moran is more to likely to be seen sketching a sparrow than sending a tweet.

Catastrophe: great actors, but they're too darn nice

Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney can do funny standing on their heads but Series 2 could really sing if they ditch the sweetness and keep their claws out.

Loved Catastrophe? You'll love Pulling too

Fans of Sharon Horgan's Channel 4 comedy should seek out her wince-inducingly brilliant BBC Three sitcom.

TV preview: Pompidou, BBC2

It is no surprise to see that Lucas is an excellent physical comedian who can pull on your heartstrings as well as make you guffaw. If the makers aren't already planning a film or anination spin-off it can surely only be a matter of time.